ASFA's 2nd Annual Film Fest: Playlists and Awards!

M/S Senior Henry Evans introduces this year's film festival

For anyone who didn’t have a chance to make it to last Saturday's ASFA film festival -- which featured a new and groundbreaking partnership with the film students in the Woodlawn High School Film Lab -- you can access the films via the ASFA Studio YouTube channel (go like and subscribe!) or directly via the following playlist links:

• Segment #1: ASFA Arthouse (experiments in sound, movement, and documentary film produced by various members of the ASFA and Woodlawn HS creative communities)

• Segment #2: Movies! Movies! Movies! (mostly narrative short films produced by students in ASFA’s Digital Filmmaking classes, ASFA Studio, and the Woodlawn HS film lab)

• ASFA Film Fest (2025): Behind-the-Scenes (short BTS films documenting this year in the filmmaking enterprise at ASFA and the collaboration with the Woodlawn HS film lab)

We also encourage you to go watch “Oshun” directed by our own Germaul Barnes, featuring Germaul and ASFA alum Katherine Files, which kicked off the festivities on Saturday.

Student film award-winners were as follows:

• Audience Favorite (Segment #1): Are Bugs Dirty? (documentary) by Oona Vickery

• Audience Favorite (Segment #2): Dog (scripted short) by Hartley Burch and Kay Forrest

• Best Experimental Film: Ms. Aurora Sweet Meets Mr. Hunter Kirk by August Thaete-Corbalan

• Best Documentary: Are Bugs Dirty? by Oona Vickery

• Best Screenplay: The Disappearance of Monsieur Cranberie by Kamau Fluker

• Best Editing: Dog by Hartley Burch and Kay Forrest

• Best Director: Kamau Fluker for The Disappearance of Monsieur Cranberie

• Best Bumper: Locationally Challenged produced collaboratively by ASFA and Woodlawn film students

Thanks to all the students, faculty, staff, and administrators who contributed to the endeavor in ways too numerous to list but all involving patience, ingenuity, and/or resourcefulness.

Thanks also to our partners at Woodlawn HS, to the Alabama State Council on the Arts, to the ASFA Foundation, and to Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema for their instrumental support.

Finally, for more specifically about the Woodlawn/ASFA collaboration, watch these short BTS documentaries: “Learning Curves” and “The Reality of Woodlawn.”