10.7.24

The SCAD Savannah Film Festival will return Saturday, Oct. 26 through Saturday, Nov. 2 for its 27th edition




The SCAD Savannah Film Festival will return Saturday, Oct. 26 through Saturday, Nov. 2, 2024 for its 27th year of celebrating the year’s most buzzworthy films.



Presented by the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD), the SCAD Savannah Film Festival is filled with cinematic creativity from award-winning professionals and emerging student filmmakers. Each year, more than 63,000 people attend the eight-day festival. The annual festival kicks off with a gala opening night screening, while the rest of the week features scheduled competition screenings, premiere screenings, workshops, lectures, and panels. The “Docs to Watch” series, hosted by Scott Feinberg of The Hollywood Reporter, will spotlight the 10 best documentaries of the year; Variety returns with its “Artisans to Watch” and “Pixels and Pencils” programming; Entertainment Weekly with “Breaking Big,” spotlighting the next generation of Hollywood talent, and Amazon MGM Studios are back for a second year with the LGBTQIA+ Shorts Competition.



The SCAD Savannah Film Festival has become a distinguished stop on the road to the Academy Awards, hosting exclusive screenings, competition films, feature films, documentaries, shorts, animated films, panel discussions, and workshops at SCAD's historic theaters and industry-leading studio spaces.



During the 2023 SCAD Savannah Film Festival, SCAD screened 26 Oscar-nominated films including nine of the 10 films nominated for best picture. Twenty-five of the festival's honorees, panelists and other visiting guests received nominations including cinematographer Hoyte van Hoytema from Oppenheimer, director Cord Jefferson from American Fiction, production designer James Price and costume designer Holly Waddington. SCAD alumni also worked on three of the five films nominated for best animated feature: Elemental, Nimona and Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse.



The 2023 festival's guests and honorees included Kevin Bacon, Ava DuVernay, Emerald Fennell, Sarah Greenwood, Todd Haynes, Cord Jefferson, Greta Lee, Eva Longoria, Jeff Nichols, Peter Sarsgaard, Cailee Spaeny, Katie Spencer, Hoyte van Hoytema, George C. Wolfe.



Festival passes for 2024 are available now. Individual event tickets will go on sale Friday, Oct. 4, 2024 online at https://filmfest.scad.edu, by phone at 912.525.5050, or in person at the SCAD Box Office (scadboxoffice.com) at 216 E. Broughton St. in Savannah. Follow the festival on Facebook and Instagram @savfilmfest and TikTok @scaddotedu.



For additional information and tickets, visit filmfest.scad.edu.

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