The Institutional Advancement Film Festival highlights some of the best digital storytelling put together by, or promoting the work of, advancement professionals within academic medicine.
The twelfth annual Institutional Advancement Film Festival, hosted by James A. Molnar, Supervisor of Web and Digital Media at The University of Toledo College of Medicine and Life Sciences, was held April 25, 2025, at the 2024 AAMC Conference for Institutional Advancement in New Orleans.
Main Showcase
- The Journey Toward a Gene Therapy for Retinitis Pigmentosa
Harvard Medical School - Parody Music Video 2024: Bruno Mars Medley
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai - Awake Patient Plays Guitar During Brain Tumor Surgery
Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center - What is Philanthropy?
UTHealth Houston - “For Humanity” Campaign Pillars Video Series
Yale School of Medicine - Forward Together
Stanford Medicine - Celebrating Our Founding: 10 Years of RBHS
Rutgers Health - Match Day
VCU School of Medicine - MBI Rising Stars: Dr. Didem Pehlivanoglu
UF Health - The Center for Epilepsy and Neurodevelopmental Disorders (ENDD)
Penn Medicine - Cancer Questions: Does Sugar Increase Cancer Risk?
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute - If you had to name your child after bacteria, what would it be?
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA - If you had to name your child after bacteria, what would it be? (Original)
Dell Medical School - Match Day
Burnett School of Medicine at TCU - Wendy Tamis Robbins’ Journey through Anxiety and Colorectal Cancer
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute - Tribute to the Class of 2024
UToledo College of Medicine and Life Sciences
Animation
- Breaking Free
Stanford Medicine
Ads & Promotion
- I shouldn’t be here
UK HealthCare - Follow Your Spark
UT Southwestern Fort Worth - Advancing Together
UMass Chan Medical School - Large Digital Wall
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Timely
- Why NIH support matters: A Yale M.D. explains
Yale University
The Grand Finale
- dêtetsi vo'i oninjakan Winding Path
University of Utah Health System
GIA Best in Show Winner
We’re looking for great video work for the next Film Festival in 2026! Submit your videos throughout the year to GIA@aamc.org.