Narrative shorts are films that are storytelling stripped down to the essentials. You don?t have time in shorts to develop side plots or bring in very many characters. You just put the story out there to be enjoyed or thought about. As I?ve had time, I?ve looked at a...
Time to take a look at some of the feature length docs showing at Slamdance. I?m pulling some films together here from a couple of sections, but the films I?m looking at for this report are about community, voice, and empowerment, either as a group or individuals....
For most of us life isn?t like the movies. We seem to go day by day without a great deal of drama. And yet those days that seem so ordinary are what life is made of. Days of the Bagnold Summer, directed by Simon Bird, is that kind of movie. The drama and the comedy...
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,...
?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...