In 2022, the Josiah Media Festival celebrates its 16th consecutive year as one of the world’s longest-running film festivals exclusively for young filmmakers 21 years old and under!
This year’s Josiah Media Festival will take place entirely online, premiering December 12, 2021 and running until January 30, 2022 every Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday. Films will be cycled continuously during the entirety of the scheduled day. As an international festival with audiences throughout the world, this continuous loop allows anyone to find a convenient time to screen the 2022 Josiah Media Festival!
Watch all five blocks to view the best 50 films by young media artists from around the world! See the schedule below for more details on each film and filmmaker.
The 2022 Josiah Media Festival is available to watch entirely FREE of charge. Click the button below to watch the festival now!
Each block begins at 8:00pm CST and repeats every 2 hours.
*All filmmakers were 21 years old or younger when their films were made (ages listed below may be over 21 years of age as they are current as of this writing, 12/22).
BLOCK #1 (Streaming 12/14, 12/23, 1/1, 1/9, 1/18 & 1/27)
- To Be American by Isabella Marasco (19, USA, Documentary)
- Currants by Dominika Tkaczyk (22, Poland, Animation)
- Babyface by Anna Virginia Nielsen (18, Denmark, Narrative)
- Raindrop Legs by Daria Bolotnikova (22, Russia, Animation)
- The Search by Jesus David Palacio Florez (22, Colombia, Documentary)
- Malevolence by Eugenia Hamilton (22, United Kingdom, Animation)
- The Life of Ivan Ilyich by Egor Derevyanko and Sergey Khvostovtsev (21, Russia, Narrative)
- Silver by Haley Stemmons (19, USA, Animation)
- I am Living Uncontrollably by Maggie McKelvey (20, USA, Experimental)
- Nature Abhors a Vacuum by Ryandira Bagus Rahardjo (20, Indonesia, Narrative)
BLOCK #2 (Streaming 12/16, 12/25, 1/2, 1/11, 1/20 & 1/29)
- She Said He Said by Mo Benyahia (22, United Kingdom, Narrative)
- French Windows by Jack Osmond (21, United Kingdom, Animation)
- The Parts of You That Are Now Mine by Aliette Marne (18, France, Narrative)
- The Daydream by Jarema Żądziński (18, Poland, Narrative)
- Outlaw by Liu Chia-Shan (22, Taiwan, Animation)
- Test by Qabir Singh (21, Malaysia, Narrative)
- In-Justice by Yash Johari (20, India, Documentary)
- Last Train by Andrew Connelly (22, USA, Narrative)
- My Thoughts Are Going to End Me by Weronika Nowacka (22, Poland, Animation)
- One Wing by Gillian Moses (20, USA, Narrative)
BLOCK #3 (Streaming 12/18, 12/26, 1/4, 1/13, 1/22 & 1/30)
- Metamorcactus by Raul Abraham (21, Indonesia, Narrative)
- How to Save the Fireflies by Zaldua Janne Yleona Llagas (23, Singapore, Animation)
- Genie by Nirmal Dev (23, India, Narrative)
- Emotional Baggage by Yuen Wang (22, USA, Animation)
- Eyes of a Blue Dog by Araik Zulalyan (20, Armenia, Narrative)
- Mad Mandaigal by Soorya Krishna (21, India, Experimental)
- White Winter by Ofre Sparrow Vaknin (20, USA, Animation)
- Palliative Care by Marshall Hall (22, United Kingdom, Narrative)
- Stateless by Mustafa Aydin (21, Turkey, Documentary)
- The Frontier is Everywhere by Damodar Joglekar (22, India, Animation)
BLOCK #4 (Streaming 12/19, 12/28, 1/6, 1/15 & 1/23)
- Two Seekers by Emil Kupfer (20, Germany, Documentary)
- Snoring by Sara Abedi (12, Iran, Narrative)
- Birdsong by Michelle Cheng (21, Canada, Animation)
- Disappeared Into Light by Anastasia Neff (21, Russia, Narrative)
- A Friend is a Blessing by Rylee Rosenquist (22, USA, Documentary)
- Family Tree by Maria Hagedorn (17, Denmark, Narrative)
- Swam by Cathy Teng (22, USA, Animation)
- Forever by Petrina Gheorghiu (18, Romania, Narrative)
- Ode to My Body by Luca Mancuso (22, USA, Animation)
- Fire by Paolo Ruello (22, Italy, Narrative)
BLOCK #5 (Streaming 12/21, 12/30, 1/8, 1/16 & 1/25)
- First Time for Everything by Rylee Rosenquist (22, USA, Documentary)
- Blast Off by Kelly Wang (21, USA, Animation)
- Hadassah by Albrin Junior (21, Nigeria, Narrative)
- The Pearl by Lui Yvonne Hoi Wun (20, China, Experimental)
- Any Way You Slice It by Suraj Gubbala (22, USA, Narrative)
- A Wish Beyond Death by Anna Maria Leventi (20, United Kingdom, Animation)
- The Best by Stefan Marcu (21, Romania, Documentary)
- Arachne, Not a Spider Story by Gabi Bania (21, Poland, Animation)
- A Book Detective by Roma Kulikovskiy (16, Ukraine, Narrative)
- The Anxieties by Matyáš Lada (18, Czech Republic, Documentary)