The 2025 918 Day Film Festival celebrates stories made right here in the 918. Born from the overwhelming response to the Circle Cinema Film Festival, this special showcase extends the spotlight to even more locally made work.

Student Short Films — Block A puts emerging 918-area filmmakers front and center. Discover bold, inventive shorts created by talented students across genres and schools—proof that the next generation of Tulsa storytellers is already here and thriving.

Mystic Mountain

English | 6m 51s | Directed by: Brook Alexandra Dyson & Sydney McCollum

Synopsis: On her journey to get to the top of a mountain, a lone hiker encounters a peculiar set of triplets that set her back in some comically strange ways.

My Friend From the Stars

English | Fantasy, Drama | 25m 28s | Directed by: Samuel Allen

Synopsis: Albert, a scatterbrained writer, struggles to get his children’s book published due to the lack of an ending.

Valerie

English | 1m 52s | Directed by: Aldair Esau Gutierrez

Synopsis: A musicians inner thoughts visualized.

Cherry Wine

English | 3m 30s | Directed by: Aldair Esau Gutierrez

Synopsis: A sound mixer discovers an unexpected friend playing the guitar.

The Field

English | Suspense, Comedy, Drama, Weird | 5m 36s | Directed by: Quinton Bruce Lowry

Synopsis: A boy discovers what happens when you pray for things to change.

Heirloom

English | Comedy, Drama, Thriller | 10m 3s | Directed by: Quinton Bruce Lowry

Synopsis: A boy discovers his dead father has left him an heirloom, but the gift isn’t what it seems. In this film, we see a family deal with grief and the effects of generational addiction.

NATURALCONVOS

English | Experimental | 3m 54s | Directed by: Joshua Chandler Lamb

Synopsis: A conversation in nature.

The Stuff of Nightmares

English | Coming-of-Age, Horror, Drama | 24m 10s | Directed by: Charlie Edwards

Synopsis: After a mysterious attack on a park ranger in the small town of Peculiar Missouri, a group of social outcast high schoolers track down a monster in hopes of social recognition. Tensions build as the stress of hunting a monster begins to tear the group apart.