Neurovisions Film Festival

• Submissions Open: Oct. 1, 2026
• Early Bird Deadline: Dec. 21st, 2026 @ 11:59 p.m. ET
• Regular Deadline: Jan. 25th, 2027 @ 11:59 p.m. ET
• Notification Date: March 17th, 2027
• Festival Date: April 9-10, 2027

2026

Videos coming soon!

2025

Introducing Neurovisions Film Festival

2025 Neurovisions Film Festival Recap

Materials

Download Schedule Trifold

Films Screened

Narrative and Animation Shorts

Friday, April 25, 2025 at 7:00 PM

• ADHD
  • Directors: Michael Salvatore Winters, Paul Michael Oliphant
  • Length: 3:00
• Pure Magic
  • Director: Natasha Beste
  • Length: 3:00
• Point
  • Director: Spencer Hemberger
  • Length: 4:04
• Dream Katcher
  • Director: Gyuri Kepes
  • Length: 4:45
• Late-Diagnosed
  • Director: Matthew Baltar
  • Length: 3:35
• Cupcake
  • Director: Natalie Mahoney
  • Length: 4:50
  • School: The City College of New York
• The Supermarket
  • Director: Jay Sillence
  • Length: 3:08
• “Missing or Incomplete”
  • Director: Tamara Anna Finlay
  • Length: 0:34
• The Bad Dream
  • Director: Matthew Snell
  • Length: 5:25
• Malcolm
  • Director: Simon Williamson
  • Length: 14:50
• The Bloody Island
  • Director: Gianni Petrizzo
  • Length: 9:49

Champion of Neurodiversity Feature

Saturday, April 26, 2025 at 10:00 AM

• Autistic Mode
  • Directors: Bob Clark, Nix Busby, Charles Moss, Malcolm Thomas, Gabrielle Teaford
  • Length: 1:40:00

Documentary Shorts

Saturday, April 26, 2025 at 1:00 PM

• Theatre Adventure: A Ballad of Belonging
  • Directors: Laura Lawson Tucker, Darlene Jenson, Maria Pugnetti
  • Length: 30:00
• A Tight 5 Hours
  • Director: Ewan McPherson
  • Length: 14:52
• Surviving the Spectrum
  • Director: Carley Marissa Dummitt
  • Length: 29:47
• Vaivén
  • Director: Nisha Platzer
  • Length: 13:59
  • School: Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisión de San Antonio de los Baños
• When You Don't Remember
  • Directors: Hannu Nieminen, Tiina Makkonen
  • Length: 13:19

Best of Franklin Academy

Saturday, April 26, 2025 at 3:00 PM

• Flowers
  • Director: Sam Monticello
  • Length: 0:26
  • School: Franklin Academy
• Roller Coaster Animated
  • Director: Aidan Neff
  • Length: 0:20
  • School: Franklin Academy
• Locked in a Van - A Venkateswaran Story
  • Director: Adam Waldie
  • Length: 8:49
  • School: Franklin Academy
• This is Me
  • Director: Katie Klinck
  • Length: 5:45
  • School: Franklin Academy
• Wi-Fi - A Tragedy
  • Director: Mark Hally
  • Length: 4:59
  • School: Franklin Academy
• The Strange Feast
  • Directors: Katie Klinck, Sofiye Smart, Hailey Matthews, Anna Hobbs, Lydia Boecke, Jay Garvey
  • Length: 1:52
  • School: Franklin Academy
• The Tragedy of TUGS
  • Director: Lucas Richards
  • Length: 16:05
• School: Franklin Academy
• Topsy-Turvy Toby
  • Director: Toby Farrer
  • Length: 1:35
  • School: Franklin Academy
• This Is Bruce
  • Director: Jimmy Meyers
  • Length: 3:14
  • School: Franklin Academy
• SEARCH
  • Director: Ethan Barnes
  • Length: 4:21
  • School: Franklin Academy
• Man On The Run
  • Director: Matteo Caligiuri
  • Length: 1:00
  • School: Franklin Academy
• Light Blue - The Energy Thief
  • Director: Alex Troiano
  • Length: 3:29
  • School: Franklin Academy
• Hannah's Curse
  • Director: Aidan Neff
  • Length: 4:23
  • School: Franklin Academy
• Disjointed
  • Director: Eli Malamy
  • Length: 3:06
  • School: Franklin Academy
• Check The Time
  • Director: Jack Knight
  • Length: 2:34
  • School: Franklin Academy
• Bliss In a Lap of Nature
  • Director: Erin McNulty
  • Length: 1:25
  • School: Franklin Academy
• Animations
  • Director: Alexia Leeds
  • Length: 1:21
  • School: Franklin Academy
• Anglerfish Reproduction
  • Director: Chris Gurr
  • Length: 6:23
  • School: Franklin Academy
• Sammy's Super Mega Video
  • Director: Will Coons
  • Length: 6:59
  • School: Franklin Academy
• TREES
  • Director: Ash Utiger
  • Length: 1:26
  • School: Franklin Academy

Experimental Shorts

Saturday, April 26, 2025 at 5:00 PM

• Resting Place
  • Director: Brittney Appleby
  • Length: 2:55
• March 13, 2025
  • Director: Jeffrey A Brick
  • Length: 0:47
• Frank Stares at Celestials
  • Director: Josh Weissbach
  • Length: 1:13
• Stitching the Future with Clues
  • Director: Allison Leigh Holt
  • Length: 14:30
• Seed
  • Directors: Nisha Platzer, Malin Schmid
  • Length: 3:38
• tulips are my father's favourite flower
  • Director: Nisha Platzer
  • Length: 3:03
• One Thing Leads to Another
  • Director: Wheeler Winston Dixon
  • Length: 3:37
• The Switching Division
  • Director: Jim Laczkowski
  • Length: 4:48
• Pigment–Dispersion Syndrome
  • Director: Jennifer Reeves
  • Length: 6:00
• Yellow Jubilee P260-5
  • Director: Kate Lain
  • Length: 2:21
• Close as Brothers
  • Director: Jennifer Hardacker
  • Length: 5:00
• Bridge 2
  • Director: Andrew Payne
  • Length: 1:00

Materials

Download Schedule Trifold (Coming Soon)

Films Screened

Narrative and Comedy Shorts Part 1

Friday, April 24, 2026, at 6:30 p.m.

• You won't understand me
  • Director: Murilo Ferraz
  • Length: 16:05
• Thank You For Calling
  • Directors: Vera Lelie, Kwint Jongerius
  • Length: 13:54
• Stigma
  • Director: Jonathan Brukhartz
  • Length: 8:56
  • School: Landmark College
• The Search for Concentration
  • Director: Danny Fain
  • Length: 6:29
  • School: Dodge College of Film and Media Arts
• Berried
  • Director: Alexander Rose Young
  • Length: 5:00
  • School: JMC Academy
• I Can't Say No To Cheese
  • Director: Matthew Snell
  • Length: 3:05
  • School: New York Film Academy
• The Circle Around JFK
  • Director: Nicholas Alexander Newman
  • Length: 23:33

Dust and Metal Feature

Friday, April 24, 2026, at 8 p.m.

• Dust & Metal
  • Director: Esther Johnson
  • Length: 1:12:00

Little Pet Watershed Screening

Friday, April 24, 2026, at 9:30 p.m.

• Little Pet
  • Director: Alex Gruenenfelder
  • Length: 1:29:24

Documentaries

Saturday, April 25, 2026, at 9 a.m.

• the free use of what belongs to you
  • Director: Juan Alvarez-Durán
  • Length: 24:45
• Johanna and the music
  • Director: Moritz Münstermann
  • Length: 26:54
• Basketball is Life
  • Directors: Henry Kvetan, Harry Blankenship, Matty Robson
  • Length: 4:47
  • School: Landmark College
• Magical Bridge: Kind By Design
  • Director: Annette M. King
  • Length: 24:54

Experimental Part 1

Saturday, April 25, 2026, at 10:30 a.m.

• Parts in Progress
  • Director: Jessica Lily
  • Length: 17:22
• Hollywood Light Reveries
  • Director: Forrest Martin
  • Length: 17:15
• Self Defense
  • Directors: Liam Whitworth, Sam Tam Ham
  • Length: 20:00
• A World in the Evening
  • Directors: Dan Boord, Luis Valdovino
  • Length: 9:00
• DnDocumentary
  • Director: Roark D' Anixter
  • Length: 6:22
• The Last Thing He Eats is Himself
  • Director: Liadain O'Toole
  • Length: 8:03
  • School: Rutgers Filmmaking
• Song of Ascent
  • Director: Alison Folland
  • Length: 4:30
• Simulacra Goose
  • Director: Schuyler Dragoo
  • Length: 3:20

Animation Shorts

Saturday, April 25, 2026, at noon

• Hedgehog Windows
  • Director: Olia Kolesnyk
  • Length: 9:45
  • School: Hochschule Darmstadt, University of Applied Sciences
• Look at me
  • Director: Fabrice Garcia-Carpintero
  • Length: 10:00
• Miss Odd
  • Director: Robyn Wisker-Stilling
  • Length: 4:47
  • School: Middlesex University London
• Bruno's Wings
  • Director: NANO BOR
  • Length: 3:50
• Lightbulb Moments: Being Autistic
  • Director: Thriving Autistic
  • Length: 2:43
• Discovering You're Autistic
  • Director: Thriving Autistic
  • Length: 2:30
• Being special is a superpower
  • Director: Natasha Klimchuk
  • Length: 1:19

Meander Feature

Saturday, April 25, 2026, at 1 p.m.

• Meander
  • Director: Lexi Bass
  • Length: 1:38:00

Franklin Academy Showcase

Saturday, April 25, 2026, at 3 p.m.

Film lineup and credits: TBD.

Experimental Part 2

Saturday, April 25, 2026, at 4 p.m.

• Magic To Do
  • Director: Josh Weissbach
  • Length: 3:02
• Bragging Rites: Finding Bigfoot
  • Director: Art Explorers
  • Length: 28:00
• A Light into a Void
  • Director: Lin Chen
  • Length: 14:17
• Trágame nube
  • Director: Esperanza Collado
  • Length: 13:00
• Loving yourself
  • Director: Jester Meri Landin
  • Length: 8:18
  • School: Landmark College
• Hurricane Season
  • Director: Michelle Trujillo
  • Length: 6:22
• In Presence
  • Director: Navio Mehdinejad
  • Length: 5:43
  • School: Royal College of Art
• a spectrum of screen tests No. 01
  • Directors: Josh Weissbach, Samay Bafana
  • Length: 3:19
  • School: Franklin Academy
• Dear Type A(NT)
  • Director: Anne Ciecko
  • Length: 1:56
• Conjuring a Storm
  • Director: Alexandra Victoria Peri
  • Length: 1:56
  • School: Massachusetts College of Art and Design
• The Night
  • Director: Razi Ferguson
  • Length: 2:30
  • School: Landmark College

Narrative and Comedy Shorts Part 2

Saturday, April 25, 2026, at 5:30 p.m.

• The weight of blue
  • Director: Fay Beck
  • Length: 20:35
• Non qui, non ora, non io
  • Director: Lillo Venezia
  • Length: 20:00
• Da Poet
  • Director: Gyuri Kepes
  • Length: 14:34
• Off-Beat
  • Director: Lab. Videomaking Philos
  • Length: 8:30
• Negligible Impact
  • Director: Trevor Holland
  • Length: 7:27
• Student Handbook 101: Prohibited Items
  • Director: Naomi Joy Hill
  • Length: 4:57
  • School: Landmark College

Awards

Best Experimental

• Feature winner: Meander
• Non-feature winner: A World in the Evening
• Runner-up: Magic To Do
• Third place: Hurricane Season

Best Documentary

• Winner: Johanna and the music
• Runner-up: Magical Bridge: Kind By Design

Best Animation

• Winner: Hedgehog Windows
• Runner-up: Look at me

Best Student Film

• Winner: Stigma
• Runner-up: Student Handbook 101: Prohibited Items
• Third place: Loving yourself

Best Narrative and Comedy Short

• Winner: Non qui, non ora, non io
• Runner-up: Berried
• Third place: Da Poet

Champion of Neurodiversity

• Winner: Bragging Rites: Finding Bigfoot
• Runner-up: Magic To Do

Fan Favorite

• First place: Stigma
• Second place: Conjuring a Storm
• Third place tie: The Circle Around JFK
• Third place tie: Loving yourself
• Third place tie: a spectrum of screen tests No. 01