Unstoppable Winners at Slamdance 2025
Slamdance has for some years had a commitment to including films from or about disabled people....
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HollyShorts Film Fesival 2024 – Romcoms
The Hollyshorts program for rom-coms is about relationships more than romance, but that works out...
#Slamdance2024: Unstoppable Features
Slamdance Film Festival has often looked to distinguish itself by providing an outlet for...
Unstoppable Shorts at Slamdance 2023
Shorts are always an important part of any film festival. That is really true for Slamdance, which...
Slamdance 2022 – Unstoppable lives
Slamdance is intentional about inclusiveness. That is especially evident through their...
Slamdance 2022 – Sampling shorts
One of the parts I love about film festivals is the chance to watch shorts. Slamdance Film Festival has so many to choose from. I dipped into three of the short films sections for just a sampling of each. Animation shorts:...
Imperfect – But aren’t we all?
?. . . The assumption when folks see my chair is that I won?t be able to do things before they assume I will be able to do things.? Acting is a very demanding profession. Actors become another person in the eyes of the audience....
See for Me – A Path in Darkness
From director Randall Okita, See for Me tells the story of a blind young woman who must face off...
13 Minutes: The Storms of Life
In Lindsay Gossling?s 13 Minutes, a natural catastrophe brings devastation to a community. But...
Making Sense – Seeing the Disabled
Making Sense, directed by Gregory Bayne, strives to make those with disabilities visible. The story is built around those disabilities, but also around the abilities that are also part of those lives. It does so not only with...
Welcome to the 2021 Slamdance Film Festival
Like festivals all around the world over this last year, Slamdance Film Festival is going digital....
Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution
?What we saw at that camp was that life could be better.? Perhaps the main theme of the Netflix...
Give Me Liberty – Van Load of Chaos
As Give Me Liberty opens, we hear and then see a bedridden man who tells of being told he would...