Tag: festivalannouncements
Sundance Drops Full 2024 Lineup
Buckle up! The film festival season is re-racking and getting started all over again with the announcement of the 2024 Sundance Film Fest lineup. Today brings word of the 82 films and 8 episodic titles (and single New Frontier piece)...
Fantastic Fest 2023 Lineup Announcement Includes TOXIC AVENGER, TOTALLY KILLER, STRANGE DARLING, THE CREATOR, and More
As summertime winds to an end, the fall festival circuit comes squarely into sight. That means a host of big fests have begun announcing the movies that will thrill us over the next few months. None are more thrilling than...
SXSW 2023 Rounds Out Lineup with Matt Johnson's Latest - Full Lineup
We slept on the First SXSW lineup announcement mid-January, but we wouldn't dare not mention that the second wave has been announced and it includes the North American premiere of one pretty damned anticipated film. Blackberry is the long-awaited feature...
Sundance 2023 Lineup Features New Names and Old Faves
We've been here before, excitedly discussing the Sundance Film Festival lineup announcement promising a return to in-person indie film goodness in the snowy setting of Park City. Let's all hope this time we'll really make the trip. Regardless, the full...
Overlook Announces March 2023 Dates, Submissions Open
Long a highlight of the genre fest calendar, the good folks at New Orleans's Overlook Film Festival have announced next year's festival will be scooting forward a bit. The dates for 2023 have been announced as March 30 to April...
AFI Fest 2022 Announces Full Slate
Film festivals -- and in particular LA-based film festivals -- have been in a fair amount of flux in past years. AFI Fest survives as LA's most prestigious fest, though it has shrink to just 5 days running November 2-6....
Overlook 2022: First Batch Of Flicks and Events Drops
The return of The Overlook is nigh and the today brings the announcement of the first big batch of mayhem. It includes the news that Scott Derrickson's Blumhouse pic The Black Phone starring Ethan Hawke and written by C. Robert Cargill...
Seattle International Film Fest Announces Hybrid SIFF in April
The Seattle International Film Festival (or SIFF) has long been known as one of the best regional festivals on the circuit. While the fest has traditionally been a nearly month-long early summer affair, the good folks in the Pacific Northwest...
SXSW 2022 Strong Festival Slate Announced
SXSW is back and in person in 2022! Some films will also be online (if they take the fest up on the offer) but the Austin fest which kicks off March 11, is touting their theatrical lineup and the slate...
Sundance 2022 Feature Lineup Announced
Once merely a frigid Utah gathering of the movers and shakers of the indie film world, the Sundance Film Festival now transcends its Rocky Mountain confines to take place simultaneously online and in such remote locales as Lawrence, Kansas, Seattle,...
Telluride 2021: Impressive Lineup Kicks Off Fall Fest Season
Telluride is back and the most exclusive of exclusive festivals starts up tomorrow. As is tradition, the lineup was just announced a day prior and it's another impressive list of movies looking make a mark with the tastemakers who have...
Sundance 2021 Slate of Features and More Announced
2020 has been a very different year for film festivals and 2021 looks to start off that way as well. While the 2020 edition of Park City's big indie extravaganza was mostly untouched by the then-developing pandemic, the 2021 edition...
Tallgrass 2019: PARASITE, GO BACK TO CHINA, 17 BLOCKS Amongst Strong Festival Lineup
Wichita's indie-filled celebration of cinema is hosting its 17th edition of the Tallgrass Film Festival in a few weeks and their full lineup is packed with goodness. A leader in the regional festival scene for bringing independent films to the...
Seattle 2019: Full SIFF Lineup Drops With Too Many Great Movies to List (We List Them Anyway)
It's the biggest and clearly one of the best. The Seattle International Film Festival has announced their slate for the 2019 festival and it's a doozy. The festival runs from May 16 to June 9 at points all over the...
Seattle 2019 to Kick Off with Lynn Shelton's SWORD OF TRUST
The massive Seattle International Film Festival will run this year from May 16 to June 9 and the good people at SIFF have just announced the movie that will kick it all off. That movie is Seattle-native Lynn Shelton's SXSW-premiering...
Sundance 2019: Whopping 112 Features Announced In One Fell Swoop
Piecemeal be damned! Sundance has announced an overwhelming 112 feature films for their 2019 festival coming up on January 24. Why all at once, you ask? Well because that way they can spit out all these impressive stats: For the...
Tribeca Announces Impressive 2018 Feature Film Lineup
The Spring-time film festivals are coming thick and fast and one of Spring's biggest is out today with an impressive lineup. The 17th edition of the Tribeca Film Festival runs April 18-29 in New York City. A few notable filmmakers...
Sundance 2018 Feature Lineup Drops
Forget about portioning out the announcement, Sundance has just gone and dropped their entire feature lineup on us in one fell swoop! Highlights include Nicolas Cage-starrer from Panos Cosmatos Mandy (pictured), Desiree Akhavan's Chloë Grace Moretz and Sasha Lane starring...
SXSW 2017 Announcement Features New Flicks from Katz, Wright, Malick & More
SXSW is coming up quick! The fest runs March 10-18 and the good folks in Austin announced the bulk of their lineup today. There are still a few of the program's 125 films to be announced, but what we now...
Denver Film Fest 2016 Announces LA LA LAND as Opener + Galas & Competitioners
The first big festival announcement landed today from the good folks at the Denver Film Society. Their 39th Denver Film Fest kicks off November 2 with Damien Chazelle's throwback Hollywood musical La La Land (here's Gorber's rave review). Pablo Larrain's...
