Charming Stranger Films

Nebraska, SAVERIO is coming your way for the Omaha Film Festival! Screening on Thursday, March 12th at 6 PM at Aksarben Cinema.

🎞️ Grab your tickets here: loom.ly/ZkFtkrU #OFF26 #filmsky #shortfilm

Winner of Best Actress award at the 20th Annual Beaufort International Film Festival is Quincy Cho for SAVERIO! HUGE congratulations to Quincy, we really couldn’t be prouder of her performance and everything it represents 🤍 #BIFF26

Director/writer/producer Alethea Root and actor/writer/producer Jules Bruff of GOOD SIDE OF BAD join Around The Reel Podcast for a fun and heartfelt chat about the book-to-film adaptation process, behind-the-scenes moments, and all things filmmaking!

🎙️Catch the full episode here: tr.ee/-nMHClSV6I

SAVERIO is heading back to Colorado with two more screenings for the 21st Annual Durango Independent Film Festival on March 6 at 3:30 PM AND March 8 at 3 PM!

📽️ Grab your passes today — loom.ly/xFbxq7g #filmsky #DIFF26

Eight women, one courthouse bathroom. STALLED IN EIGHT ETUDES officially premieres online TODAY as the Daily Short Pick on Film Shortage!

🎬 Available to watch NOW: loom.ly/y9lbsSo #filmsky #onlinepremiere

Whistling past the switchboards – The Pulp It took director Rachael L. Morrison a decade and a cache of forgotten cassette tapes to let a blind phone hacker finally tell his own extraordinary story. The film, 'Joybubbles,' screens at the Big Sky...

It took director Rachael L. Morrison a decade and a cache of forgotten cassette tapes to let a blind phone hacker finally tell his own extraordinary story. The film, 'Joybubbles,' screens at the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival.

Austin hacker friends, go see this movie! You'll love it. @mattjay.com

You're the best!

JOYBUBBLES is officially heading to Texas for #SXSW! So excited to be part of @sxsw.com’s 'Festival Favorites’ lineup with 6 screenings! 📞

MAR 12 | 6:15 PM at Violet Crown 2 & 4
MAR 13 | 3:15 PM at Violet Crown 2 & 4
MAR 15 | 12 PM at Violet Crown 2 & 4

More screening/ticket info: loom.ly/SPF7mRE

A whimsical, slice-of-life meditation on justice and perception. STALLED IN EIGHT ETUDES will now be featured as Film Shortage’s Daily Short Pick on FEB 23!

New date: Will be available to stream on Film Shortage FEB 23! Subscribe & tap “notify me” to be alerted when it premieres: loom.ly/3NSqIZQ 📽️✨

Joybubbles | Big Sky Documentary Film Festival The Big Sky Documentary Film Festival celebrates the art of nonfiction film by giving voice to the powerful ideas that come forth in documentary. The festival is an important international platform, b...

We love film festivals with Open Captions!

Shout-out to the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival, featuring an OC showing of "Joybubbles" on Wednesday, 2/18. Check it out here and in our app: www.bigskyfilmfest.org/festival/fil...

#opencaptions #accessibility

SAVERIO will be screening on Friday, February 20th at 11:00 AM for the 20th Annual Beaufort International Film Festival with nominations for Best Comedy & Best Lead Actress!

🎟️ Tickets are on sale now: loom.ly/lXtgSbA #shortfilm #filmsky #bftfilmfest

Sundance Reviews for Joybubbles, Silenced, and Seized Reviewing three of the documentaries I saw during the 2026 Sundance Film Festival.

Reviews of three documentaries that I watched at the Sundance Film Festival. Talking today about JOYBUBBLES, SILENCED, and SEIZED. #filmsky #moviesky #sundance

Feeling very honored to see JOYBUBBLES recognized as a film that reflects Big Sky’s commitment to films that expand how we understand history, technology, and the people too often left at the margins. Thank you #BigSkyDocFest! 🤍

JOYBUBBLES has been selected as the Centerpiece for this year's Big Sky Doc Film Fest!

Big Sky Centerpiece spotlights a film at the heart of the festival, an exceptional work and one that speaks directly to the audience. Screening on FEB 18 at 8 PM & FEB 19 at 3 PM! Get tickets: loom.ly/Y_kgK8Q ☎️✨

Sundance 2026: Last Dance Final call: many of the best films at the fest’s last edition in Park City affirmed its late founder Robert Redford’s belief in “the unexpected perspective”

Amy Taubin of Film Comment gives Joybubbles a beautiful review.

Celebrating the Power of Film and the Best of Humanity at Park City’s Last Sundance Despite the sentimentality that covered Park City more heartily than the snow, films like ‘The Friend’s House Is Here’ reminded us how remarkable good movies can be at capturing our bet…

I tried to put down in words what it was like to attend the the decidedly melancholy 2026 Sundance Film Festival. A sampling of the tremendous movies I highlight: BEDFORD PARK, JOYBUBBLES, THE OLDEST PERSON IN THE WORLD, THE FRIEND’S HOUSE IS HERE. Please have a gander.
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Dumping Edge Security Devices, the SystemBC Botnet, and the Joy of Joybubbles

New @deciphersec.bsky.social podcast for your earballs!

💻 New CISA directive to yeet old edge security devices
🤖 New SystemBC botnet activity research from @silentpush.bsky.social
🎬 The sheer joy of JOYBUBBLES from @charmingstranger.com

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Go. See. This. Movie.

Born blind and yearning for connection, Joybubbles’ early obsession unwittingly lays the groundwork for a subculture that shapes the future of hacking and technology.

#JOYBUBBLES will screen next in MT at #BigSkyDocFest on 2/18 & 2/19: loom.ly/Y_kgK8Q!

☎️ More screening updates to follow.

With perfect pitch, Joe Engressia Jr, aka #Joybubbles, discovered that he could whistle specific tones into a phone handset and bend the analog network to his will

(If you’re noticing a similarity between Engressia and the character Whistler in Sneakers, that’s not a coincidence)

The Best Movies of Sundance 2026, According to IndieWire’s Critics Survey See what topped our critics survey of the best films of Sundance 2026.

So happy to see that #Joybubbles is consistantly reviewed as one of the best movies of Sundance 2026

🎥 Streaming on Film Shortage February 6 — loom.ly/O9A5rBQ #filmsky

STALLED IN EIGHT ETUDES will be featured as Film Shortage’s Daily Short Pick this Friday on February 6!

A short film by Kersti Bryan, produced by Connie Jo Sechrist & Cameo Wood, starring Tracey Bonner & Celine Jackson as 8 women cross paths in a courthouse bathroom and find a surprising humanity.

Saw the Joybubbles documentary over the weekend at Sundance (online). Hope it gets a wide release. That Joybubbles was one of the early, pioneering phone phreaks is reason enough to be interested, but it's his big-hearted humanity that will stick with you.

Phreaks and Geeks: Joybubbles and the Pre-History of Hacking - Decipher The proto hacker whose innate ability, curiosity, and absolute joy in the act of discovery is conveyed so artfully in the new documentary Joybubbles.

We don't write about movies often but when we do, we write about hacker movies, like JOYBUBBLES from @charmingstranger.com at @sundance.org

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Phreaks and Geeks: Joybubbles and the Pre-History of Hacking - Decipher The proto hacker whose innate ability, curiosity, and absolute joy in the act of discovery is conveyed so artfully in the new documentary Joybubbles.

Wrote about the joy of JOYBUBBLES from @charmingstranger.com and the light it shines on the early phreaking scene. It's a delight.

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Couldn't tell you how happy we are to hear that you loved it!! Thanks for watching and for all the support 🤍

I'm going to write something about it soon, but I absolutely loved Rachael J. Morrison @charmingstranger.com's film JOYBUBBLES. Fascinating story that folks in the hacker community will relate to in a big way.

the joybubbles of connecting A new documentary on the life of Joybubbles a pioneering blind phone phreak. With his whistling ways and original hacker spirit (inspiring names like Woz and Captain Crunch who appear in the film) the...

A new documentary on Joybubbles a pioneering blind phone phreak with his whistling ways and original hacker spirit (inspiring names like Woz and Captain Crunch who appear) premieres at Sundance this week.

🎬Trailer & viewing info
www.cyberdelianyc.com/posts/joybub...

#hacking #sundance #indiefilm