From Kevin Smith & Friends comes a film festival so fit for a King or Queen that it can only take place in the SmodCastle! Presenting the Fourth Annual SModcastle Film Festival - a Central Jersey showcase of cinema hosted by the guy who made Clerks. Welcoming entries from all over the world, the SModcastle Film Festival will be a four day summer event filled with features, short films, animation, documentaries & more! All films will be screened by our panel of judges and selected entries will be screened at Smodcastle Cinemas over this four day event. The festival will include an opening day filmmaker meet and greet, panels and awards ceremony. Smodcastle Cinemas- "Where the Movies Come To Play"
For the official SModcastle Film Festival website with photos and info about lodging, food and parking, visit SModcastleFilmFestival.com
Event Schedule Table of Films
Film Access Pass
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
Thursday, August 7, 2025
Opening Night - Paradise Records Followed by a Q&A with Kevin and Logic (Includes Filmmaker Mixer) - 7:00 PM - SCREEN 1
Opening Night - Paradise Records Followed by a Q&A with Kevin and Logic (Includes Filmmaker Mixer)
The Specter Of Christmas
Opening Night - Paradise Records Followed by a Q&A with Kevin and Logic (No Filmmaker Mixer) - 7:00 PM - SCREEN 1
Opening Night - Paradise Records Followed by a Q&A with Kevin and Logic (No Filmmaker Mixer)
The Specter Of Christmas
Friday, August 8, 2025
BLOCK 01 - 6:00 PM - SCREEN 1
Love and Near-Death
Titty Boy
So, Who Was It This Time?
Horsepower TV Pilot
October Roses
BLOCK 02 - 6:30 PM - SCREEN 2
Give Us A Sign
Motherland
BLOCK 03 - 6:00 PM - SCREEN 3
Kaiju Kid
The Coldest Winter in New York City
BLOCK 04 - 6:30 PM - SCREEN 4
This is Us
Enjoy Your Stories!
Sally, Get the Potatoes
Sergeant Pickle Breath and The Rooftop Warriors
BLOCK 05 - 8:45 PM - SCREEN 1
A Comedy of Errors
Fading Frequencies
BLOCK 06 - 9:15 PM - SCREEN 2
Bankie Banx: King of the Dune
BLOCK 07 - 8:45 PM - SCREEN 3
On Air
The Last Shift
Drink and Be Merry
BLOCK 08 - 9:15 PM - SCREEN 4
Endzgiving
Welcome to Jay
Saturday, August 9, 2025
BLOCK 09 - 11:30 AM - SCREEN 1
The Death Of James
Where's My Package?!
VILLA LUCIA
BLOCK 10 - 12:00 PM - SCREEN 2
Vinny
More Dead Than Living
Passion Pop
Homewrecker
BLOCK 11 - 11:30 AM - SCREEN 3
Half Past Midnight
Fling
Klaus Muller
Park Life
BLOCK 12 - 12:00 PM - SCREEN 4
Clowning Around
Refused Classification
OFF-TIME
BLOCK 13 - 2:30 PM - SCREEN 1
Troop 408
FOXBODY
The Keepers
Heavens to Betsy
"Love's Long Shadow"
The Lord of All Future Space & Time
BLOCK 14 - 3:00 PM - SCREEN 2
Area 51 Love Raid
Pow!
SilverSizzle
D*CKS
BLOCK 15 - 2:30 PM - SCREEN 3
Sakazuki
Midnight Ink
5683
BLOCK 16 - 3:00 PM - SCREEN 4
A Quart of Salt
Script Tease
I Voted
BLOCK 17 - 5:30 PM - SCREEN 1
Star-Crossed
A NICE LADY
FAKES
BLOCK 18 - 6:00 PM - SCREEN 2
Hell Of A Town
The Rewind
Symptoms
The Strange Dark
BLOCK 19 - 5:30 PM - SCREEN 3
Snuffelstage
I Don't Know
BLOCK 20 - 6:00 PM - SCREEN 4
Cascades
Sky
MICRO BUDGET
BLOCK 21 - 8:30 PM - SCREEN 1
Rizzy Dean and the Mighty Mullet
Something is Rotten
Delco: The Movie
BLOCK 22 - 9:00 PM - SCREEN 2
Growing Daisies
Foibles
BLOCK 23 - 8:30 PM - SCREEN 3
A Turtle in Times Square
Carry the Darkness
BLOCK 24 - 9:00 PM - SCREEN 4
Charlotte, 1994
Non-Stop to Comic-Con
Sunday, August 10, 2025
BLOCK 25 - 12:00 PM - SCREEN 1
B!tch I'm Early (B.I.E.)
Be There
Gen. Sex
The Prospect
BLOCK 26 - 12:30 PM - SCREEN 2
Solid State
SEGAL
BLOCK 27 - 12:00 PM - SCREEN 3
But I'm a Shoe
The Heart of Texas
Ali Eats America
BLOCK 28 - 12:30 PM - SCREEN 4
HIT ME
The Daughters of the Domino
Kevin Smith Film Panel - 2:45 PM - SCREEN 1
Kevin Smith Film Panel
MVD Panel Discussion - 5:00 PM - SCREEN 4
MVD Panel Discussion
Awards Ceremony & Afterparty - 6:30 PM - SCREEN 1
Awards Ceremony & Afterparty
TABLE OF FILMS
| Film Title | Type | Festival Block | |
| "Love's Long Shadow" | Short | 13 | INFO |
| 5683 | Feature | 15 | INFO |
| A Comedy of Errors | Feature | 5 | INFO |
| A NICE LADY | Short | 17 | INFO |
| A Quart of Salt | Short | 16 | INFO |
| A Turtle in Times Square | Short | 23 | INFO |
| Ali Eats America | Feature | 27 | INFO |
| Area 51 Love Raid | Short | 14 | INFO |
| Awards Ceremony & Afterparty | Awards_CeremonyAfterparty | INFO | |
| B!tch I'm Early (B.I.E.) | Short | 25 | INFO |
| Bankie Banx: King of the Dune | Feature | 6 | INFO |
| Be There | Short | 25 | INFO |
| But I'm a Shoe | Short | 27 | INFO |
| Carry the Darkness | Feature | 23 | INFO |
| Cascades | Short | 20 | INFO |
| Charlotte, 1994 | Short | 24 | INFO |
| Clowning Around | Short | 12 | INFO |
| D*CKS | Feature | 14 | INFO |
| Delco: The Movie | Feature | 21 | INFO |
| Drink and Be Merry | Feature | 7 | INFO |
| Endzgiving | Short | 8 | INFO |
| Enjoy Your Stories! | Short | 4 | INFO |
| FAKES | Feature | 17 | INFO |
| FOXBODY | Short | 13 | INFO |
| Fading Frequencies | Feature | 5 | INFO |
| Fling | Short | 11 | INFO |
| Foibles | Feature | 22 | INFO |
| Gen. Sex | Short | 25 | INFO |
| Give Us A Sign | Short | 2 | INFO |
| Growing Daisies | Short | 22 | INFO |
| HIT ME | Short | 28 | INFO |
| Half Past Midnight | Short | 11 | INFO |
| Heavens to Betsy | Short | 13 | INFO |
| Hell Of A Town | Short | 18 | INFO |
| Homewrecker | Feature | 10 | INFO |
| Horsepower TV Pilot | Short | 1 | INFO |
| I Don't Know | Feature | 19 | INFO |
| I Voted | Feature | 16 | INFO |
| Kaiju Kid | Short | 3 | INFO |
| Kevin Smith Film Panel | Short | Kevin_Smith_Film_Panel | INFO |
| Klaus Muller | Short | 11 | INFO |
| Love and Near-Death | Short | 1 | INFO |
| MICRO BUDGET | Feature | 20 | INFO |
| MVD Panel Discussion | Short | MVD_Panel | INFO |
| Midnight Ink | Short | 15 | INFO |
| More Dead Than Living | Short | 10 | INFO |
| Motherland | Feature | 2 | INFO |
| Non-Stop to Comic-Con | Feature | 24 | INFO |
| OFF-TIME | Feature | 12 | INFO |
| October Roses | Short | 1 | INFO |
| On Air | Short | 7 | INFO |
| Opening Night - Paradise Records Followed by a Q&A with Kevin and Logic (Includes Filmmaker Mixer) | Feature | Opening_Night_with_Kevin_And_Logic_Logic_via_Zoom_and_Filmmaker_Mixer | INFO |
| Opening Night - Paradise Records Followed by a Q&A with Kevin and Logic (No Filmmaker Mixer) | Opening_Night_with_Kevin_And_Logic_Logic_via_Zoom | INFO | |
| Park Life | Feature | 11 | INFO |
| Passion Pop | Short | 10 | INFO |
| Pow! | Short | 14 | INFO |
| Refused Classification | Short | 12 | INFO |
| Rizzy Dean and the Mighty Mullet | Short | 21 | INFO |
| SEGAL | Feature | 26 | INFO |
| Sakazuki | Short | 15 | INFO |
| Sally, Get the Potatoes | Short | 4 | INFO |
| Script Tease | Short | 16 | INFO |
| Sergeant Pickle Breath and The Rooftop Warriors | Feature | 4 | INFO |
| SilverSizzle | Short | 14 | INFO |
| Sky | Short | 20 | INFO |
| Snuffelstage | Short | 19 | INFO |
| So, Who Was It This Time? | Short | 1 | INFO |
| Solid State | Short | 26 | INFO |
| Something is Rotten | Short | 21 | INFO |
| Star-Crossed | Short | 17 | INFO |
| Symptoms | Short | 18 | INFO |
| The Coldest Winter in New York City | Feature | 3 | INFO |
| The Daughters of the Domino | Feature | 28 | INFO |
| The Death Of James | Short | 9 | INFO |
| The Heart of Texas | Short | 27 | INFO |
| The Keepers | Short | 13 | INFO |
| The Last Shift | Short | 7 | INFO |
| The Lord of All Future Space & Time | Short | 13 | INFO |
| The Prospect | Feature | 25 | INFO |
| The Rewind | Short | 18 | INFO |
| The Specter Of Christmas | Short | Opening_Night_with_Kevin_And_Logic_Logic_via_Zoom | INFO |
| The Specter Of Christmas | Short | Opening_Night_with_Kevin_And_Logic_Logic_via_Zoom_and_Filmmaker_Mixer | INFO |
| The Strange Dark | Feature | 18 | INFO |
| This is Us | Short | 4 | INFO |
| Titty Boy | Short | 1 | INFO |
| Troop 408 | Short | 13 | INFO |
| VILLA LUCIA | Feature | 9 | INFO |
| Vinny | Short | 10 | INFO |
| Welcome to Jay | Feature | 8 | INFO |
| Where's My Package?! | Short | 9 | INFO |