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Slamdance L.A. February 20th -26th 2025
Film Submissions Open May 8th
Screenplay Competition next Deadline - June 15th
Slamdance 2024
Stories
The Inaugural Slamdance Miami Film Festival Is 28-30 October
The festival runs 28-30 October. Tickets are available now.
How the Team Behind “A Great Lamp” Stole a Movie
"Fuck dreams. We don't dream of making movies. We find ways to make them now, with the help of friends with empty couches, food stamps, and broken laws."
Catching Up With Slamdance Screenplay Competition Winners Joyce Sherrí and Tyler Tice
"If this doesn't make it, I'm just going to fucking be a history teacher and that's it."
Lists
Slamdance 2024 109 films
Our full 2024 lineup, listed alphabetically by block.
Slamdance 2024 will take place in-person from January 19-25 and virtually from…
Slamdance 2023 113 films
Our full 2023 lineup! Listed alphabetically by block.
EPISODES BLOCK: Honeycomb, dir. Sam Roden Momo Local, dir. Alexia Colette Off…
The Department of Anarchy — Short Cinema Assault: Volume 1 11 films
A maelstrom of underground short-form cinema orchestrated to provoke, intoxicate and disturb, streaming on the Slamdance Channel through April 7th.…
Slamdance 2022 120 films
Our entire 2022 Slamdance lineup, minus DIG entries that aren't movies and the Episodes block (listed below) as they don't…
Slamdance 1996 20 films
The 1996 lineup of the Slamdance Film Festival, listed alphabetically by block.
A number of films from the 1996 lineup…
Slamdance Miami 2021 18 films
The full lineup of the inaugural Slamdance Film Festival, screening in Miami, Florida at the North Beach Bandshell from 28-30…
Liked reviews
This nicely animated short -- claymation? Still figures? Painting? -- historical sports movie about heavyweight boxer Jack Johnson, the first African American to hold both the title and the crown in the early 1900s. The animation is a marvel, and truly a stunning way to tell a story that, while important, might give one the whiff of being in school or something. That is, the film does not skimp on what makes a film a film -- it is aesthetically…
I made this… So maybe I’m bias…but Honeycomb is so awesome…
Our full 2024 lineup, listed alphabetically by block.
Slamdance 2024 will take place in-person from January 19-25 and virtually from January 22-28. Tickets, all-access passes, and virtual passes are available here.
DIG
- AI History 1890 - 2090 by FutureZoetrope
- Fukushima — The Home That Once Was by Timo Wright
- Lucky Yu by Mike Ren Yi
- Migrant Sea by Stephane Grasso
- Mother, Player by Angela Washko
- My Name Is Coraline by ForestPlant Studio, mavskegg
- My Own Private Apocalypse by Visu_AI_Poetry
- Synchronization Station by Allen Riley
- Tethered by Julianna Johnston
EPISODES
- Dog Spelled Backwards created by Tim Almeida
- Eindis Ends It All created by Tamara Rosenfeld
- Lucy & Sara created by Susan Park
- Night Drives created by Jono Hunter
- Restorage created by E'an Verdugo