GSU Student Film Festival
Selected films were chosen to compete in a Juried Competition for four awards: Best Documentary, Best Fiction, Best Experimental and Special Jury Prize.
2023 GSU Film Festival Winners
2023 Selected Films Lineup
Monday, May 1 Lineup
- A.D. Bivines: Paper Actors
- Aditya Rajendran: Anonymous
- Adia Reid: Experia
- Amari Akua: MARKED
- Angelica James, Akilah Duncan, Alexus Singelton,
Leeandra Daguillar and Andre Goodwill: Sleep - Anish Narendrakumar: One Way Out and 1716
- Anna Winter: Islets of Langerhans and Heavy Handed
- Antonio Wilson: Shut Out
- April Killion: Tomorrow
- Ari Bradley: Read All About It
- Armand Francois: Bonobos
- Asher Thornton: Crypticalooza
- Ashley Younger: Shifts, I’ve been in Love Once and Insert Name Here
- Blake Lowe: One Shot
- Braydan Holland: Paternal
- Caleb Plummer: Fatale
- Calvin Breeze: Champion Made
- Cam King: #14
- Cedric Simmons: prosody
- Charla Daye: The Real World
- Connor Cameron: MACHINE/LEARNING
- Corbin Mobley: Pigeons: A Bird of Prey?
- Daniel Palacios: ROT, Most of My Heart is in A Box and Letters to Formation
- Eduardo Solis: Emergency
- Emma Wirt & Sully Biscan: Projections
- Esther Lord: Nurse
- Ethan Charles: GEL
- Gedeon: In the Mind: It’s all Beautiful, v8mm 12:00
- Hannah Dell: Gideon
- Harvey Coleman: The Non-Prophet
- Heath Sanders: Waiting, Painfully Eternal and Ode to Alex
- Hector Barraza: Pantherballs
- Ian Toole: Three Phases of Misfortune
- Isaac Breiding: Self
- Itai Schewartz: Toaster
- Jillian Smith: Lives With 2
- Jimena Fuenmayor: Our Home
- Jordan Little: The Private Eye
- Joshua Cleveland: A Space Between
- Joshua Coleman: Portrait of Lucy Luckovich
- Juan Sliverio: Grasp and Distant Past
- Kadilobarl Bornwin: Five
Tuesday, May 2 Lineup
- Kat Rolader: Lilis, Bones and Gabi
- Kay Jones: Break Up Break in
- Kayla White: Think Back When
- Keeland Caldwell: Mr. & Mrs. Black
- Kelly Thompson II: SPACES
- Keymar Jones: This is Love
- Kimberly Spencer: A.C.
- Krew Keth: Home Movie
- Kurt Chong: Noir, Blanc, Happiness Comes From Nothing, Doja Cat + Streets (KJDOGA Remix) Music Video
- L Davenport: AUGHT HOUR 1995
- Leala: Hello my name is
- Luis Bou: Stray Bullets
- Maia Helvy: The Kiss, Girls in Jeans Part 1, Girls in Jeans Part 2
- Maximilian Lloyd: JOYTAPE
- Michael Kinsey: Bath Time, Home Video
- Minksuk Jung: Catch Me
- Nakoti Coleman: Beneath the Surface, The Art of Hunting, *The -ist*
- Natasha Reilly: Sunlight, The Ultracomposited Image
- Nick Spratlin: Ends With Me
- Nick Spratiin: Nicolas Ruz
- Noah Warner: INVASION
- Noblevine Onyeukpere: *Changed* | Superhero Short Film, “Professional Hater” | Mockumentary
- Olamma Oparah: Rest Intuit and Ololokpo
- Palmer Willams: Camp Notso – Directed by Palmer Williams III
- Robert Willams: Black Joy and New Vibes
- Ryan Gates: Link to Life
- Sam Barker: Hold on Tight
- sara ghazi asadollahi: Where Am I?
- Sarah Anderson: The Art of the Take
- Sarah Kelley: Tell No Tales
- Semaria Graves: Gentrification: How it Affects The Community Of Atlanta, A Dancer’s Decision, The Running Girl
- Shawna-Marie Walker: warmest wishes, Koinonos and memory
- Shelise Byrd: Return to Sender and Loudest
- Shya Everett: Decode
- Steven Mejia: Table For Two, El Ruido and Good In Red
- Summer Raaine Fox: Hair
- Tierra Anderson: Anniversary and Devine
- Topher: Longing
- Treston Rush: “What I Collect” Episode 1: BOB AND ROCKS, How Jessica Kidnapped My Heart
- Vitor Pinheiro: Drawn to the Sound
What is the GSU Student Film Festival?
The Georgia State University Student Film Festival is an annual showcase of the films written, produced and directed by current film and media majors and MA production students. The goal is to highlight the best and brightest creative offerings produced during that academic year.
Selected films are chosen to compete in a Juried Competition for four awards: Best Documentary, Best Fiction, Best Experimental and Special Jury Prize. Each winning filmmaker will receive a $500 scholarship and two All-Access Passes to next year’s ATLFF.
Previous GSU Student Film Festival Participants
2022 Selected Films and Virtual Screening
2021 Selected Films and Virtual Screening
Previous GSU Film Festival Films
ET aka Matthew Gibbs | Directed by Erin S. Murray
Documentary Production class
Special Jury Award Winner
I’m Not What You Think | Directed by Kia Pooler
Editing class
Special Jury Award Winner
Christina | Directed by Caleb Courson
Documentary Production class
Special Jury Award Winner
Bunnyman
Directed by Jack Saunders
Fiction Production class
Education of a Girl Child | Dir. by Gaby McNicoll
Documentary Production class
Best Documentary Award Winner
Emilio Directed by Daniel Cammacho
Fiction Production
Best Fiction
Worm Dirt
Directed by Anna Norman
Documentary Production
Best Documentary award winner
Faculty Advisor
The Georgia State University Student Film Festival was created by Professor Daniel Robin, film maker and production faculty member in the School of Film, Media and Theatre.
Daniel Robin makes personal experimental documentary films that often incorporate fictional devices to mythologize his family history. His film my olympic summer won the Sundance Film Festival Jury Prize for Short Filmmaking, the Grand Jury Award for Best Documentary Short at the Florida Film Festival, Best Documentary Short at the Nashville Film Festival, Director’s Choice Award at the Black Maria Film Festival, and the Onda Curta Award at IndieLisboa Film Festival. The film was also selected to screen at New Directors/New Films Festival in New York, Aspen, and True/False. His 2017 experimental documentary film All The Leaves Are Brown screened at over 30 film festivals and won the Best Director Award at the Bucharest International Experimental Film Festival, Best Short Documentary at Sidewalk Film Festival, and Jury Award for Personal Vision at the Oxford Film Festival. The film also screened at: Curtas Vila Do Conde (Portugal), Minimalen Film Festival (Norway), EDOC (Ecuador), Analogica (Italy). Two of his previous films screened at Sundance, a feature narrative in competition at SXSW Film Festival, and several films at the Ann Arbor Film Festival. His 2019 film Petting Zoo has screened at 23 film festivals, many of those International, including: Ji.hlava IDFF and Analogica 9, Cork FF. Daniel’s work is widely seen in festivals throughout Europe and the U.S.
In 2000 Daniel pioneered documentary web video series creating the website neighborhoodfilms.com where he’s produced six documentary web series.
Filmmaker Magazine named Robin one of the “25 New Faces of Independent Film.”
Daniel Robin is the writer, director, editor, cinematographer, and sound recordist for all of his films.
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