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