ティージェーグレェLast night by happen stance, I attended the Indie Night Film Festival at the Grand Lake Theater in Oakland (I saw "Indie Nights Film Festival" on the marquee, and when I went in to ask about it, well it was <i>happening</i> though the Grand Lake Theater staff seemed a bit confused since I am guessing they just rented out the main screen to the film festival, meanwhile the Indie Nights Film Festival staff, also seemed confused and told me to purchase a ticket from the box office, but the box office wasn't selling tickets. Eventually, someone took cash from me [I don't have an active SIM card so I wasn't going to buy a ticket online in that moment]).<br><br>The following shorts were shown:<br><br>Denzel (complete short, comedy: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=de93Am_cEGA" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=de93Am_cEGA</a>)<br><br>Tales of the Town (trailer, mini-documentary: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZBbYDF3l5g" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZBbYDF3l5g</a>)<br><br>The Nature of the World (music video, more information: <a href="https://indienightfilmfestival.com/nature-boy/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://indienightfilmfestival.com/nature-boy/</a>)<br><br>The Masquerade (ensemble drama, trailer: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrTQFSSG1M4" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrTQFSSG1M4</a>)<br><br>See It Thru (preview for an upcoming docu-series on deceased emcee The Jacka more information: <a href="https://indienightfilmfestival.com/a-life-with-no-future/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://indienightfilmfestival.com/a-life-with-no-future/</a>)<br><br>They also had some discourse about a revenue sharing program for film makers that began in late February of this year called Share which seemed interesting: <a href="https://theshareplatform.com/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://theshareplatform.com/</a><br><br>Apparently Indie Nights Film Festival started in LA/Hollywood as an every Tuesday sort of event? Now it's "going on the road" and maybe it will be in a town near you soon?<br><br>It seemed community driven and more or less everything shown last night was filmed in Oakland or San Francisco or Berkeley, so relatively local too. Though that was undoubtedly a conscious choice by the curators, the lead organizer David Brown is also from the Bay Area.<br><br>It looks as if their website could use some TLC (I am seeing MIME type errors on their video load attempts), but they were selling t-shirts as swag. Felt more like a concert vibe than an average movie going experience. With lots of Q&A from the film makers in between each short and encouraging folks to network and collaborate afterwards. Neat stuff.<br><br><a href="https://snac.bsd.cafe?t=indienightsfilmfestival" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#IndieNightsFilmFestival</a> <a href="https://snac.bsd.cafe?t=movies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#movies</a> <a href="https://snac.bsd.cafe?t=film" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#film</a> <a href="https://snac.bsd.cafe?t=grandlaketheater" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GrandLakeTheater</a> <a href="https://snac.bsd.cafe?t=sfba" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SFBA</a><br>