Utah Filmmaker Showcase: Snowland
SNOWLAND is a visually rich, character-driven documentary that invites viewers into the imaginative world of Cora Lee Witt, who broke away from a polygamous sect in Utah and spent decades building a life entirely of her own making. Through a mix of cinema verité and dreamlike stop-motion animation, the film explores how Cora channels solitude, […]
Utah Filmmaker Showcase: Gender Expansive Local Shorts
The Artist Foundry presents a special evening of short films by gender expansive Utah filmmakers and a moderated Q&A. Films to be announced soon.
Utah Filmmaker Showcase: Local BIPOC Shorts
The Artist Foundry presents a special evening of short films by local BIPOC filmmakers and a moderated Q&A. These films traverse a variety of dynamics, romantic, familial, and communal, highlighting the universal need for human connection. Films include: Like A Promethean Curse by Kari Angelica PeñaA twenty something year old loser guy tries to rebound […]
Utah Filmmaker Showcase: Breaking Waves
This event represents the Artist Foundry and its year round programming with the Utah Filmmaker Showcase. Featuring a pre-feature local short film, A Life of Intent: Growing Desert Roots. Featuring a moderated Q&A with the filmmakers, Alice Rosso, Caroline Boyd, and Sienna Beckman and award-winning Creative Producer and Director, Aimee Tetreault. Breaking Waves Directed by […]
Utah Queer Film Festival – CENTERPIECE SCREENING: Join the Club
Presented by Through the Lens and Utah Filmmaker Showcase. Dennis Peron is San Francisco’s biggest pot dealer. But when the AIDS epidemic sweeps through his community, Peron realizes that marijuana is more than a good time—it’s medicine. In the wake of his lover’s death, Peron opens the Cannabis Buyers’ Club, a five-story dispensary complete with […]
Utah Queer Film Festival – Utah Filmmaker Showcase Queer Shorts Collection
Utah proud and Utah loud. These short films by local filmmakers highlight the rapidly increasing queer community of our state. Put a little jive in your beehive and celebrate your world. This event features a pre-film dance performance by Steven Salabsky. Films: Be by Claire Timothy Claira left her lifelong religion after realizing her place […]
Utah Filmmaker Showcase: Local Documentary Shorts
The Artist Foundry presents a special evening of short documentary films by local filmmakers. These films take unique approaches to nonfiction filmmaking and tell profound stories about memory, identity, and reclamation. Following the screening, there will be a Q&A with the filmmakers moderated by award-winning documentarian, Holly Tuckett. Films include: On Healing Land, Birds Perch Directed by Naja […]
Utah Filmmaker Showcase: There Was, There Was Not
Featuring a post-film panel with the film’s director, Emily Mkrtichian, and Associate Professor of Humanities and International Studies at Salt Lake Community College, Claire Adams. THERE WAS, THERE WAS NOT follows four women living in the Republic of Artsakh, an unrecognized country reckoning with the aftermath of one war while on the precipice of another. […]
Handstitched & Move Ya Body: The Birth of House
Featuring the locally made short film Handstitched by Virginia Broyles. Five people venture to a secret meadow tucked behind snowcapped mountains to participate in a ritual of their own making. Together, they delight in dream logic and ceremonial uncanny through mischievous traditions. Followed by the feature film Move Ya Body: The Birth of House by […]
The Yes Hell & The Apollo (RESCHEDULED)
Featuring the locally made short film The Yes Hell by Andrés Orozco. A single father fights to keep his spoken word club, The Yes Hell, open during COVID. With the help of his social media-savvy son, they find creative ways to keep the doors open and form new bonds along the way. The Yes Hell […]