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,...
?It can?t be the biggest shitty window in the world. It has to be the biggest and the best.? Holy Frit, an amazing documentary directed by Justin Monroe, is making its world premiere at the Slamdance Film Festival. It is the story of the making of the world?s largest...
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...
Is it kidnapping or liberation? Anna Kerrigan?s Cowboys is the story of a father who is trying to give his child the chance to a potentially fulfilling life. But the only way to do that is to go against his estranged wife?s wishes and do so outside of the law. Troy...
?Challenge your status quo.? Does the chance to make big money while enjoying the outdoors appeal to you? That?s the come-on in the sci-fi-ish look at the gig economy in Lapsis, directed by Noah Hutton. The film has been nominated for a Film Independent Spirit Award...
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...
Like festivals all around the world over this last year, Slamdance Film Festival is going digital. Over 100 films will be available to watch from February 12-25. Slamdance, as the name implies, skews a bit to the edgier side of independent films. But that doesn?t mean...
I recently had the opportunity to talk via Zoom with The Reunited States director Ben Rekhi, and two of the film?s subjects, David and Erin Leaverton, who took a year to travel the US and talk with people about our divisions. For more on the film, see the...