Judges

Flavourcel Collective

Music Video

DFFO 20 film - "Garnet Graves" - Devours

Flavourcel is an animation collective situated on the Unceded Coast Salish territories.

Cassie Shao

Animation

DFFO 20 Film - There Were Four of Us

Cassie Shao is an Animation Artist currently based in Los Angeles.

Theo Hollingsworth

Local

DFFO 20 film - Sirius Lee: The Problematic Time Transplant

Theo Hollingsworth is a writer and producer based out of Oakland, CA.

Tayler Vee Robsinson

U.S. Narrative

DFFO 20 film - You Are Going to Explode

Tayler Vee Robinson is a writer, director and actor based in Chicago.

Miguel Rodrick

Music Video

DFFO 20 Film - Said No Lover

Miguel is a classical music composer turned film director, animator and designer, who grew up in Colombia and moved to the Bay Area in 2012.

Fu Yang

World Narrative

DFFO 20 film: TellTale

Fu Yang is a Taiwanese filmmaker who specializes in stop-motion and traditional animation.

Whitney Legge

Documentary

DFFO 20 film - Pigeon Girl

Whitney Legge grew up in a small town on the coast of Maine and after graduating high school relocated to Guatemala to develop photography programs for at-risk youths.

Carrie Hawks

Animation

DFFO 20 Film - Origin of Hair

Carrie Hawks confronts self-imposed and external assumptions about identity in order to promote healing, particularly in relation to Blackness, gender, and queer sexuality.