The Hole Story
Director: Elijah Sullivan
Producer: Elijah Sullivan
Screenwriter: Elijah Sullivan
Cinematographer: Elijah Sullivan, Autie Carlisle
Cast: Carmen Kinch, Brett Grimes, Stephen Sindoni, Arthur Aday, Dustin Naef, William Miesse
Release Year: 2024
Language: English (United States)
Subtitle: English (United States)
Country: United States
(THIS FILM WAS PART OF OUR 2025 FESTIVAL LINEUP AND IS NO LONGER AVAILABLE ON THE SLAMDANCE CHANNEL) When the Forest Service discovered a sixty-foot hole on a California mountain, the small community at its base immediately began to speculate. Was it simply an illegal gold mine? Was it the conspiracy theorist from Brooklyn looking for a lost civilization? Or was it something more sinister? Will the truth come in the form of one man's harrowing coming-of-age story? Or will this become yet another urban legend like the ones that likely inspired the crime? The conflicting theories ultimately form a portrait of a community in spiritual decline — and a cautionary tale about the nature of storytelling.