Roxie Mixtape #9: Side B
Roxie Mixtape is an on-going series celebrating diverse and engaging short works by Bay Area filmmakers. Join us for a night of unique, provocative and inspiring movies. Mixtape is an exciting and enticing mix of narrative, documentary, and experimental film. There is sure to be a little something for everyone in this program.
The Roxie Mixtape is part of Bay Visions, an ongoing series dedicated to spotlighting Bay Area cinema’s past, present, and future. Showcasing everything from documentaries to experimental films, narratives to shorts, this series highlights the fearless creativity of both emerging and established filmmakers.
Stick around for a Q&A with this year’s Mixtape filmmakers after the show!
Mixtape Side B will screen on May 20th at 8:10pm, films will appear in the order listed below.
Two decades ago, Tech gave us hope for a brighter future – and we all bought in. But what about now? This music video for Sunday Artist’s Simon, filmed over 30+ nights in San Francisco, explores how tech has transformed our communities in ways we didn’t see coming.
Oliver Ousterhout is a San Francisco Bay Area based filmmaker. With thoughtfulness and care, Oliver works ceaselessly to bring client’s projects to life, filling them with thought-provoking ideas and unforgettable moments.
In Channelvue, a late ’90s TV Guide channel broadcast, an uptight cable company CEO (Lauren Servideo) fights off deranged hackers as they hijack her station, changing its content in real time.
Brandon Tauszik is a filmmaker based in Oakland and Los Angeles, CA. Tauszik’s work examines elements of America’s social periphery and has been recognized by The Washington Post, The Atlantic, the British Journal of Photography, and more. He is the recipient of grants from the Pulitzer Center, California Humanities, as well as a fellowship from the Starling Lab at Stanford University.
In Gun Machine, a young man in crisis seeks out a gun, the ease of finding one presents him with a moral dilemma.
Ryan McDowell is a Writer/Director hailing from the tiny town of Taylorsville California and currently residing in San Francisco. His work can be found through movies on the big screen, commercials on the small screen and viral videos on the screen in your pocket.
Maelstrom. Intense spiritual or emotional turmoil, confusion, conflict; a powerful, disorienting force. These are not normal times.
Kathleen Quillian works primarily with found imagery, collage and stop-motion animation. Triangulating between natural phenomena, metaphysics and speculative reasoning, her work explores liminal spaces and the collective and individual ways humans understand and engage with the unknown. She has exhibited in venues and festivals internationally including International Film Festival Rotterdam, San Francisco International Film Festival, Antimatter Film Festival, Animasivo, REDCAT, the Exploratorium and Pacific Film Archive, among others. She is the co-founder and Programming Director of Shapeshifters Cinema, an experimental microcinema in Oakland, CA.
In Aziz, Three Iraqi men are traverse a dangerous road trip during the 1981 Iran/iraq war. Based on a true story.
Ramiel Petros is a documentary and narrative emerging director. His work has been shortlisted for the student academy awards and baftas, and has played at festivals such as Tribeca, Hollyshorts, new filmmakers LA. His debut feature documentary is releasing Summer 2026.
In Veterano, an aging Filipino World War II veteran with nothing left to lose dusts off his past and his pistol for one last mission in 1981 San Francisco. A gritty neo-noir thriller rooted in the real history of Filipino World War II veterans.
Patrick Epino is a writer-director born and raised in the Bay. His feature crime thriller script VETERANO was selected for the 2025–2026 PGA Create Lab, advanced to the second round of the 2025 Sundance Development Lab, and was a finalist for the 2025 Gotham Week Project Market. His proof-of-concept short film is currently on its festival tour.
He directs, films, and edits IN PROXIMITY, a Webby Award-nominated podcast produced by Proximity Media. His other credits include the feature, MR. SADMAN, a satirical dark comedy starring Scoot McNairy, and AWESOME ASIAN BAD GUYS, an action comedy starring Randall Park and Tamlyn Tomita.
Chair Deconstruction Is a two-part dance piece exploring the drama and comedy of communal healing. Part 1 explores accountability and mercy in a support-group setting. In Part 2, the dancers deconstruct reality and embody transformation by embracing their delightful weirdness.
Ambika Jain is a video producer and artist who lives and works in the SF Bay Area.
In What Does It Feel Like to Live Inside a Pomegranate A young woman discovers a giant pomegranate in the middle of the forest and decides to live inside it.
Kamyar Mohsenin (b. 1998) is an Iranian-American interdisciplinary artist, award-winning filmmaker, and educator based in Oakland, California. Through newfound connections between the traditional and the contemporary, Kamyar’s current art practice explores themes of identity, faith, migration, mythology, memory, family, and the natural world.
Transmutation is a handmade 16mm film that features a tactile fever dream of handmade shapes and textures where etched lines, ink, and wet paint collide to dissolve the boundaries between organic life and abstraction.
Mark Nobriga is an artist and art instructor born in Oakland, who has practiced artmaking for more than 35 years. He makes paintings, drawings, mixed media, and short films. He has shown his work in venues across Northern California including the deYoung Museum, the Triton Museum, Southern Exposure Gallery, San Jose Institute for Contemporary Art, the Castro Theatre, and the New Parkway Theatre.
In the remote town of New Cuyama, California—population 542—residents contend with limited resources in a harsh desert landscape. Steps from State Route 166, hundreds of travelers pass through each day while the town remains “out of sight, out of mind.” The Middle of Everywhere follows four residents working to shape its future: Alex, a woodworker restoring vintage cars; Chuy, who teaches youth screen printing; Carmen, a Chumash cultural educator creating community spaces; and Jack, an organizer sharing knowledge of the valley’s history and night skies. Together, they show how creativity, care for place, and listening to one another open possibilities for connection.
Zoe Hertz is a multi-media artist from Chicago, now based in Oakland, CA. Using a thoughtful, colorful style of portraiture, Zoe’s films explore themes of belonging and empowerment. Zoe’s artwork has been featured at the Art Institute of Chicago, KQED, the San Francisco Public Library (Main Branch), and Sonoma Community Center.
Ellie Hall is a Chicago-based editor whose first feature, Cecily and Lydia at the Waypoint, won the Grand Prize at the Best of the Midwest Awards. Now a lead editor at Someoddpilot, she’s crafted campaigns for brands like Skyy Vodka, Darn Tough and Kettle & Fire, while directing narrative and doc shorts on the side.
All films included in this year’s Mixtape festival will feature Open Captions.
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