URBAN-15's Josiah Media Festival 2023

The 2023 Josiah Media Festival will begin streaming online for free at 8pm on December 15th trough the end of January 2024. Streams will run on a continuous 24 hour loop in two hour blocks. At the end of January, films we be judged by a panel of judges and cash prizes will be awarded to the young filmmakers.

Open only to filmmakers 21 years old and younger, the Josiah Media Festival is URBAN-15’s annual nationwide film and media event. It is named after Josiah Miles Neundorf, a talented film and media artist from San Antonio, Texas who passed away in 2006 as a result of osteosarcoma. Despite his short twenty years with us, Josiah expanded the lives of those around him through his brilliance, joy, and determination to create outstanding work amid the physical ravages of illness. In honor of this artist, his parents Marcus and Nancy Neundorf and the URBAN-15 Group created the Josiah Media Festival, an annual film festival designed to showcase outstanding works by young film, video, and media artists.