Slamdance 2025: Banr and The Big Johnson

For our final installment of Slamdance, we’re covering a fictional drama about the struggles of Alzheimer’s and a documentary about a New York LGBTQI icon. Banr (Erica Xia-Hou) Liu Ximei (Baoqing Li)and her husband Zhang Jianjun (Sui Li) have been together for over forty years. Now, they enter a new

Slamdance 2025: Noggin and Bloqué

Today, we’re looking at two short films from Slamdance about creatives and their minds. One focuses on a filmmaker preparing for the eventual progression of his diagnosis, and the other is about a drummer struggling through a creative block. Noggin (Case Jernigan) Being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis is life-changing. The