PREMIERES
Strawberry Mansion
We’re All Going to the World’s Fair
Give Me Pity!
IN PRODUCTION
I Saw the TV Glow
Joybubbles
Dream Team
Good One
LIBRARY
Clara’s Ghost
Chowder
Men Don’t Whisper
The Feeling
Moneybag Head
The Starr Sisters
The Follower
Call Your Father
Ching Chong Blues
A Key for the Kid
Whiskey Fist
Tond
Affections
IN DEVELOPMENT
Seems Nice
Traum
Time and Space
Dolphin
I Was There Too
Mano A Mano
ABOUT
Smudge Films is an independent production company dedicated to making personal films with unique worldviews.
Founded in 2016 by producer Sarah Winshall, our films have played all over the place, including at Sundance, New Directors/New Films, SXSW, AFI Fest, Rotterdam, SFFilm, SIFF, CPH:DOX, Outfest, Rotterdam, BAM Cinemafest, MoMA, on the Criterion Channel, as Vimeo Staff Picks, and more.
We make shorts, features, docs, experimental videos, music videos, commercials, web series, and TV shows. We are based in Los Angeles.
© 2022 Smudge Films Too LLC.
Los Angeles CA
Give Me Pity!
2022
2022
A Primetime Saturday Night Network Television Spectacular starring Sissy St. Claire!
Enjoy something spectacular!
WRITER/DIRECTOR Amanda Kramer
PRODUCERS
Sarah Winshall
Jake Agger
Amanda Kramer
Benjamin Shearn
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS
Rhianon Jones
Riccardo Maddalosso
Samuel Gursky
DISTRIBUTORS
Utopia
Aspect Ratio
STARRING Sophie von Haselberg
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Patrick Meade Jones
EDITOR Benjamin Shearn
PRODUCTION DESIGNER Liz Toonkel
ART DIRECTOR Dorothy Hoover
COSTUME DESIGNER Jamier Ortega
HAIR DEPARTMENT HEAD Tania Becker
MAKEUP DEPARTMENT HEAD Erin Walter
SCORE & SOUND DESIGN BY Josh Ascalon
VISUAL AFFECTS Samuel Gursky
CHOREOGRAPHER Genevieve Carson
ORIGINAL SONGS BY
Giulio Carmassi
Bryan Scary
SCREENINGS
Jan 26, 2022
THE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL ROTTERDAM
Rotterdam, NL
July 22, 2022
FANTASIA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
Montreal, CN
August 12, 2022
MELBOURNE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
Melbourne, AUST
August 2022
EDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
Edinburgh, UK
September 23, 2022
FANTASTIC FEST
Austin, TX
October 1, 2022
METAMORPHOSES
Sydney, AU
October 2022
B3 BIENNIAL OF THE MOVING IMAGE
Frankfurt, DE
October 8, 2022
BEYOND FEST
Los Angeles, CA
October 22, 2022
METAMORPHOSES
Mebourne, AU
October 23, 2022
INDIE MEMPHIS FILM FESTIVAL
Memphis, TN
October 28, 2022
SPACE GALLERY
Portland, ME
November 11-12, 2022
DENVER FILM FESTIVAL
Denver, CO
November 26, 2022
TRANSIT FILM FEST
Regensburg, DE
February 1-9, 2023
THE NORTHWEST FILM FORUM
Seattle, WA
Ferbruary 2-9, 2023
OLYMPIA FILM SOCIETY
Olympia, WA
February 16-28, 2023
AMERICA CINEMATHEQUE
Los Angeles, CA
February 18-26, 2023
THE HIPPODROME
Gainesville, FL
February 23, 2023
FOFIF @ NITEHAWK WILLIAMSBURG
New York, NY
February 28, 2023
ALAMO X FANTASTIC FEST
Nationwide
February 28, 2023
MUSIC BOX THEATER
Chicago, IL
February 28, 2023
READING CINEMAS
Manville, Rohnert Park, + La Mesa, CA
February 28, 2023
CONSOLIDATED THEATERS
Milani + Honolulu, HI
March 27, 2023
WOODWARD CINEMA
Cincinati, OH
March 13, 2023
RODEO CINEMA
Oklahoma City, OK
March 17-18, 2023
SYNDICATED THEATER
Brooklyn, NY
March 30, 2023
COLOMBUS THEATER
Providence, RI
April 22 + 25, 2023
MILWAUKEE FILM FESTIVAL
Milwaukee, WI
June 9-11, 2023
FESTIVAL FILM SUBVERSIF METZ
Grand Prix Award
Metz, FR
Aug 26-30, 2023
SEOUL INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S FILM FESTIVAL
Seoul, KOR