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EDU Film Fest 2022

A high school student follows five of her teachers around to get the scoop on life as a teacher. Turns out, teaching is hard and there's lots of drama at work. Watch as relationships unfold and life decisions are rethought.

All That Work For an F

As a woman walks back home, she feels like she is not all alone outside at night.

At Night

A high school girl struggling with her mental health takes it out on her peers.

Bed of Roses

Follow paw prints across the house and down the stairs to find a surprise. This is a 5 by 5 video, consisting of 5 five-second shots.

The Carbon Paw Print Of Cat Food

A short collage animation detailing the relationship I, the narrator, have with my grandfather through the collaged pages of my favorite children's storybooks.

Collage Animation: The Story of Us

The tale of a jewelry box

Dancing in the Moonlight

Dr.Dynamo uses his powers for bad and gets discovered.

Dave vs. Dynamo

This film is a quick informational film about how the mind of a person with a dissociative disorder works, how dissociative and the different types of dissociative disorders.

Detachment of the Mind

Filmed from a point of view perspective, this experimental short film explores how one strange dream can lead to the unexpected.

Dream #189

Two cats have a good nights sleep and visit each other in their dreams, until they wake up and are gently reminded they are not alone.

Dreamy Kitties

A high school girl must overcome colossal challenges to win her high school spelling bee and stop an evil oil tycoon.

I Am Candace

A short film reflecting on the George Floyd protests in Minneapolis that follows a prayer from a Black Lives Matter activist.

I Pray

Jack The Giant is a bullied Junior High student and becomes friends with Jack Mcgee when they find a dead body and have to solve the murder.

Jack The Giant

A woman re-discovers her childhood woods - but something has changed...

Lament for the Rohirrim

Medalion decides to turn back only to find her home eerily quiet and none of her comrades to be seen. After running through the halls, Medalion spots the. battered body of Stellaris—her mentor.

Last Lie

Erosion has stopped working. As things start to descend into chaos two heroes, Blair and Clyde, are sent out to save the world. They must travel the multiverse to get to their destination.

The Laws of Physics

A man attempts to move on after the passing of his dog

Lighting Exercise

Life is hard and sometimes running-away just seems like the only option, but what about the journey back to where you ran away from?

Long Way Back

A trip down memory lane leaves Marcie in an existential crisis. Are memories tangible? Is nostalgia ephemeral? These questions irk Marcie to the core as they lament the passing of time and are faced with the reality of deteriorating video tapes, fading memory and the temporary manner of existence.


Marcie's Rerun

Ava and Annika dive deep into their family's history by looking into their grandparents bakery

Mick and Jo's Bakery

A lost soul has lost its motivation. They have forgotten who they are and can't find a way out of their own mind. When the things around them start breaking down, they are forced to find themselves.

Out of Focus

Peggy Carlson, former educator, describes her experience with running an at-home preschool. She changed the lives of many children. Her legacy is one that deserves to be known. Celebrate the magic of childhood nostalgia through this film.

Peggy's Preschool

Struggling with the pressures of the world, a student attempts to outpace the clock.

Perfection

Watch a slice of pizza go through all the steps of cooking. This is a stop-motion animation video using only paper.

Pizza By The Slice

Sometimes you practice till you become so frustrated and thoughts of regret and giving up become so big it haunts you, but when you're faced with what to do next, sometimes continuing helps more.

Practice Makes Perfect

Cop cars and the Secret Service guide the president down the street.

Presidential Escort

A woman is trying to get to class and ends up dropping her necklace, once she gets to class she notices that it's missing and frantically runs around the school trying to find it.

Run Sophia Run

A young man gets ready for his weekend

Saturday Morning

Slurp: An awkward first date - in a cinema owned and operated by the dead.

Slurp

A behind-the-scenes look at the production of Slurp, the 2022 Horror High Film Camp production. Horror High is a filmmaking experience for high school students. At Horror High Film Camp, you won’t be reading about making a film, you won’t be observing a film shoot, you’ll be a member of the crew. You’ll work with professional filmmakers and college students to shoot a short horror film in a professional facility, using professional gear, learning how a professional film crew operates.

Slurp: Behind the Scenes Documentary

A young man falls asleep watching television and dreams of a salesman selling him suicide. When he wakes up, he listens to a voicemail from his wife and leaves to meet someone named Eric for lunch. After an awkward meal, he gives Eric a mysterious ring and visits a doctor who tells him he needs to see a specialist for possible psychological issues. When waiting for the train to bring him home, he hallucinates the salesman from the beginning who tries to convince him to jump in front of the oncoming train.

The Solution to Sorrow

A depressed young man ponders all the ways his life has gone wrong.

Something

The relationships between queer expression, nonconformity, and isolation are explored in this surrealist illustration of Adrienne Rich’s poem of the same name.

The Stranger

This video is a motion poem using the poem Two Kinds Of Intelligence by Rumi. It uses symbols to reflect the meaning of this poem.

Two Kinds Of Intelligence

A lost camper is approached by a ghost of an Arthurian knight who's bound to the mortal coil by a riddle, given to him long ago by a crone. He enlists the help of the camper so that he can move on.

Unfinished Business

A high school student struggling with his character, is affected by a random act of kindness.

You Dropped This
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The true story of Luke Wisniewski's historic attempt at surviving five hundred days without food or water in his parent's basement guest room. With the aid of newly discovered footage, 500 Days tells a heartening story of endurance, ambition, and danger.

500 Days

An experimental approach to the traditional environmental PSA using a combination of clips we filmed and royalty free clips of nature and nature being destroyed.

As The World Caves In

But soft -- the scooter frees the soul.

Bohemian

A man tries out some sprinkles, only to be led down a path he hates.

Candy

A small blue cat leaves home on a journey of discovery, encounters the unexpected in a faraway land, and forms a lifelong friendship.

The Cat Saga (An Invincible Llama Sidestory)

How a community can get together during a pandemic and find love during times filled with pain.

Church

Demonstrates how Covid has affected hockey in Minnesota and the new regulations that were put in place to help stop the spread of it.

Covid vs. Hockey

Arnold and Oliver compete to settle a rivalry, but ultimately enable a friendship.

Dance Dance Revolution

Claire goes on a walk and starts to realize that things aren't as they seem - she approaches her friend Jess who confirms this suspicion.

Delete

A drunk boy thinks it's a good idea to drive. This is an example of impaired drunk driving and it states facts and reasons why it's terrible.

Drunk Driving PSA

Finding positivity during isolation is tough, but a few moments of self reflection help to find peace within.

Finding Light in Quarantine

A Media Journalism project with footage from Sit-ins and Protests from the George Floyd Uprisings in Minneapolis, MN.

George Floyd - Media Journalism Project

A boy reflects on his internal struggle with religion after a nightmare that re-awakens his feelings.

The Heretic

"Inside the Brain of Mows510" follows the story of the street-artist Mows510. He tells about his inspiration for making doors, his favorite collaboration, and a door that had an impact on his life and the community.

Inside the Brain of Mows510

A film about a man going on a walk in the middle of the night who comes across a horrifying creature in the darkness.

Midnight Stroll

A cowboy seeks help from his cousin to acquire five thousand dollars in order to bail his girlfriend out of jail, but his cousin owes another man the same amount resulting in an all out midwestern war for the money.

Midwestern War

A documentary about the past year in education during the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Pandemic Education

Puppies are a joy...until you've got to train them.

Puppy Lovin'

A girl falls into diet culture and eventually a eating disorder; but recovery is their to break her silence.

Recovery is Possible

Robert Frost's Nothing Gold Can Stay is the core of the motion poem, following a girl aching for freedom and a boy in a potentially dangerous situation, both allowing freedom to overtake them before crashing.

The Sad Reality of Life, Nothing Gold Can Stay

An experimental film about a 1950s American suburb that keeps on destroying and rebuilding itself in an endless loop... to the end of time

To The End of Time

Welcome to your brand new job at "Vampizza's Pizza Crypt and Cafe"! Before you begin your first day, all employees are required to watch a training video in order to know the ins and outs of our establishment. Ignore any odd interruptions...

Vampizza Employee Video

The Worlds On Fire

The Worlds On Fire

This song and video was made to raise awareness to racial injustice and encourage people to take tangible action against police brutality.

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