Movies: Fandom

A revealing, edgy, and disarmingly personal journey into the world of superfandom, told through the lens of one of the world’s most iconic and enduring artists, Eminem, and the fans that worship him....

A short film from Tom Corboy about devoted fans of Elvis Presley in the years after his death....

She longs to be like her idol, ‘Rose.,’ Mina, a middle school student, starts working at Motel Rose because of her family’s financial difficulties. The motel in a back-alley red light district downtown. There, while doing the cleaning., Mina meets ‘H...

On February 22, 1975, Northern California's very first Star Trek convention was held at Lincoln High School in San Francisco, CA. It was called "The Red Hour Festival." A huge success with the fans of the original TV series (1966-69), the smash event...

A documentary pilgrimage to the annual James Dean Festival in Fairmount, IN as seen through the eyes of the cultural icon's die-hard fans, affectionately known as 'Deaners'....

On Jake's first day of work at the comic book store he finds out that he has entered a strange new world where anything is possible....

Unable to reconcile the realities of film-making with the warped fantasy created in his head, an obsessed fan suffers through a psychotic episode. A DIY short film for fans of Cat Sick Blues....

A documentary covering the 2013 Gathering of the Juggalos in Cave-In-Rock, IL....

RAPE PLAY is an experimental documentary that explores fanfiction writing amongst teenage girls online and the learned narrativization of sexual experiences. Through interviews, lyrical essays, and fantastical reenactment, it touches on internet hist...

A very visible, but misunderstood group dressed as Star Wars Stormtroopers do charity work worldwide. The story comes full circle when the amputee founder's own daughter is diagnosed with cancer and this surrogate family he created comes to his aid. ...

Ten years in the making, KISS Loves You is a film that began back in 1994 when the band KISS was at a career low and KISS fans around the world were starting tribute bands, uniting at unofficial KISS Conventions and growing increasingly more nostalgi...

As the popularity of author J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series expands to create a whole new breed of rabid fantasy fanatics, filmmaker Josh Koury explores the curious culture that has emerged around the most instantly recognizable young wizard in th...

Documentary about Bob and Kathy Burns, the goodwill ambassadors of science fiction film fandom....

A cross country exploration into the forces that attracts so many to the Star Wars mythos....

Chapter 3 of the Bini docuseries...

A movie following a small selection of talented cos-players as they took part in May 2011 MCM Expo and showcased their costumes in the Masquerade....

This documentary, filmed over the course of a year, focuses on the lives of five of Dolly Parton's biggest fans, why they love her, what drew them to her, and the lengths to which they go to connect with her in person. It weaves their personal histor...