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 - Creating a stop-motion piece is a feat in and of itself, and to create one with as interesting a story as there is animation technique is an accomplishment -- writer/director Brad Hock has done just that with his short film Oldboy's Apples. Screening at the 2022 Slamdance Film Festival, Oldboy's Apples is [...]

Slamdance 2022 Film Festival - Ah, the 1990s when we had dial-up internet, massive computer monitors, and burned CDs. Writer/director Michael Biggs' short CD-Trip is a ride down memory lane for this millennial, except, it's also a strange little short that takes some cues from David Lynch and David Cronenberg in all the best ways. The [...]

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. [...]

Slamdance 2022 Film Festival - In We Are Living Things, Solomon (Jorge Antonio Guerrero) and Chuyao (Xingchen Lyu) have a strange and uncanny bond. Each has an alien abduction story that altered the direction of their lives. This is the thread that thrusts two unlikely strangers together, ultimately embarking upon a road trip to try to [...]