Grace Sloan is a filmmaker and production designer based in New York (Fr. Los Angeles)
As a filmmaker, her experimental documentaries and found footage pieces use analog mediums (celluloid, VHS, et al) to explore nostalgia, kitsch, and the occult. They’ve premiered at festivals including Telluride, Maryland, Montreal Underground, and Alchemy. In 2018, all of her films to date screened as part of Microscope Gallery’s YES: Emerging Artists series in Brooklyn.
Her first narrative short, Death Valley, premiered at 2021’s Fantasia Film Festival, continued to 23 festivals worldwide, and won an audience award at the Tallahassee Film Festival.
As a production designer, she’s designed 11 feature films and a plethora of shorts and commercials. Recent work includes The Cathedral (Ricky D’ambrose, Venice 2021), We’re All Going to the World’s Fair (Jane Schoenbrun, Sundance 2021) and Premature (Rashaad Ernesto Green, Sundance 2019). She designed Fourteen (Dan Sallitt, 2019) which premiered at Berlin and received a Gotham Award, as well as The Great Pretender (Nathan Silver, 2018) and Actor Martinez (Silver and Mike Ott, 2016). Fry Day (Laura Moss, 2017), a short, won awards at both SXSW and Tribeca, and has been included in the Criterion Collection. When not working as a designer, she does props and set dressing for various productions, including 8 seasons of Saturday Night Live (2014-2023).
Ms.Sloan’s film career began as a 35mm projectionist for Laemmle Theaters in Los Angeles and later, Anthology Film Archives in New York. She holds a Bachelors in Cinema from San Francisco State University and a Masters from the New School For Social Research.
awards:Audience Award Best art short for Death Valley, Tallahassee Film Fest 2021
Interbay Cinema Society Grantee 2020
Future of Film is Female Grant Finalist 2020
screenings:2022
Final Girls Berlin ~ Death Valley ~ Berlin, Germany
Oxford Film Festival ~ Death Valley ~ Oxford, MS, USA
Wide Open Experimental Film Festival ~ Death Valley ~ Oklahoma City, OK, USA
Fantaspoa ~ Death Valley ~ Porto Alegre, Brazil
Alchemy Film Festival ~ Death Valley ~ Hawick, Scotland , UK
Fantafestival ~ Death Valley ~ Rome, Italy
Oak Cliff Film Festival ~ Death Valley ~ Dallas, TX, USA
Dresdner Film Festival ~ Death Valley ~ Dresdner, Germany
Hollyshorts Film Festival ~ Death Valley ~ Los Angeles, CA, USA
Not Film Festival ~ Death Valley ~ Rimini, Italy
Coney Island Film Festival ~ Death Valley ~ Brooklyn, NY
Drunken Film Festival ~ Death Valley ~ Oakland, CA, USA
Sensei Film Festival ~ Death Valley ~ Tokyo, Japan
2021
Fantasia Film Festival ~ Death Valley ~ Montreal Québec, Canada
Tallahassee Film Festival ~ Death Valley ~ Tallahassee, FL, USA
Mammoth Lakes Film Festival ~ Death Valley ~ Mammoth Lakes, CA, USA
Mill Valley Film Festival ~ Death Valley ~ Mill Valley, CA, USA
Nightmares Film Festival ~ Death Valley ~ Columbus, OH, USA
Sydney Sci-Fi Film Festival ~ Death Valley ~ Sydney, Australia
San Diego Underground Film Festival ~ Death Valley ~ San Diego, CA, USA
Kinoskop Film Festival ~ Death Valley ~ Belgrade, Serbia
Oak Cliff Film Festival ~ It’s the Knees! ~ Dallas, TX, USA
Montreal Underground Film Festival ~ Carol Wright Catalog ~ Montreal Québec, Canada
2020
Drunken Film Festival ~ Carol Wright Catalog ~ Oakland, CA, USA
Fisura Film Festival ~ Carol Wright Catalog ~ Mexico City, Mexico
Long Distance Film Festival ~ Carol Wright Catalog ~ Online
Maryland Film Festival ~ Carol Wright Catalog ~ Baltimore, MA, USA
Moviate Film Festival ~ Carol Wright Catalog ~ Harrisburg, PA, USA
2019
Alchemy Film Festival ~ It’s the Knees! ~ Hawick, Scotland, UK
Drunken Film Festival ~ It’s the Knees! ~ Oakland, CA, USA
Maryland Film Festival ~ It’s the Knees! ~ Baltimore, MA, USA
Montreal Underground Film Festival ~ It’s the Knees! ~ Montreal, Québec, Canada *nominated for Jury award
Spectral Film Festival ~ It’s the Knees! ~ Steven’s Point, WI, USA
2018
Microscope Gallery, YES : Emerging Artist Series
Tease ~ Last Race at Hollywood Park ~ San Francisco ~ Santa/Satan ~ for Prince (Let’s Go Crazy) ~ Carol Wright Catalog
Brooklyn, NY, USA
2017
Sunview Luncheonette “Afterglow” ~ San Francisco ~ Brooklyn, NY, USA
Kilroy Metal Ceiling “Cat on a Cool Metal Ceiling” ~ Santa/Satan ~ Brooklyn, NY, USA
2012
Telluride Film Festival ~ Tease ~ Telluride, CO, USA