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SUMMARY:17th Annual New Media Film Festival
DESCRIPTION:New Media Film Festival® Announces 2026 Lineup Highlighti
 ng Global Innovation in Film\, Music and Storytelling\nSelections span
  narrative and documentary projects\, classic and tech driven categori
 es\, scripts\, music driven visual work\, science programming and emer
 ging media from international filmmakers and award recognized artists.
 \n \n"New Media FF looked like an outlier in 2009 with its odd catego
 ries. Now those formats are mainstream. New Media FF keeps pushing cre
 ators\, the market & audiences toward new storytelling\," Oscar Winner
  Nick Reed\n \nLOS ANGELES\, CA -- The New Media Film Festival® toda
 y announced its full 2026 lineup\, featuring an expansive slate of nar
 rative films\, documentaries\, science driven projects\, innovative st
 orytelling formats and music culture collaborations from international
  filmmakers\, award recognized creators and globally known artists. Th
 e 17th annual festival will take place June 3–4\, 2026 in Los Angele
 s\, California.\nThis year's slate includes 35 world premieres\, 5 U.S
 . premieres and 18 Los Angeles premieres\, representing 58 premieres a
 cross 80 new media films and projects. Creators represent the United S
 tates\, United Kingdom\, Canada\, South Korea\, Taiwan\, Germany\, Ita
 ly\, France\, Ireland\, Norway\, Israel\, Switzerland\, Malta\, Serbia
 \, Panama\, Kazakhstan\, Brazil and Japan.\nThis year's selections inc
 lude work from YongJik Lee (Sunflowers)\, Fabio Thieme (A Dream My Sis
 ter Had)\, Loïs Levy (Summer 1990)\, Kenji Ishimaru (If You See a Cat
 )\, Leeorah Hursky (Naked Soul)\, Lori Moilov (Reach the Sky\; creator
  of Limitless Podcast)\, Nick Roth (Is Ai Gonna Get Better\, or Nah?)\
 , Da Eun Kim (A Day (HARU))\, Dr. Owain Llwyd (Life in the Trees) and 
 Rod Findley (Dolphins of the Reef).\nMusic and culture programming fea
 tures major artists including multi-platinum Pendulum and WARGASM with
  their collaboration Cannibal\, and a visual teaser centered on David 
 Byrne\, the Oscar\, Grammy and Golden Globe winning cultural icon know
 n for reshaping the boundaries of performance and visual storytelling.
 \nDocumentary and cultural titles include Kinfolk – The Juke Joint B
 lues\, featuring historically significant blues figures such as Arthur
  "Big Boy" Crudup\, Theresa Needham and Muddy Waters Jr.\nThe lineup a
 lso includes appearances from notable industry leaders such as Bob Wei
 s\, former President of Walt Disney Imagineering\, who joins the Limit
 less Podcast LA premiere as a special guest.\nThe festival's classic a
 nd tech driven category highlights span Bartogay Lake\, One Day the Su
 n Will Only Shine for You\, Sign\, Father Christmas\, Storm Hunters\, 
 Our Brightest Nights\, In Media Res\, Moon Over Capri\, Roots & Relics
 \, The Mystery of Emma Thorn\, Halloween Girl – Gods and Monsters\, 
 Marionette\, Take Me Home\, 2 Can Play\, Honey Fungus\, The Chapel Doo
 r\, Ceol Chicago\, Talking Heads' David Byrne – What Is the Reason F
 or It?\, To the Moon\, If You See a Cat\, Dolphins of the Reef and Lif
 e in the Trees.\nFamily and youth oriented selections include The Adve
 ntures of The Sensokids\, Ish Meets a Mermaid and Kishta\, the Black C
 at. The lineup features Indigenous and Sámi creators\, including regi
 onal Emmy winning Native American filmmaker Jonathan Thunder (Ish Meet
 s a Mermaid) and internationally recognized Sámi multimedia artist Gj
 ert Rognli (One Day the Sun Will Only Shine for You).\nThe festival's 
 science and innovation program includes Antibiotic Resistance: Could M
 etals Be the Answer\, Emergence in Marfa and the hybrid media project 
 Androsphere. Immersive selections include Tirosen – King Boat VR Exp
 erience.\nInnovation driven programming includes work from leading con
 temporary and digital artists such as Bernar Venet\, A.A. Murakami\, M
 itchell F. Chan\, Daniella Loftus\, Anna Carreras\, DADABOTS\, OONA\, 
 remnynt and Luke Shannon\, representing the forefront of conceptual ar
 t\, generative design and AI driven creativity.\nNotable talent featur
 ed across the 2026 lineup includes:David Byrne – Oscar\, Grammy and 
 Golden Globe winnerMary Lou Belli – Two time Emmy winnerBlair Underw
 ood – Golden Globe and Grammy nomineeVernon Davis – Sports Emmy wi
 nnerCindy Herron – Grammy winner (En Vogue)Ernesto Paglia – Intern
 ational Emmy winnerGjert Rognli – Internationally award winning Sám
 i multimedia artistJonathan Thunder – Regional Emmy winning Native A
 merican filmmakerAva Della Pietra – Billboard charting artist and Br
 oadway alumLynn Lowry – Cult cinema iconPaul Ben Victor – SAG Awar
 d nomineeJames Urbaniak – Annie Award nomineeNicole Kang – Series 
 regular\, BatwomanMather Zickel – SAG ensemble nominee\nThe 2026 lin
 eup reflects a forward looking vision that celebrates innovation\, glo
 bal voices and the evolving landscape of film\, music\, science and im
 mersive media.\nFestival Director Susan Johnston emphasized the festiv
 al's continued commitment to innovation\, noting that "each year we ch
 ampion creators who push the boundaries of story\, technology\, and cu
 lture. The 2026 lineup reflects the global imagination shaping the fut
 ure of new media."\nFounded in 2009\, the New Media Film Festival is a
  Los Angeles–based event dedicated to honoring stories worth telling
 . The festival showcases work across more than 28 categories\, spannin
 g classic and tech driven formats including narrative and documentary 
 projects\, pilots\, web series\, scripts\, animation\, music driven vi
 suals\, experimental work and emerging media.\nEach year\, the festiva
 l brings together storytellers from around the world and is supported 
 by a distinguished judging body that has included industry professiona
 ls from Marvel\, HBO\, PBS\, BBC\, ABC and other leading creative inst
 itutions. With a focus on discovery and innovation in both form and fo
 rmat\, the festival highlights creators working at the intersection of
  story and technology\, from page to screen and beyond.\n# # #\n 
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