Slamdance 2022 Film Festival - Kristen (Kristen Abate) lives with an excruciating illness most people have never heard of. Ankylosing Spondylitis is a type of arthritis mainly affecting the spine, chest, and pelvis. Kristen has a severe case, and at a very young age already has the body of a much older person. Desperate to [...]

Slamdance 2022 Film Festival - Hannah Saidiner directed and animated My Parent, Neal, a remarkable, moving short about what happens when Mama becomes Papa - when the mother you've loved your whole life changes their name, their appearance, and their whole known identity, to live their true identity as a man. Delicate, childlike crayon illustrations highlight [...]

Slamdance 2022 Film Festival - Three freshmen pledges have to prove their commitment to their new sorority and face themselves and their internalized prejudices in Hell Night, or Noche del Infierno. Gina (Cathryn Dylan), Elena (Natalia del Riego) and Penelope (Carolina Riesgo) were ready to do whatever it takes to pledge to the oldest Latina [...]

Slamdance 2022 Film Festival - A director and an intimacy coordinator end up at near-blows, after a consent violation sets the coordinator's hackles up, and she finds out the director was fueling the insubordination. Blind Spots briefly dives into the often unthought-of world of intimacy coordination. Every time there's a sex scene in a film [...]

Slamdance 2022 Film Festival Premiere - Two sisters look for love in Los Angeles. A simple, familiar premise, right? Only... they're witches. Don't worry - they're good witches! Just... a little wishy washy (witchy-washy witchsters?) on what "good" means... like surely, enhancing your boyfriend's ...er ... member... isn't a bad thing right? He'll love it. [...]

We are already halfway through 2020 and there is still no end in sight to the restrictions on large-scale social events due to COVID-19. Everyone is starting to go a little stir crazy... but thankfully film festivals are holding it down by bringing the cinema celebration to you. Canadian horror film fans will be pleased [...]

As COVID-19 continues to force planned gatherings and festivals to be shut down, event coordinators have been forced to get a little creative. The Hold Mexico Film Festival is satisfying hungry film fans with a little virtual theater experience prior to the 12th edition of the festival scheduled for this fall. The experience is called [...]