I want to use this report to touch on a few of the films that are part of the Narrative Feature section at the Slamdance Film Festival. I?ve got to admit that as I?ve been focusing on shorts for a bit, it took a bit of a mental shift to wait for a story to develop....
Festivals often have films that are outside my normal comfort zone. I may just skip over those sections with experimental styles of filmmaking. Slamdance has some groups of films that fit this category, including sections of Experimental Shorts, DIG (Digital,...
Diversity is being recognized as an important goal in the film industry. Many voices and many perspectives are needed in every art form, and that is very true of film. This year?s Slamdance Film Festival has made an express effort to bring the idea of ablism and the...
The Slamdance Film Festival has a section set aside for animated shorts. (Some of the films is other sections are also animated, but this report will focus on the Animated Shorts Section. There are a wide variety of styles and approaches represented. Some of these...
As with most festivals, Slamdance offers a chance to see short films. Shorts give filmmakers a chance to work on their craft with much lower budgets, but shorts can also be an artform or storytelling technique in their own right. That is especially true of documentary...
