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Mad Royal Film Festival 2025

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Come celebrate Ohio State’s visionary and creative student filmmakers! Featuring a free public screening of student-made short films.

Since 2018, the Ohio State student organization Mad Royal Film Society has selected and shared short films to connect with one another and celebrate the wide range of student filmmakers and their work. Awards for a variety of categories based on this year’s entries will be selected by filmmakers, artists, and professors both at Ohio State and from the community. (180 mins., DCP)

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Program Lineup

Humanity’s Collective (Andrew Blake, 3:54 mins.) 
Olympic Dreams (Tobias Zuniga-Shaw, 1:01 mins.) 
Forgetting (Aidan Silva, 3:16 mins.) 
It’s More Than an A (Olivia Baldwin, 5:02 mins.) 
Lapped (Trey Worthen and Wyatt Downey, 8:30 mins.) 
semi - semiotic (Jules Biller, 2:06 mins.) 
The Mothman Effect (Colton Ziehm, 8:32 mins.) 
PEANUTS (Grace Rana, 3:06 mins.) 
we’re already burning (Amelia Bowen, 2:08 mins.) 
Coupons (Masha Kochanenkova, 1:47 mins.) 
Monitor (Nicholas Marrone and AJ Mater, 10:40 mins.) 
Monkey Business (Alaina Rich, 2:04 mins.) 
Mind Games (Jack Knellinger, 4:10 mins.) 
The Top Deck (Kierra “Kiki” Williams, 8:58 mins.) 
Ghosts on Air (Corinne Niaura and Mel Ramp, 6:59 mins.) 
Man and Machina (Ben Pereira, 3:33 mins.) 
My Columbus (Demise Creative, 2:04 mins.) 
Gnomed (Clay Kessler, 12:06 mins.) 
memories, for forever. (Zach Ball, 1:55 mins.) 
Ultraviolet (Logan St. Hilaire, 10 mins.) 
RealitiQ (Mad Royal Film Society, 11:30 mins.) 

Program Support

FILM/VIDEO PROGRAMS MADE POSSIBLE BY
Ohio Humanities

ADDITIONAL SUPPORT PROVIDED BY
Rohauer Collection Foundation

WEXNER CENTER PROGRAMS MADE POSSIBLE BY
Greater Columbus Arts Council
The Wexner Family
Institute of Museum and Library Services
Mellon Foundation
Every Page Foundation
Ohio Arts Council, with support from the National Endowment for the Arts
CampusParc
Nationwide Foundation
Lois S. and H. Roy Chope Fund of The Columbus Foundation
The Columbus Foundation
Axium Packaging

ADDITIONAL SUPPORT PROVIDED BY
Ohio History Fund/Ohio History Connection
David Crane and Elizabeth Dang
Louise Lambert Braver

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