Revolutions per Minute festival (RPM Fest) is dedicated to poetic, personal, experimental film, essay film, animation, documentary, video and audiovisual performance.
We are looking for any work that experiments with the formal possibilities or hybrid form of film, audiovisual, animation and video under 10 minutes ( and the medium length and essay film categories will accept the work from 10 mins to 30 mins) .
Submit your work (produced after Jan. 1st, 2025) through FilmFreeway for RPM26.
RPM25 Selections by Sept. 1st, 2026.
Due to the number of submissions, RPM Fest regrets that we can only notify applicants whose work is selected for the program.
RPM Fest 2025 was co-hosted by UMass-Boston, Boston City Hall, Goethe-institut Boston, Harvard University, MFA Boston and the Brattle Theatre (Cambridge) from Sept.27 to Dec. 10, 2025.
RPM 25 awards:
The Best Animation from RPM in Motion25:
Les Bétes – Michael Granberry
The Best of RPM in Motion25:
Slideshow – Janie Geiser
The Critical Mass award of RPM25:
Full Out – Sarah Ballard
Co-presented with UMass Boston Cinema Studies Program
The Emerging Artist Award of RPM25:
entre le feu et le clair de lune – Dominic Yarabe
Co-presented with UMass Boston Cinema Studies Program
The Best of RPM25 (tie):
Monument – Jeremy Drummond,
I Carry the Universe With Me – Cherlyn Hsing-Hsin Liu
Co-presented with Cinelab Boston
The International Award of RPM25: Sulfur – Karen Akerman, Miguel Seabra Lopes (Portugal)