Slamdance Film Festival

Arclight Cinemas and Slamdance launch Emergence screening series

The organization behind the Slamdance Film Festival and ArcLight Cinemas have announced the launch of Emergence, a four day festival of screenings, workshops, panels and happy hours dedicated to the discovery of new filmmakers. Emergence will take place from March 26-29, 2020 at the ArcLight Cinemas Hollywood. The festival’s lineup will be announced in late ….

Magnet nabs rights to award-winning crime thriller Down Terrace

Magnet Releasing, the genre arm of Magnolia Pictures, announced today that it has nabbed distribution rights to Down Terrace, a genre bending portrait of a crime family slotted to play in Slamdance this month after being warmly received at Raindance, where it won the award for Best UK Feature, and Austin’s Fantastic Fest, where it ….

Real Ideas Studio announces global microgrants for emerging filmmakers

Thirty-two students in culturally-diverse teams created eight documentaries during the Slamdance Film Festival, which ran concurrent with this year’s Sundance Film Festival in Park City, UT. According to festival directors, the Real Ideas Studio screening was the largest at Slamdance, with standing-room-only attendance. Subjects of other films ranged from an amputee snowboarder, to the search ….