Awards & Exhibitions
Cosmos Obscura
2019
Another Experiment by Women Film Festival (New York, NY)
Dobra Festival Internacional de Cinema Experimental (Rio De Janeiro, Brazil)
Mostra Strangloscope: Mostra Internacional de Áudio/ Vídeo/ Filme/ Performance (Florianópolis, Brazil)
Llawn Festival: Out of Line (Llandudno, UK)
DUMBO Film Festival (New York, NY) Best Experimental
Besides the Screen: Graphic Intelligences & Algorithmic Fictions Conference (Vitória and São Paulo, Brazil)
LUNA Video Art Installation (Atlanta, GA)
Ospizio Giovani Artisti (Rome, Italy)
Dallas Medianale (Dallas, TX)
Saigon Experimental Film Festival (Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam)
Festival Ecrã (Rio De Janeiro, Brazil)
Ibrida festival delle arti intermediali (Forlì, Italy)
Rencontres Traverse Vidéo (Toulouse, France)
Braziers Mini-Indi Festival (Oxfordshire, UK)
Atlanta Film Festival (Atlanta, GA)
Athens International Film & Video Festival (Athens, OH)
Experiments in Cinema (Albuquerque, NM)
Digital Graffiti (Alys Beach, FL) Finalist
West Virginia Mountaineer Short Film Festival (Morgantown, PA)
The Hazel Eye Film Festival (Nashville, TN)
Aquifer: The Florida Review at UCF ()
2018
The Exchange Gallery (Bloomsburg, PA)
Microspectrum
2018
IN*fusionart Magazine ()
2017
Athens International Film and Video Festival (Athens, OH)
Black Maria Film Festival Touring Program (Various Venues)
Delete TV (London, England, UK)
Spectral Microcinema (Steven’s Point, WI)
2016
Black Maria Film Festival (Jersey City, NJ) Jury Award
Wonder Root Generally Local, Mostly Independent Film Series (Atlanta, GA)
Minne Mini Film Festival (Minneapolis, MN)
New Mavericks Film Festival (Atlanta, GA)
I <3 Atlanta
2017
Atlanta Film Festival (Atlanta, GA)
Airport Shorts 4.0 (Atlanta, GA)
The Sonatina
2017
Jecheon International Music and Film Festival (Jecheon, South Korea)
2016
Prairie State Film Festival (Peoria, IL)
Door County Short Film Festival (Sister Bay, WI)
Wildwood Film Festival (Appleton, WI)
2015
68th Cannes Film Festival Short Film Corner (Cannes, France)
The Milwaukee Film Festival (Milwaukee, WI)
APEX Film and Music Festival (Rochester, MN)
Red Wing Festival of the Arts (Red Wing, MN)
Flyway Film Festival (Pepin, Stockholm, Maiden Rock and Alma, WI)
Central Wisconsin Film Festival (Stevens Point and Wausau, WI)
Fantasy Tableau: The Art of Stephen Warde Anderson
2018
“Stephen Warde Anderson: Attention to Detail” Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art (Chicago, IL)
2016
“The Wonderful World of Stephen Warde Anderson” Rockford Art Museum (Rockford, IL)
The Cucaranchula
2015
New Filmmakers Fall Series (New York, NY)
Honeytone Film and Music Showcase (Milwaukee, WI)
2014
67th Cannes Film Festival Short Film Corner (Cannes, France)
We Like ‘Em Short Film Festival (Baker City, OR)
Beloit International Film Festival (Beloit, WI)
Green Bay Film Festival (Green Bay, WI) Finalist
Wildwood Film Festival (Appleton, WI) Best of Comedy
2013
The Milwaukee Short Film Festival (Milwaukee, WI) Artistic Achievement Award
The Milwaukee Film Festival (Milwaukee, WI)
Anima Mundi
2015
Best of Rural Route Film and Video Festival (New York, NY) Blu-Ray Compilation
Best of Rural Route Film and Video Festival Touring Program (Various Venues)
2013
Frederick Layton Gallery (Milwaukee, WI) Mary Nohl Suitcase Export Grant, Permanent Collection
SpectreArts (Durham, NC)
2012
Black Maria Film and Video Festival (Jersey City, NJ) Director’s Prize
Black Maria Film and Video Festival Touring Program (Various Venues)
Rural Route Film and Video Festival Touring Program (Various Venues)
Another Experiment by Women Filmmakers (New York, NY)
The Milwaukee Short Film Festival (Milwaukee, WI)
Beloit International Film Festival (Beloit, WI)
2011
64th Cannes Film Festival Short Film Corner (Cannes, France)
Athens International Film and Video Festival (Athens, OH) Best Experimental
Wisconsin Film Festival (Madison, WI) Golden Badger Award
The Milwaukee Film Festival (Milwaukee, WI)
The Milwaukee Underground Film Festival (Milwaukee, WI) Jury Award
Rural Route Film Festival (New York, NY) Best Experimental
Rural Route Film Festival Traveling Program (Various Venues)
If You Squint: An Evening of Avant Garde Films (Madison, WI)
Big Muddy International Film Festival (Carbondale, IL)
Dallas VideoFest (Dallas, TX)
Strange Beauty Film Festival (Durham, NC)
Filmmaker’s Showcase (Charlotte, NC)
Synch! Film and Music Festival (Bronx, NY)
Greentopia Film Festival (Rochester, NY)
Burnell Street Arts Center (Homer, AK)
MTS Gallery (Anchorage, AK)
Light Factory Showcase (Milwaukee, WI)
Central Wisconsin Film Festival (Steven’s Point, WI)
Locally Unwanted Land Usage
2019
UNCG Sustainability Short Film Competition (Greensboro, NC) Grand Prize
2016
Cause & Effect: Georgia Progressive Film Festival (Athens, GA) Jury Award
2012
National Centre for the Performing Arts (Mumbai, India)
Urban Ecology Center (Milwaukee, WI)
2011
Worldkids Foundation International Film Festival (Various Venues: India)
Twisp Rural Routes Film Festival (Twisp, WA)
2010
Reel Earth International Environmental Film Festival (Palmerston North, New Zealand)
ICA Boston: Urban Parables (Boston, MA)
Princeton Environmental Film Festival (Princeton, NJ)
Los Angeles International Children’s Film Festival (Santa Monica, CA)
San Diego Children’s International Film Festival (San Diego, CA)
San Francisco Bay Area Children’s International Film Festival (San Francisco, CA)
Epiphany Children’s Film Festival (New York, NY)
Providence Children’s International Film Festival (Providence, RI)
Children’s Film Festival Seattle (Seattle, WA)
REDCAT International Children’s Film Festival (Los Angeles, CA)
Kids First! Film Festival (Santa Fe, NM) Jury Award
Earth and Sky Days (Grand Rapids, MI)
Flatland Film Festival (Lubbock, TX)
Wildwood Film Festival (Appleton, WI)
2009
Milwaukee Short Film Festival (Milwaukee, WI)
Material Afterlife Short Film Competition (Grand Rapids, MI)
Autumn
2009
Beloit International Film Festival (Beloit, WI)
The People’s Choice International Short Film Festival (Quito, Ecuador)
ArtFilmPerformance (New York, NY)
Houston Art Alliance (Various Venues: Houston, TX) Permanent Collection
Central Wisconsin Film Festival (Stevens Point, WI)
Big Water Film Festival (Washburn, WI)
ArtQuinox (Minneapolis, MN)
Naturescapes (Olean, NY) Honorable Mention
Aaurau International One-Minute Film Festival (Aarau, Switzerland)
Renderyard One-Minute Challenge (London, England, UK)
Columbia Gorge International Film Festival (Washougal, WA)
Workhouse Film and Music Festival (Llanfyllin, Wales, UK)
Wildwood Film Festival (Appleton, WI) Best Experimental
Alice Underwater
2010
Strange Beauty Film Festival (Durham, NC)
Mini Cine Picture Show (London, UK)
Flicker Film Festival Spokane (Spokane, WA)
Flicker Film Festival Chapel Hill (Carrboro, NC)
Milwaukee at its Best Showcase (Milwaukee, WI)
Conduit Cinema (Milwaukee, WI)
Cedarhurst Center for the Arts (Mount Vernon, IL.)
2005
Take 291 Experimental Film Series (London, England, UK)
Invisible Film Series (New York, NY)
Big Muddy Film Festival (Carbondale, IL) Best of the Fest, Honorable Mention
Synch! Film and Music Festival (London, England, UK)
Flicker Film Festival New York (New York, NY) Flicker Grant Award
Pretty
2010
Cedarhurst Center for the Arts (Mount Vernon, IL.)
2002
UWM Student Film and Video Festival (Milwaukee, WI) Jury Award