ASIFF (All Shorts Irvington Film Festival) is a curated international film festival that screens animated, live-action, and documentary shorts. Hundreds of submissions are received for each festival; the most outstanding are selected after a highly competitive viewing and elimination process by festival producers.
"ASIFF 2025: Take Two" presents short films from around the world that illustrate the theme of second chances (think: refresh, renewal, restart, recovery, revive, reopen). We welcome short film submissions from one to twenty minutes.
ASIFF's mission is to present compelling and diverse shorts that reflect original concepts, innovative storytelling, outstanding writing and acting, and high production value. In addition to jury prizes awarded by the ASIFF Jury, viewers pick the “Audience Choice Award” by voting on their favorite short at the end of the evening.
ASIFF is presented as a one-night-only event in a majestic, recently renovated 430-seat, historic theater overlooking the Hudson River, just north of New York City. Each festival sells out to an audience of film enthusiasts, garnering extensive press coverage and offering each selected film exceptional visibility. The festival has featured never-before-seen world premieres, United States and New York premieres, student works, and shorts that have won prizes at other international festivals.
Since its debut in 2015, ASIFF has gained a worldwide following, with filmmakers and patrons traveling from abroad to attend. The selection process has grown increasingly competitive, and ASIFF is now recognized globally as a sought-after festival by both renowned and up-and-coming filmmakers. A festive after-party follows each screening, where audience members can participate in lively discussions with directors and actors. Filmmakers value this rare opportunity to see their work on the big screen alongside a thoroughly engaged, film-loving audience.
ASIFF Audience Award
ASIFF Jury Awards:
Best Directing
Best Use of the Short Form/Best Short (aka "The Irvie")
Best Editing
ASIFF Jury 2025 (see bios below)
Jon Bardin
Beverly Chase
Laurie Chock
Carolina Heller
Tom Heller
Stephen Hill
Aaron Lubarsky
Ali Moss
Hal & Marilyn Weiner
Ernestine White-Mifetu
Jon Bardin is an Emmy-winning producer who oversees the creative development of Story Syndicate projects and the creative execution of all projects in production. In this role, he is responsible for developing and creatively overseeing series, feature documentaries, podcasts, and scripted projects. Before joining Story Syndicate, Jon served as VP of Documentaries and Specials at Discovery Channel.
Beverly Chase has produced and edited hundreds of hours of television and film, including scripted, non-scripted, and feature and short-form documentaries. Most recently, she oversaw Current Programming and Development for VICE News. She produced "VICE" on HBO, "Investigations by VICE" on Hulu, and was executive producer and showrunner of "VICE" on Showtime. Her work has earned her six Primetime Emmy nominations, 13 News and Documentary Emmy wins, two Peabodys, and two duPont Awards. She was also honored with a Gracie Award for Outstanding Nonfiction Showrunner from the Alliance for Women in Media.
Carolina Heller is a television editor. For the last twenty years, she has edited thousands of hours of unscripted television on such popular and iconic shows as "The Real Housewives of New Jersey" (Bravo), "The Real Housewives of Atlanta" (Bravo), "Say Yes to the Dress" (TLC), "90 Day Fiance" (TLC), "Love & Hip Hop Atlanta" (MTV) and "The First 48" (A&E).
Tom Heller is a film and television producer. He has produced and executive produced a string of critically acclaimed films over the last fifteen years including Academy Award-winning PRECIOUS, directed by Lee Daniels; Danny Boyle’s 127 HOURS, which was nominated for six Oscars; WIN WIN, directed by Oscar-winning director Tom McCarthy; and Independent Spirit Award-winning MUD, starring Matthew McConaughey and Reese Witherspoon and directed by Jeff Nichols. He also executive-produced FOXCATCHER, starring Steve Carell, Channing Tatum and Mark Ruffalo, after discovering the source material for the story and acquiring life rights to Olympic wrestler Mark Schultz. The film was nominated for five Oscars. Most recently, he produced Patricia Arquette’s directorial debut GONZO GIRL, starring Willem Dafoe, Camila Morrone and Sean Penn.
Stephen G. Hill is an American businessman, television producer and content creator. Stephen G. Hill is best known as the former President of Music Programming and Specials at the BET network. He was President of Programming at BET from 2008 to 2017. He was the Executive Producer of the BET Awards and the BET Hip Hop Awards. He has also served as executive producer for the BET shows The Deal, The BET Honors, Rip the Runway '11, The Story So Far: Alicia Keys, Black Girls Rock! 2011, and Real Husbands of Hollywood. Hill was responsible for directing and managing the music programming at BET. He has been responsible for the BET series 106 & Park, Rap City, and Spring Bling. He worked as Director of music programming at MTV for four years and was program director at WILD-AM in Boston, Massachusetts. He has also worked for ABC Radio Networks and was executive producer of the Tom Joyner Morning Show.
Aaron Lubarksy is a documentary filmmaker and executive producer who won an Emmy Award for JOURNEYS WITH GEORGE (HBO). He was a producer on the Emmy-winning series YEARS OF LIVING DANGEROUSLY (Showtime) and directed & edited the duPont-award-winning PBS documentary SEOUL TRAIN. Aaron received his MA in Documentary Production from Stanford University, where his thesis film earned a Student Academy Award and Student Emmy Award.
Ali Moss is an Emmy-nominated documentary filmmaker whose latest feature NO ACCIDENT (HBO/MAX), premiered in 2023. Other recent documentaries include the Oscar-nominated THE BARBER OF LITTLE ROCK (The New Yorker 2024), FAUCI (Disney+/Telluride 2021), YUSUF HAWKINS: STORM OVER BROOKLYN (HBO/Tribeca 2020), and the Emmy-nominated feature NOT DONE: WOMEN REMAKING AMERICA (PBS 2020). She is honored to have been a 2020 Impact Partners Producing Fellow and to have been named to DOCNYC’s 2021 list of 40 Under 40.
Emmy Award-winning filmmakers Marilyn and Hal Weiner have produced, written, and directed over 250 documentaries, including four public television series, Journey to Planet Earth, Women at Work, Faces of Man, and The World of Cooking. They have also produced three feature films: Family Business, The Imagemaker, and K2. They are recipients of the National Academy of Television Arts and Science’s Silver Circle Award for “outstanding contributions to the television industry.”
Ernestine White-Mifetu is the Sills Foundation Curator of African Art at the Brooklyn Museum. She was formerly the Contemporary Art Curator at the Iziko South African National Gallery. Her professional accomplishments include being the Acting Director for the Iziko South African National Gallery, serving on the National Arts Festival’s artistic committee responsible for coordinating the visual arts programme at the Grahamstown Festival and selecting the Standard Bank Young Artists winner for the Visual and Performance Arts categories. Recently Ms. White has been judge and adjudicator for competitions such as the Vuleka art competition, the Taxi Art Award and the Sanlam Portrait awards. Spanning eight years White has worked as the Exhibitions and senior projects coordinator for the Parliamentary Millennium Programme, an initiative of the South African Parliament to develop projects and programmes related to nation building. She is also an artist whose work features in a number of major local and international collections. A career highlight has been the inclusion of her work into the permanent collection of New York’s Museum of Modern Art. Ms. White completed a four-year Bachelor degree at the State University of Purchase College in New York, a two-year Master apprenticeship at the Tamarind Institute of Lithography in New Mexico to become a Tamarind Master printer. Ernestine White returned to South Africa in 2001 to complete her Masters degree in Fine Art and in 2014 completed an Honours in Curatorship diploma at the University of Cape Town’s Michaelis School of Fine Art.