Annual BGSU Film and Media Festival, 2026

All events are free and open to the public.

Friday and Saturday events are in the Bowen-Thompson Student Union;

Sunday events are in the Wolfe Center and the Bowen-Thompson Student Union.

Friday, April 10

BTSU 206, 6:00 pm

Music Video

·         FLARE - 4:57 - Nick Polace

·         Adore After Dark - 3:39 - Eddie McNiel

·         KASE Quartet - 6:15 - Eddie McNiel 

·         It’s So Weird - 3:53 - Jericho Richardson

·         Kero Kero Bonito - 2:05 - Eddie McNiel 

·         Timelapse Kingdom - 2:05 - Joel Paulin 

Total: 22 min 54 sec

Drama

·         Beckoning - 10:42 - Donovan Predovich

·         What Used to Be - 9:28 - Brandon Bryson 

·         Hearts - 14:00 - Paris Elizabeth 

·         Glasshouse - 10:00 - Hunter Chakrabarty 

·         I See Him - 5:27 - Kam Smith

Total Runtime: 49:37

Break 15 minutes

Drama

·         Crooked - 10:12 - Joel Paulin 

·         In the Rearview - 10:17 - Nathaniel Demuth 

·         Debt of Blood - 12:31 - Marissa Baker 

·         One Last Gift - 17:58 - Logan Robert Bermudez 

·         Method Hero - 13:10 - Marissa Baker 

Total Runtime: 1:04:08

Saturday, April 11

BTSU 207, 1:00 pm

Light buffet for festival participants, their friends, and families

Independent Film Panels

Coming-of-Age Films

·         Tesla Bias, Badlands (Terrence Malick, 1973)

·         Theo Zacker, Songs My Brothers Taught Me (Chloe Zhao, 2015)

·         Jericho Awasri-Richardson, Spa Night (Andrew Ahn, 2016)

Genre-Bending Films

·         Carter Hellwarth, The Witch (Robert Eggers, 2015)

·         Wyatt Voit, How to Talk to Girls at Parties (John C. Mitchell, 2017)

·         Rebekah Vasquez, I Carry You with Me (Heidi Ewing, 2020)

Saturday, April 11
BTSU 207, 3:00 pm

Staged Readings

Wasting Time by Jaden Augsburger

·         Jeff - Ollie Wojczynski

·         Beth - Bailee Cape

·         Olivia - Emil Bryant

·         Narrator - Dani Tewolde

Bobby and Izzy by D Garcia

·         Bobby - Dani Tewolde

·         Izzy - Bailee Cape

·         Will - Ollie Wojczynski

·         Mark - Adam Freas

·         Narrator - Carter Hellwarth

Saturday, April 11
BTSU 206, 6:00 pm

Comedy and Experimental

·         Pointless - 0:42 - Ethan Michael Sanders 

·         A Kitchen Cadence - 1:40 - Joshua Wolin 

·         Monolith of Memories - 2:55 - Joel Paulin

·         Veils - 7:19 - Nick Polace 

Total Runtime: 12:36

Nonfiction

·         A Summer Without Regret - 14:58 - Logan Robert Bermudez 

·         Twelve Years - 4:27 - Zachary Wise 

·         Sierra Vista AZ - 16:05 - Orson Abram

·         Rhythm in Repeat - 10:06 - Bailee Cape

·         Have I Been Sleeping for 20 Years? - 3:44 - Brandon Bryson 

·         The Making of a Very Tickle Christmas - 12:00 - Noah Walter 

Total Runtime: 1:01:20

Break 15 minutes

Horror

·         Chores - 5:00 - Carter Hellwarth 

·         Don’t Open the Door During Dinner - 8:29 - Faith Louise Jackson

·         Jitterbug - 3:59 - Kali Langdon 

·         The White Canvases of John Grey - 10:21 - Keegan Lippert

·         Hydra - 6:03 - Joel Paulin

Total Runtime: 33:52

Action

·         Cases - 22:37 - Logan Tamlyn

Total Runtime: 22:37

Sunday, April 12
Eva Marie Saint Theatre, 1:00 pm

Lighting Workshop for Narrative and Commercial Film

Allison Grayson will demo cinema lighting and camera equipment from companies such as Arri, Cooke, Creamsourse, Aputure, and Litegear to teach camera and lighting techniques applicable in narrative and commercial situations. The workshop will focus on techniques such as managing depth of field and lighting a space versus lighting a face.
 

Sunday, April 12
BTSU 207, 7:00 pm

Light buffet for festival participants, their friends, and families.

Sunday, April 12

BTSU 206, 8:00 pm

Awards Ceremony: announcement of festival winners
 

Special thanks to our sponsors

BGSU Office of Student Engagement

BGSU Department of Theatre and Film

Thanks to our judges

Jay Ellison

A 2004 BGSU Film Production graduate, Jay Ellison is a Hollywood veteran and owner of Shadowcast Pictures. Former IATSE Local 600 camera assistant with credits including Mr. and Mrs. Smith, Rush Hour 3, Criminal Minds and Deadwood. Jay founded the Moorpark Film Festival and supports film education through the Jay and Christine Ellison Scholarship.

Emma Piper-Burket

Emma Piper-Burket is a process-based filmmaker, researcher, and educator whose work spans fiction, nonfiction, and collected media to explore connections between nature, society, and the human spirit. She holds a PhD in Critical Media Practices from the University of Colorado Boulder.

Jennifer Proctor              

Jennifer Proctor is filmmaker, film scholar, and Associate Professor of Journalism and Media Production at the University of Michigan-Dearborn. Her award-winning experimental and documentary films continue to screen internationally. She is the co-founder of EDIT Media (Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Teaching Media).

Thanks to our workshop organizers

Allison Grayson

Allison Grayson works in photography, digital media, and web design. She has been a camera prep technician in Los Angeles and is currently the equipment manager at TRG Multimedia in Cleveland, a commercial production studio that creates content for global brands. Professionals use the studio, its sets, and its sound stage to create work involving photography, video, CGI, and set design.

Nicholas Weiss

Nicholas Weiss has been a freelance cinematographers since 2016. His commercial clients include the Cleveland Cavaliers, Delta, Hilton, Medical Mutual, Moen, Nestle, Ohio Lottery, Perrier, Sherman Williams, and Wayfair. His insights on “Commercial Cinematography and the Future of It” can be heard on The Red Bicycle Media Podcast.

Thanks also to our support team

BGSU Conference and Event Services, Department of Theatre and Film, and Film Appreciation Club

BGREEL

Lou Buchanan-Berrigan

Wilmarie Maldonado Burgos

Mikayla Goforth

Mariana Rosa Jacoia

Zachary Wise