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Moderator: Anna Lee Lawson
Panelists: Kristian Mercado, Andre Hyland, Rasheed Stephens, Steve Way, Joey Dardano
Panel too...
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'24 COMEDIANS AND INDIE FILM PANEL
Live Interactive Brainstorm for a Revolution or Overthrow
Moderator: Paul Rachman
Panelist: Ted Hope
Panel took place on Wednesday, Jan. 24th at 4pm MST - The Lumix Studio @ The Yarrow Hotel
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'24 REIMAGINING THE FILM FESTIVAL: A HOPE FOR FILM PANEL
GOALS: DEIA ASAP - Redefining Narratives in Entertainment Now
Moderator: Taylor Miller
Panelists: Juliet Romeo, Ravit Markus, Olivia Kuan, Lauren Appelbaum, Cassidy Dimon,
Barbara Twist
Panel took p...
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'24 UNSTOPPABLE PANEL
In a dystopian present, an immaterial catastrophe spreads at the speed of data, traveling in waves. Social isolation. A contagious phenomenon makes people disappear. Empty city, virtual communication ...
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11010
Director(s): Gabriela Monnerat, Rodrigo Amim
Concerning three groups of children from disparate upbringings, A Black Hole is a Black Hole in the Ground intimately depicts the strange, ephemeral realities that arise on evenings of play, when dime...
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A Black Hole is a Black Hole in the Ground
Director(s): Sophia Feuer, Tyler Macri
As two former classmates dig into their deceased professor’s set of cassette tapes (which possibly contain recordings of strange signals from beyond the stars) they begin to feel their memories, the...
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A Black Rift Begins to Yawn
Director(s): Matthew Wade
Strange experiences and realizations lead a grieving artist to reconsider his identity and beliefs in this meditation on loss, family and mental illness.
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A Family That Steals Dogs
Director(s): John C Kelley
Max, a young vagabond, journeys through a small North Carolina river town pasting up fliers of their recently deceased grandmother, longing to keep her memory alive. Howie, on the run from a past too ...
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A Great Lamp
Director(s): Saad Qureshi
A$$ Level is a comedic music video that celebrates life with a disability while paying homage to 90s dance videos.
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A$$ Level
Director(s): Alison Becker
May 2017. The city of Breaux Bridge, Louisiana, is the theatre of the mythic Crawfish Festival. It’s just another day in America.
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Acadiana
Director(s): Guillaume Fournier, Samuel Matteau,Yannick Nolin
Set during the decline and fall of the consumerist empire, a filthy garbage-picker is retained as a personal slave by a wealthy ultra-consumer still worshipping at the temple of a life he once knew.
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Ape Sodom
Director(s): Maxwell McCabe-Lokos
"Shaquita Lopez, a single mother and an aspiring actress, is ready to nail her audition. Things fall apart, however, when her ex-boyfriend bails on watching their 3-year-old son Nezih. Cornered and un...
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Audition
Director(s): Richard Van
Autoscopy follows a young man who escapes to the Swedish wilderness for a period of creativity and introspection. The tranquility and isolation he finds there morphs into something more sinister when ...
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Autoscopy
Director(s): Claes Nordwall
During the 1990’s in ex-Yugoslavia a war rages. A husband and wife try to escape their besieged
town but there’s an improvised barricade blocking the road. In attempt to get past it, they make up ...
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Autumn Waltz
Director(s): Ognjen Petković
While sitting on the toilet one November morning, Ben Boyer receives a Jungian lesson on archetypal marketing.
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Ben Boyer and the Phenomenology of Automobile Branding
Director(s): Rian Johnson
Betty loves animals, she loves them so much that everyday she puts 30 bowls of food outside of her home to feed them. She feeds skunks, raccoons, cats, foxes and the occasional opossum. This is her st...
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Betty Feeds the Animals
Director(s): James Gannon
"Big Fur" is a wry portrait of an eccentric artist-hero, immersed in his defining project. Taxidermist Ken Walker has an unshakable belief that eventually he’ll find true love. Or the hairy, 800-pou...
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Big Fur
Director(s): Dan Wyne
Utilizing archival footage and stop-motion animation, Black Dog is set during the US and USSR space race of the 1960's amidst a time of heated social and political tension. Two brothers must deal with...
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Black Dog
Director(s): Joshua Tuthill
Explosive and incisive, Bomb It investigates the most subversive and controversial art form shaping international youth culture: graffiti. Featuring street artists and top graffiti writers from five c...
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Bomb It
Director(s): Jon Reiss
In tomorrow's Tokyo, the technologically-enhanced body of a young mercenary hacker is overrun by a sentient data weapon. Wanted, the parasitic A.I becomes her only ally as she is chased across the cit...
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Breaker
Director(s): Philippe McKie
A cook serves exotic dishes to his impatient, hungry guests. Suddenly the arrival of a mysterious Asian woman re-ignites their insatiable appetite.
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Carnal Orient
Director(s): Mila Zuo
On a rainy night in Calcutta a group of desperate addicts chase brown sugar, but the permanent intoxication they seek proves elusive. Cat Sticks weaves their stories into a chiaroscuro, traverses with...
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Cat Sticks
Director(s): Ronny Sen
An experimental narrative about the creation of online content and the reaction to it.
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Chicken Wraps and Condoms
Director(s): Jacob Gregor
When Calvin announces that he's proposing to Leesa...and then they're moving to the suburbs, Rebecca enlists Dennis's help to sabotage the proposal and keep their friends around for good.
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Committed
Director(s): Rachel Handler, Crystal Arnette
When a woman who struggles with OCD decides to end her life, she realizes she can't let go until everything - and we mean everything - is just right.
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Control
Director(s): Kimmy Gatewood
Get ready to go outside your comfort zone, as this panel attempts to tackle some of the toughest questions facing documentary filmmakers who want to push the limits of what is culturally acceptable. I...
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Controversy and Access Taking Documentaries to the Edge
DIG’s State of the Union brings together new media experts to discuss evolving technology’s impact on entertainment, production, accessibility, and immersive experiences—what’s at stake for al...
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DIG's State of the Union
Hell goes animated as apocalyptic graphic novel artwork and eerie Victorian toy theater converge in this subversively satiric update of a literary classic. Reinterpreted with the use of intricately ha...
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Dante's Inferno
Director(s): Sean Meredith
Exploiting 💉 the female “grotesque” 👄 I examine the superficial 🌈 construct of reality 🍩 and play with the voluptuous 🔥 danger lurking beneath the sticky 💋 sweet surface 🍰.
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Desert Air
Director(s): ANDiLAND
Desolation Center is the previously untold story of a series of early 80s guerrilla music and art performance happenings in Southern California that are recognized to have inspired Burning Man, Lollap...
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Desolation Center
Director(s): Stuart Swezey
First presented in 2022.
One out of seven people have some kind of disability, making them part of the world’s largest minority. Despite this, disabled people make up less than 1% of characters on ...
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Disability Will Be Televised
Slamdance reader Jamie King breaks down his pilot CASTLE ROCK and its journey from live musical comedy at UCB to winner of Best Teleplay at Slamdance. Attendees will see clips and excerpts that highli...
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Dissecting a Pilot
Five VFX artists set out to test the theory that a fine-art technique relying on chance could be applied to a motion piece.
With no script or storyboards, the artists collaborated on the shoot day, e...
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Double Blind No. 1
Director(s): Ian B. Anderson, Zenon Kohler, Ricky Marks, Jasper St Aubyn West, & Raoul Teague
(2016 Grand Jury Prize for Narrative Feature)
A young woman washes ashore and is taken in by a stranger. As she convalesces in his remote cabin, the relationship with her would-be savior tears down a...
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Driftwood
Director(s): Paul Taylor
Adapted from the surrealist drawing game “exquisite corpse,” this short of shorts created by 19 filmmakers is stitched together in a stream of consciousness with unique words bridging each of the ...
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Exquisite Shorts, Volume 1.
Director(s): Ben Fee,Courtney Andujar,Hillary Andoujar,Matt Boman and Tosca Rivola,Doug Klinger and Machete Bang Bang,Niles Howard and Kayli Stollak,Theresa Desautels,Mary Florence Brown and Kevin Kearney,Travis Stevens,Sarah Lind,Ariel Fish,Bossi Baker,Winnie Cheung,Elsbeth Mumm and Andrew Mumm,Ben Kutsko ,Emily Andujar and Manuel Taylor-Alcocer,June Zandona,Hunter Adams,Jessica Calleiro
After an accident, a man is forced to live with limitations. His everyday life is characterized by isolation and strenuous rehabilitation. A reflection on falling and getting up.
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Fallen (To Fall)
Director(s): Ivan Morales Jr.
Ferroequinology, literally meaning the study of iron horses, is a film about railroad photography. Two artists enthralled by the uncanny lure of locomotion set out on journeys across America. Andrew C...
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Ferroequinology
Director(s): Alex Nevill
Many Festivals around the world offer chances to establish your presence, find representation, sell your film and set-up your next project. Amidst the competitive madness and excitement of getting in,...
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Festival Strategy for Shorts and Features
A trailer of an experiment searches for meaning in a moldy montage. The detritus of the movie industry swims in organic material. Emulsion and its cracks, its crumbles, and its fades. Is it ready for ...
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For All Audiences
Director(s): Josh Weissbach
First presented in 2023.
Get Reel: Accessibility in Filmmaking is a no-holds-barred discussion of disability and (in)accessibility in the film industry. Moderated by Asha Chai-Chang and featuring Jul...
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Get Reel: Accessibility in Filmmaking