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) - 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 [...]