25th Annual City Shorts

The 25th Annual City Shorts Student Film Festival, presented by City College of San Francisco’s Cinema Department, offers a program of recent, outstanding student work organized by faculty and students, prescreened by a Student Jury and programmed by an Industry Jury. Please join us in celebrating 25 years of our student filmmakers and their work!

INDUSTRY JURY

Gina Basso (Programmer, Filmmaker)
Yule Caise (Filmmaker, Producer)
Toney Merritt (Filmmaker, former CCSF Cinema Department Faculty)
Jeff Ross (Programmer, founder of San Francisco IndieFest)
Lynne Sachs (Filmmaker)
Lex Sloan (Executive Director of Roxie Theater, President of the Board, Art House Convergence)

Recipients of the Dina Ciraulo Filmmaking Scholarship and John Carlson Experimental Filmmaking Scholarship will be announced before the festival begins. Festival awards will be announced at the end of the program.

BEST OF FEST
BEST NARRATIVE
BEST EXPERIMENTAL
BEST DOCUMENTARY
+ SURPRISES!

PROGRAM

1408 by Derek Magsany

Early Autumn by Siyang Chen

artist’s proof (A/P) by Becky Cornwell

PRELINGER LIBRARY by Melis Gullu 

In & Out of the Wig by Uel RENTERIA 

“moves” by Efrain Gutierrez, James Seo, Shirin, Adi Vydyula

Invisible Jet Comics by Rowel Factor 

Autumn by Brynn Casto 

SASHAY BLACK by Isela Abarca 

Boxed In by Monte Lately 

BACKSTAGE by Allen White 

Leaf Lessons by Bryan Gordon, Ayani Hayashi, Jodie Tarpo, June Yee

Crossing Grant by Luciana Terrazas 

Wooden Film by Jan de Groot 

Addie by Antonina Soloveva

Interested in a career in filmmaking? Check out Cinema’s Fall Class offerings and Free City.