‘Tinsman Road’ To Premiere At Unnamed Footage Fest 2025
The Unnamed Footage Festival (UFF) team is excited to reveal the first wave of films for its highly anticipated 8th edition, including world premieres, new releases, and encore screenings you won’t want to miss!
Taking place from March 25 to March 30, 2025, the Unnamed Footage Festival will present an array of features and shorts across several San Francisco venues, including the Balboa Theater, 4 Star Theater, and the Artist’s Television Access. They’re kicking things off with a special screening of Kōji Shiraishi’s Noroi: The Curse as part of the Alamo Drafthouse New Mission Theatre’s Terror Tuesday. On Wednesday, March 26, and Thursday, March 27, the crew will throw pre-festival parties and special screenings at the Artists’ Television Access in San Francisco’s historic Mission District.
Then, from Friday through Sunday, the festival truly begins. Get ready for three full days of non-stop found footage horror, faux documentary, screenlife, and all forms of in-world-camera, including the world premiere of writer/director Robbie Banfitch’s (The Outwaters) long-awaited Tinsman Road.
Check out the first wave of the Unnamed Footage Festival 2025 lineup below!
TINSMAN ROAD (2025, dir. Robbie Banfitch)
A young man searches for the body of his sister years after her tragic disappearance.
Shot fully on gritty 4:3 Mini-DV, Robbie Banfitch’s sophomore feature Tinsman Road takes us on an emotionally winding voyage into the wilderness of death and sorrow.
I DON’T LIKE IT HERE (2024, dir. Robbie Smith)
A recently paroled outsider returns to his desolate hometown, only to find a community plagued by a disturbing darkness. As he grapples with his own past and the town’s sinister secrets, he becomes the prime suspect in a series of gruesome murders.
After his powerful directorial debut, Grieve, Robbie Smith returns with I Don’t Like it Here, a poignant hybrid found-footage film that builds on the eerie, voyeuristic camera work of Grieve and combines segments of faux-documentary footage in order to create something deeply haunting and highly original. I Don’t Like It Here follows a parolee who returns to his childhood home to find his family missing.
WHAT HAPPENED TO DOROTHY BELL? (2024, dir. Danny Villanueva)
After uncovering disturbing revelations from her early childhood involving her late grandmother, Dorothy Bell, Ozzie Gray sets out to video document her investigation into these past events. Desperate for answers, she attempts to communicate with Dorothy’s spirit but unwittingly awakens something malevolent.
Featuring a star-studded cast including Lisa Wilcox (A Nightmare on Elm Street 4 & 5) and Michael Hargrove (Candyman (2021), The Express (2008)) and a breakthrough lead performance from newcomer Asya Meadows, Dorothy Bell is found-footage gem, with intense scares and unexpected twists as it examines generational trauma through the lens of demonic possession.
SOLVENT (2024, dir. Johannes Grenzfurthner)
While searching for Nazi documents in an Austrian farmhouse, a team of experts uncovers a hidden secret buried in its bowels. American expatriate Gunner S. Holbrook becomes obsessed with solving the mystery, and as his sanity wanes, he must confront an insatiable evil.
After screening Masking Threshold at UFF 6 and its divisive follow-up Razzenest at UFF 7, we’re proud to share Solvent, the final film in Johannes Grenzfurthner’s loose trilogy of unconventional horror films. While Solvent is, perhaps, the most conventional of the three films, it retains Grenzfurthner’s signature touch of absolute insanity.
LEECH (2024, dir. David Dawson)
The trials, tribulations, and trolls of a Youtuber who calls himself The Dark Lord of Loves Park.
The Dark Lord of Loves Park live streams regularly in hopes of receiving donations from his viewers who are only watching to see him self-destruct. Inspired by King Cobra JFS, David Dawson (Flesh Games, The Long Weekend) returns with a mumblegore, screenlife film that explores the internet phenomenon of LOLCOWS.
The UFF 8 lineup is currently being finalized, but there’s still time to submit! Head over to FilmFreeway soon because submissions for UFF 8 close on Valentine’s Day!
The complete schedule and second wave will be announced soon with more premieres, special events, and retro screenings. Badges are on sale now via FilmFreeway.
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