For its 27th year, the SCAD Savannah Film Festival will take place October 27-November 2 — with SCAD, of course, standing for Savannah College of Art and Design. The festival opens with Steve McQueen’s “Blitz” and closes with Pablo Larraín’s “Maria.” Honorees of the SCAD Savannah Film Festival were previously announced.
This year’s edition will screen 162 films, including 123 narrative feature films, 31 documentary feature films, and 69 shorts, with 10 world premieres, and six U.S. premieres in Georgia. The lineup is sectioned into galas, signature screenings, special presentation, professional and student competition films, Docs to Watch, Pixels and Pencils, and the Behind the Lens and Below the Line panel series.
Gala screenings include: “Blitz,” “Better Man,” “The Brutalist,” “Emilia Pérez,” “The Fire Inside,” “Juror #2,” “The Last Showgirl,” “Maria,” “Nickel Boys,” “Nightbitch,” “The Piano Lesson,” “A Real Pain,” “September 5,” “Sweethearts,” and “Unstoppable”
Special presentations include: “All We Imagine as Light,” “The End,” “Hard Truths,” “I’m Hip,” “I’m Still Here,” “Jean Cocteau,” “Love Me,” “On Becoming a Guinea Fowl,” “The Room Next Door,” “The Seed of the Sacred Fig,” “Small Things Like These,” “State of Silence,” and “Universal Language.”
Signature screenings are: “A Different Man,” “Anora,” “Back to Black,” “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice,” “The Grifters,” “His Three Daughters,” “Hit Man,” “How to Train Your Dragon,” “Joker: Folie à Deux,” “Saturday Night,” “SCAD Presents: One Step Away,” “Sing Sing,” and “Young Woman and the Sea.”
Docs to Watch titles include: “Black Box Diaries,” “Corville: Winning Is Everything, Stupid!,” “Daughters,” “Hollywoodgate,” “Piece by Piece,” “Porcelain War,” “Sugarcane,” “Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story,” “Union,” and “Will & Harper.”
Pixels and Pencils animated titles are: “Flow,” “Inside Out 2,” “Memoir of a Snail,” “Piece by Piece,” “Transformers One,” and “The Wild Robot.”
The After Dark series includes: “Alien: Romulus,” “The Substance,” “Nosferatu – A Symphony of Horror,” and “Y2K,” plus a shorts program.
Panels include Behind the Lens – Directors, with panelists Marielle Heller (“Nightbitch”), Erica Tremblay (“Fancy Dance”), Jordan Weiss (“Sweethearts”), Kaila York (“The Neighbor Who Saw Too Much”), Rachel Morrison (“The Fire Inside”), and Sophia Takal (“The Summer I Turned Pretty”).
Behind the Lens – Producers will include panelists Alison Owen (“Back to Black”), Carla Hacken (“Hell or High Water”), Daisy Ridley (“Young Woman and the Sea,” “Magpie”), Heather Rae (“Fancy Dance”), Joanna Calo (“The Bear”), and Laura Lewis (“Tell Me Lies”).
Behind the Lens – Below the Line will include panelists Alice Brooks (director of photography, “Wicked”), Amy Williams (production designer, “The Idea of You”), and Laura Hudock (director of photography, “Girls State”).
Many other panels and special events are planned, including a first look at the craft of “Wicked” with some of the below-the-line team on hand before that movie opens November 22.
Head to the SCAD Savannah Film Festival‘s website to see the huge lineup in full.
