Distribution News: May 2026
Underneath Big Skies, a free online program in collaboration with content partner VUCAVU and curated by Mariana Munoz Gomez, features multiple works from in the VP Catalogue:
- a beaten path by Natalie Baird and Toby Gillies
- When Land and Body Merge by Jaime Black and Lindsay Delaronde
- A Valley in Twain by Kathryn Boyer
- Midnight Migrations and River Revelations by Darcy Tara McDiarmid and Chantal Rousseau
- Wînipêk by James Dixon
- Collapsing Wave Function by Tyson Houseman
To access Underneath Big Skies and future VUCAVU programming make a free VUCAVU account here!
Several works from the VP Catalogue are screening at >>imagineNATIVE in Toronto this June!
- Midnight Migrations and River Revelations by Darcy Tara McDiarmid and Chantal Rousseau
- Endless Sunlight by Tyson Houseman
- HOST by Zachery Cameron Longboy
Inside Out: The 2SLGBTQ+ Film Festival will be screening The Fruit Machine: A Space Opera by Shawna Dempsey and Lorri Millan as part of the shorts program High School Confidential on May 22 at TIFF Lightbox in Toronto.
Click here for the full festival program
Iowa City International Documentary Festival Screened a beaten path by Natalie Baird and Toby Gillies in their Flora and Phenomena program on April 26th.
"The Iowa City International Documentary Film Festival (ICDOCS) is an annual event run by students at the University of Iowa. Our mission is to engage local audiences with the exhibition of recent short films that explore the boundaries of nonfiction filmmaking."
Milwaukee Underground Film Fest screened Computer-Assisted Simulation Technology for Optimizing Rivers by Ryan Hill on May 2nd in Program 5: labor, collective bodies / transhumanism in resistance.
"The Milwaukee Underground Film Festival (MUFF) is a student run film festival devoted to showcasing independent, artist driven cinema. For nearly two decades we have been programming filmmakers that defy convention in an attempt to amplify unheard voices. Our festival celebrates the potential of cinema to imbue a community with excitement, critical discussion, and open-mindedness through the presentation of new artistic forms."
San Diego Underground Film Festival screened Computer-Assisted Simulation Technology for Optimizing Rivers by Ryan Hill on May 2nd in their second short film program of the festival.
"San Diego Underground Arts is an artist-run non-profit organization that offers San Diego a nurturing alternative to the mainstream media by promoting experimentation in video, film, and audio based mediums. Through the practice and knowledge of film and film making techniques, we strive to cultivate a supportive, inclusive, informed, and empowered community for the exhibition of innovative underground media and experimental art."
Handsome Devil by Daniel Barrow is exhibiting with Qaleidascope from March - May 2026 for their Nordic tour of queer film and performance art.
"Qaleidoscope Tour – Nordic 2026 will be a well-textured assemblage of images, characters, ideas, and realities that collide in fantastical, personal, and playful ways to produce an ever changing, multi-faceted film and performance art viewing experience.
Some films will focus on image, sound and abstract narratives; others present information, facts, and queerforward realities; while others share the pleasure and pain of individual and collective identities. Refractive content includes experimental and artistically rigorous films as well as heavy-hitting and thoughtful topics such as feminism, race, racism, fat activism, class, colonization, crip arts, politics, religion, violence, HIV/AIDS, gender and of course sexuality – all provided for their role in engendering awareness and insight on many levels."
If you're interested in inquiring about bringing your work into our catalogue please contact madeline@videopool.org