Sweaty Eyeballs: Animation Adjacent (2024), Image Courtesy of Lena McBean.

The Sweaty Eyeballs Animation Festival will be returning in Fall 2025 and will include an International Shorts program and Baltimore Showcase program screening at Falvey Hall Theatre at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore.

There will also be a corresponding group art exhibition at Area 405 Gallery. The festival this year will be an invitational format, so no open call for entry on filmfreeway.com. If you have a new animated short (under 20 minutes) that you would like to submit for consideration for SEAF 2025 please email festival director/curator Phil Davis at phil@sweatyeyeballs.com.