FAU Student Digital Storytelling Showcase
with Guest Juror Eddy Moon

Date: November 20th
Doors: 6pm
Animated Shorts: 7pm
Q&A's with Sandy Lighterman of Film Fort Lauderdale 8 pm
Expanded Cinema Collaboration with Richard Vergez + Alejandra Abad: 8:30pm
Awards: 9pm with Juror Eddy Moon

FAU Alum Artists:
Astrid Maldonado, Vessel, Projection Mapping
Parinaz Moghadampour, For a Waterfall (2024 -2025), Interactive Installation

FAU Students:
Logan Andrews, NikkiNack (2025) Medium: RPG Video Game
Tanya Arora, Wolf and the Flower (2024), video installation & Animation on loop
Brownstafford Abraham, Sensation of Agency "Feeling Control (2025)," Interactive Art
Sofia Espinosa, Unreal Engine Environment
Leann Bernard - Mapped Projections

Collaborations:
Untitled (2025)
Projection on Cyanotype Textile Print, Stop-Motion Animation with flowers:
Alejandra Abad, Sophia Marique, Halie Ojukwu, Felipe Gande from Visual Storytellers Club

Featuring collaborative performance by intermedia Artist, Richard Vergez and Alejandra Abad. (CYC WALL)

Featuring collaborative interactive visual poems by students and Alejandra Abad.
(CORE Space)

Presenting student works from Fall of 2025 at Florida Atlantic University:
DIG 4930 — Digital Storytelling and Animation
DIG 4122 — Visual Design for Film, Animation and Games
DIG 4046 — History and Theory of Animation and Computer Arts
Curated by Alejandra Abad (Showcase Director, Interdisciplinary Artist, Assistant Professor in Digital Media Production)

Awards & Prizes

Digital Storytelling Animation Juror: Eddy Moon,
Head of Programming | White Elephant Group Films

SHORT AWARDS

1. Best Digital Storytelling - Mighty Spoonbills by Sada Balboa
2. Best 2D Animated Short - Haunted Dungeon by Avery Evans
3. Best 3D Animated Short - Ossuary by Joshua Perrin
4. Audience Choice - Rat Pack byTrey "Pigeon" G.

About Our Guest Juror:

Award-winning filmmaker and nonprofit Arts Programs Director with 10+ years of experience in curating diverse film programs, managing arts nonprofit operations, creating artist development programs, and building industry partnerships.

Eddy Moon is a Latin-American storyteller, with a focus on creative producing and post-production. His work has screened at festivals around the world, including The Miami Film festival, Inside Out Toronto, HBO’s NY Latino, San Francisco Latino, Tokyo Short Shorts, New Orleans, amongst many more. Alongside screening his works at festivals, he has also helped program festivals for organizations like Slamdance. A founding member of the White Elephant Group (WEGFilms), a Miami film collective known for its ability to tell local stories in unique ways, while also advocating for filmmaking in South Florida. In his free time, he mentors young artists in Miami through the WEGFilms non-profit, ASFI.

Rules & Terms

This call is open Only to FAU students. Only Original Works. Please add credits.

Students considered for this showcase will have completed a short that engages in thoughtful storytelling, audiovisuals and the moving image. Alternative works to be considered: explorations of the moving image such as coding, glitch, video art, augmented reality, net art, video games, virtual reality, generative art, as well as art
performance, music, sound art, and installations.

Our showcase is open to experimental methods that engage in research or explore concepts through visual poetry and the art of noticing.

The shorts must explore the medium of digital storytelling through a blend of animated processes that employ strong visual design, art direction and visual poetry in the film or video, game or installation.

Students are encouraged to adapt stories, or poems.

Students are encouraged to blur genres and/or elements of abstraction, lyricism, or symbolism.

Preferred works have elements of animation, and experimentation including but not limited to.

Short films should be no longer than 10 minutes.

Not all works will fit this specific open call or this museum event, activation and programming.

Please do not be discouraged.

This call invites FAU students to participate in the celebration storytelling and the experimental application of the moving image.

Note: If your short was not made in my class, please make sure to add in your credit titles 1. the name of your Professor
2. the name of the class your short was made in.

Please email me at aabad1@fau.edu if you have questions and are not in one of my courses but still wish to learn more about the event.

Please note: AI ( artificial intelligence) will be not be considered for this call unless previously discussed.

If you have questions for this submission please email me at aabad1@fau.edu