Insomniac: The Movie

In spring 2020, Insomniac Film Festival put out a call for submissions to be a part of a broken telephone quarantine filmmaking project. What resulted was a feature length, funny, strange, collaborative, exciting and youthful film made by 16 talented filmmakers and filmmaking teams!! 

The film premiered on February 28th, 2021! Accompanying the screening was a choose-your-own-adventure style game that takes you through The Boil Cinema. In this text-based adventure game you’re able to virtually live the experience of buying freshly popped buttery popcorn from concessions, strange encounters in line at the bathroom, and buying merch at Insomniac Festival’s DIY merch table! The game and screening are free and available online. Click the link below to play the game or watch the movie!!

We’d like to thank all our wonderful filmmakers for creating a piece of art that we hope will bring back only the fondest memories from 2020. As well, we’d like to acknowledge our gratitude to Misbah Ahmed, who made the beautiful poster, and Lina Wu, who developed and illustrated the game, for helping us get the film out there!