The Slamdance Film Festival has announced the Narrative and Documentary Feature Film Competition programs, as well as the lineup for its returning Breakouts section, for their 26th edition, taking place January 24-30, 2020 in Park City. Slamdance continues to be the premiere film festival “by filmmakers, for filmmakers,” dedicated to fostering a community for independent emerging [...]

The 8th Annual KEY WEST FILM FESTIVAL has announced its official 2019 lineup, including more than 115 films and V/R pieces shown throughout the 5-day festival, which runs November 20-24. Nearly half of the feature films at the festival will be Florida festival premieres.  Special events this year include previously announced appearances by Florida native Kimberly [...]

Nine original independent pilots and their 14 creators, will benefit from holistic support and development at SUNDANCE Institute’s sixth annual Episodic Lab, taking place at Sundance Mountain Resort in Utah October 10-15, 2019. The Lab's emerging television writers will develop their pilot scripts and series through a rigorous and curated schedule of individual story meetings, [...]

The BROOKLYN HORROR FILM FESTIVAL, which will return for its fourth edition from October 17–24, has unveiled the rest of its jam-packed 2019 slate of diverse feature premieres and over 40 short films. The popular BHFF touchstone section Home Invasion, where local filmmakers’ latest horror works are put on full display, has expanded to include [...]

The Shriekfest Film Festival has announced the 40 finalists selected for its 2019 International Screenplay Competition, selected from submissions from across the globe in the horror, thriller, sci-fi, and fantasy genres. "This was a tough year to narrow down all of the scripts," says festival founder and director Denise Gossett. "There is just so much [...]

FANTASTIC FEST 2019 is proud to announce its second wave of programming, led by a closing night screening of writer-director Rian Johnson’s hotly anticipated new mystery Knives Out. Johnson will be in attendance for a special presentation at Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar in Austin, TX on September 26th. In addition to its usual representation of [...]

Reaching the milestone of fifteen years, Fantastic Fest continues to champion groundbreaking international genre films, bringing a diverse array of global filmmakers to Austin in a highly-controlled explosion of curated cinematic mayhem. “Our fifteenth year is a one-of-a-kind of celebration of the cinema we champion: brilliant and out-there,” says creative director Evrim Ersoy. “It’s a [...]