FMS Film Festival 2026

Apr 30
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April 2026

Held over three evenings, the festival featured screenings from advanced production courses, experimental media classes, directed studies, and senior honors thesis filmmakers.

Advanced Documentary, April 28 & 29

The festival opened with screenings from Natalie Minik's Advanced Documentary students, featuring films by Doo Min Bang, Daniel Cece, Sofia Daffin, Geri Hart, Julia Hioe, Quinn Kessel, Max Kind, Sophie Littman, John Mulvihill, Zander Penn, Alex Wu, Tom Xiao, and Keyu (Jack) Zhu.

Script to Screen & Directed Study, April 28

Students from Don Schechter's From Script to Screen course and Howard Woolf's Directed Study course presented narrative and independent works developed over the semester. Featured filmmakers included From Script to Screen's Seray Ajai, Ken Bailey, Vira Chawla, Alez Herz, Virginia Hopkins, Emmanuel Weintraub, Levi Yang and Directed Studies Alexander Minagar, Chao Ba Ngo, and Marco Steel.

Experimental Film & Media Futures Lab, April 29

The Experimental Film Screening highlighted innovative work from Kyle Petty's students, Ayse Akcayli, Toki Eashir, Samir Jones, John Mulvihill, Sam Ringrose, Elliot Riseman, Sada Schumann, Quinn Sobieraj, Sachin Vaid-Kwinter, Tom Xiao, Grace Xie, and Keyu (Jack) Zhu.

Also included were presentations by Mat Rappaport's Media Futures Lab students Darlene Barth, Lulu Lyu, and Simon Zho.

Senior Honors Thesis Screenings, April 30

The festival concluded with screenings from the Senior Honors Thesis cohort, celebrating the culmination of years of artistic and academic work. Students presented original works to packed audiences of peers, faculty, friends, and family. Featuring short narrative and documentary film and scripted projects by our Senior Honors Thesis students Eran Avni-Singer, Daniel Cece, Amba Raghavan, Cole McIlvane, Tri Nguyen, Sam Ringrose, Ethan Sims, Ilai Sternoff, Quinn Sobieraj, Tom Xiao, Keyu (Jack) Zhu.