UnsafeCinema
(the films that fuck with you long after)
A division of The UnsafeCompany
As a way to compensate our creators while their films make their way through the festivals, UnsafeCinema offers readers a chance to see the script in advance of its official release (and donate a dollar if they see fit). Additionally, if you’re an indie filmmaker and you find a short/script of ours you are interested in shooting yourself (your own way), please let us know. We may be able to assist.
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And the winners are…
We’re proud to announce Scott Penny’s Speech of Freedom has won the Audience Prize at the Gabardine Indie Short Film Fest. (No showings at this time – currently in festival circuit.) For press, distribution, script, or any other inquiries, see Contact page.
We’re proud to announce Genesis McCarthy’s A Cup of Coffee has won Best Horror Short at Ireland’s Draybury Film Festival. (No showings at this time – currently in festival circuit.) For press, distribution, script, or any other inquiries, see Contact page.
We’re proud to announce Dagger Bean’s A World of Good has won the Grand Prize at the Berlin Alternative Voice Festival. (No showings at this time – currently in festival circuit.) For press, distribution, script, or any other inquiries, see Contact page.
We’re proud to announce Joe Moye’s All The King’s Cameras has won Best Short Documentary at the Off-Hollywood Film Fest. (No showings at this time – currently in festival circuit.) For press, distribution, script, or any other inquiries, see Contact page.
We’re proud to announce Emmanuel Prince’s Serious Face has won Best Comedy Feature at the Charlottesburg Cinema Celebration. (No showings at this time – currently in festival circuit.) For press, distribution, script, or any other inquiries, see Contact page.
We’re proud to announce Lonnie Ray Atkinson’s The Knowing has won Best Short – Drama at the Outsiders Film Festival. (No showings at this time – currently in festival circuit). For press, distribution, script, or any other inquiries, see Contact page.
In partnership with
Sho’Nuff Said Productions
and
Nisha Taylor
(winner of The National Youth Journalism and Documentary Competition)
Oakwood High School junior Nisha Taylor’s winning entry for the National Youth Journalism and Documentary Competition Don’t Look Up – again interviews key figures about (and sheds new light on) the events that led to the passing of the monumental 2023 Youth Spring Climate Justice Act.
From Nisha’s synopsis:
“In retrospect, a metaphorical comet coming to kill us all seems like an obvious premise for a film about Climate Change. And yet, prior to the release of Don’t Look Up, the overwhelming majority of Americans spent decades acting like there was nothing to be worried about.
So what made this time different from times before? Is it possible that it was more than just a moment? And more than just a movie?
It’s not enough that we saved ourselves. The why’s and how’s matter. And I think by now we’ve proven that young people are the only ones who can be trusted to get this story right.”
In partnership with Priča
Documentary Collective of Slovenia
The Last Days of Nonviolence
A Portrait of the American Reckoning Movement
In March of 2014, amidst unending governmental gridlock and unprecedented corruption, the American Reckoning Movement put forth one simple and reasonable demand of the United States Congress.
Anticipating the drama that would unfold, crew members from the documentary collective Priča flew from Slovenia to the U.S. to capture the spirit and experience of this movement, only to have their footage seized by officials with U.S. Customs and Border Patrol in the airport prior to returning home. After a decade of petitions and court hearings, the most Priča has been able to retain are transcripts of the audio.
With no legal resolution in sight, the collective has decided to release the film in words, using those transcripts, along with crew notes, to construct for readers an experience not unsimilar to that of reading the subtitles to a foreign language film/series.
In concert with the filmmakers, and in gratitude to all those who took part in this definitive work, UnsafeCinema is honored to finally present to the world The Last Days of Nonviolence, a film that both exists and doesn’t.
He Doesn’t Know
From the same team that brought you The Last Days of Nonviolence: A Portrait of The American Reckoning Movement, comes the film He Doesn’t Know.
In this controversial feature, Priča offers a fascinating and complicated glimpse into the mind of a surveillance contractor, leading them once again to be tied up in court over what transpires from their filming.
*** About Priča: Translated as “witness,” Priča is a small team of Slovenian documentarians who in 2014 found themselves acutely capturing one of the most significant moments in American history, only to have the footage confiscated in the tumultuous aftershocks. With a Kafka-esque U.S. court case still pending, and a new one looming with the UnsafeCinema release of both The Last Days of Nonviolence and He Doesn’t Know, the members of Priča are determined that their work and witness will not be erased.