Independent Film Festival

Independent Film Festival
Saturday, Apr 27, 2024 at 1:00pm
Riverside Arts Center
76 North Huron Street

Schedule:

1PM: From Lens to Light: Demystifying Cinematography for Indie Filmmakers

"From Lens to Light" is an immersive workshop designed to transform how emerging filmmakers view and utilize camera and lighting techniques. Led by Garrett Sammons, a seasoned director and commercial cinematographer, this session delves deeply into the cinematic toolkit, unraveling the mysteries of achieving a filmic look regardless of budget constraints.

1PM: Best of the Children's Film Festival Seattle 2023

Dive into exciting adventures and vibrant colors with this joyful collection of award-winning and audience favorite short animated films from Children’s Film Festival Seattle. Follow along as different critters and kids embark on adventures of friendship, family, and learning to be yourself!

The Fox & The Pigeon: Narrative Neighbours
Blewish
Balloom
T-Rex
Mel Fell
Pete
Desa Timun: Bola
Spirit of the Forest
Marea
Sockz Studio's: I Know An Old Lady Who Swallowed A Fly
Winter in a Day

3PM: Radio Campfire

Radio Campfire is a live listening event featuring creative audio stories of all kinds, curated and presented by a collective of audio producers in Detroit, Ypsilanti and Ann Arbor, Michigan. It’s like going to the movies, but for your ears. We gather together, dim the lights, and enjoy an evening of memorable radio documentaries, soundscapes and experimental sonic shorts.

4:30PM: Festival of (In)appropriation

Founded in 2009, the Festival of (In)appropriation is a preeminent international showcase for experimental, found-media film and video. Every year, the Festival attracts artists working across an astonishing array of moving-image formats while probing the limits of collage, machinima, re-mix, détournement, mash-up, and more.

Tulipomania: You Had to be There
Headspace
Collage 42
Her Violet Kiss
Timescraps: Film Threads and Sprocket Holes
Date Night
Queen of Dots
Motor
Dreams Under Confinement
Another Set of Jaws
OilMoonNight
Home
A Heated Exchange
Skyscraper Film
Cupid's Fever
Long Time No Techno

7PM: Stars In Our Eyes Vol. 2

This program consists of a collection of delightful short films centered on familial and friendly bonds designed to evoke joy, laughter, and heartwarming emotions.

Take Me Home
Confessions
Donkey
Oasis
Write a Song About Heartache
In Harmony
Shoes Off

9PM: Blood Memories

Eight snapshots of alternate histories and futures. Ancestral lore and mythologies remixed, reinterpreted. Mirror-worlds visited through a BIPOC lens.

Burnt Milk
Something More Than Masquerade
Daughter of the Sea
Dépaysé
Medea
Abalone Eyes
Oba

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