2019

2019 FILMS

[Untitled] : Caleb Dirks
11010 : Gabriela Monnerat & Rodrigo Amim aka ONZE
abstract concrete : Stephan Dilley
An Occurrence : Stephen Huff
Are You Volleyball? : Mohammad Bakhshi
Awkward Moments : Sam Osborn
Becoming Visible : Janet Solomon
Begin : Craig Smith
The Birth of Shiny Star Baby : Samuel Dunson
BLOOD SPOOK : Steve Daniels
BOUNCE : David MacLean
The Bubblegum Man : Josh Whiteman
Chairs (2019) : Avner Pinchover
Channel 5 : Tristan McAlister
the city of honey : moein ruholamini
CREATURES : Daria Lippi
Creswick : Natalie Erika James
Crossley : Nate Eggert
Double Indemnity by Impala : Edward Valibus
Dull Hope : Brian Ratigan
E.K.B add blown : Felix Rehnberg
Elder Abuse : Drew Durepos
Elephantbird : Masoud Soheili
Face to face : Christelle Gilibert
Fetish : David Lee Hess & Richard H. Perry
The Film Machine : Sonia & Miriam Albert-Sobrino (Also Sisters)
For All Audiences : Josh Weissbach
The Future : Greg Sharp
Gas Gets In Your Eyes : Madeline Leshner
Gloria's Call : Cheri Gaulke
Good times Best times : Brynn Antaran
Hideous : Hamish Robertson
Hypnagogia : Brandon Wilson
The Hunted : Benn Jae
The illegal Film : Martin Baer & Claus Wischmann
il sentire dell'occhio [The Hearing of the Eye] : Alessia Cecchet
Image : Petter Sjöstrand
In the Wood : Daniel St. Ours
Jonathan Agassi Saved My Life : Tomer Heymann
JUMP : Clea van der Grijn
Kokosmos : Anna Radchenko

KOPSCHUIF : Roel Goyens
Latched : Justin Harding
Lemons : Simon Werdmüller von Elgg
License & Registration : Jackson Ezinga
Little : Brittany Brock
LOLO : Leandro Goddinho & Paulo Menezes
Loudly Insecure : Candice Weber
Masters : Mark Ward
Meredith : Meredith
Mongers : Jim Valosik
My Mother Told Me : Yasmin Rai
NEW BRONX : Filip Ignatowicz
Nightcrawlers : Stephen McCoy
Nothing Blue : Laura Herman
The Orchard Girl : Nicholas Dunlevy & Erin Elders
The Parable of the Disappearing Recliner : Elisabeth Gray
Perennial : Eric Butler
The Phantasmagoria of Offense: the male version : Jess Irish
POST TRUTH | or A Frustrating Experience with the Internet : Parker Cooley
Post-Election Works : Kate Haug
Prehistoric Planet : Arlo Arntson
Prostitution in Nashville : Jon Sewell
The Right Night : Jeremias Nussbaum
Run : Leilei Xia
Senior Love Triangle : Kelly Blatz
Shifting : Steve Voss
Shy Guys : Fredric Lehne
Soma/tics : Ace McColl
Stalker : Christopher Andrews
suckmeoff, Princess! : Tristan Scott-Behrends
Supervenus : Frédéric Doazan
Totalité : Laurie little & Justin Jones
The Triple Jump (De Driesprong) : Sjeng Schupp & Michiel van Dijk
TWELVE : Andrea Knowlton
The Unboxing Video : Zygintas Papartis
UNSOLICITED : Meg Cook
w4m : Daniel Goldstein
Welcome to the Ball : Adam Vincent Wright
White Guys Solve Sexism : Christopher Guerrero
Who's that at the back of the bus? : Philip Hardy
You Are Going To Explode : Tayler Vee Robinson

 

 

BEST OF 2019:

BEST OF FEST - FEATURE: Senior Love Triangle
EXCELLENCE IN FEATURE FILM: Nightcrawlers
BEST OF FEST - SHORT: The Triple Jump
EXCELLENCE IN SHORT FILM: Fetish, 11010


2019 PRESS:

NASHVILLE SCENE

52 WEEKS OF HORROR

Judges:

TRISTAN SCOTT-BEHRENDS, FILMMAKER

Tristan Scott-Behrends's film Curtain Down made its World Premiere at the inaugural Defy Film Festival in 2016. The Los Angeles resident has been working in the film industry for the past decade as an actor, producer, writer, director and wardrobe stylist, appearing in feature films such as Electric Slide and Pester. Most recently, the short he produced, Parker, premiered at the prestigious Outfest Film Festival. 

MIKE LACY, FILMMAKER

Mike Lacy was the Director of Videography for the American Pavillion at the Cannes Film Festival in 2015, and has screened films for Defy for the past 3 years. He produces comedy videos in the NYC and is an active member of the integral/occult communities in Brooklyn.


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