He Chattanooga Film Festival 2024 has revealed the first wave of feature film programming for the 11th edition of the event taking place at the historic haunted hotel, The Road House.
This year's hybrid edition, taking place June 21-28, 2024, will include event screenings of The Twilight Zone and Faster Pussycat, Kill Kill, plus 30 other feature films and dozens of short films, live podcasts, and the now festival's infamous series of secret late-night screenings, The Red Eye.
The first wave of features can be found below. More information can be found in the website.
First wave of the 2024 Chattanooga Film Festival
A guide to becoming an elm
Directors Adam Mann, Skye Mann | Canada 2023
Padraig embarks on a journey to turn a living tree into a coffin for his now dead and buried wife. He manages to break into an eccentric carpentry shop. What begins as an act to help ease pain and guilt slowly descends into a heartbreaking and selfish game of discovery; as John takes Padraig deeper into the world of Irish folklore and ancient magic.
*Hybrid
Another face
Director Christopher Wilcha | United States 2023
When filmmaker Chris Wilcha revisits the record store he worked at as a teenager in New Jersey, he discovers that the once-thriving bastion of music and weirdness of his youth is slowly crumbling and out of touch with the times. FLIPSIDE documents his tragicomic attempt to revive the store while revisiting other documentary projects he has abandoned over the years. In the process, Wilcha captures This American Life icon Ira Glass in the midst of a creative renaissance, uncovers the origin story of David Bowie's ode to a local New Jersey cable TV hero, and uncovers the unlikely connection between jazz photographer Herman Leonard and television writer. David Milch. This disparate collection of stories comes together into something strange and expansive: a moving meditation on music, work, and the sacrifices and satisfaction of trying to live a creative life.
*Only in person
Ganymede
Directors Coby Holt, Sam Probst | United States 2023
When the son of a small-town politician falls in love with his openly gay classmate, he finds himself haunted by a grotesque creature that increasingly inhabits his thoughts and threatens physical harm.
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ghost game
Director Jill Gevargizian | United States 2024
Presented by DREAD: Taking part in an internet challenge that requires breaking into homes and living undetected alongside the residents, a thrill-seeking couple heads to an infamous haunted house and endures a series of chilling incidents while witnessing How a family falls into madness.
*Only in person
Humanistic vampire looking for a suicidal person who consents
Director Ariane Louis-Seize | Australia 2024
Sasha is a young vampire with a serious problem: she is too sensitive to kill. When her exasperated parents cut off her blood supply, Sasha's life is in danger. Luckily, she meets Paul, a lonely, suicidal teenager who is willing to give up his life to save hers. But her friendly agreement soon turns into a nightly quest to fulfill Paul's final wishes before he rises.
*Only in person
Sleep
DirectorJason Yu | South Korea 2023
A young wife-to-be must discover how to stop her husband's nightmarish sleepwalking habits before she harms herself or her family.
*Only in person
Someone dies!
Director Justin Petty | United States 2023
North American premiere
A lazy detective investigates a cryptic note that leads to the discovery of an incomprehensible kitchen sink.
*Hybrid
Sweet Relief
Director Nick Verdi | United States 2023
Presented by ART BRUT FILMS – The dangerous inclinations of a woman, a sadistic child killer, and the panic surrounding an online murder challenge reveal the insidious violence of a small New England town.
*Hybrid
The Vourdalak
Director Adrien Beau | France 2023
Lost in a hostile forest, the Marquis of Urfé, a noble emissary of the King of France, finds refuge in the home of a strange family.
*Only in person
Video vision
World Premiere
Director Michael Turney | United States 2023
When an old VCR mysteriously appears at the Video Vision digitizing facility, it begins to affect employee Kibby (Andrea Figliomeni) in strange ways. Meanwhile, an unlikely romance with a trans man (Chrystal Peterson) has Kibby's head in the clouds until she is brought to her knees by a supernatural force that is slowly taking control of her body and mind. When Kibby and Gator investigate the origins of the VCR, they discover that it has unknowingly unlocked Dr. Analog's dark dimension.
*Hybrid
The wheel of heaven
Director José Badon | United States 2024
In this genre-hopping “cinematic mixtape,” a woman trapped in predatory relationships is thrown into a multi-layered world of choice after discovering a mystical book in a thrift store.
*Hybrid
