Unnamed Footage Festival 8 2025 Unveils Its 1st Wave of Films

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UNNAMED FOOTAGE FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES 1ST WAVE OF FILMS, INCLUDING THE WORLD PREMIERS OF TINSMAN ROAD AND I DON’T LIKE IT HERE

The Found Footage Horror and In-World-Camera Film Festival returns to San Francisco March 25-30, 2025 and reveals first look at Tinsman Road

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. Like a voyeuristic spirit that’s attached itself to your new home, this year’s lineup promises to stay with you long after the festival is over.

Taking place from March 25th through March 30th, 2025, UFF8 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. To kick things off, we’ll be presenting a screening of Kōji Shiraishi’s NOROI: THE CURSE as part of the Alamo Drafthouse New Mission Theatre’s Terror Tuesday. The following night, Wednesday March 26th we’ll return to the Artists’ Television Access in San Francisco’s historic Mission District for a pre-festival mixer and special screening. We’ll return to the ATA for our annual Recalibration Party on Thursday the 27th. Details for both events are still being hashed out, but expect to kick back with a drink, meet the UFF crew, and catch a few movies that have never before been shown in theaters.

Friday through Sunday we dive into the heart of the festival: three full days of non-stop found footage horror, faux documentary, screenlife, and all forms of in-world-camera. Each day is loaded with fantastic titles including writer/director of MASKING THRESHOLD and RAZZENNEST Johannes Grenzfurther’s latest film SOLVENT, the World Premiere of writer/director of GRIEVE Robbie Smith’s new film I DON’T LIKE IT HERE, Fantastic Fest alum WHAT HAPPENED TO DOROTHY BELL?, as well as the World Premier of the writer/director of THE OUTWATERS Robbie Banfitch’s long awaited TINSMAN ROAD. Following an exceptional reception at UFF24HR24, the latest edition of UFF’s 24-hour live-stream virtual festival, David Dawson’s lolcow character study LEECH will have an encore screening with a live audience.

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.

FIRST WAVE OF UFF FILM SELECTIONS

TINSMAN ROAD (2024, 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 it 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.

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