South by Southwest’s 2024 version simply added some extra star-studded motion pictures in its second wave of programming together with the extremely anticipated Jordan Peele Monkeypaw manufacturing, Monkey Man, starring and directed by Dev Patel, the Sydney Sweeney nun film Immaculate, the brand new Nicolas Cage horror film Arcadian, and Musica starring Riverdale’s Camila Mendes.
For Peele, Sweeney, and Cage it’s one other journey again to the Texas Capital. Peele world premiered his second horror directorial, Us, at SXSW again in 2019, whereas Sweeney was in Austin final yr for her film inde highway film Americana. Cage introduced down the home in SXSW’s return from Covid version in 2022 with The Insufferable Weight of Huge Expertise.
A24, which world premiered their final Greatest Image Oscar winner, Every little thing All over the place All at As soon as at SXSW 2022, is again as properly with SNL alum Kyle Mooney‘s function directorial debut, Y2K, the Colman Domingo headliner Sing Sing with its U.S. Premiere and the Jane Schoenbrun directed film I Noticed the TV Glow recent from Sundance.
All of those options be part of already scheduled huge pics, opening night time title Amazon MGM’s Roadhouse starring Jake Gyllenhaal, centerpiece Common’s David Leitch-directed The Fall Man starring Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt, and Amazon MGM’s closing night time Michael Showalter-directed Anne Hathaway romantic drama, The Concept of You.
At the moment’s 50 extra initiatives brings SXSW’s line as much as 115 options together with 89 World Premieres, 3 Worldwide Premieres, 6 North American Premieres, 4 U.S. Premieres, 13 Texas Premieres + 80 Quick Movies together with 19 Music Movies. The TV program consists of 7 TV Premieres, 8 TV Highlight World Premieres and 6 Impartial TV Pilots. The XR Expertise program consists of 38 initiatives.
“The time has come to rev up the anticipation for SXSW 2024 and reveal the remaining titles in our slate!” stated Claudette Godfrey, VP Movie & TV. “We invite you to affix our famend audiences in exploring this wide selection of labor together with explosive studio movies, stunning indie dramas and comedies, riveting TV, highly effective documentaries, gripping gems from around the globe, and groundbreaking XR. Come immerse your self within the pleasure of the shared cinema expertise as our group unites in Austin to be impressed and have a good time! We’ll see y’all quickly!”
SXSW runs from March 8-16.
HEADLINER
Huge names, huge expertise that includes purple carpet premieres and gala movie occasions with main and rising names in cinema.
Immaculate
Director: Michael Mohan, Producers: David Bernad, Sydney Sweeney, Jonathan Davino, Teddy Schwarzman, Michael Heimler, Screenwriter: Andrew Lobel
A religious American nun embarks on a brand new journey in a distant convent within the picturesque Italian countryside. Her heat welcome rapidly devolves right into a nightmare because it turns into clear her new house harbors a sinister secret and unspeakable horrors. Forged: Sydney Sweeney, Álvaro Morte, Dora Romano, Benedetta Porcaroli, Giorgio Colangeli, Simona Tabasco (World Premiere)
Monkey Man
Director: Dev Patel, Producers: Dev Patel, Jomon Thomas, Jordan Peele, Win Rosenfeld, Ian Cooper, Basil Iwanyk, Erica Lee, Christine Haebler, Anjay Nagpal, Screenwriters: Dev Patel, Paul Angunawela, John Collee
Dev Patel achieves an astonishing directing debut with this motion thriller a few man’s vengeance towards the boys who murdered his mom. Forged: Dev Patel, Sharlto Copley, Pitobash, Vipin Sharma, Sikandar Kher, Sobhita Dhulipala, Ashwini Kalsekar, Adithi Kalkunte, Makarand Deshpande (World Premiere)
‘Y2K’
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Y2K
Director: Kyle Mooney, Producers: Jonah Hill, Matt Dines, Alison Goodwin, Chris Storer, Cooper Wehde, Evan Winter, Screenwriters: Kyle Mooney, Evan Winter
On the final night time of 1999, two highschool juniors crash a New Years Eve celebration, solely to seek out themselves preventing for his or her lives on this dial-up catastrophe comedy. Forged: Jaeden Martell, Rachel Zegler, Julian Dennison, The Child Laroi (World Premiere)
NARRATIVE SPOTLIGHT
Unforgettable options receiving their World, North American, or U.S. premieres.
Arcadian (Eire)
Director: Ben Brewer, Producers: David Wulf, Braxton Pope, Nicolas Cage, Mike Nilon, Arianne Fraser, Delphine Perrier, Screenwriter: Mike Nilon
After a catastrophic occasion depopulates the world, a father and his two sons should survive their dystopian surroundings whereas being threatened by mysterious creatures that emerge at night time. Forged: Nicolas Cage, Jaeden Martell, Maxwell Jenkins, Sadie Soverall (World Premiere)
Desert Highway
Director/Screenwriter: Shannon Triplett, Producers: Steven Schneider, Josh Clayton, Kirk Martin, Alec Roth, Lauren Bates, Sam Cohan
A younger girl crashes her automotive and walks down the highway looking for assist, solely to seek out regardless of which method she walks she finally ends up again at her automotive. As night time falls, she realizes she’s going to die on this countless loop… except she will be able to discover a technique to escape. Forged: Kristine Froseth, Frances Fisher, Beau Bridges, Ryan Hurst, D.B. Woodside, Max Mattern, Ratchel Dratch, Edwin Garcia II (World Premiere)
The Biggest Hits
Director/Screenwriter: Ned Benson, Producers: Michael London, Shannon Gaulding, Ned Benson, Stephanie Davis, Cassandra Kulukundis
Harriet finds artwork imitating life when she discovers sure songs can transport her again in time – actually. Forged: Lucy Boynton, Justin H. Min, David Corenswet, Austin Crute (World Premiere)
The Gutter
Administrators: Yassir Lester, Isaiah Lester, Producers: Liz Destro, Jared Hess, Helen Estabrook, Tristen Tuckfield, Jillian Apfelbaum, Screenwriter: Yassir Lester
Walt (lover of threesomes, hater of shirts) strikes up an unlikely friendship with a former Professional Bowler as they uncover he could be THE GOAT of the lanes. The one issues standing of their method are racism, alcoholism and Linda “The Crusher” Curson. Forged: Shameik Moore, Susan Sarandon, D’Arcy Carden, Jay Ellis, Jackée Harry, Paul Reiser (World Premiere)
Excessive Tide
Director/Screenwriter: Marco Calvani, Producers: Mickey Liddell, Pete Shilaimon, Marco Calvani
Heartbroken and adrift, undocumented Brazilian immigrant Lourenço searches for function within the queer mecca of Provincetown, the place he sparks an sudden romance with Maurice. Collectively the 2 reconcile their pasts they’ve left behind and their unsure futures. Forged: Marco Pigossi, Mya Taylor, James Bland, Marisa Tomei, Invoice Irwin, Sean Mahon
(World Premiere)
Música
Director: Rudy Mancuso, Producers: McG, Mary Viola, Screenwriters: Rudy Mancuso, Dan Lagana
Loosely based mostly on author, director and star Rudy Mancuso, Música is a coming-of-age love story that follows an aspiring creator with synesthesia, who should come to phrases with an unsure future, whereas navigating love, household and his Brazilian Tradition. Forged: Rudy Mancuso, Camila Mendes, Francesca Reale, Maria Mancuso, J.B. Smoove (World Premiere)
Omni Loop
Director/Screenwriter: Bernardo Britto, Producers: Ben Cohen, Patrick Donovan, David Hinojosa
Identified with a black gap rising inside her chest, a lady from Miami, Florida decides to resolve time journey with the intention to return and be the particular person she all the time supposed to be. Forged: Mary Louise Parker, Ayo Edebiri, Hannah Pearl Utt, Chris Witaske, Carlos Jacott, Harris Yulin, Steven Maier, Eddie Cahill (World Premiere)
Swap Up
Director: Tara Pirnia, Producers: Elizabeth Avellan, Marcela Ronquillo, Tara Pirnia, Cristian de la Fuente, Melissa Bickerton, Angela Blair, Screenwriters: Felice Heather Monteith, Tara Pirnia, Tina Contogenis, Pamela Seashore
One of many nation’s prime speak present hosts finds himself stranded at a homeless shelter the place he meets a younger widow. He falls in love and realizes the trail to happiness lies in serving to others. Forged: Cristian de la Fuente, Julieth Restrepo, Jeff Fahey, Shondrella Avery, R. Brandon Johnson, Temple Baker, Donnell Rawlings, Alicia Witt, Manuel Uriza, Felice Heather Monteith (World Premiere)
Timestalker (UK)
Director/Screenwriter: Alice Lowe, Producers: Vaughan Sivell, Mark Hopkins, Natan Stoessel, Tom Wooden
From the artistic crew behind Prevenge comes a reincarnation rom-com concerning the everlasting humiliation that’s the seek for love, spanning essentially the most romantic epochs of historical past. Forged: Alice Lowe, Jacob Anderson, Aneurin Barnard, Tanya Reynolds, Nick Frost (World Premiere)
Wakhri
Director/Screenwriter: Iram Parveen Bilal, Producers: Abid Aziz Service provider, Apoorva Bakshi, Iram Parveen Bilal
A college trainer turns into a viral sensation in a single day when she unintentionally unleashes her unabashed opinions on social media. This newfound fame comes with its personal challenges as she has to navigate archaic mindsets and secret identities. Forged: Faryal Mehmood, Gulshan Majeed, Shees Sajjad Gul, Saleem Meraj, Sohail Sameer, Bakhtawar Mazhar, Akbar Islam, Tooba Siddiqui (North American Premiere)
Yasmeen’s Component (US, Pakistan)
Director: Amman Abbasi, Producers: Amman Abbasi, Jeffrey E. Stern, Alex Nystrom, Sana Jafri, Missy Laney, Screenwriters: Amman Abbasi, Jeffrey E. Stern, Sana Jafri
After shedding her homework within the winding paths of her mountain city, resourceful Yasmeen units off alone on an sudden journey to seek out her Professor. Forged: Eeshal Fatima, Nazir Ahmed Bulbul, Abeera Rubab, Naveed Hassan (World Premiere)
DOCUMENTARY SPOTLIGHT
Unimaginable options receiving their World, North American, or U.S. premieres.
7 Beats Per Minute (Canada)
Director/Screenwriter: Yuqi Kang, Producers: Ina Fichman, Sherien Barsoum
Director Yuqi Kang’s documentary captures the descent of a lifetime, when freediving champion Jessea Lu returns to the positioning of her near-death expertise to face the traumas of her previous and discover a method again to connection. (World Premiere)
A King Like Me
Director: Matthew O. Henderson, Producers: Fisher Stevens, Maura Anderson, Darcy McKinnon, Terry Dugas
A King Like Me follows members of the Zulu Membership, New Orleans’ first and century-old Black Mardi Gras krewe, as they work to carry Zulu again to the streets for Mardi Gras 2022.
(World Premiere)
The Delinquent Community
Administrators: Giorgio Angelini, Arthur Jones, Producers: Giorgio Angelini, Arthur Jones, Jordan Wynn, Andrew Fried, Dane Lillegard
From the rise of QAnon to the January sixth riots, The Delinquent Community explains how a bunch of bored youngsters constructed an internet group out of their shared loneliness however unintentionally shattered consensus actuality within the course of. (World Premiere)
Billy & Molly: An Otter Love Story
Director: Charlie Hamilton James, Producer: Jeff Wilson
From Nationwide Geographic and Silverback Movies, Billy & Molly: An Otter Love Story is a heart-warming story of affection between a wild otter and a person set within the distant Scottish islands of Shetland. (World Premiere)
Brandy Hellville & the Cult of Quick Vogue
Director: Eva Orner, Producers: Jonathan Chinn, Simon Chinn, Eva Orner
Hiding behind the shiny Instagram façade of Brandy Melville, the go-to clothes model for younger ladies, is an incredibly poisonous tradition that lies throughout the world quick vogue business.
(World Premiere)
Clemente
Director: David Altrogge, Producers: Mike Blizzard, Mary Sabol, Sarah Altrogge, Jocelyn Hartnett, Stephen Turselli, Keith Ayers, Andrew Calvetti, Steve Burman, Screenwriters: Elise Andert, David Altrogge
An immersive documentary concerning the exceptional life and legacy of MLB icon Roberto Clemente. That includes Vera Clemente, Rita Moreno, Roberto Clemente Jr., Michael Keaton, Luis Roberto Clemente, Bob Costas, Tom Morello, Francisco Lindor, Yadier Molina, Richard Linklater. (World Premiere)
Fly
Administrators/Producers: Shaul Schwarz, Christina Clusiau
To face on the sting and bounce into the wind, one should be keen to lose all the things. That would imply the love of your life, or the life you like. Over seven years, three {couples} on the planet of BASE leaping danger all the things to really feel alive. (World Premiere)
The Pastime (Canada)
Director: Simon Ennis, Producers: Kim C. Roberts, Tina Pehme, Justin Rebelo
Are video games the that means of life? The Pastime is a humorous, affectionate, character-driven portrait of the large subculture of contemporary board video games, that includes a captivating and various group of topics who discover deep that means in “meaningless” pursuits. (World Premiere)
How Music Acquired Free
Showrunner/Director: Alex Stapleton, Producers: Philip Byron, Marshall Mathers, Paul Rosenberg, LeBron James, Maverick Carter, Steve Stoute, Jamal Henderson, Bridgette Theriault, Dan Sacks, James Chapman, Steve Berman, John Janick, Anthony Seyler, Stephen Witt, Alex Stapleton
How Music Acquired Free is a documentary by Alex Stapleton, that reveals the true story of Dell Glover, a CD manufacturing unit employee turned piracy pioneer, who sparked a worldwide file-sharing revolution. (World Premiere)
Stormy
Director: Sarah Gibson, Producers: Sarah Gibson, Erin Lee Carr, Emelia Brown
From reporters to legal professionals to politicians, many have tried to outline Stormy Daniels. Stormy tells the unvarnished reality about an unlikely American icon – this time, in her personal phrases. (World Premiere)
The Reality vs. Alex Jones
Director: Dan Reed, Producer: Dan Reed, Marguerite Gaudin
How grieving Sandy Hook households defeated conspiracy big Alex Jones in two historic trials, holding him to account for the lies he unfold concerning the 2012 mass capturing. Faux information on trial, with unprecedented entry to a Travis County courtroom. (World Premiere)
VISIONS
Audacious, risk-taking artists who reveal innovation and creativity.
7 Keys (UK)
Director/Screenwriter: Pleasure Wilkinson, Producers: Cassandra Sigsgaard, Dylan Rees
Daniel has saved the keys to all of the locations he’s lived. Lena desires to make use of them for a wild weekend attending to know one another intimately in different individuals’s houses. However what begins as a dangerous fantasy quickly turns into a lethal menace. Forged: Emma McDonald, Billy Postlethwaite, Kaylen Luke, Joey Akubeze, Amit Shah, Jane Goddard (World Premiere)
Doppelgängers³ (US, Algeria, Armenia, France, UK)
Director/Screenwriter: Nelly Ben Hayoun- Stépanian, Producers: Sandra Leeming, Luke Moody, Victoria Adams, Amina Castaing, Nelly Ben Hayoun-Stépanian
Three doppelgängers meet in outer house to think about diasporic and eco-feminist futures.
(World Premiere)
Sew Torn (US, Switzerland)
Director: Freddy Macdonald, Screenwriters: Freddy Macdonald, Fred Macdonald, Producers: Fred Macdonald, Barry Navidi, Sebastian Klinger, Diamantis Zavitsanos, Socratis Zavitsanos
A seamstress will get tangled in her personal thread after stealing a briefcase from a drug deal gone unhealthy. In an escalating recreation of cat and mouse, her completely different decisions result in drastically completely different outcomes alongside the best way. Forged: Eve Connolly, Calum Worthy, John Lynch, Ok Callan, Ron Cook dinner, Thomas Douglas, Werner Biermeier, Veronika Herren-Wenger, Caroline Goodall
(World Premiere)
24 BEATS PER SECOND
Vibrant movies showcasing the sounds, tradition and affect of music and musicians.
Any Different Approach: The Jackie Shane Story (Canada)
Administrators/Screenwriters: Michael Mabbott, Lucah Rosenberg-Lee, Producers: Amanda Burt, Sam Dunn, Scot McFadyen, Michael Mabbott, Justine Pimlott
Any Different Approach: The Jackie Shane Story reveals the extraordinary rise, sudden disappearance, and resurgence of trailblazing Black trans soul singer Jackie Shane. (World Premiere)
Billy Preston: That’s The Approach God Deliberate It
Director: Paris Barclay, Producers: Stephanie Allain Bray, Jeanne Elfant Festa, Nigel Sinclair, Screenwriters: Cheo Hodari Coker, Paris Barclay
Billy Preston: That’s the Approach God Deliberate It is a celebration of Billy Preston’s extraordinary musical legacy, and an examination of the non-public and social forces that haunted him all through his life. That includes Billy Preston, Eric Clapton, Billy Porter, Merry Clayton, Ringo Starr, Olivia Harrison, Suzanne de Passe, Tony Jones, Cory Henry, Gloria Jones (World Premiere)
Dandelion
Director/Screenwriter: Nicole Riegel, Producers: Rian Cahill, Adam Cobb, Nicole Riegel, Peter McClellan
Dandelion follows a singer-songwriter in a downward spiral as she takes a final effort gig at a bike rally in South Dakota the place she meets Casey, a guitarist who walked away from his dream way back. Forged: Kiki Layne, Thomas Doherty, Melanie Nicholls-King, Brady Stablein, Jack Stablein, Grace Kaiser (World Premiere)
Freaknik: The Wildest Celebration By no means Informed
Director: P. Frank Williams
Freaknik: The Wildest Celebration By no means Informed is a celebratory exploration of the boisterous instances of Freaknik, the enduring Atlanta road celebration that drew a whole bunch of 1000’s of individuals within the 80s and 90s, serving to put Atlanta on the map culturally. That includes 21 Savage, Too $hort, Jermaine Dupri, Killer Mike, Luther Campbell (AKA Uncle Luke), Ceelo Inexperienced, Jaleen Rose, DJ Kenny Burns, Lil’ Jon, Legendary Jerry, Sharon Toomer, Emma Horton, Monique Tolliver, and Amadi Boon, Stacy Llyod (World Premiere)
FESTIVAL FAVORITE
Acclaimed standouts from festivals around the globe.
Black Field Diaries (US, Japan, UK)
Director: Shiori Ito, Producers: Eric Nyari, Hanna Aqvilin, Shiori Ito
Journalist Shiori Ito embarks on a brave investigation of her personal sexual assault in an unbelievable try to prosecute her high-profile offender. (Texas Premiere)
Dìdi (弟弟)
Director/Screenwriter: Sean Wang, Producers: Carlos López Estrada, Josh Peters, Valerie Bush, Sean Wang
In 2008, over the last month of summer time earlier than highschool begins, an impressionable 13-year-old Taiwanese American boy learns what his household can’t train him: methods to skate, methods to flirt, and methods to love your mother. Forged: Izaac Wang, Joan Chen, Shirley Chen, Chang Li Hua (Texas Premiere)
Each Little Factor (Australia)
Director/Screenwriter: Sally Aitken, Producers: Bettina Dalton, Anna Godas, Oli Harbottle
All that stands between a wounded hummingbird and its survival is Terry Masear, the busiest hummingbird rehabilitator in Hollywood. Observe Terry’s distinctive mission to heal these tiny birds, and the way in flip she exhibits us methods to heal ourselves. (Texas Premiere)
Ghostlight
Administrators: Kelly O’Sullivan, Alex Thompson, Producers: Alex Thompson, Chelsea Krant, Pierce Cravens, Ian Keiser, Eddie Linker, Alex Wilson, Screenwriter: Kelly O’Sullivan
When a development employee unwittingly joins an area theater’s manufacturing of Romeo and Juliet, the drama onstage begins to reflect his personal life. Forged: Keith Kupferer, Dolly De Leon, Katherine Mallen-Kupferer, Tara Mallen (Texas Premiere)
Ladies Will Be Ladies (India)
Director/Screenwriter: Shuchi Talati, Producers: Richa Chadha, Claire Chassagne, Shuchi Talati
16-year-old Mira finds her attractive, rebellious coming-of-age hijacked by her mom who by no means acquired to come back of age herself. Forged: Preeti Panigrahi, Kani Kusruti, Kesav Binoy Kiran
(Texas Premiere)
I Noticed The TV Glow
Director/Screenwriter: Jane Schoenbrun, Producers: Emma Stone, Ali Herting, Dave McCary, Kevin Kelly, Sam Intilli, Sarah Winshall
Owen is simply attempting to make it by means of life within the suburbs when his classmate introduces him to a mysterious TV present — a imaginative and prescient of a supernatural world beneath their very own. Within the pale glow of the tv, Owen’s view of actuality begins to crack. Forged: Justice Smith, Brigette Lundy-Paine, Ian Foreman, Helena Howard, Lindsey Jordan, Danielle Deadwyler, Fred Durst, Conner O’Malley, Emma Portner (Texas Premiere)
Kneecap (Eire, UK)
Director/Screenwriter: Wealthy Peppiatt, Producers: Trevor Birney, Jack Tarling
There are 80,000 native Irish audio system in Eire. 6,000 stay within the North of Eire. Three of them turned a rap group known as Kneecap. That is the actual life story of how this anarchic Belfast trio turned the unlikely figureheads of a civil rights motion to save lots of their mom tongue. Forged: Naoise Ó Cairealláin aka “Móglaí Bap”, Liam Óg Ó Hannaidh aka “Mo Chara”, JJ Ó Dochartaigh aka “Dj Provaí”, Josie Walker, Fionnuala Flaherty, Jessica Reynolds, Adam Greatest, Simone Kirby, Michael Fassbender (Texas Premiere)
Love Machina
Director: Peter Sillen, Producers: Brendan Doyle, Peter Sillen
Love Machina follows Bina48, a humanoid AI, commissioned in 2007 by Martine and Bina Rothblatt. An early sketch of potential digital consciousness, Bina48 is our car to discover the Rothblatt’s futurist concepts and their quest to be in love eternally. (Texas Premiere)
By no means Look Away (New Zealand)
Director: Lucy Lawless, Producers: Matthew Metcalfe, Lucy Lawless, Tom Blackwell, Screenwriters: Matthew Metcalfe, Tom Blackwell, Lucy Lawless, Whetham Allpress
New Zealand born, ground-breaking CNN camerawoman Margaret Moth, dangers all of it to point out the fact of struggle from contained in the battle. Moth stares down hazard and she or he confronts those who perpetuate it. (Texas Premiere)
Pet Store Days (Italy, UK, US)
Director: Olmo Schnabel, Producers: Galen Core, Francesco Melzi, Alex Coco, Bebe Moratti, Marie Savare, Olmo Schnabel, Screenwriters: Olmo Schnabel, Galen Core, Jack Irv
Impulsive black sheep Alejandro and pet retailer worker Jack, enter a whirlwind romance that sends them down the rabbit gap of depravity in Manhattan’s underworld. Forged: Jack Irv, Dario Yazeb Bernal, Willem Dafoe, Peter Sarsgaard, Jordi Molla, Louis Cancelmi, Maribel Verdu (Texas Premiere)
Smugglers (Republic of Korea)
Director: Ryoo Seung-wan, Producers: Kang Hye-jung, Cho Sung-min, Ryoo Seung-wan, Screenwriters: Ryoo Seung-wan, Kim Jung-youn, Choi Cha-won
Two ladies get unexpectedly caught up in a excessive stakes smuggling scheme in 1970’s Korea. Forged: Kim Hye-soo, Yum Jung-ah, Zo In-sung, Park Jeong-min, Kim Jong-soo, Go Min-si
(U.S. Premiere)
TV PROGRAM
TV PREMIERE
World premieres of status TV collection premieres from acclaimed showrunners and administrators.
Stax: Soulsville, U.S.A.
Director: Jamila Wignot, Producer: Jamila Wignot, Kara Elverson
In Nineteen Sixties Memphis, an audacious set of interracial collaborators dared to make their very own music on their very own phrases, forming Stax Information, one among America’s most influential creators of Black music. (World Premiere)
Thank You, Goodnight: The Bon Jovi Story
Director: Gotham Chopra
This all-access docuseries chronicles the historical past and unsure way forward for probably the most recognizable bands on the planet and its front-man Jon Bon Jovi. A legend on the precipice as a vocal damage threatens to carry all the things to a screeching halt. (World Premiere)
TV SPOTLIGHT
World premieres of latest seasons of acclaimed exhibits and thrilling collection episodes.
Lengthy Time Solar
Showrunners/Producers: Joanna Forscher, Chloe Chapman, Director: Joanna Forscher
Lengthy Time Solar is a four-part epic chronicling the rise of Kundalini Yoga and 3HO Sikh Dharma. Spanning sixty years, this group is a microcosm of American life by means of which to discover themes of energy, household, capitalism, and forgiveness. (World Premiere)
Duplass Brothers Indie TV Showcase
A showcase of 4 independently produced pilots by Duplass Brothers Productions that includes Penelope, Ryley Walker and Mates,The Broadcast, and The Lengthy Lengthy Night time. Mark Duplass, Mel Eslyn, Natalie Palamides, Courtney Pauroso, and Barret O’Brien might be in attendance for a Q&A after the screening.
The Broadcast
Administrators/Screenwriters: Natalie Palamides, Courtney Pauroso, Producer: Emily A. Neumann
In an absurd dystopian future, two feminine scientists discover themselves liable for the world’s solely remaining televised information supply. Forged: Natalie Palamides, Courtney Pauroso (World Premiere)
The Lengthy Lengthy Night time
Director/Screenwriter: Barret O’Brien, Producer: Rory O’Neill Schmitt
It’s been six months since that disastrous night time within the motel and these two guys are nowhere close to over it. Forged: Mark Duplass, Barret O’Brien (Texas Premiere)
Penelope
Showrunner/Director: Mel Eslyn, Screenwriters: Mark Duplass, Mel Eslyn, Producer: Meghan Mowery
Feeling misplaced in trendy society, a 16-year-old is drawn into the unknown wilderness, the place she begins forming a brand new life for herself. Forged: Megan Stott, Austin Abrams (Texas Premiere)
Ryley Walker & Mates
Director: Mark Duplass, Producer: Daniel Chelemer
Ryley visits English singer-songwriter Bridget St. John. (World Premiere)
XR EXPERIENCE
The immersive arts improve and redefine how we expertise the world. These initiatives emphasize ingenuity and storytelling throughout various industries. XR Expertise is offered by ASU MIX Heart and the Herberger Institute.
XR Expertise Competitors
World premieres of thoughts bending immersive artwork.
Final We Left Off (Canada)
Administrators: The Expats: Connor Illsley, Jon Riera, Grayson Moore, Aidan Shipley Producers: Cameron MacLaren, Peter Fisher, Connor Illsley, Jon Riera
When a bunch of associates rent a Dungeon Grasp to steer them by means of a tabletop role-playing recreation, they get greater than they bargained for. Because the strains between fantasy and actuality blur, our characters’ inescapable pasts come again to hang-out them. (World Premiere)
We Converse Their Names in Hushed Tones (Nigeria, South Africa)
Director: Omoregie Osakpolor Producers: Ingrid Kopp, Steven Markovitz, Antoinette Engel
Relations of lacking migrants who traveled by means of irregular migration routes to Europe wrestle with anxiousness, ache and unresolved hope. (World Premiere)
XR Expertise Highlight
Masterful immersive artwork from around the globe.
444.2 (South Africa)
Director: Nirma Madhoo, Producers: Ingrid Kopp, Steven Markovitz, Antoinette Engel
The primary star cluster mapped by the unique stargazers constellates 444.2 mild years away from Earth. African cosmology and volumetric vogue efficiency on the positioning of the Southern African Giant Telescope mesmerize on a chic journey to house.
(North American Premiere)
Energēia (France)
Director/Screenwriter: Ugo Arsac
Energēia is an immersive documentary expertise that questions the way forward for vitality use. Free of gravity, the customer can discover ghostly buildings, constructed from 3D scans inside French nuclear energy vegetation to find hidden interviews. (Worldwide Premiere)
The Imaginary Buddy (Netherlands)
Director/Screenwriter: Steye Hallema, Producer: Corine Meijers
A younger little one with a vivid creativeness struggles to make sense of the world round him, he wants YOU–his imaginary good friend–to assist him navigate his emotions. (North American Premiere)
Shadowtime (US, Netherlands, Turkey)
Administrators/Screenwriters: Sister Sylvester, Deniz Tortum, Producers: Firat Sezgin, Ecegül Bayram
You might be in two worlds on the similar time. Your physique is within the different world, however your coronary heart is on this one. (North American Premiere)
Songs for a Passerby (Netherlands)
Director: Celine Daemen
A dreamlike VR-opera about our expertise of time. How can we relate to a world of issues which might be passing? Are we part of it? Or are we simply taking a look at it? (North American Premiere)
