Attendees will get candid insights into the selection process from programmers, learn strategies for targeting submissions, and hear advice for making the most of every festival visit.

Nine Short Films. Artist tales, stories of love and loss, and some scary monsters too.

The first of two screenings for all Elev8or films.

The second of two screenings for all Elev8or films.

Billy Dean Anderson was a prolific criminal and outsider artist who lived in a Tennessee cave for almost five years while on the run from the FBI. After multiple imprisonments, three shootouts with the law, and three prison escapes the cave became Billy’s home, spiritual refuge, and art studio.

Five young mothers living in a shelter strive for a better future for themselves and kids amidst challenging upbringings.

A rollicking journey inspired by and starring Nashville singer Elizabeth Cook as she breaks through the constraints of country music to become the artist that she’s meant to be.

A survey of work made by regional filmmaker Peter Bundy between 1978-1982.

Immigrant Radka Winslow must choose between the American Dream or living a creative life back in Bulgaria.

What if rainbows were actually time travelers flying across the sky? On his first flight through time, Arco (10) crash lands from the year 3000 into our near future. His fall is witnessed by a little girl, Iris, who helps him return home.

When a music therapist begins working with a unique young patient, she is confronted with her past and what it means to live. Set in a small, rural town in Texas.

A petty thief living with his mother, signs up for a penpal service in hopes of finding a friend, or maybe more. Unfortunately, his penpal has other plans.

Explores the spiritual pain of bullfighting, the tormented torero in a ring, one of the most excessive and graphic examples of the origin of Southern European civilization.

Six Short Films. New films that expand cinematic form--animation, stop-motion, expressive narratives, and 3D.