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2019

DOCUMENTARY FEATURES

The Unafraid | Heather Courtney & Anayansi Prado
This Taco Truck Kills Fascists | Rodrigo Dorfman
Gimme a Faith | Hao Zhang
Lumpkin, GA | Nicholas Manting Brewer
Always in Season | Jacqueline Olive | Top Grit Award
While I Breath, I Hope | Emily Harrold | People’s Grit Award
America First: The Legacy of an Immigration Raid | Andrea Patiño Contreras & Almudena Toral | Big Grit Award
When Lambs Become Lions | Jon Kasbe | Honorable Mention Big Grit Award
Black Mother | Khalik Allah
White Ravens: A Legacy of Resistance | Georg Koszulinski
Long Time Coming: A 1955 Baseball Story | Jon Strong
Jaddoland | Nadia Shihab
Don’t Get Trouble In Your Mind: The Carolina Chocolate Drops’ Story | John Whitehead

NARRATIVE/EXPERIMENTAL FEATURES

Pig Film | Josh Gibson

NARRATIVE SHORTS

Hornet’s Revenge | Jing Niu
Bennifer | Ryan McGlade
Craving | Lance Kestrel Johnson
Her Body | Juan Avella
No Good Deed | Ethan Hanson, Caroline Mobley, Amy Brower, & Jonathan Furnell
The Amazing Anti-Fart Formula | Luke Pilgrim & Brad Kennedy
Space Wind | Veronique Vanblaere
Big Mouth Billy Bass | Chris Dean | Honorable Mention Narrative Short Grit Award
SPOON | Brantly Jackson Watts, Kristian Zuniga, & Jon Watts
Nettles | Raven Jackson
Jane | Abraham Felix
Habana Boxing Club | Danniel Rodriguez & Robert Colom
Shoot the Duck | Shannon Silva
Nashedonia | Will Berry
I AM TX | Ryan Darbonne | Narrative Short Grit Award
Whistle Down Wind | Julia Christgau & Andie Morgenlander

DOCUMENTARY SHORTS

Marcie Cohen Ferris Does the Work | Ava Lowrey
The Arrest | Kira Akerman
Santuario | Christine Delp & Pilar Timpane
Practice | Iyabo Kwayana | Helen Hill Award
VONN | Emily MacKenzie
Come & Take It | PJ Raval
This Is What We’re Left With | Alexis Stratton
All the Leaves are Brown | Daniel Robin
Collapsing Time | Dorian Warneck
The Derby | Remington Smith | Reel South Award
AS IN DEATH | Mark Raafat Kammel
My Dear Kyrgyzstan | Noam Argov & Alex Pritz
Café de Temporada | Maria Luisa Santos | Doc Short Grit Award
Life on the Mississippi | Bill Brown
All Skinfolk Ain’t Kinfolk | Angela Tucker | New Perspectives Award
Sound and Sole | Cara Hagan
Uniontown | Fraser Jones | Reel South Award & Honorable Mention Doc Short Grit Award

ANIMATIONS

The Moon’s Milk | Ri Crawford
GEORGIE | Odile Postic
Tightly Wound | Shelby Hadden
Guster | John C. Kelley | Animated Grit Award
A Line Birds Cannot See | Amy Bench | Honorable Mention Animated Grit Award
What Stays | Danet Grabbe

EXPERIMENTAL SHORTS

Like This/Like That | Tommy Heffron
content generation | Ony Ratsimbaharison | Local Grit Award
Party | Chandler Yonkers
And By the Night | Anna Kipervaser
Foreclosed Home Movie | Lisa Danker | Honorable Mention Helen Hill Award
Between My flesh and the world’s fingers | Talena Sanders
Applied Pressure | Kelly Sears
Slower | Kelly Gallagher
To West End, With Love | Melissa Alexander | New Perspectives Award
Polar Rising | Ashleigh Goh
The Real Thing | Julianna Villarosa
Places Disturbed | Julianna Villarosa
Let’s Look at Florida | Amanda Justice & Hogan Seidel
Fucked Like A Star | Stefani Saintonge | Experimental Grit Award
Gutk’odau (Yellow) | Adam Piron | Honorable Mention Experimental Grit Award
Passerine in Time | Laurids Andersen Sonne

STUDENT FILMS

Truck Slut | Ryan Craver | Honorable Mention Emerging Grit Award
Infinitikiss – “Pas” | Henry Moonrod
Sweet Sweet Kink: A Collection of BDSM Stories | Maggie M. Bailey
Clams Casino | Pam Nasr
Helen Hill Makes a Filmmaker | Will Nichols
Strange Kid | Beth Fletcher
Pearl Fryar, The Man with a Green Thumb | Savannah Cerniglia, Chelsie Griffin, Bri Hamlin, & Rachel Smith | Honorable Mention Local Grit Award
Alma | Grant Conversano
Street Flame | Katherine Propper | Emerging Grit Award
Walker’s | Kyle Myers-Haugh
En la Frontera del Arte (On the Margins of Art) | Michael Curran & Miranda Harris Martínez

MUSIC VIDEOS

Magic Video – “Coffee Grind Brains” | Patrick Nugent
Boo Hag – “Pop the Clutch” | Winston Warner
Space Coke – “Corpsewood Manor” | Steve Daniels
Future Song | Odile Postic
Moon Racer – “Song of the Mogwai” | Autumn Ehinger
KOHINOORGASM – “Chalo” | Jing Niu
Rob Nance – “Motion Sickness” | Gen Liu & Zach Strum
Nomadic War Machine – “The Fields Lay Fallow” | Charlotte Taylor
The Tumbling Wheels – “Sleepwalking” | Emily MacKenzie & Sasha Solodukhina
Silk Duck – “Clear” | Laura Iancu

FESTIVAL JURORS

Chloë Walters Wallace
Darcy McKinnon
Eugene Haynes

FILMMAKER FOCUS

Fresh Docs by Southern Documentary Fund | When Porgy Came Home, Lauren Waring Douglas
Feature Doc Panel | Panelists: Andrea Patiño Contreras, Emily Harrold, & Jon Kasbe
Kindie Grits | Instructors: Oscar Reyes & Charlotte Taylor
Indie Grants (WIP Screening) | WHISTLER’S MOTHER, Robbie Robertson & Lorie Gardner | AND THE PEOPLE COULD FLY, Roni Nicole Henderson | ABDUCTED, Ben Joyner & Josh Barkey | VOICES, Will Stewart
Grits In Progress (WIP Screening) | Devil Town, Adam Forrester | The Caregivers, Lauren Cater & Abbey Hoekzema | The Last Doctor, Matthew Hashiguchi | Sediment, William Stephen Davis
Silence Sam: Impact Producer Screening | Silence Same (Fine Cut Screening) | Jeremiah Rhodes & Courtney Staton
Impact Producer Workshop | Panelists: Naomi Walker, Jacqueline Olive, Courtney Staton, & Molly Murphy
The House of Sweet Magic (Youth Media Screening) | Shooting Stars, Digital Arts Students | When Life Gives You LEMONS, Make Lemonade, Something Studio | Pointe Guardian, Emma Sargent | Flood Story, Donovan Amaker | White Alligator, Damon Billiot & Valerie Armshaw | Lafitte 2068, Emerson Boutte & Andrea Fuentes | The Last Flower, Art Club | Hot Dan, Grayson Keck | bADvertisement – The South Carolina Plunger, Digital Arts Students | ig2byitm, Eric VanHoose | My Mother’s Hands, Briana Johnson | Acceptance Day, Sai Quewan Bennett | The Paths Chosen, Areana Scott | Synesthesia, Lena Pregenzer | “girls” – weeping fawn, Sonder Reels | The Lost Girl, Anonymous | Second Chance, Anonymous | Brute Force, Charli Shapiro | Where We Goin, RDJC Post-D | My Only Little Bro, Zykale Goodwin | Insomnia, Unfamiliar Productions

BANDS

Stagbriar
Finnegan Bell
Real Work
DUMB Doctors
Masonjar Menagerie
She Returns From War
Rachel Kate
Demetrius DeeSixx Similien
The Weeks Sisters
DJ – Chris Wenner
Jenny Besetzt
King Vulture
Breathers
ZenSoFLy
10th Letter
Infinitikiss

SPECIAL EVENTS

Overdue Grits
The Weekly Revue
Indie Bits Arcade
After Party at The Whig
Puppet Slam
Kindie Grits | Instructors: Oscar Reyes & Charlotte Taylor
Closing Night Dance Party
Opening Night in Cottontown

THE FIST & SPOON FAIR

Columbia Museum of Art
Zine Fair | 9thhourrr | Cait Maloney Creative | Cecil Belmont Decker (Indie Bits) | Charleston Zine Fest | Dojo Nowhere’s Mound Of Miscellany (Nic Jenkins) | Girls Rock Columbia | Abigail Hardee | Charlotte Johnston | Ed Madden | Thulani Makena | Mia McCallister | Tyler Muehl | OneColumbia | needlezkane (Jon Rasmussen) | No Apologies | no.radius | Subpar Magazine | terps | University of South Carolina Photography Program
Puppet Slam
Hip Tags Screening
Rural Project Screening | Getting Free, Kara Anderson | Stone Soup, Ony Ratsimbaharison & Margaret Walters | Some Million Miles, Adam Forrester & Jared Ragland | Estranged, Carleen Maur | Newberry Old Hotel, Haitham Alrikaby | TREES, Zaire Love

INDIE BITS

The Dirt Project | Shannon Ivey
Geography of Robots | Yutsi
Arc of Iris | Bonnie Harris-Lowe
Caterpillar | Linden Reid
Causa, Voices of the Dusk | Niebla Games
Depression Simulator | Parallax Visions
For Today, I Breathe Again | Tammy Duplantis
Hexca | CupCake Studios
Looking for Heals | Blue Bomber Games
Meow Moves | Emerson Smith
Odd Harvest | Shrimp on TV
Packing Up | Stephen Borden & Ilya Polyakov
Pre-Shave | Saam Pahlavan
Rasgueo | Joshua Blair
Squitlit | Squitlit Ink
Survival | Amanda Kisby
The Planet Is Exploding | Christian Simmers
The Silence Under Your Bed | Bravemule
TwinCop | Finite Reflection
VCUarts Youth Collection
Where The Heart Is | Emerson Smith

2018

NARRATIVE FEATURES

Luke & Jo | Joshua Overbay
Le Partie | Erik Mauck
Witch | Vanessa M. H. Powers

DOCUMENTARY FEATURES

America is Waiting | Georg Koszulinski
Farmsteaders | Shaena Mallet | Big Grit Award & The People’s Grit Award
The Possibility of Her | William Feagins, Jr.
Rodents of Unusual Size | Chris Metzler, Jeff Springer & Quinn Costello
Rukus | Brett Hanover
White Rock Boxing | Clifton Springs & Laura Valtora
The Well-Placed Weed: The Bountiful Life of Ryan Gainey | Steve Bransford

NON-COMPETITION FEATURES

Fluid Frontiers | Ephraim Asili
Man on Fire | Joel Fendelman
Purge This Land | Lee Ann Schmitt

NARRATIVE SHORTS

Atlantic City | Miguel Alvarez
Baby Oil | Shannon Silva
bridge/refrain | Roni Nicole Henderson | Local Grit Award
“In Dog Beers I’ve Only Had Two”: A Lesson for Beginners | Odile Postic
Earworm | Anil Dhokai
GHOST_GIRL | OK Keyes
Grand Dragon | Chris Gervais
Kim Bush’s Abduction | Will Carington
KRISTA | Danny Madden
Post Nuke | Adam Wyatt Tate
Socks on Fire: Uncle John and the Copper Headed Water Rattlers |  Bo McGuire
Steve’s Kinkoes | Emma Debany
Sunlit | Gerry Melendez
Sweet Nothing | Evan Russell
THESE COLORS DON’T RUN | Via Bia
Three Legged Dog | Bonnie Kathleen Ryan

DOCUMENTARY SHORTS

11.15.91 |  Sean Weiner
An Accidental Drowning | Matteo Servente
All Fried: Carolina Fish Camps | Ava Lowrey
All The In-Between | Anil Dhokai
The BLM Bridge Protest: One Year Later | Yalonda M. James
Cowgirl Up | Nathan Willis
Girls Rock Columbia | Betty Benns
Hardcore Wrestling Alliance | Dorian Warneck
My Name Is Marc, And You Can Count On It | Lindsey Phillips
A Name That I Admire | Sam Smartt
Pak Anggir | Ashleigh Goh Hua
PARADE | Kira Akerman
Prayer for Roy Moore | Fraser Jones
Recuerdos de Sangre / Blood Memories | Georg Koszulinski
Roadside Attraction | Patrick Bresnan & Ivete Lucas | Short Grit
Serpents and Doves | Nellie Kluz
Siler City: Bienvenido a Trabajar | Ava Lowrey
Station 15 | Kira Akerman & Sophie Tintori, PH.D. | Reel South Award
This My Favorite Mural | Michael Arcos
The Traveler Takamure | Jing Niu | Helen Hill Memorial Award

ANIMATIONS

Blanko – “Hallelujah” | Larson Collier
Elizabeth Sees | Val Magarian
Fruit Don’t Fall Far | Odile Postic
Growing Girl | Marnie Ellen Hertzler | Animated Grit Award
Tiger Toilet | Laurence Unger
You Can’t Play With Us | Serene Bacigalupi

EXPERIMENTAL SHORTS

All The Beautiful Girls | Amanda Justice
Amarillo Ramp | Bill Brown & Sabine Gruffat
below the neck, above the knees | Desiree Dawn Kapler
CPS Closings & Delays | Kristin Reeves
dragons & seraphim | Sasha Waters Freyer
Hogwash |  Zack Godshall
Levitate, Levitate, Levitate | The House of June (Amber L.N. Bournett & Ebony Blanding)
me and my army |  Sair Goetz
My Body Is Not My Own | Ace McColl
Not For Medical Use |  Camila Moreiras
Nothing A Little Soap Can’t Fix | Jennifer Proctor | Top Grit Award
Ruth | Lillian Burke | Experimental Grit Award
SDtoHDuprezMaxV2_009.mp4 | Anna Spence

STUDENT FILMS

Care | Bill Badi
The Checkout Line | Ethan Hanson
Crutch | Zack Spencer
Dishing Out Community | Leslie Leonard, Kelsey Ogata
Flagged: An American Love Story | Miles McKeller-Smith & Acobe Cheek
Gays for Trump? | Aaron Lovett
Lost Touch | Muriel Lee
The Passages of Pride | Frazier Bostic | Young Grit Award
Perdóname (Forgive Me) | Tani Paige Shukla

MUSIC VIDEOS

Bless These Sounds Under the City – “THE SLEEPING 8” | William S. Davis
Can’t Kids – “Coperroni” | Odile Postic
F E B R A – “Fasterrrr” | Laura Iancu
Kaye the Beast – “HEARD” | Hope Leigh
Kevin Devine – “Couldn’t Be Happier” | Charlotte E Taylor
Ol Scratch | Carl Heyward
Sequoyah – “Blue Jays” | Lev Omelchenko
Skater Boy and Friendly Cop | Tucker Prescott & Ryan Magee & Matt Watson

NON-COMPETITION SHORTS

Hair Wolf | Mariama Diallo


2017

NARRATIVE FEATURES

Disco Limbo | Fredo Landaveri & Mariano Toledo
Happiness Bomb: A Chicken Pox Now!! | Willie White
Hara Kiri | Henry Alberto
Hearts of Palm | Monica Peña
Jungle   Martin Rieznik
Look & See: A Portrait of Wendell Berry   Laura Dunn & Jef Sewell
Meadow Bridge |Tijah Bumgarner | Helen Hill Memorial Award
Never Came Back | Jeremiah Jahi
Your Ride Is Here | Fraser Jones | Big Grit Award

DOCUMENTARY FEATURES

The 41st Day: The Journey of Ryan Hall   | Tim Jeffreys
Cairo in One Breath |  Anna Kipervaser | Top Grit Award
The Modern Jungle |  Charles Fairbanks & Saul Kak
Moments of Campaign | Tomás Astudillo
An Outrage | Hannah Ayers & Lance Warren | The People’s Grit Award
The Room of Bones |  Marcela Zamora | Visiones Award
Tempestad | Tatiana Huezo
The Ties That Bind | Diana Newton

NARRATIVE SHORTS

80s Dating Video Remix | Nicole Kemper and Hilary Heath
August | Caitlyn Greene
Brother in Midnight Sun |  Lars Persson
Child of the Desert | Iliana Sosa
Crass | Micah Troublefield | Loca Grit Award
Devil’s Trap | Liz Houck & Alice Lilitu
Dim Blood | David Zonana
Get Out Fast | Haley Elizabeth Anderson
Glass House | Erik Ivar Sæther & Nicolai Berg Hanssen
The Hole Punch | Harry Bartle
House of Saints | Gerry Melendez
La Catrina | Illana Lapid
Las Nadadoras de Villa Rosa | Josefina Recio
Letter to a Distant Future | Georg Koszulinski
Little Syria | Francisco Sánchez Solis
Memory Box | Angie Reza Tures
Overland | Jazmin Harvey
PEDAZOS | Alejandro Peña
Radio Road | Warren Lewis Allen
Save | Iván Sáinz-Pardo
Table Manners | House of June
Teenage Caligula, the Trailer | Christopher Bickel
They Charge For The Sun | Terence Nance
Tisure |Adrián Geyer

DOCUMENTARY SHORTS

35mm Monsters | Remington Smith
All Skate, Everybody Skate | Nicole Triche
The Appleseed Project | Jennifer Lucero
The Aria of Babyface Cauliflower Brown | Tim Grant
Checkers in the Afternoon | Emily Harrold
The Courage of Her Convictions | Gillian Ray
A Day’s Work | Danielle Calle
The Diver | Esteban Arrangoiz
For Senator Graham | Seth Gadsden & Amada Torruella
In My South | Rodrigo Dorfman
Jonah Stands Up | Hannah Engelson
La Comida de los Cocineros  | Victoria Bouloubasis & Andrea Patiño Contrera | Reel South Short Film Award
More Dangerous than a Thousand Rioters | Kelly Gallagher
My Bones are Singing | Dust of the Ground
The No Hand King | Patrick Shanahan
Paloma | Giovanni Autran
The Rabbit Hunt | Patrick Bresnan
Sixteen | Vashti Harrison
Sweet Love | Stephen Crompton
Undocumented Freedom | Laura Bustillos Jáquez
White Death | Robert Collio | Short Grit Award

ANIMATIONS

Crumbling | Faith Cox
Cuerdas en la Vida | Gerardo González Pérez
Death | Gabriela Badillo
Fear | Dawn Dreyer & Andrea Love | Animated Grit Award
Hugo Bumfeldt | Éva Katinka Bognar
Schirkoa | Ishan Shukla

EXPERIMENTAL SHORTS

Black River | André Silva
Blua | Carolina Charry Quintero | Experimental Grit Award
Cuckold Picasso | Lance Larson
Dejar | Caitlin Díaz
Field Notes | Vashti Harrison
Frontier Journals 08: Antipodes Rising | Georg Koszulinski
Music of Desire | Kristin Reeves
Positioning | Anne Beal
Squirrel |Robin Salant
Wave Iteration | Anna Spence

STUDENT SHORTS

Ash |  Alice Lammers, Chovy Guiñones, & Mary Nejatifar
Bygone Barns | Matthew McFarling
DEX·TER·I·TY | Brooke Keppy & Timothy Nesmith
La Danza | Rafael Cordova & Tharun Karakattu
Regreso | Rodrigo Dada
Seriously Not Funny | Charles Fairbanks, Forest Bright, Lillian Burke, Odette Chavez-Mayo, & Ellie Burck | Young Grit Award
South Texas Cow Punk | Carlo Nasisse

MUSIC VIDEOS

BAGGAGEKLAIM – “better desperate” | Adam Drawdy
Girls Zui Side – “Sad Life” | Jennifer Miville
J. Cole – “Everybody Dies” | Scott Lazer
LONGSHOREMAN | William S. Davis
Sam Cohen – “The Garden” | Lucy Munger
Starbenders – “Time Stops” | Benjamin Roberds

2016

NARRATIVE FEATURES

Harvest | Cagney Gentry
Jacqueline Argentine | Bernardo Britto
Little Sister | Zach Clark
Paperback | Adam Bowers

DOCUMENTARY FEATURES

The Color of Fire | Dorian Warneck | The People’s Grit Award
Deep Run | Hillevi Loven
Eat White Dirt | Adam Forrester
Loa | Georg Koszulinski
Overalls and Aprons | Thibaut Fagonde
Rubbertown | Remington Smith
A Reason to Stay | Janene Knox
Yazoo Revisited: Integration and Segregation in a Deep Southern Town | David Rae Morris

NARRATIVE SHORTS

invisible-i-am | Harriet Showman
Jasmines | Joshua Rainwater
Rootbound | Reuben Bloom
Rouler, Sonner | Harry Bartle
Thunder Road | Jim Cummings

DOCUMENTARY SHORTS

Un Buen Carnicero | Victoria Bouloubasis
Beneath a Glass Floor Lobby | Lisa Danker
The Boatman | Zack Godshall | Curator’s Grits Award
The Boombox Guy | Dust of the Ground
The Bugg Farm | Christine Anthony and Owen Masterson
Collinsville Trade Day 1988 | Charles and Jason Keener
Cotton Country | Emily Harrold
The Curse and the Jubilee | Ivete Lucas and Patrick Bresnan
The Dinner | Sarah Vollman
The Exceptionally Extraordinary Emporium | Lindsey Phillips
Frogman | Tyler Trumbo
Getting Old | Nathan Honnold and Haley McManus
The Hollerin’ Contest at Spivey’s Corner | Brian Gersten and Liv Dubendorf
I Am Yup’ik | Daniele Anastasion and Nathan Golon
The Interior | Jonathan Rattner
In This World | Kelly Creedon
Lamp: A Ghost Story | Thomas Southerland
Nascent | Lindsay Branham and Jon Kasbe
Peace in the Valley | Michael Palmieri and Donal Mosher
Rotatio | Ian McClerin
The Send-Off | Ivete Lucas and Patrick Bresnan
Spearhunter | Luke Poling and Adam Roffman
Tempo of Tomorrow Revisited | Annie Gibson and Josh Gibson

ANIMATED SHORTS

I, Destini | Destini Riley and Nicholas Pilarski | 2016 Filmmaker Fellow Award
Glove | Alexa Lim Haas and Bernardo Britto

EXPERIMENTAL SHORTS

16mm Sound Film | Aaron Kutnik
Big_Sleep™ | Evan Meaney and Amy Szczepanski
Black & White In Color | Julianna Thomas
Body Contours | Kristin Reeves | Helen Hill Memorial Award
From Ally To Accomplice | Kelly Gallagher
A Meeting, In Light | Anna Kipervaser
Target | Nick Bontrager
untitled | Bonne Fee
War Prayer | Richard Wiebe

MUSIC VIDEOS

Blood Warrior – “Blood Letting” | William S. Davis
Jon Waltz – “ Bang” | John Merizalde
“Silk Duck” – Purple | Josh Yates

STUDENT SHORTS

Colored | Sydney Key
Everyone Is | Jonathan Rasmussen
Freak of Nature | Danny Flores
Miss Addie Johns: Brewton, AL | Hamilton Young Ward
The Movie About My Father | James Owens

NON-COMPETITION SHORTS

New Orleans Sazerac | James Martin

2015

NARRATIVE FEATURES

Female Pervert | Jiyoung Lee
Lost Colony | Christopher Holmes

DOCUMENTARY FEATURES

American Cheerleader | David Barba and James Pellerito | People’s Grit Award
Cotton Road | Laura Kissel | Top Grit Award
Every Body Hit Somebody | Amanda Berg
Finders Keepers | Bryan Carberry & Clay Tweel
Old South | Danielle Beverly
Popcorn Sutton: A Hell of a Life | Neal Hutcheson
Vida Propia |  Sarah Garrahan
Western  | Bill & Turner Ross | Big Grit Award

NARRATIVE SHORTS

C’est Jane | Jason O. Silva
The Department of Signs and Magical Intervention | Melissa Sweazy
Do Not Disturb | Anil Dhokai
Ed is a Portal | Darrell C. Hazelrig
The Gospel of Hip Bones | Chris Gervais & Micah Troublefield
Little Cabbage | Jen West
Serenade | Rob Tiffin, Ben Lamm, Mitchell Hardage
Skunk | Annie Silverstein | Helen Hill Award
Stuckey Private First Class | Brantley Jones

DOCUMENTARY SHORTS

The Art House |  Laura Valtorta
Brother Jesse |  Kevin Wells
Cherry Pop: The Story of the World’s Fanciest Cat | Kareem Tabsch
The Columbarium | Tyler Trumbo
Crooked Candy | Andrew Rodgers
Dolphin Lover | Kareem Tabsch
Grace’s One and Only Casseroni | Kavanah Anderson
Inheritance | Aggie Ebrahimi Bazaz | Short Grit Award
Maque Chou | Christy Ward
The Murder Ballad of James Jones | Jesse Kreitzer
Nowhere to be Found | Alex Moratto
Papa Machete Part II: The Crying Game |  Jonathan David Kane
Plaze Toys | Brittany Paul
Sandorkraut | Emily Lobsenz & Ann Husaini
The Shrimper |  Katrina Albright
Strike | Joey Daoud
Welcome Home, Fayetteville Observer | Amanda Berg
Willy James The Puppeteer | Chap Fowler | Local Grit Award

ANIMATED SHORTS

Artio and Belenus | Nancy Jean Tucker
The Ballad of Holland Island House | Lynn Tomlinson
Don’t Be Afraid of Bears | Jill Johnston
El Sol Como un Gran Animal Oscuro | Christina Felisgrau & Ronnie Rivera
My Heart Leaps Up | Meg Stein
The Never Bell | Emily Lobsenz
One Night in Florida | Tess Martin
This Will Destroy You – New Topia | lilfuchs
Worse Than Catholic | Jamie Clark

EXPERIMENTAL SHORTS

Boulders | Adam Siler
DAIMON |  Kelsey Velez
Departing  | Jing Niu
Frontier Journals 01: Mythologies of the Conquerors | Georg Koszulinski
Frontier Journals 04: A Map of the New World | Georg Koszulinski
Garden of Stone | Sasha Waters Freyer
Her 2014 |  Deon Kay
Historia Calamitatum (The Story of My Misfortunes) | Roger Beebe
Hitori |  Raymond Carr
I Have To Close My Eyes | Brenda L. Burmeister
Instrument | Anna Kipervaser
It’s a Process | Dee Hood
Meet the Press | Nicholas Pilarski
Pearl Pistols | Kelly Gallagher
Prospector | Talena Sanders
Spanish Moss | Lynne Hull
Stay Awhile | Patrick Jeffords
Telegraph Road! | Lynnie Mitra & Bob
THIS IS YATES | Joshua Yates | Experimental Grit Award

STUDENT SHORTS

BrocKINGton | Mason Sklut
Closer | Sean Shoppell
Don’t Forget the Pocketwatch | Courtney Gibson
The Emotional Dimensions of the James River | Patrick Gregory
FLOR | Taylor Deas
Memories of Important Places | Lizzy Rogers
Palm Rot | Ryan Gillis | Animated Grit Award
Tyesha | Ora DeKornfeld
Unmappable | Diane Hodson & Jasmine Luoma | Young Grit Award

NON-COMPETITION FILMS

Choked Up | Drew Keefer
The Death of Philip Ritzo | Ann Bailey
Filling The Gap | Ian O’Donnell
The Memory Tree | Jessica Bradley
Oh, Henry! | Taylor, Sabri, Aslan Irizarry
The One  | Christopher Collins
The Sharpest Sense | Azure Allen
Shattered | Nathan Sheeley
Stick People  | Connor Nyberg
We Went Camping  | Jessica Bradley

2014

NARRATIVE FEATURES

As It is in Heaven | Joshua Overbay | Top Grit Award
Big Significant Things | Bryan Reisberg
Lighter | Ronnie Gunter

DOCUMENTARY FEATURES

Above All Else | John Fiege
Last Stop, Flamingo | Georg Koszulinski | Big Grit Award
Liahona | Talena Sanders
Limo Ride | Gideon C. Kennedy and Marcus Rosentrater
Skanks | David McMahon | People’s Grit Award
Strength and Beauty | Chelsea Wayant
Surviving Cliffside | Jon Matthews
The Road to Livingston | Erik Mauck

NON-COMPETITION FEATURES

40 Years Later: Now Can We Talk? | Markie Hankock
When the Bough Breaks | Bud Ferillo

NARRATIVE SHORTS

13 Pieces of the Universe | Tara Sheffer
Alone | Daniel McCord
American Kensho: Manifest Destiny | Aaron Wyrd
Bubble | Jen West
Bump | Maggie Calton
Davedreamer | Harry Bartle
Ethan and Eli | Katrina Albright
Helpless | Christene Hurley | Young Grit Award
Honor the Father | Christopher Tevebaugh | Local Grit Award
John’s Farm | Melissa Sweazy
Locker 212 | Matt Nunn
LOMAX | Jesse Kreitzer
LOST | Jennifer Kleiman and Landon Phillips
M is for Marauder | Steve Daniels
Molly | Craig Elrod | Short Grit Award
The Proposal | Jason Silva

DOCUMENTARY SHORTS

A Man Without Words | Zack Godshall
Baby Heavy | Lucas Brown
Bookin’ | John Kirkscey
Cataloguing My Dreams | Ryan Cockrell
Fishhooks | Ryan Cockrell
Ingrained | Dorian Warneck
The Many Misadventures of Roy S. Wilson | Jordan Wilson
Mipso in Japan | Jon Kasbe
The Offerings | Seth Henderson
The Photos and Me | James Owens
Searcy County | Noam Osband
Sensei | Ora DeKornfeld
Steel Beings | Amy Riney

ANIMATED SHORTS

Afterlight | Timothy David Orme
Confusion Through Sand | Daniel Madden | Animated Grit Award
The Last Orange Grove of Middle Florida | Carl Knickerbocker
Lunch | Tyler Mitchell
Pen Up the Pigs | Kelly Gallagher | Helen Hill Award
Happy Memories | Jack Fields
Wawd Ahp | Steve Girard
Yearbook | Bernardo Britto

EXPERIMENTAL SHORTS

American Watercolors | Spencer Neale
Burn Out the Day | Sasha Waters Freyer
Handful of Dust | Hope Tucker
June July August | Jason Affolder
Nine | O.K. Keyes
One Party Ultimate Nightclub | John Rash
Relieving the American Dream | Charlotte Taylor
Rice for Sale | Brendan and Jeremy Smyth | Experimental Grit Award
Slam Dunk Summer Camp: Volume One | Myles Walsh and Nic Jenkins
Tar Creek | Lydia Moyer
This Is (Not) Yates | Joshua Yates

2013

78 Years Past the Happiness Bomb | Willie White
21 Chitrakoot | Shambhavi Kaul
588 | Marie Ilene
Antarctica | Taylor Wentworth
Apocalypse Meow | Cory Greene
April | Alan Spearman |  Short Grit Award
Aryl & Ybur | Tara L. Tusher
As I Am | Alan Spearman
Barr-Price Funeral Home | Ross Ovington and Spencer Rabon
Bee Sting | Diane Towner-Jones and Lisa Aimee Sturz
Crush | Rebecca Pugh and Jen West
Daddy: A Cinematic Experience | Ashley Christopher Leach
December 1990 #2 | Cecil Decker
Die Like An Egyption | Matt Mamula
Ditching School to Whistle | Ien Chi
Don’t Kill The Messenger | Daniel McCord
Dusty Stacks of Mom: The Poster Project | Jodie Mack |  Helen Hill Award, Animated Grit Award
Euphonia | Danny Madden |  Big Grit Award
Fish and Chicks | Daniel Berkowitz
Frankenstein Revisited | Georg Koszulinski
Get Better | Chris White, Emily Reach White |  People’s Grit Award
Grandpa Gives You the Bird | Marc Maximov
Hello My Friend | Blake Garris
Holy God Holy Mighty Holy Immortal Have Mercy Upon Us | Robert Hillyer Barnett
I Have Always Been a Dreamer | Sabine Gruffat
Infinite | Dwayne R. Martin
I’m Dracula For Pete’s Sake | Peter Coker
The Jam Room: 25 Years and Counting | Wade Sellers
Jesus Fish | Bryce James McGuire
Kosmonauts | Aaron Wyrd
Light Plate | Josh Gibson
Little Green Men | Jordan Wilson
Miracle Boy | Jake Mahaffy |  Top Grit Award
Moira Angela Darling | Joshua Rainwater |  Young Grit Award
The Mystery in Old Bathbath | Ms. Pussycat and Panacea Theriac
Mystery Political Science Theater 2012: Tea Party Invaders from Outer Space Target South Carolina | Frank Heflin
Nile Perch | Josh Gibson
The Outside Comes Inside | Matt Hulse
Passing Through Traveling Down | Andrew Fuhr
The Places Where We Lived | Bernardo Britto
Por Dinero | Brendan Smyth and Jeremy Smyth
Present | Joe Chang
Pretty Monsters | Ryan Parker and G.B. Shannon
Pride and Joy | Joe York
Quinn’s New Video Game | Heather Freeman
Reed | Dorian Warneck
Red Flag | Alex Karpovsky
Sci-Fly | Joey Shanks
See the Dirt | Eric Mauck and Chelsea Hernandez
Shoestrings | Tim Jeffreys
Sick | Joshua Yates
The Space Coast | Count Lear Bunda
STEGOSAUR | Seth Gadsden
So Far Above the Humans They Are | Elizabeth Lawrence | Amanda Stymeist
Supine | Lyon Hill
Taxidermists | Nicole Triche
Twenty-One Questions | Micah Troublefield |  Local Grit Award
Two Seconds After Laughter | David Rousseve |  Experimental Grit Award
Veer! | Patrick Barry
Upstate | Jordan Wilson
We Cause Scenes | Matt Adams
The White Coat Phenomenon | Kristin Reeves
Yucca Mtn Tally | Phoebe Brush

2012

4 Horsemen of the Apocalypse | Marc Russo
Between the Sheets | Warren Cockerham
Blue Meridian | Sophie Benoot
Compromised | Tom Hall
Cycles of Matter | Matthew Brown
The Dragons of Jim Green | Randy Salo | People’s Grit Award
Disabled But Able To Rock! | Blake Myers
Divide | Michael T. Miller
Eating Alabama | Andrew Beck Grace | Top Grit Award
The Edge of Summer | Charlotte Taylor | Helen Hill Award
EGG | Court 13
Egg in Pig’s Ear | Chiyoung Lee
Fisher | Yoram Benz
Fork | Austin Herring
General Orders No. 9 | Robert Pearsons
Gilded Age Gladiator | Brad Lambert
Going Home | Warren Cockerham
Grand Fugue On the Art of Gumbo | Isabel Machado and Gideon Kennedy
Grounded by Reality | Elizabeth Strickler
Hillbilly Exorcism | Bubba Cromer
The King of Instruments | Ethan Jackson and Ryan Cockrell
Kitchen Table | Cara Hagan
Kudzu Vine | Josh Gibson | Short Grit Award
Mantis | Spencer Rabon
Mickle’s Pickle | Nathan Willis
Moving Minds | Cara Clark
Nobody Loves Anna | Shannon Jones | Young Grit Award
On Down the Line | Ashley Rosse
Open Secret | Steve Lickteig
Pennipotens | Heather Freeman
The People You Know | Elizabeth Spear
Quick & Easy | Lauren Gregory
Please Remember Me | Lisa Danker
Reinalda Arenas | Lucas Leyva
The Search for Norumbega | Georg Koszulinski
The Severe Psychosis of a Musicless Man | Kate Miller
The Shrimp | Keith Wilson
Soldier Girl: South Carolina Veterans | Cathy Brookshire
The Steering Committee | Hodges Usry
Summertime Flies | Nathan Halverson
Taken In | Chris White
T is for Termite | Steve Daniels | Local Grit Award
Tchoupitoulas | Bill and Turner Ross | Big Grit Award
Trixie and the Treetrunks: Spirit Hair | Miss Pussycat
Tuesday and Mike Gray
Wake | Jordan Wilson
Welcome to Planet Earth | Michael Livingston
When Walt Whitman Was a Little Girl | Jim Haverkamp
Whirlwind | Corey Corbett
Wilbert and Vern | Kenneth Price
Wiggle Room | Joe Schenkenberg | Animated Grit Award
Zombie Dragonfly Discotheque | David Montgomery | Experimental Grit Award
ZomRomCom: The Musical! | Kate Miller

2011

1. Stop 2. Jump 3. Go | S. Cagney Gentry | Young Grit Award
Ceibas: The Well of Representation | Evan Meaney
Cookie Crooks | James Barfield | Special Jury Award for Animation
Cure for the Crash | Brian Paul Higgins | Top Grit Award
The Culinary Browns | Phoebe Brown
Daphne 2.0 | Marc Russo and Francesca Talenti | Experimental Grit Award
Dirty Silverware | Steve Daniels | Local Grit Award
Frank Fairfield | Austin Wilson
Half Garage | Corey Corbett
Immokalee, My Home | Kevin T. Allen
Junk Palace | Lyon Hill | People’s Grit Award. Southern Lens Independent Vision Award
Lord Byron  |  Zack Godshall
Mo Money No Problems | Austin Grebenc
Nothing Yet | James Benson
Old Dreams | Jason Shea
Pioneer | James Johnston | Short Grit Award
Puker | Kim Bergman
The Redemption of General Butt Naked | Daniele Anastasion and Eric Strauss | Big Grit Award
Ride that Pig to Glory | Joe York
Satan Since 2003 | Carlos Puga
Shaft or Sidney Poitier | Jonathan Gayles
Training Wheels | Sarah Fleming
Unsubscribe #4: The Saddest Song in the World | Jodie Mack | Helen Hill Memorial Award
Visions of Black Elk | Tom Hall
Wrestling for Jesus The Tale of T-Money | Nathan Clarke

2010

Rocaterrania – Brett Ingram; Top Grit Award, Southern Lens Award

American Jihadist – Mark Claywell; Big Grit Award
All That’s Left in My Grandmother’s Garage – Stacy Greenberg
B is for Beer – Brian Harmon
Ben Jack: How to Get Your Stache Back
 – Mark Phillips
Brother Micah – Kevin Wells
But I’m French – Terry Roueche
Chiaroscuro, Baby – Anthony Kilburn
Chiefland – Gabriel Tyner
Chimney Swifts – Liz Vaughan
Clementine – Joseph Binder
Cops
 – Brad Boll
Cotton Hills Farm – James Hughes
Crippled – Ien Chi
A Day Out – Dylan Knight
Divorcing God/Holy Vows
 – Maggie Sargent
Downers – Milton Hall
DownStartTV: Ep 5.2 – Nate Dorn

Passenger Pigeons – Martha Stephens; People’s Grit Award
Two Downtown
 – Cara Hagan; Short Grit Award
Lauren Gregory’s TV – Lauren Gregory; Helen Hill Memorial Award
Sylvia and George
 – Cara Clark; Young Grit Award
Spitty – Pheobe Bush; Experimental Grit Award
Grit Chit – Simon Tarr
Greener in Their Prime – William Stewart
Scene 32 – Shambhavi Kaul
Satyritown: SurREEL in Cabbagetown – Rose M. Barron
Poor Audrey – Lydia Moyer
Lollipop, Don’t Be a Hero – Jennida Chase
You Had to Be There – Thom Southerland
A Size 18 in Sequins – Rebecca Boyd | Blake Garris | Bryan Fetner
Tempo – R Salant
Open Five – Nick Case
The Golden Mallard – Jon Jones
This is Not a Pipe Bomb – Georg Koszulinski
Eharmony Spoof Spot – Fisherman 32 – Ryan Cockrell
Preach Jacobs & Denz – Falling – Ryan Cockrell
Pecan Pie, Granny Style – Ryan Cockrell
We Fun – Matthew Robison
Ichthyopolis – Andre Silva
Sweet Georgia Brown – Hodges Usry
Elements of Time – David Montgomery
Movement – Phillip Soellner
Eaten – Anne Haydock
Page 1 of 1 – Russell Roe
Made from Glue – Lucas Sams
Order Up – Maggie Sargent
Swim – Chip Moore
Spaceman – Nicole Triche
S.O.B and the Legend of Alan Schafer – Jesse Berger
Ross Mackenzie’s Redemption on the West Texas Barbecue Trail – Adam Tate

 

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