Film Festival
COVID-19 UPDATE: Due to the coronavirus pandemic and ongoing shelter-in-place order, this year’s PlayGround Festival is all online via Zoom live stream!
PlayGround Zoom Fest
2020 PLAYGROUND FILM FESTIVAL
Co-Presented by PlayGround & Dances With Light
May 13-14 & May 20-21 8pm PT
via Zoom Live Stream
Tickets: FREE (reservations required)
“If you want to make a living as a screenwriter, stop what you’re doing… and start writing plays!” –Greg DePaul. The PlayGround Film Festival, a unique showcase of Bay Area films adapted from stage to screen, returns May 13-21 with four programs and fifteen different short films, all via Zoom Live Stream and followed by a conversation with the filmmakers and writers. For information on the complete PlayGround Zoom Festival, click here.
FILM FESTIVAL SCHEDULE
Program A (May 13 8pm PT)
OBIT by Geetha Reddy & Brian Tolle
MEETING MATT DAMON by Ron Burch & Frieda de Lackner
READING IN BED by Ken Prestininzi & Sandor Weiner
MISS FINKNAGLE SUCCUMBS TO CHAOS by Kirk Shimano & Amy Harrison
Program B (May 14 8pm PT)
CLIMAX by Sean Owens & Jeremy Solterbeck
ECCE HOMO by Jonathan Luskin & Mark Leialoha
IOWA by Malachy Walsh & Alex Vietti
AEGIS by Jonathan Luskin & Mark Leialoha
Program C (May 20 8pm PT)
THE BEGINNING by Tom Swift & Brian Tolle
REUNION by Kenn Rabin, Greg Runnels & Mark Runnels
THE SECRET LIFE OF A HOTEL ROOM by Garret Jon Groenveld, Greg Runnels & Mark Runnels
THE ETYMOLOGY OF ZERO by Katie May, Liz Anderson & Seth Podowitz
Program D (May 21 8pm PT)
WEDNESDAY by Daniel Heath & Jennifer Arzt
UNDONE by Diane Sampson & Bruce Coughran
VALUE OVER REPLACEMENT by Ruben Grijalva
