Enjoy the intersection of glass and film at our Annual Film Festival! This juried festival involves an in-person screening at our Annual Conference, as well as other virtual and in person screenings. The call for Film Festival entries typically goes out in November of each year.
The 2026 Film Festival will take place at Studio Theater at Corning Museum of Glass during our annual conference. Films will be screened on Thursday, June 4, from 10 am to 3 pm and Saturday, June 6, from 9 am to 2 pm. They will be shown on a loop and include:
Speculum Vogue, directed by Emma Mitchison
Touching the Light, directed by Cary Rapaport
Chime: An Extended View, directed by Janetje Jeanine Verloop
Braided Sand, directed by Tracy Abbott Szatan
Dead Horse Bay, directed by Zachary Finkelstein
Play with Materials, directed by Daichi Fuwa
I, Phoenix, directed by Simone Fezer
Touches as from Inside, directed by Ina Kristine Hove
Blowing in a New Era, directed by Charlie Reid McGowan
Invocation, directed by Caitlin Greenberg
Elena Lee, Pioneer Gallerist, directed by Danièle Bellemare Lee
The 2025 Film Festival will take place on Friday, May 16 from 5:30 to 7:30 pm in the Art + Architecture Lecture Theater on the UTA campus. Stay tuned for information on our virtual screening!
- Hector M. Flores, Un día en la vida de un asistente de un estudio de vidrio / A day in the life of a glass studio assistant
- Jeff Gibbons + Justin Ginsberg, STRINGS
- Elle Kannike, Together we create
- Batya Gil Margalit, Water Mark
- Dan Mirer, Water Bells
- Raffaele Morandi / Laguna~B Autonoma 2024, Project Fire
- Justin Oliphant + Alicia Eggert, The Unimaginable Future: Alicia Eggert & Long Now
- Brad Patocka, Tami Landis, Te Rongo Kirkwood, Te Rongo Kirkwood: The Seer, the Seen, the Seeing
- Elisabeth Grace Potter, Reclaiming Visibility
- AARSHI LAGARKHA RATHI, RURAL MODERN GLASS
- Brandi Simpson, All the Kings Horses
- Katerina Verguelis, The Wall has fallen, Long Live the Wall
Elle KannikeThe 2024 Film Festival took place in Berlin on Thursday, May 16 with a virtual screening taking place on Thursday, December 12 and Friday, December 13. * indicates films that screened in-person. Award winners are noted in bold.
- Short Form Winner | Ioana Stelea, Fragments*
- Long Form Winner | Nicole Clouston, The Outlaw Neon*
- Chris Flook, Clear Reception with David Letterman*
- Clifton Crofford, The SiNaCa Story*
- Jeanne Sophie Aas (Norway) | Short Films: Fragile Bloom; Defining balance; Oxygen; and Reflections*
- Mark Hursty (United States), The Natatorium
- Riikka Haapasaari (Finland), Cumulative kindness in the now-time, where I change too
- Bernadett Sláviková (Slovakia), Rare Echoes Project
- Dylan Katz (Finland), Uncanny Ice*
- Yuan Yin, Stillness in the absence of glass
- Wanlin Jiang (United Kingdom), Plant Whisper
- Jean Birkhill (United States), The Curious Artist
- Makiko Nakagami (Japan), Blowing Life*
- Glass Society of Ireland (Ireland), Glisten*
- Meadhbh McIlgorm (Ireland), ReView*
- Kati Kerstna (Estonia), Accessories, glass exhibition
- 穎軍 李 (United States), Zoom In Closer
- Mark Eliott (Australia), Sea of Clouds
- Janine Christley (United Kingdom), Hot Hanbok/Cool Glass
- Anna Mlasowsky (United States), On ° Venus*
- Emanuel Toffolo (Italy), The Engravers
- Amanda Aiken (United Kingdom), Liquid Solid*
- Dovile Grigaliunaite (Türkiye), Borning
- Bibi Smit (The Netherlands), Moving Glass*
- Aine Ryan (Ireland), Finding My Place*
- Caitlin Greenberg (South Africa), Unspoken Thoughts
- Dawn Szabo (United States), Fire Rainbow
- Tracy Szatan (United States), An Endless Glass Space
- Roberta Santini (United States), What do you bring in your purse?*
- Justin Tyner (United States), We Are More Than We Know
- Sandra Bacchi (United States), Seeking Nowhere
- Eunhyung Kim (United States), Remixed food
- Charlie McGowan (Australia), Gordon Studio Glassblowers
- Michaela Swade (Germany), “Passion”, a film of the glass art society, GKV*
- Simon Crofts (Scotland), Inbetween*
- Justin Foreman (United States), Time & Temperature
- Mattias Ohlsson (Sweden), The Glassblower – A life in service of glass
