Cinema Verite

A Girl At Dojo Temple

Adventure in Telezonia

A boy's dog has run off and, with the help of unfortunately named marionette Handy, the kid learns to use a telephone to find him.

Crack Dog

A dog gets a taste of crack.

Anomalisa

An inspirational speaker becomes reinvigorated after meeting a lively woman who shakes up his mundane existence.

Wyatt Cenac: Brooklyn

Wyatt Cenac heads to Brooklyn to share his observations on the borough that's the backdrop for three sitcoms and a reality show about cheesemongers.

Don't Hug Me I'm Scared 4

The fourth instalment in the surreal Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared videos in which the three returning characters enter a sinister digital world through their computer.

Cabaret Kadne

Otto and Lola, two cabaret artists, fill their lives with their passion: acting.

As Seen On TV

A comedy drama following Annie Freeman, an actor who must navigate misogyny and ageism in the film industry. With no appropriate acting roles available, she’s forced into taking wacky adverts.

Jeff Panacloc perd le contrôle !

Jeff loses control over Jean-Marc, taking over the whole show!

Myrna the Monster

A heart-broken alien dreamer from the moon transitions into adult life in Los Angeles like any other 20-something.

Las Cosas Que Brillan

When a trans Latinx mermaid defies her mother’s warnings, she is forced to confront the violent legacies of colonialism, environmental destruction and the danger of being desired in the human world. The BlackStar Philadelphia Filmmaker Lab is presented with support from Independence Public Media Foundation, William Penn Foundation, and Wyncote Foundation. This project has been supported by The Philadelphia Independent Media Fund administered by Scribe Video Center with funds provided by the Independence Public Media Foundation and the Wyncote Foundation.

The News Puppets

Like any other day, French Prime Minister Lionel Jopsin was about to go to Matignon but his driver is missing! He drives the car himself only to find out that every street of Paris is empty, everyone is gone!

Nightmare on Elmo's Street

Puppets live alongside humans peacefully, but suddenly their behavior becomes depraved. Is such criminal activity rare, or is the media blowing things out of proportion, making cops look like sadistic gunslingers and causing people to distrust them, each other, and most of all, puppets. Is the apocalypse coming, or is the fear-mongering just a great way for News programs to get advertising money? Wait – that makes this movie sound like a serious allegory. Change that. This movie has more wtf moments than you can imagine. It’s high brow and low brow at the same time.

QAnon Avenue

A young puppet boy in search for the truth travels on a journey through the bowels of conspiracy, taking him from the depths of hell to the furthest reaches of space.

Selective Listening

A nice guy with a history of schizophrenia battles the voices he hears, a judgmental society and the hazards of social media as he attempts to make a new friend.

Wooden Hearts

An upcoming motion picture by Onur Tukel

Mr. Boots Last’s Recipe

1987, Cooking With Mr Boots was a children's cooking show. The presenter, Mr. Boots, a talking puppet, cooks and then serves his dish in front of his guests! Unfortunately, the show was canceled and the last episode was deleted. Recently, an old tape was found on which the first broadcast was recorded.

The Skipper Social Quarter Hour

The Skipper is a television personality who likes to collect the strangest guests to talk to, from all walks of life. Creatures like The Mothman or Dick Cheney. In trying to contain a quarter hour of quality television, things go arise as his broadcast is interrupted by video commentators and a man who kidnaps everyone he suspects is a werewolf.

The Happytime Murders

In a world where humans coexist with puppets—who are seen as lesser citizens—cast members of a beloved 1990s children's television series begin getting murdered one by one. Puppet Phil Philips, an ex-LAPD detective-turned-private eye, takes on the case at the request of his old boss in order to assist his former partner, Detective Connie Edwards.

Snuffet

Snuffet is a found footage snuff film with a psychotic twist. The victims are all puppets. Imagine a world exactly like our own except for one crucial detail... puppets are real and they coexist with humanity. Just like our world there is a seedy underbelly beneath the surface. Puppet racism, puppet hate crimes, puppet civil rights issues, and of course puppet serial killers. Human serial killers who hunt puppets to be specific. Our story follows a maniac's video diary as he hunts, mutilates, dismembers, and violates poor hapless Puppet Americans. Watch as they scream, bleed, and beg for mercy as a masked psychopath dismantles them one stitch at a time.