Chattanooga Film Festival Announces Massive Wave of 2024 Programming
Mary Beth McAndrews
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Get pumped, folks, because the Chattanooga Film Festival (CFF) has announced their final, massive wave of programming, including 21 additional features and more than 80 short films. And it’s kicking off with a tribute to festival friend the late filmmaker Jeff Burr, which is free to attend for anyone who wants to celebrate the life and films of Burr.
The Chattanooga Film Festival team has also added three more world premieres to the line-up: Kelsey Egan’s The Fix, Ariel Vida’s Sleep, Wake, Forget, and Racheal Cain’s Somnium (starring Chloe Levine from The Sacrifice Game). Other films recently announced include Alice Maio Mackay’s Carnage for Christmas and Graham Skipper’s The Lonely Man And The Ghost.
And course there are the Chattanooga Film Festival short film showcases, including Chattanooga Film Festival Salutes Your Shorts, Dangerous Visions, and WTF (Watch These Films). This year, the festival will also once again run two blocks of Fun Size Epics, which feature films that aren’t quite shorts but aren’t quite feature films, either. New this year are Bride of WTF and So Long And Thanks For All The Dangerous Visions, both the second volume of their respective long-running short blocks.
For the complete schedule of both in-person and virtual screenings and events, visit chattfilmfest.org.
Check Out All Of The Newly Added Films for the 2024 Chattanooga Film Festival:
Blind Cop 2
Director Alec Bonk | United States 2023
Blind Cop, the former beacon of justice, is consumed by grief after the mysterious death of his partner in the first movie. (There is no first movie.) His once-illustrious career has been reduced to drunken disorderly conduct, putting him at odds with the police force. In his investigation of a new influx of arms trafficking, Blind Cop discovers a lead that connects the illegal weapons to his partner’s death.
However, he is fired from the force for his reckless behavior. Now Blind Cop must venture into the dark underworld of the city to continue his investigation. With the help of a bright-eyed young man who wants to follow in his footsteps, they will uncover a web of deceit and corruption that will challenge Blind Cop’s perceptions of justice and morality.
The truth he seeks may not be what he expected, but he will stop at nothing to avenge his fallen partner and bring the criminals responsible to justice.
*Virtual
Cannibal Mukbang
Director Aimee Kuge | United States 2023
An introverted nerd finds himself dangerously deep inside the crazy world of mukbanging after he falls head over heels for a mysterious woman.
*Virtual
Canvas
Directors Kimberly Stuckwisch, Melora Donoghue | United States 2022
Pitted against each other since youth and raised to believe true artists are only formed through suffering, two sisters reunite after years of estrangement. One sister learns authenticity and the other regret, but neither escapes the sins of their father.
*Virtual
Carnage For Christmas – Southeast Premiere
Alice Maio Mackay | Australia 2023
When true-crime podcaster and sleuth Lola visits her hometown at Christmas for the first time since running away and transitioning, the vengeful ghost of a historical murderer and urban legend seemingly arises to kill again. Lola must solve the case before her community is slaughtered. She’s up against not only a psychotic killer, but a town haunted by secrets.
*Virtual
Daughter of the Sun
Director Ryan Ward | Canada 2023
A 12-year-old girl struggles with life on the run as she travels across the country with her father who has Tourette Syndrome. Wanting nothing more than a normal family life, she befriends a community of outcasts in the remote countryside who want to harness a volatile supernatural power her father is hiding.
*Virtual
Falling Stars
Directors Richard Karpala, Gabriel Bienczycki | United States 2023
On the first night of harvest, three brothers set out for the desert to see a witch’s corpse.
*In-Person
In the Name of God
Director Ludwig Gur | Sweden 2024
After the wife of Theodor, a 40-year-old priest, falls seriously ill, he seeks guidance from his old mentor who convinces him he has been chosen by God to rid the world of sinners to bring new life to true believers. He then commits his first murder, convinced it is a necessary sacrifice in service of his divine mission. At the moment of the murder, his wife’s health improves and the congregation starts referring to him as the “miracle priest,” knowing nothing of his horrible act. But lurking in the shadows is a disbelieving man who begins to uncover the bloody traces of the priest’s unholy deeds.
*Virtual
Killington
Directors Mark Dudzinksi, Frank Perz | United States 2023
When a group of women from Manhattan win a weekend getaway with wellness influencer Kali to picturesque Killington, Vermont, the creepy local vibes and characters take on a life of their own. Tensions spark among the longtime friends as Kali pushes their boundaries, and things take an unexpected turn.
*Virtual
Love And Work
Director Pete Ohs | United States 2023
Diane and Fox love to work. Unfortunately, they live in a polarized world where having a job is illegal.
*Hybrid
NOCLIP
Directors Gavin Charles, Alex Conn | United States 2023
Two filmmakers set out on an adventure into a creepy old mall, only to find themselves lost in an increasingly claustrophobic maze of hallways, liminal spaces, stairwells, and backrooms in this comedic found footage horror film.
*Virtual
Off Ramp
Director Nathan Tape | United States 2023
A couple of lovable, degenerate Juggalos must sojourn through America’s hellish underbelly to The Gathering of the Juggalos, the one place on earth they feel accepted.
*Virtual
Quantum Suicide
Director Gerrit Van Woudenberg | Canada 2023
A reclusive physicist builds a particle accelerator in his garage and embarks on a quest to understand the nature of reality. In the process of his experiments, he suffers radiation poisoning, loses his vision, and alienates his partner, who eventually leaves him. But in his obsession he finds clarity and the key to understanding our reality. There is one final test he must perform.
*Virtual
Red Rooms
Director Pascal Plante | France 2024
The high-profile case of serial killer Ludovic Chevalier has just gone to trial, and Kelly-Anne is obsessed. When reality blurs with her morbid fantasies, she goes down a dark path to seek the final piece of the puzzle: the missing video of a murdered 13-year-old girl, to whom Kelly-Anne bears a disturbing resemblance.
*In Person
Sleep, Wake, Forget – World Premiere
Ariel Vida | United States
In a fallen world, a young man will stop at nothing to save his brother from becoming one of the creatures they have spent their lives running from.
*Hybrid
SOMNIUM – World Premiere
Director Racheal Cain | United States 2023
At an experimental sleep clinic, Somnium, your dreams are made real. Side effects may include: hallucinations, confusion, paranoia, sleep paralysis, detachment from reality, lost sense of self, permanent nightmares.
*In-Person
The Buildout
Director Zeshaan Younus | United States 2023
A friendship is tested as two women experience something strange in the desert.
*Virtual
The Fix – World Premiere
Director Kelsey Egan | South Africa 2023
A dark, dystopian thrill ride with an environmental slant, The Fix explores identity, perception and autonomy in a frighteningly viable future. A toxic compound infects earth’s atmosphere. Pharmaceutical giant, Aethera, sells immunity to those who can afford the daily dose… most can’t. When a troubled model takes a new designer drug at a house party, she suffers a shocking transformation. Pursued by a dangerous gang and authorities in cahoots with Aethera, she hunts desperately for a “fix” to reverse the drug’s effects… only to discover that her mutations could save the human race.
*Hybrid
The Lonely Man With The Ghost Machine
Director Graham Skipper | United States 2023
The last man on Earth after a global catastrophe finds himself questioning his purpose and sanity as both his dead wife and a mysterious stranger confront him with his past, his present, and whatever future might remain in the wastes of a dead world.
*Virtual
The UFOS of Soesterberg
Director Bram Roza | Netherlands 2023
In the early morning of February 3, 1979, a mysterious object flew over Soesterberg Air Base. At least twelve soldiers witnessed this. Despite being in the middle of the cold war this event has still remained unexplained. And that is not the only anomalous sighting in that specific part of the Netherlands…
*Virtual
Things Will Be Different
Director Michael Felker | United States 2024
In order to escape police after a robbery, two estranged siblings lay low in a farmhouse that hides them away in a different time. There they reckon with a mysterious force that pushes their familial bonds to unnatural breaking points.
*In-Person Only
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