Nightstream Film Festival (NFF) - Satoshi Kon is one of the most iconic directors of all cinema history and has been influential to many modern-day directors. One of Japan's premier auteurs, Kon's style of animation as well as his tell-it-like-it-is way of living blazed new trails in a society that typically obligated citizens to play [...]

Cosmic Dawn is a 2021 Nighstream Film Festival feature that studies the complex feeling of connection -- from mother to daughter, from drug-use to emotional connectivity, and from humans to "occupants of interplanetary crafts". While its elements of psychedelia and extraterrestrials lend themselves to science fiction, Cosmic Dawn is just as much a psychological thriller [...]

Nightstream Film Festival (NFF) - A brutal beginning, including a sixteenth birthday, a seance, and a death-by-bookshelf set the scene for Alison's Birthday, a 1981 Ozsploitation film from the mind of Ian Coughlan. Despite the tragedy and the terrifying message of impending doom (seemingly sent by the spirit of her dead father), Alison (Joanne Samuel) [...]

Nightstream Film Festival (NFF) - As hard as it is to make friends as an adult it can be hard to maintain long-time friendships as well, made abundantly clear in the dark comedy, All My Friends Hate Me. A movie about feeling like the odd man out in a room full of people as well [...]

Nightstream is set to take place virtually in just a few days! This unique film fest was created as a banner to unify five US genre festivals — Boston Underground, Brooklyn Horror, North Bend, Overlook, and Popcorn Frights — who have all been affected by COVID-19. This cinematic conglomerate will run from October 8-11 and [...]

Film festivals have had to adapt in response to the COVID-19 pandemic in order to bring the festival experience home. In the spirit of continuing to honor safety and security measures that presently come with physical exhibitions and large gatherings, a collective online initiative is being launched by several American genre festivals for the upcoming [...]