Here’s a look at the Award winning Narrative Features at Slamdance Film Festival for 2025. Winner of the Grand Jury Prize is Gamma Rays, directed by Henry Bernadet. This is a triptych of stories of young Moroccan immigrants in Montreal. Abdel’s life is confounded with...
Slamdance Film Festival features a strong shorts program, as is befitting a festival that is very much filmmaker focused. Here is a sampling of some of the short documentaries being shown at the festival. Adidas Owns the Reality (22 minutes, directed by Keil Orion...
Slamdance has for some years had a commitment to including films from or about disabled people. The festival sets aside a special section for them to compete in. Films here include narrative and documentary. Here are the winners from this year’s “Unstoppable” films....
As with other festivals, Slamdance has awards to pass out to the films deemed most noteworthy. Here are some of the awards garnered by the feature documentaries that showed at Slamdance. The Grand Jury gave an Honorable Mention to Twin Fences. Written and directed by...
“Season the moment!” A Sloth Story, from directors Tania Vincent and Ricard Cussó, a battle plays out between the world of fast food and slow food. Actually, it’s really more a matter of how we approach life—full speed ahead, or stopping to smell the roses. Laura is...
There are millions of untold stories from the Holocaust. There are also millions of stories of survival. UnBroken is director Beth Lane’s record of the story of her family. The Weber family included seven children. Lane’s mother was the youngest. In this film, we meet...
Among all the other Oscars® given out, are three categories of short films. Those films can be seen in the weeks leading up to the awards at select theaters. (Check here for tickets near you.) One of those categories is Animated Shorts. Each year this category shows...
A few decades ago, I started reading one of Kurt Vonnegut’s books, and it just didn’t click with me. A few years ago, I decided to give Slaughterhouse Five a try, since I like time travel stories. I discovered that I liked his sense of humor and his insight into...
Among all the other Oscars® given out, are three categories of short films. Those films can be seen in the weeks leading up to the awards at select theaters. (Check here for tickets near you.) One of those categories is Live Action Shorts. Each year this category...