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Jeffrey Bowers

When Jeffrey isn't busy curating the best videos to watch On Demand, you might find him watching more movies, biking to movies, or painting distorted Where's-Waldo-esque landscapes. He's programmed for the Tribeca, Hamptons and Rooftop Film Festivals.

In this week's Staff Pick Premiere, "West by God," Scott Lazer details an intimate power struggle, aka a first date.

Staff Pick Premiere: "West by God" by Scott Lazer

Joe Cappa's "Ghost dogs" is a Staff Pick Premiere! These ghosts are part dog, part human, but fully dead. You've never seen anything like this.

Staff Pick Premiere: “Ghost Dogs” by Joe Cappa

Anthropomorphic wolf gigolos, BDSM, and sleazy films are on hilarious display in Chintis Lundgren's "Toomas Beneath the Valley of the Wild Wolves."

Staff Pick Premiere: "Toomas Beneath the Valley of the Wild Wolves" by Chintis Lundgren

This week’s Staff Pick Premiere is an absurdist tale of a woman's grief manifesting as an obsession with elephants. Then she goes on safari... literally.

Staff Pick Premiere: “Wildebeest” by Nicolas Keppens and Matthias Phlips

With deadpan humor, Victoria Warmerdam's "Short Calf Muscle" asks if the entire world sees you as a gnome, are you a gnome?

Staff Pick Premiere: "Short Calf Muscle" by Victoria Warmerdam

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Staff Pick Award at OIAF: “Ten, Twenty, Thirty, Forty, Fifty Miles a Day” by Mathieu Georis

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Staff Pick Award at BlackStar Film Festival: “Dear Philadelphia” by Renee Osubu

“Pile” by Toberg is a digitally animated film employing an infinite upward scroll technique to reveal a sitemap of the human condition.

Staff Pick Premiere: "Pile" by Toberg

Filmmakers Mark Bone and Kwesi Thomas share a frank and intimate look at what it means to be Black in America in "Battleground." "Battleground" by Kwesi Thomas and Mark Bone is a timely exploration of how skin color has become just that...a battleground.

Staff Pick Premiere: "Battleground" by Kwesi Thomas and Mark Bone