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, Sienna Beckman, and Caroline Boyd. Breaking Waves Directed by Alice Rosso Breaking Waves tells the story of […]
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 Shorts
The Artist Foundry presents a special evening of short films at Utah Film Center. The program will feature a screening of short films by local filmmakers and a moderated Q&A. More details coming soon.
Utah Filmmaker Showcase: There Was, There Was Not
Featuring a moderated Q&A with the film’s director, Emily Mkrtichian. 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. In the midst of this uncertainty, four women build a life with the hope of […]
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 […]
Utah Filmmaker Showcase: Riddle of Fire
On a quest to deliver a pie, three rascal children embark on a woodland odyssey to battle a witch, outwit a huntsman, befriend a fairy, and become best friends forever in this charming debut from directing sensation Weston Razooli. Although shot on nostalgic 16mm, this throwback to the endearingly naive, occasionally disturbing kids’ films of […]
Utah Filmmaker Showcase: BIPOC Shorts
The Artist Foundry presents a special evening of 6 short films at Edison House featuring a screening of short films by Black, Indigenous, and POC Utah filmmakers and a moderated Q&A with musician, journalist, and programmer, Alex Vejar. This is a 21+ event, ID required at door. Films include: Confused Blood by James Cutler A mixed Korean […]
Utah Filmmaker Showcase: Alien Country
Featuring a moderated Q&A with the film’s Producer and Co-Writer, Renny Grames, and Director and Co-Writer, Boston McConnaughey. Reeling from the news of an unexpected pregnancy, Jimmy and Everly accidentally release an alien invasion in their town. Determined to set things right, they team up with an extraterrestrial stranger to stop the invasion; but when […]