Grand Jury Prize for Animation Short Digging deep into the similarities and differences between the utopian world described in the ancient Chinese fable, Peach Blossom Spring, and the modern landscap...
Using love letters tucked in bootleg DVD menus, a gay Iranian recounts his first relationship and its end.
A documentary portrait of a man, with ascetic origins, who has been radically transformed by city life.
Santa Ana elucidates the mysterious link between evil and the infamous Santa Ana Winds. The ""Red Wind"" originates inland and blows through the coastal Southern California. Legend has it that these e...
A cinematic experience of the New York subways, featuring the commuters, panhandlers, and performers passing through.
Susan and Leslie is a short documentary following a married couple from Arkansas with visual impairments as they get ready for their weekly trip to the grocery store.
Grand Jury Prize & Audience Award for Narrative Feature + Acting Award for Tender Huang A receptionist at a suicide hotel in Taipei, Taiwan forms a fleeting friendship over the course of one night wi...
Tabby is taken by surprise when her date Patrick abruptly reveals his odd bedroom quirk. She's initially put off, but soon finds herself feeling a little ambivalent, even intrigued.
Grand Jury Prize for Unstoppable. A father struggles to connect with his son, who grows to love a language not native to his tongue.
A robber's plan goes horribly awry when he discovers that the store he has targeted is full of disabled people.
'What are my nipples for?' Ron asks after reading about a Celtic fertility ritual. When he struggles to find an answer he begins to wonder what this means for the rest of his existence and falls into ...
“The Knits” straddles a liminal filmic space between performance-for-video and contemporary fairy tale. A mother lovingly and arduously knits a sweater. Simultaneously this same sweater unravels a...
Setup in San Francisco, following the 2011 Arab Spring that left Egypt in political unrest. Simsim—a young Egyptian immigrant with a wooingly contagious laugh seeks asylum in the United States. Out ...
David Albert Pierce is the Managing Member of Pierce Law Group LLP, a full-service boutique law firm established in 1996 in Beverly Hills, California, serving the creative community and emerging start...
The rigidity of a historical fact rolls by like clouds, or maybe like cloud-computing. Digital landscapes like desktops, trash cans, and cursors flatten the sensation of what tangibly remains: the inv...
There Were Four of Us tells a dream journey that travels through a room where four characters are trapped, through moments in their lives and through the symbol of death that connected them together.
Dale lives a solitary life in a small town, his only outlet being conversations with the local pharmacist Mohammad. As time passes, Dale slowly begins to reveal more of his life and history to Mohamma...
"Brett’s Grammar School is filled with identical students and teachers… called Brett. The Brett’s are obsessed with one sport - tunnel ball. A new student, Bret, arrives and steals the show on h...
The best marketing plan begins before production and then continues to evolve as your film moves forward. So say the experts but on a micro budget that's easier said then done. Doing something is esse...
"Can an A.I. be creative? An artificial intelligence (A.I.) computer watched the Hitchcock classic “Vertigo” 20 times in a row and then it made its own disturbing movie. With machine-generated i...
An educational film about some lesser known vitamins.
“Walls of Sand,” directed by Erica Jordan, is notable for being the first contemporary feature film to be available in its entirety on the internet. The story follows a unique friendship between a...
In this stop-motion horror short, a couple enlists the aid of a mysterious figure to help them with their seemingly insurmountable laundry problem.
Short filmmaking has been called "the laboratory of cinema" but increasingly it's more than just a place where filmmakers experiment and learn. Making a short, getting it into a festival or attracting...
First presented in 2022. Slamdance alumni, Cast & Crew and Media Services experts come together to share their experience and advice for emerging filmmakers, covering an array of production topics in...
A landscape of the external world. A landscape of the internal world. Person spinning on the planet. Alone before annihilation. Whirling out! The point at which it breaks...holding on by a thread.
You Never Had It - An Evening with Bukowski is a documentary from director Matteo Borgardt that transports you back to January 1981 for an intimate evening conversation with legendary writer and poet ...
Emily Hagins has been watching and making movies since she was a small child. Now, a bit older at age 12, she recruits the aid of her supportive parents to produce, direct, shoot and edit her first fe...
While traveling on an intergalactic highway, an alien picks up an earthling sci-fi movie trailer featuring a CGI alien who looks just like him. Believing this is his true calling, the alien travels t...
