2025 Schedule of Events

Venue:

Bear Tooth Theatrepub

1230 W.  27th Avenue, Anchorage, Alaska 99503

7:30 PM: Opening Night Film

Burt — Joe Burke – Event Tickets

Venue:

Alaska Experience Theater

333 W. 4th Avenue (NW corner of 4th & C St. – enter on C), Anchorage, Alaska 99501

10:00 AM: Feature

  • In the Wake of Justice Delayed — Mary Katzke

1:00 PM: Shorts Block: Mixed Documentary

  • 35,567 Yupik Stories — Magnus Shipe
  • Building Bub’s Grubs — Loye Miller
  • More Than Convenience — Rew Jones
  • Borrowed Time — Palmer Morse, Derek Knowles
  • Portrait of a Seaweed Farmer: Nick Mangini — Jeff Siebert
  • Sunrise Summer — Erin K. Stein, Ian Mayer

3:30 PM: Feature

  • Sgt. Stubby: An Unlikely Hero — Richard Lanni

6:00 PM: Shorts Block: Am I the Drama?

  • Darcine’s Day — Aaron Goffman
  • Life Support — Jamon Tolbert
  • Apricot — Frank Frascella
  • Turpentine — Rita Konopasky, Luke Konopasky
  • Saturday Ritual — Sydne Horton

8:30 PM: Shorts Block: Thrillers

  • Hide — Brenden Hubbar
  • The Hand of Darkness — Rowan Kelley
  • Confidential Informant — Charlie Lyons
  • Charon — Daniel John Casey
  • Slice — Lauren Hoover, Siri Miller
  • Howard — Austin Bernhardt
  • Fireline — Robin Takao D’Oench
  • Ellie — Vinny O’Brien

Venue:

Anchorage Museum

625 C Street, Anchorage, Alaska 99501

10:00 AM: Animation Shorts

  • Pow! — Joey Clift – Event Tickets
  • But I’m a Shoe — Chen Drachman – Event Tickets
  • Poncho and Lefty in Chrome Don’t Get Ya Home — Matt Jacobs – Event Tickets
  • Holy Heaveness — Farnoosh Abedi, Negah Khezre Fardyardad, Mohammad Ghaffari – Event Tickets
  • One Giant Waddle — Kevin Jones – Event Tickets
  • Snow Bear — Aaron Blaise – Event Tickets
  • A Little Story About Forever — Max Romey – Event Tickets

6:30 PM: Feature

  • F*cktoys — Annapurna Sriram – Event Tickets

Venue:

Bear Tooth Theatrepub

1230 W.  27th Avenue, Anchorage, Alaska 99503

12:00 PM: Feature

  • Remaining Native — Paige Bethmann – Event Tickets

3:00 PM: Feature

  • Drink and Be Merry — Adam Volerich – Event Tickets

Venue:

Anchorage Museum

625 C Street, Anchorage, Alaska 99501

10:30 AM: Shorts Block: Alaskan Shorts 1 – Event Tickets

  • ILP — Joshua Albeza Branstetter, Laura Norton-Cruz
  • Beyond the Bucket List: From Passion to Ph.D. at Solar Maximum — Adam Rubin
  • The City’s Story — Eliza M. Spangler
  • Fresh Eyes on River Ice — Matthew Scragg
  • Going Home — Anna Tedesco, Kylie Zarmati
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1:00 PM: Feature

  • You’re No Indian — Ryan Flynn – Event Tickets

3:30 PM: Feature

  • A Little Fellow: The Legacy of A.P. Giannini — Davide Fiore – Event Tickets

6:00 PM: Feature

  • The Ladder — Emilio Miguel Torres – Event Tickets

8:30 PM: Feature

  • Crystal Cross — Richie James Follin – Event Tickets

Venue:

Alaska Experience Theater

333 W. 4th Avenue (NW corner of 4th & C St. – enter on C), Anchorage, Alaska 99501

10:30 AM: Shorts Block: Family, Culture, and Everything In Between

  • Divide — Jeanette Buck – Event Tickets
  • Experts in a Dying Field — Mitchell Camarda – Event Tickets
  • Sometimes I Imagine Your Funeral — Vince Dixon – Event Tickets
  • Wait to Tell Mother — Emma Elizabeth Steige –  Event Tickets
  • The Man Upstairs — Wendy Wang – Event Tickets
  • Bible Camp — Philip DeRise – Event Tickets
  • BEBO Was Here! — Freddy Caro – Event Tickets
  • Out of the House — Brittani Ward – Event Tickets

1:00 PM: Feature

  • Hide — Ian Sciacaluga – Event Tickets

3:30 PM: Shorts Block: International Gems

  • Pierre West — Henrik Larsson, Jakob Arevärn – Event Tickets
  • Dark Matter — Leo Berkeley – Event Tickets
  • Just Before Dawn — Dustin Bowser – Event Tickets
  • The Bride of Mont Blanc — Grace T.S.P – Event Tickets

6:00 PM: Shorts Block: Doc Shorts

  • Ranger of the North — Bradley Bethel – Event Tickets
  • Old Lesbians — Meghan McDonough – Event Tickets
  • Existential Action Thriller — Stephen Funk – Event Tickets
  • Wrecked a Bunch of Cars, Had a Good Time — James P. Gannon, Matt Ferrin – Event Tickets
  • Carving Lines — Dmitry Surnin – Event Tickets

8:30 PM: Feature

  • The Mariana Trench — Eileen Byrne – Event Tickets

Venue:

E Street Theater

315 E Street, Anchorage, Alaska 99501

10:30 AM: Shorts Block: Alaska Made Featurettes

  • Electrified Alaska — Yasent Oliver – Event Tickets
  • Alaska Rescue Story — Mark D. Rose – Event Tickets

1:00 PM: Shorts Block: And Now For Something Different

  • What The Heck Is Going On? — Greg Rubner – Event Tickets
  • Extended Warranty — Tess Sullivan, Sara Carpenter – Event Tickets
  • Death in The Desert — Anna Long – Event Tickets
  • Hearts of Stone — Tom van Avermaet – Event Tickets
  • Mom & Max — Jade Song – Event Tickets
  • Zombie Revolt — Kevin Jones – Event Tickets
  • Reprogrammed — Christopher Guerrero – Event Tickets

Venue:

Bear Tooth Theatrepub

1230 W.  27th Avenue, Anchorage, Alaska 99503

5:30 PM: Shorts Block: Female Filmmaker Showcase

  • Out For Delivery — Chelsea Christer – Event Tickets
  • Lemon — Beth Curry – Event Tickets
  • Breaking The Tide — Katrin York – Event Tickets
  • Flash Warning — Allegra Leguizamo – Event Tickets
  • The Things We Keep — Joanna Fernandez – Event Tickets
  • My Favorite Murderer — Tina Carbone – Event Tickets

8:30 PM: Feature

  • Rosemead — Eric Lin – Event Tickets

Venue:

Alaska Experience Theater

333 W. 4th Avenue (NW corner of 4th & C St. – enter on C), Anchorage, Alaska 99501

10:30 AM: Shorts Block: Uncensored Shorts

  • My Age Now — Daniel Talbott – Event Tickets
  • People Walk Dogs Late at Night in the Suburbs — Drake Wootton – Event Tickets
  • She Said So — Madeline Clayton – Event Tickets
  • Unknown, At Large — Andrew Klaus-Vineyard – Event Tickets
  • Matt & Megan & Mike Don’t Give a F About Codependency — Justin Lawrence Hoyt – Event Tickets
  • Guanaco — Mercedes Jerkovic & Martin Fisner – Event Tickets

1:00 PM: Feature

  • The Collaborator — Travis Hodgkins – Event Tickets

Venue:

E Street Theater

315 E Street, Anchorage, Alaska 99501

12:00 PM: Shorts Block: International Shorts Block 2 (filmmakers not in attendance)

  • Mercenaire — Pier-Philippe Chevigny – Event Tickets
  • NANI — Mainak Dhar – Event Tickets
  • Möbius Loop — Lee Peterkin – Event Tickets
  • The Axe Forgets — John Christopher – Event Tickets
  • Who Are You, Nanu? — Anjini Taneja Azhar – Event Tickets

2:00 PM: Shorts Block: Respecting Earth Short Docs (filmmakers not in attendance)

  • Free to Grow — Jesse Andrew Clark – Event Tickets
  • Sitka’s Hidden Wonders — Ben Hamilton – Event Tickets
  • Rewilding Cube Cove | The Kootznoowoo Stewards of Admiralty Island — Lee House – Event Tickets
  • Chasing Fins — Tomas Koeck – Event Tickets

4:00 PM: Feature

  • Among Thieves — Trevor J. Wallace, Gino R. Caspari – Event Tickets

6:00 PM: Feature

  • Honeyjoon — Lilian T. Mehrel – Event Tickets

Venue:

E Street Theater

315 E Street, Anchorage, Alaska 99501

12:00 PM: Shorts Block: Narrative Shorts (filmmakers not in attendance)

  • COMPOSURE — Windy G Raun – Event Tickets
  • Money Talks — Tony Mucci – Event Tickets
  • Saturday Class — Carri Chen – Event Tickets
  • Malka — Stacey Maltin – Event Tickets
  • Giving Mom the Talk — Vidhya Iyer – Event Tickets

2:00 PM: Shorts Block: Narrative Shorts (filmmakers not in attendance)

  • Randy As Himself — Margaret Miller – Event Tickets
  • Arman — Farzad Kiyafar – Event Tickets
  • Coconut + Pistol — Gregory Caruso – Event Tickets
  • LOVE MACHINE — Jon Clark – Event Tickets
  • Everybody’s Sad — Steve Sanders – Event Tickets
  • DRAINOMANIA — Christopher Greenslate – Event Tickets

4:00 PM: Feature

  • The Fabulous Gold Harvesting Machine — Alfredo Pourailly De La Plaza – Event Tickets

6:00 PM: Feature

  • Sweet Störy — Sarah Justine Kerruish, Matt Maude – Event Tickets

Venue:

Anchorage Museum

625 C Street, Anchorage, Alaska 99501

10:30 AM: Feature

  • K’etniyi: The Land Is Speaking — Rory Banyard – Event Tickets

12:30 PM: Feature

  • One But Many — Janna Giacoppo – Event Tickets

2:30 PM: Shorts Block: Comedy

  • May I Put You On Hold? — Ash Blodgett – Event Tickets
  • Performance Review — Lain Ewing – Event Tickets
  • Margaret the Brave — Danny Chandia – Event Tickets
  • Forever After in Love — Boris Schaarschmidt – Event Tickets
  • Bad Survivor — Alex Dvorak, Katie North – Event Tickets
  • Ts and Ps — Liam Fineout – Event Tickets
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5:00 PM: 

  • Alaska Teen Media Institute Afterschool Special – Event Tickets

7:30 PM: Feature

  • Jewish Museum Feature – Event Tickets

Venue:

Bear Tooth Theatrepub

1230 W.  27th Avenue, Anchorage, Alaska 99503

5:30 PM: Feature

  • The Last Dive — Cody Sheehy – Event Tickets

8:30 PM: Feature

  • Blood & Guts — Carlye Rubin, Katie Green – Event Tickets

Venue:

Alaska Experience Theater

333 W. 4th Avenue (NW corner of 4th & C St. – enter on C), Anchorage, Alaska 99501

10:30 AM: Shorts Block: Music Videos

  • Begin Again — Ava Acres – Event Tickets
  • She’s Seen the Sun — Mykele Hill – Event Tickets
  • Ideal Distance — Danny Chandia – Event Tickets
  • Sky-Sky — Ilya Noyabrev – Event Tickets
  • Valerie June – “Joy, Joy!” — Taylor Washington – Event Tickets
  • Husse & Sugar Water “Sam” — HyunSoo Lim, Finn Benischek, Heung Joo Hunziker – Event Tickets
  • LOSER — Andie Arbo – Event Tickets
  • Thera – Stargazer — Steven Cornfield – Event Tickets
  • Salmon of Positive Energy — Ben Gordon – Event Tickets
  • THE DEEP ROLLING: MAGMA — Robin Scovill – Event Tickets
  • Soiree Music Video — Hannah Claire McDaniel, Degosh Reed – Event Tickets
  • Money — Tiumaluali’i Jody Hassel – Event Tickets
  • She’s So Heroine — Kelly Moneymaker – Event Tickets
  • Won’t Be Around — Terry Blade – Event Tickets

12:30 AM: Feature

  • Goddess of Slide — Alfonso Maiorana – Event Tickets

2:30 AM: Feature

  • Inedia — Liz Cairns – Event Tickets

Venue:

Anchorage Museum

625 C Street, Anchorage, Alaska 99501

10:30 AM: Shorts Block: Doc Shorts  2

  • Follow the Flower — Destyn Patera – Event Tickets
  • Brewer — Erika Valenciana – Event Tickets
  • Corteza — Simon Acosta – Event Tickets
  • Liam & Friends — Chad Blain – Event Tickets
  • Loki Pete — BJ Bullert
  • Wild Horses at the Door — Carrie Lederer – Event Tickets

1:00 PM: Shorts Block: Is It Love?

  • The Wedding — Matt Latham – Event Tickets
  • Te Seguiré a la Oscuridad — Nicholas Luciano – Event Tickets
  • Empano Gleasium — Joe Bowden – Event Tickets
  • I’m Not Sure — Mylissa Fitzsimmons – Event Tickets
  • Reminisce — Leslie Morris – Event Tickets
  • Tango in Room 1310 — Colin Alistair Campbell – Event Tickets
  • Double Date — Hannah Wolf – Event Tickets
  • A King’s Curtain — Grant M. Johnson – Event Tickets

3:30 PM: Feature

  • I’ve Seen All I Need To See — Zeshaan Younus – Event Tickets

6:00 PM: Feature

  • The Long Run — Mylissa Fitzsimmons – Event Tickets

8:30 PM: Feature

  • Lockjaw — Sabrina Greco – Event Tickets

Venue:

Alaskan Experience

333 W. 4th Avenue (NW corner of 4th & C St. – enter on C), Anchorage, Alaska 99501

10:30 AM: Feature

  • Ashes of The Mountain — Joseph Lindley – Event Tickets

1:00 PM: Shorts Block: Arctic Shorts

  • Greenland – Living with the Inuit — Josefin Kuschela – Event Tickets
  • In Search of the Arctic Fox — Zach Hellmuth – Event Tickets
  • Let My People Go Skiing — Ellen Bradley – Event Tickets

3:30 PM: Shorts Block: Alaska Doc Shorts

  • Iditarod: The Loneliest Road — Mason Quinn Schwarz – Event Tickets
  • The Story of a Slough — Dawson Brannan – Event Tickets
  • Silver Rush — Kelsey Kroon – Event Tickets
  • Hidden Roots — Brad Hillwig – Event Tickets
  • Swift Current Swimmer — John W. Bushell – Event Tickets

6:00 PM: Feature

  • Comparsa — Vickie Curtis, Doug Anderson – Event Tickets

8:30 PM: Feature

  • The World Outside — Katrine Eichberger, Nikolas Mühe – Event Tickets

Venue:

Anchorage Museum

625 C Street, Anchorage, Alaska 99501

10:00 AM: Feature

  • Bonnie Thunders: That Beautiful Moment – Event Tickets

Venue:

Alaska Experience Theater

333 W. 4th Avenue (NW corner of 4th & C St. – enter on C), Anchorage, Alaska 99501

8:00 PM: AWARDS CEREMONY – Event Tickets

Venue:

Bear Tooth Theater

1230 W.  27th Avenue, Anchorage, Alaska 99503

12:30 PM: Shorts Block: Spotlight Selections

  • Stronghold — Meghann Artes – Event Tickets
  • Christmas IRL — Rochan Liu – Event Tickets
  • The Singers — Sam Davis – Event Tickets
  • Flavor of the Month — Nathan Xia – Event Tickets
  • Forged — Greg Kubik – Event Tickets
  • Masclooking — Jonathan Brandon Hammond – Event Tickets
  • Saverio — Ellen Ancui – Event Tickets

3:00 PM: Shorts Block: Native Voices

  • My Message to You — Wáats’asdíyei Joe Yates – Event Tickets
  • Alutiiq Superhero — Brad Hillwig – Event Tickets
  • Shaped by Land — Emily Sullivan – Event Tickets
  • Braids — Elise M. Beers – Event Tickets
  • Witness: Indigenous Arctic Voices — Ashley Qilavaq-Savard, Carmen Kuptana, Eriel Lugt, Jennifer Kilabuk, Johannes Vang, Marc Fussing Rosbach, and Princess Daazhraaii Johnson – Event Tickets
  • The Woman Who Married a Bear — Kaa Laa Mary Goddard – Event Tickets
  • Two Old Women — Princess Daazhraii Johnson – Event Tickets
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