RESFEST (1996–2006) is a defunct American film festival. It was by the 2000s the most prominent
digital film festival in North America. It was a leading global showcase of new digital filmmakers alongside
England's
Onedotzero festival. The festival toured the world and in 2005 travelled to 35 cities in the USA, Canada, UK, Japan, Australia, Brazil and in various cities in Europe, Asia and Africa. A large part of the festival's latter content focused on cutting-edge music videos and short films, and directors like
Michel Gondry,
Spike Jonze,
Chris Cunningham and
Jonathan Glazer all had their catalogs of work showcased at RESFEST over its 10-year run. The film festival was founded by
Jonathan Wells after the dissolution of the Low Res Digital Film Festival which he had previously co-founded. Low Res Digital Film Festival first took place in October 1995 at an art gallery in
San Francisco’s
SoMa district. The first year’s program featured work from pioneering music video and motion graphics studio
H-Gun Labs, England’s design collective
Tomato, digital designer
Nick Philip and filmmaker
Spike Jonze, whose early skateboard short films were screened.