Festivals & Awards


Animovies at the Festival of Moving Objects 2025 - Official Selection

New Jersey Horror Con and Film Festival 2025 - Official Selection

Nevermore Film Festival 2025 - Official Selection

Pumpkin Fantasy Film Festival 2025 - Official Selection

Island of Horror Film Festival 2024 - Official Selection

Animation Block Party Halloween Festival - 2024

ReAnimania International Animation Film & Comics Art Festival of Yerevan 2024 - Official Selection

Animation Block Party Halloween 2024 - Official Selection

MetroCAF Featured Animation 2024 - Official Selection; Winner: Best Group Project

Woodstock Film Festival 2024 - Official Selection

New York Shorts International Film Festival 2024 - Official Selection

36 Girona Film Festival - Official Selection

Spooky Empire Film Festival 2024 - Official Selection; Nominee: Best Animation; Most-Vomit Inducing

Ottawa International Animation Festival’s “Salon des Refusés” - 2024

School of Visual Arts Afterschool Special: “Best of 2024”

Duck and Red Octopus Short, Funny Animated Film Festival - Official Selection, 2024

Animaze 2024 - Award Nominee

Indie Short Fest - Official Selection, July 2024

Denver Digerati Emergent Media Festival 2024 - Official Selection; 2nd Place Winner

Summer Shorts Film Fest 2024- Official Selection; Nominee: Best Animation

Slimefest 2024 - Official Selection

Walla Walla Movie Crush 2024 - Official Selection

Press

Meet 2024 SVA Alumni Scholarship Award Winners Michael Dondero and Shengnan Dong - SVA.edu, May 7th, 2024

An interview with Nostril creators about making the film and life at the School of Visual Arts.

Nostril’s Michael Dondero interviewed at the Woodstock Film Festival - October, 2024