THE TRANSFIGURATION INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL is a film festival showcasing an eclectic variety of short films. Founded by Jonni Peppers
We’re back for our fourth year!
Tampa, Florida: December 1 and 2 with SunRay Cinema
New York City: December 5 and 6 with Filmmaker Lounge (Location TBD)
Tokyo, Japan: December 18-24 with Tollywood
Singapore, India: January (Dates and Locations TBD)
Thank you to everyone who came to our Baltimore and Raleigh editions!
Congratulations to our 2026 award winners:
North Carolina jury awards: Refrigerator Hum by Jade Wong, Long Live Livia by Zach Dorn
Transfiguration Lifetime Achievement Award 2026: Stella Rosalie Rosen
Submissions are open- If you submit now you will be considered for the 2027 program and on.
Transfiguration International Film Festival is a collection of contemporary experimental animation. It focuses on challenging, unmarketable, cheap, humorous, independent filmmaking that lives just out of line of sight. It believes in the filmmaker as an individual with a singular aesthetic vision, and aims to amplify the untempered, raw voices of people separate from the long arm of industry and money. It is freshly born and slippery. It cries and beats its wings. It whimpers and rolls around. It believes in the maker as an individual with a singular vision. It hides from the long arm of industry and marketability. It’s alive and coming fast. (Words by EXYL)
Transfiguration International Film Festival, the only film festival where we will tell you the truth: You’re in a dream, wake up! Wake up, wake up, wake up! You’re in a dream! WAKE UP!!!
Other reading:
Poster by Animation Love Affair in Baltimore