World premieres this yr embody Johnny Coffeen’s supernatural darkish comedy The Avalanche starring Alex Essoe and Lou Taylor Pucci; Josh Logan’s darkish fantasy cosmic horror The Relic: Dragon, based mostly upon his award profitable quick movie; Jacob Schwarz’s high-octane revenge thriller Whiskey Throttle; and Christian Everhard’s cosmic horror The Crawling starring Will Brittain and Katherine Hughes.
North American and U.S. premieres embody Michele Fiascaris’s taut neo-noir thriller Rain Catcher starring Dudley O’Shaughnessy and Kate Dickie; Carson McKinnon’s deliriously tornado thriller Mom & Me! starring Caylee Cowan and Brady Midday; Mark H. Rapaport’s horrific darkish comedy Godhead starring Kimball Farley; and Nick Taylor’s nostalgia fueled documentary Rubberhead: The Life & Monsters of Steve Johnson concerning the iconic particular make-up results artist Steve Johnson.
Regional premieres embody Russell Goldman’s anxiety-filled suspense thriller Sender starring Britt Decrease, Rhea Seehorn, David Dastmalchian, and Jamie Lee Curtis; Raviv Ullman’s & Greg Yagolnitzer’s buzzy darkish comedy thriller Drag starring Lizzy Caplan, Lucy DeVito, and John Stamos; Casey Walker’s frozen supernatural western Ithaqua starring Luke Hemsworth, Kevin Durand, and Michael Pitt; Paul Urkijo Alijo’s medieval darkish fantasy spectacle Gaua; Brea Grant’s, Ed Dougherty’s, and Chelsea Stardust’s horror sci-fi comedy anthology Grind; Alex Hanno’s “Whiplash meets screenwriting” meta-thriller Bravado; John Veron’s deviously demented cult horror Godmother starring Dee Wallace and Bruce Davison; Noah Stratton-Twine’s and Jake Kuhn’s subversive and surreal The Peril at Pincer Level; Tyler Savage’s genre-bending Oddities starring Adrienne Barbeau; Brian L. Tan’s Indonesian crime thriller Bandit; and Jesse Gouldsbury’s on the spot cult traditional comedy The VelociPastor 2.
“13 years in, it nonetheless blows us away what number of wildly artistic filmmakers belief FilmQuest with their work. This yr’s lineup is unusual, fearless, stunning, and filled with the style spirit we constructed this pageant to rejoice,” famous the pageant’s Assistant Director Jonna Jackson.
A few of the introduced friends who will host filmmaking labs and workshops on the pageant’s “Camp Cthulhu” embody director Michael Dougherty (“Trick ‘r Deal with,” “Krampus,” “Godzilla: King of Monsters”), former Disney govt and producer Brigham Taylor (“Pirates of the Caribbean” franchise, “Tron: Legacy”), Emmy profitable casting administrators Amber Horn & Danielle Aufiero (“Coloration Out of Area,” “The OA”), producers Jamie & Jason Neese (“Horizon,” “The Umbrella Academy”), and Slamdance co-founder and former AFI Movie Pageant director Jon Fitzgerald, with extra set to be introduced later this September.
FilmQuest can be planning to launch to launch its anticipated style movie market, which can embody a lineup of between 20-40 further characteristic movies curated for distribution and gross sales along with the Official Alternatives. Extra particulars may even be introduced in September.
The pageant will finish with an audiovisual awards present on Halloween evening, the place the pageant guarantees a recreation altering” style movie manufacturing alternative can be introduced, together with the presentation of the coveted Cthulhu Trophy to winners in characteristic movie, quick movie, pupil movie, animation, and music video classes.
This contains the Golden Cthulhu for Greatest Function Movie and the Grand Prize Brief Movie winners. The previous two Grand Prize Brief Movie winners, “I’m Not a Robotic,” and “The Singers,” would win the Stay Motion Brief Movie Academy Award after their wins at FIlmQuest.
See the total lineup with each official choice right here.
