The Chattanooga Film Festival doesn’t hold back! And why it should be? This year’s CFF has gathered a massive wave of films that will please every genre cinema fan! This year’s lineup boasts a whopping over 40 feature films, including 3 World Premieres, alongside over 80 mind-bending short films.
Chattanooga Film Festival: From cinephiles to cinephiles
The festival kicks off with a tribute to the late filmmaker Jeff Burr, a champion of genre cinema. Fans can catch a rare workprint of his film “LEATHERFACE” closer to his original vision. As for the screenings, CFF is proud to present “THE FIX,” a dystopian thriller starring Grace Van Dien and Clancy Brown, plus “SOMNIUM,” a mind-bending exploration of dreams, and “SLEEP, WAKE, FORGET,” a haunting story of survival by filmmaker Ariel Vida.
There’s something for everyone with films like the heartwarming “OFF-RAMP,” the chilling holiday horror “CARNAGE FOR CHRISTMAS,” and the deeply personal “THE LONELY MAN AND THE GHOST MACHINE” by CFF alum Graham Skipper.
Chattanooga Film Festival’s legendary short film blocks return! Expect favorites like “Salutes Your Shorts” and “WTF” alongside expanded editions of “Dangerous Visions” and “Fun Size Epics.” Plus, a World Premiere – “13TH NIGHT” by author Benjamin Percy – debuts in “Dangerous Visions.” Catch Percy for a post-screening signing and Q&A!
Beyond screenings, CFF offers a vibrant festival experience. Browse the “PHYSICAL MEDIA RODEO” for unique merchandise, catch live podcasts, attend educational events, or unwind at whiskey, pizza, or watch parties. With virtual options and extensive Q&As, CFF caters to film lovers everywhere.
Chattanooga Film Festival: The 2024 line-up
As in its tenth edition, the festival will be presented in a hybrid format, with both in-person and virtual programming. The festival’s in-person dates, June 21-24, will again be held at Chattanooga’s historic haunted hotel, The Read House.
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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
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, and 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 the police after a robbery, two estranged siblings lay low in a farmhouse that hides them away at different time. There they reckon with a mysterious force that pushes their familial bonds to unnatural breaking points.
*In-Person Only
Short Film Blocks
CFF Salutes Your Shorts – Student & Regional Shorts
- Analog Exorcism – Directed by Jim Shashaty
- A Portrait of Elizabeth – Directed by Corey Simpson
- Big Break – Directed by Harrison Shook
- Dead Presidents – Directed by Ryan Lilienfield
- Descension – Directed by Valery Garcia
- Hope Chest – Directed by Dycee Wildman, Jennifer Bonior
- Implications of the Bootstrap Paradox on Spatiotemporal Continuity – Directed by Shaler Keenum
- Kino Kopf – Directed by Jack Cosgriff
- Out of Order – Directed by Catherine Mosier-Mills
- Washed Up – Directed by Thomas
Dangerous Visions – Horror and Sci-Fi Shorts
- 13th Night – Directed by Benjamin Percy
- Accidental Stars – Directed by Emily Bennett
- Butterscotch – Directed by Alexander Lee Deeds
- Dream Creep – Directed by Carlos A.F. Lopez
- Hi! You Are Currently Being Recorded – by Anna Maguire, Kyle Greenberg
- Let’s Go Disco – Directed by Austin Lewis
- Pit Stop – Directed by David A. Flores
- Souling – Directed by Jacquelyn Ferguson
- The Influencer – Directed by Lael Rogers
- The Thaw – Directed by Sarah Wisner, Sean Temple
WTF (Watch These Films) – Strange & Magical Shorts
- Body – Directed by Ronald Short
- Cart Return – Directed by Matt Webb
- Gum – Directed by Sam Elder
- Like Me – Directed by Ashley Thomas
- Make Me a Pizza – Directed by Talia Shea Levin
- One Happy Customer – Directed by WATTS
- Stairwell – Directed by David Britton, Anthony Ceceri
- The 44th Chamber of Shaolin – Directed by Jon Truei
- The Curse of the Velvet Vampire – Directed by Christoffer Sandau Schuricht
- The Rainbow Bridge – Directed by Dimitri Simakis
- Type A – Directed by Jake Barcus
- Two Women Make a Lunch Plan – Directed by Elizabeth Archer
- We Joined a Cult – Directed by Chris McInroy
Bride of WTF
- A.A. – Directed by Auden Bui
- A Visual Poem – Directed by Benjamin N. Walant
- All is Lost – Directed by Carla Pereira, Juanfran Jacinto
- Burn Out – Directed by Russell Goldman
- Catacombs – Directed by Chad Cunningham
- Disciple – Directed by Boston Enderle
- Don’t You Dare Film Me Now – Directed by Cade Featherstone
- Fck’n Nuts – Directed by Sam Fox
- Hunky Dory – Directed by Steven Vander Meer
- Krampuss – Directed by Guðni Líndal Benediktsson
- Ouchie – Directed by Kyle Kuchta
- Quiet! Mom’s Working! – Directed by P Patrick Hogan
- Shadow – Directed by Kamell Allaway
- The Crossing Over Express – Directed by Luke Barnett, Tanner Thomason
So Long and Thanks For all the Dangerous Visions
- Apotemnofilia – Directed by Jano Pita
- Come Back Haunted – Directed by Logan James Freeman
- Consumer – Directed by Matthew Fisher
- Giallo – Directed by Yogesh Chandekar
- Nian – Directed by Michelle Krusiec
- Night Feeding – Directed by Sarah K. Reimers
- Outer Reaches – Directed by Karl Redgen
- Roger is a Serial Killer – Directed by Don Swaynos
- Spooky Crew – Directed by Erin Broussard
- Strange Creatures – Directed by Nicholas Payne Santos
- That’s Our Time – Directed by Alex Backes
- The Cost of Flesh – Directed by Tomas Palombi
- The Little Curse – Directed by Nicholas Berger, Dana Berry
- The Noise – Directed by Jillian Shea Spaeder, Bryce Gheisar
- When Shadows Lay Darkest – Jacob Leighton Burns
Funsize Epics Vol 1.
- Amos’ Bride – Directed by Yakako Fujimori
- Caller 102: A Ballad of Cyberspace – Directed by Turner Barrowman, Jack Goldfisher
- Cotton Candy Sky – Directed by Michael Curtis Johnson
- Dumpster Archeology – Directed by Dustie Carter
- Get Me Off This F@*king Planet Quincy – Directed by John Yost
- Honk – Directed by Charles de Lauzirika
- Hot Soda – Directed by Nello DiGiandomenico
- Redcoat – Directed by Michaela Hounslow
- Seraphim – Directed by Oscar Ramos
- Spiral to the Center – Directed by Alisa Stern, Scott Ampleford
- The Dumpster Dive – Directed by Laura Asherman
- Villa Mink – Directed by Darron Carswell
- We Need Some Space – Directed by Ian Geatz, Antonio Zapiain Luna
Funsize Epics Vol 2.
- Carnivora – Directed by Felipe Vargas
- Dark Mommy – Directed by Courtney Eck
- Eyes Like Yours – Directed by Gabrielle Chapman
- Floater – Directed by D. M. Harring
- Good Girls Get Fed – Directed by Kelly Lou Dennis
- Inked – Directed by Kelsey Bollig
- Lost Boys Pizza – Directed by Cassie Llanas
- Mort – Directed by Charlie Queen
- Madame Hattori’s Izakaya – Directed by Shanna Fujii
- Robbie Ain’t Right No More – Directed by Kyle Perritt
- The Garden of Edette – Directed by Guinevere Fey Thomas
- The Kindness of Strangers – Directed by Stu Silverman
- The Lonely Portrait – Directed by Marc Marashi
- Too Slow – Directed by Danielle McRae Spisso, Stephen Vanderpool
- Up on the Housetop – Directed by Dakota Millett, Michael Fischer
- Vespa – Directed by Olívia Ramos
- Volition – Directed by Ashley George
Save the date for 21-28 June and book your tickets for the virtual or in person experience to the spookiest Summer fest!
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