The Experimental Film Fest features Avant-Garde and Experimental films in any sub-genre. We want the unusual, the macabre, the offbeat, the beautiful, the ugly, and the truly experimental film. We want you to explore the medium in ways that are not only unconventional but entertaining.
New this year is the Best Student Film award. Student films are judged with all of the other films for awards but are also judged separately for Best Student Film. This award is meant to encourage young filmmakers to participate in film festivals and to bring new talent to the screen for audiences.
The Festival date: September 18, 2021 (Subject to change based on COVID-19)
Bank of the Arts 317 Middle St, New Bern, NC 28560
2021 Awards:
Festival Winner - Swimming Upstream - Caren Messing - United States
Critic's Choice - Meet Me at the Station - Roderick Coover - United States
Audience Favorite - Us Against Them - Ronnel Parham - United States
Five Finalists:
(crude) Oil - Lisa Danielle Buch - United States
Bass Rally - Barsik - Poland
Gas - Gilnaz Arzpeyma - Canada
Fleeting: Here & There - Bailey Maätita - United States
I Try to Dream - Braddon Mendelson - United States
Best Student Film: Candy - Xilin Hong - Qatar
Honorable Mention:
The Flight of a Bird Does Not Scar the Sky - Robin Starbuck - United States
The Colonel Cries for the Red-Haired Woman - Gergő V. Nagy - Hungary
Woken From A Dream - Taj Kokayi - United States
Nothing is Here - Kaiyun Yang - Taiwan
Us Against Them - Ronnel Ricardo Parham - United States
