
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.
2022 Selected Films and Virtual Screening
The final screening at the Plaza Theater last night was a wonderful success and we’d like to congratulate the 2022 GSUSFF award winning films and student filmmakers.
The entire Plaza Theater program of films was very strong work, so we also want to congratulate those student filmmakers whose films were selected out of 103 film submissions/9+ hours.
We’d like to thank some people who contributed to the festival this year:
- Kim Ruiz and Summer Robinson, our GRAs/staff who invested a lot of time and creative energy into the organization of the festival
- Daniel Robin, Founder and Director of the GSUSFF
- Josh Cleveland, our festival photographer
- Blake Lowe, the MC for the Plaza Theater screening
- Gina Anderson, FMT business manager extraordinaire
- Chrissi Livingston for her beautiful poster and program art
- Our Jury: Caroline Rumley and Alex Orr
- Our sponsors: FMT, COTA, The Plaza Theater, ATLFF, The Atlanta Film Society, and Chris Escobar, Executive Director of the ATLFF and MA production alum, who generously donated the funds for the $500 prize each student award winning filmmaker receives, and two all-access passes to the 2023 ATLFF.
Looking forward to next year’s GSUSFF.
GSUSFF Workers








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.
CONGRATULATIONS CHRISSI LIVINGSTON FOR BEING SELECTED AS OUR 2022 GSUSFF POSTER CALL WINNER!
WE’D LIKE TO THANK ALL THE STUDENTS WHO SUBMITTED DESIGNS FOR THIS YEAR’S FILM FESTIVAL AND CAN’T WAIT TO SEE YOUR FILM SUBMISSIONS.
Our Jury

Caroline Rumley
Caroline is an American filmmaker from the South who combines solo-shot film, found and archival footage, text, and sound to illuminate a personal or public experience. Her films have screened internationally at varied venues – from Melbourne’s Biennial of Video Art to Amsterdam’s IDFA to Berlin’s Zebra Poetry Film Fest to Sundance.

Alex Orr
Alex has served as producer, production manager and line producer for the FX TV Show Atlanta, a producer of independent features including Blue Ruin, The Arbalest, and Netflix series Easy, and was recently hired as head of production for Jax Media. Alex is a filmmaker and was also, some years back, a Georgia State film student.
Previous GSU Student Film Festival Participants
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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