Every winter off the Georgia coast, fishermen reel in jellyfish from the same waters where shrimp once flourished. The Blessed Assurance is a sensorial documentary experience, a meditation on livelihood exploring both man and jellyfish in the otherworldly ecosystem found on an American trawl boat. Visceral images and sounds immerse us in a primordial world, decentering the human and even going inside a jellyfish.

"Highlights: Meeting fellow filmmaker-and-now-friend Roger Beebe / meeting a delicious couple who made a film in New Orleans on the disappearing coastline that I now can't remember their names and want to so badly / watching the shorts programs and being blown away and deciding never to miss another shorts program at a festival again / realizing most festivals like films that are either more doc or more fiction and somehow CUFF manages to ride the line just right and I love it so much and why aren't there more festivals like this: experimental, just a little wild, home-grown, with a nod to grunge." -Isabelle Carbonell