Film / Animation / Video Senior Show
Culminating nine months of sweat, laughter, hot glue, ingenuity, and almost impossible tasks, the FAV Senior Show presents works by graduating Film / Animation / Video students. The show draws numerous attendees from the RISD and greater Providence community, as well as alumni and professionals. For many of the medium-bending films on view, this exhibition begins their journey to screenings and festivals throughout the world.
FAV Senior Show 2026
Live screenings: May 8–9 @ the RISD Auditorium, 7–10:30 pm
Streaming premiere: May 15–16 on YouTube
The latest in an annual tradition, FAV Senior Show 2026 features work by graduating students that reflects each maker’s vision, creativity, discipline, and dedication. Emerging from each artist’s individual labor as well as the collective energy of their peers and extended community, these films affirm the importance, value, and necessity of making art, while celebrating this year’s FAV seniors as they begin their journeys beyond RISD.
Both the live and streaming FAV Senior Show are divided into two programs, so be sure to check the link below for each night’s schedule of films if you want to see work by a specific artist.
Read about past shows
The audience cheered in support as FAV seniors showed their animated and live-action films to a packed RISD Auditorium.
A mix of animated and live-action shorts that premiered in the RISD Auditorium last weekend will be livestreamed on YouTube.
More than 40 live-action and animated films featured in four-night festival.