The 18th Josiah Media Festival will begin streaming online for free at 8pm on December 16th through the end of January 2025. The continuous 24 hour stream will begin with a two-day showcase of the winners from the 17th Josiah Media Festival. After 48 hours, streams of this year’s films will begin to run on a continuous 24 hour loop in two hour blocks. At the end of January, films will be judged by a panel of judges and cash prizes will be awarded to the young filmmakers.

Open only to filmmakers 21 years old and younger, the Josiah Media Festival is URBAN-15’s annual nationwide film and media event. It is named after Josiah Miles Neundorf, a talented film and media artist from San Antonio, Texas who passed away in 2006 as a result of osteosarcoma. Despite his short twenty years with us, Josiah expanded the lives of those around him through his brilliance, joy, and determination to create outstanding work amid the physical ravages of illness. In honor of this artist, his parents Marcus and Nancy Neundorf and the URBAN-15 Group created the Josiah Media Festival, an annual film festival designed to showcase outstanding works by young film, video, and media artists.