2021 Best Overall Nominees
WINNER:
ILEA
dir. Samuel Correa
Lyra’s parents disappeared during a mission to space. During her birthday, she finds a clue that gives hope to her years-long search for them.
Cotton Clouds
dir. Chloe Shelton
In 1912 Roanoke, Virginia, a young girl struggles to help provide for her family by working in the exhausting conditions of a cotton mill while still holding to the optimism of childhood. This film is inspired by the photography of Lewis Hine, who documented child workers that had become the exploited, cheap laborers upon which America depended.
Inhibitor
dir. Jessica Herlitz and Cian Collins
To dull the human mind and prevent insanity, an experiment has been set up to make people create and self administer a sedative that keeps them mentally numb.
Atlanta High School Film Festival 