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Slamdance L.A. - February 20th -26th, 2025
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$50 Slamdance Passes on Sale Now!
We're excited to launch Slamdance in Los Angeles as an inclusive and dynamic hub for creativity and connection where festival passes cost just $50!
Presenting The SLAMOWEEN Collection, Featuring 9 Spine-Tingling Films For October!
Get ready to scream with delight! Presenting the SLAMOWEEN collection, featuring 9 spine-tingling films for October!
Introducing Two Incredible New Short Films to The Slamdance Channel for the Month of September!
Slamdance Channel is thrilled to introduce two incredible new short films for the month of September!
Six Docs Explore The Power Of Artists On The Slamdance Channel
Now streaming on the Slamdance Channel: Immerse yourself in the visionary worlds of Jean-Michel Basquiat, Shepard Fairey, Charles Bukowski, William S. Burroughs, Peter Bradley, and Vik Muniz through six exceptional documentaries. These films offer a deep exploration of how these iconic artists redefine the human experience.
AGBO + Slamdance DTLA Summer Showcase 2024
We’re thrilled to announce the second season of this exciting event, once again hosted at the stunning AGBO campus by Anthony Russo and Joe Russo. This year, we’re bringing together a diverse array of groundbreaking talent and cutting-edge stories over an action-packed weekend.
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
New To Slamdance Channel: August 2024 6 films
Now streaming on the Slamdance Channel: Immerse yourself in the visionary worlds of Jean-Michel Basquiat, Shepard Fairey, Charles Bukowski, William…
Slamdance + AGBO DTLA Summer Showcase 2024 10 films
Film selected from the 2024 Slamdance festival lineup, a revolutionary short film program that redefines visual storytelling. Screened at AGBO…
Slamdance 2024 107 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…
Recent reviews
“Hubbards” is an intense dive into the world of one man and his quest to find his brother’s bones.
Two things stand out above all else with Kevin Ralston’s delightfully short absurdist comedy, the rewatchability and the fact that Hubbard’s Rice Cakes will give you the vitamins and minerals you need to find your brother’s bones.
Catch Kevin Ralston’s “Hubbards” streaming on the Slamdance Channel today!
slamdancechannel.com/films/hubbards/638e785f37c21aeaaf097f15
You Never Had It - An Evening with Bukowski is a documentary from director Matteo Borgardt that transports you back to January 1981 for an intimate evening conversation with legendary writer and poet Charles Bukowski at his San Pedro home.
The documentary features never-before-seen footage from the writer rediscovered by producer/journalist Silvia Bizio in her garage 20 years after Bukowski’s death.
Bukowski, Bizio and friends smoke cigarettes and drink wine over a languorous evening that provokes intimate discussions of sex,…
William S. Burroughs: featuring never before seen footage as well as exclusive interviews with his closest friends and colleagues. Born the heir of the Burroughs’ adding machine estate, he struggled throughout his life with addiction, control systems, and self. He was forced to deal with the tragedy of killing his wife and the repercussions of neglecting his son.
Top critic for the New York Times Stephan Holden stated: “There is not a word or image wasted in a documentary you wish ran an extra half-hour beyond its condensed 90 minutes.”
Catch Yony Leyser’s “William S. Burroughs: A Man Within” streaming on the Slamdance Channel today!
slamdancechannel.com/films/william-s-burroughs-a-man-within/66730a63082accc355037d32
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 continents, Bomb It is the first film to update the story of graffiti with a truly international perspective.
Top critic at the Los Angeles Times, Mark Olsen wrote in his review: "A remarkably compact and engaging overview of the history and ideology of this urban outlaw art form."
Catch Jon Reiss’s “Bomb It” streaming on the Slamdance Channel today!
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