Screamfest 2024 Video
2024 Horror Film Festival
Screamfest is returning to Hollywood in October 2024 for its 24th edition. Recently, the first wave of the film lineup was released.
Screamfest
Screamfest Horror Film Festival (aka Screamfest) is a horror film festival founded by producers Rachel Belofsky and Ross Martin in 2001 that premiers and showcases new work from American and international independent horror filmmakers. The festival is hosted at the TCL Chinese 6 Theaters in Los Angeles, California every year for ten days in October. The awards – known as the Screamfest Skull Awards – come in several categories, including but not limited to Best Animation, Best Documentary, Best Feature, Best Short, Best Student Film, Cinematography, Directing, Editing, Future Icon Award, Musical Score, Special Effects, and Trailblazer Award. Occasionally, career achievement awards are given away at the festivals.
2024 Lineup
The first release of films in the lineup include: 1978 (Argentina, 2024) – North American Premiere; The A-Frame (US, 2024) – West Coast Premiere; ALO – Antropophagus Legacy (Italy, 2024) – World Premiere; Animale (France, 2024) – West Coast Premiere; BA (US, 2024) – LA Premiere; Beacon (US, 2024) – LA Premiere; Carved (US, 2024) – World Premiere; The Complex Forms (Italy, 2024) – LA Premiere; Dead Mail (USA, 2024) – LA Premiere; Drained (UK, 2024) – World Premiere; Else (France, Belgium, 2024) – West Coast Premiere; In Our Blood (US, 2024)- US Premiere; Mr. Crocket (US, 2024) – West Coast Premiere; Scared Shitless (Canada, 2024) – US Premiere; Test Screening (USA, 2024) – North American Premiere; The Witch. Revenge (Ukraine, 2024) – North American Premiere; The Weekend (Nigeria, 2024) – West Coast Premiere.
Filmmakers, Directors, and Highlights
Two films from the lineup – produced by WorthenBrooks – will premiere on Hulu in late 2024, including Screamfest alumn Brandon Espy’s Mr. Crocker and Justin Harding’s Carved. Other directors and filmmakers include Emma Westenberg (Fresh Blood), Rachel Talalay (The Underground), Joe DeBoer and Kyle McConaghy (Dead Mail), Sean Patrick Cronin and Peter Stylianous (Drained), and Dario Germani (ALO – Antropophagus Legacy). Alongside full-length films are highlights from the 2024 shorts program. Some filmmakers and directors include Felipe Vargas (Hive), Dakota Daulby and Harrison Houde (Adjoining), and Jake Bradbury and Toni Blando (Disfigura). A few other noteworthy directors are Nicolás Onetti and Luciano Onetti, Calvin Lee Reeder, and Fabio D’Orta
Date and Tickets
Screamfest will take place from October 18-17, 2024 at the TCL Chinese Theater in Hollywood. Tickets will soon be available for purchase on the Screamfest website: screamfestla.com.
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