Baltimore Showcase - SEAF 2025
Friday, September 12, 2025 - 8:00 PM - MICA Falvey Hall Theatre
Runtime = 84 minutes
FREE Admission!
The Baltimore Showcase is back with 21 films from animators and students from Charm City!
Music & Motion
Director - Catherine Frizzell
Time - 1:51
​A swarm of fish is joined by an unwelcome stranger. A man so hungry, he eats everything in sight. Shapes that morph into familiar and unfamiliar forms. Watch as these characters, cutouts, and shapes bounce, dance, and twist in response to an energy-filled soundtrack. Behold a Motion Graphic Extravaganza! 
Grand Reopening
Director - Kiki Brennan
Time - 3:41
​A spunky high schooler learns how to open an interdimensional portal with the help of her nerdy best friend and a sardonic bookworm. 
Astronautical
Director - Jilliane Mae Najera
Time - 2:33
A film about the exploration of a distant galaxy filled with celestial creatures. It explores the sublime of space and the ocean through a sense of scale and texture using 2D, 3D, and Stop Motion animation techniques as they guide you through the environment. 
Golden Boy and Gorpion
Director - Austin Fleck
Time - 9:15
​Golden Boy and Gorpion, two goofy superheroes, have to stop the rampage of Ranch Hand! The sinister cowboy villain wants to tear down the city, and it’s up to Golden Boy and Gorpion to keep it from falling into Ranch Hand’s evil, humongous grasp. 
How To Be a God at Art
Director - Jennifer Claudet
Time - 3:50
​A rookie artist too embarrassed to share their work accidentally brings one of their creations to life. They bond and become friends, until the creation decides it wants to explore outside. 
Grip of the Wheel
Director - Orosco Orosco
Time - 3:28
​A driver haunted by a car accident in his teens confronts his anxiety through street racing on the streets of San Antonio. 
Blue is the Happiest Color
Director - Jason Kresslein
Time - 1:59
An animated accompaniment to an original poem exploring an uplifting change in perspective. Throughout the poem the narrator articulates how the color blue transforms into a symbol of happiness, reminding them of a person they love.
Get Well Soon
Director - Isabella Santoro, Maxine Sizmore, and Miranda Curras
Time - 4:27
​Following the metastasization of her breast, a woman revisits moments of her life and her illness. We follow her going through several check ups with inhuman doctors that overstep her own human significance. 
Sepia
Director - Kyle Goodman
Time - 1:42
​This animation visualizes Ken Nordine’s poem “Sepia” from his Colors album. Influenced by vintage sepia films and the music itself, it blends nostalgia with motion. As a musician, I leaned into rhythm and tone, using six programs and many late nights to bring the piece to life. 
Ice vs. Earth
Director - Tamara Simonis
Time - 1:53
In a world where humans use powers to assist in combat, two teens, Astra and Terra, use their elemental abilities to clash. After sending a message to meet up to fight, Terra wishes to see who’s the most skilled, whether Astra is ready or not.
7 Fishes
Director - Malwink Studios
Time - 0:45
​When immigrating to the United States, Italian-Americans used the Seven Fishes tradition to preserve their culture by gathering with loved ones to eat seven different fish dishes on Christmas Eve. Malwink Studios celebrates our team’s different identities. We animated our own Seven Fishes dinner that represented us and showcased some Baltimore classics. 
The House Always Wins
Director - Grady Williams
Time - 3:22
​In an abandoned house, a card game that has been transpiring is interrupted by a police raid. This leads the mechanical man to be pursued in a high speed chase. His chase goes further than just down the highway and takes him on a journey through reality. 
The Dreaming World
Director - Alexi Scheiber
Time - 4:25
The Dreaming World emerges in a series of vignettes in the form of animation painting over live action spaces. As the animated, restorative world replaces the current one, spaces are de-paved and re-wilded. Cars are removed and formerly quiet suburban spaces become bustling with life.
Pumpkin's Pizza Delivery
Director - Rowyn Nikol
Time - 2:34
As Pumpkin goes to deliver a fresh slice of pizza to their customer they are attacked by the vicious Pizza Kaiju and are forced to defend their delivery.
Bourne
Director - Sam Eiken
Time - 2:30
​A young boy wakes up in a strange dream world and must befriend the scary creature there in order to escape. This film combines 2D frame-by-frame animation with filmed environments to tell a unique and enchanting story. 
Terms of Service
Director - Jim Doran
Time - 8:39
​The collapse of the Francis Scott Key bridge in Baltimore causes one of her citizens to experience odd side effects.​
Mike Byson Travels Through Asia
Director - Mike Byson
Time - 3:18
​Follow Mike Byson as he grazes, gallops, and gallivants around Asia. This film highlights important moments from my own travels and gives a new perspective to these events through the eyes of Mike. 
Imaginary Lines (Episode 1)
Director - Eric César Morales, Ileana Doble Hernandez, Nadia Hironaka, Matthew Suib. Animation by Emily Kobert
Time - 8:28
​​Imaginary Lines is an animated series created in collaboration with Mid-Atlantic Latinx immigrant communities, about the profound experience of human migration. Using the migration of monarch butterflies from Central Mexico to the US as a motif, the project embraces the individual nuance and shared experiences that drive people across borders. 
Don't Look
Director - Mandy Lin
Time - 4:47
​A young girl wakes up from cryostasis hibernation to find that the planet is in complete ruins from a deadly apocalypse. Stuck in the abandoned hospital, she must fight off human husks corrupted by the mysterious eye in the sky. 
I'm Not Your Monster
Director - Karen Yasinsky
Time - 5:15
A hand-drawn animation composed of fragments rotoscoped from various films. It began with replacing Frankenstein's monster with a person I know. The idea of fear creating violence inspired the project, coupled with ideas about the self, its construct and its relation to the body.
Swol
Director - Eva Grandoni
Time - 4:31
Two picnicking pals are enjoying a day in the park when a portly bee interrupts the festivities. This rude guest causes one picnicker to undergo a bizarre transformation and lose all bodily autonomy, sending them on the adventure of a lifetime.