The Chattanooga Movie Pageant—affectionately identified to its followers as “Summer time Camp for Cinephiles”—returns from June 20 to June 28 for its twelfth annual occasion! In response to the workforce, this 12 months’s fest is already shaping as much as be probably the most jam-packed within the historical past of a competition well-known for jam-packing! In anticipation of the 2025 competition, we’re sharing the primary wave of their programming!
This 12 months’s Chattanooga Movie Pageant will host the world premieres of director Shane Brady‘s horror comedy Hacked: A Double Entendre of Rage Fueled Karma; Trevor Stevens’ crime comedy The Misadventures of Vine & Hick; and Casey T. Malone’s splendidly bizarre The Harbor Males.
Chattanooga Movie Pageant continues its dedication to viewers accessibility with a full digital and hybrid slate together with the third 12 months of its wildly profitable fan-favorite late-night secret screening collection, the Crimson Eye. Along with their viewers accessibility initiatives, CFF organizers strongly consider within the energy and significance of human creativity over soulless applied sciences typically taught utilizing the pirated works of creators of all sorts, and with this in thoughts made the choice to ban movies made with the usage of generative AI software program.
These occasions, together with greater than 40 extra options and dozens of quick movies, stay podcasts, and the fest’s notorious nightly secret screening collection (the Crimson Eye), are positive to please longtime followers and newcomers who can entry the competition’s digital choices from anyplace within the U.S. Badges can be found on the market now at https://chattfilmfest.eventive.org/.
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CROSSWORD (d. Michael Vlamis)
Following the dying of their daughter, Tessa pours herself into her best-selling youngsters’s e-book collection, “Lily Learns,” whereas her husband, James, makes an attempt to seek out solace within the each day crossword however shortly unravels because the puzzles appear to tackle a thoughts of their very own.
GOOD NIGHT (d. Matías Szulanski)
U.S. Premiere
A younger Brazilian lady travels to Argentina to go to her aunt, however after a misunderstanding and the lack of her belongings, she should kill time till the following morning.
HACKED: A DOUBLE ENTENDRE OF RAGE FUELED KARMA (d. Shane Brady)
World Premiere
Primarily based on true occasions: When their $20K house deposit is stolen by Florida’s most elusive Hacker – The Chameleon – the Rumble household snaps and goes full “John Wick” …Besides with approach worse planning, extra stupidity, and a 5-foot tall battle axe. It’s a revenge mission so insane, that it would truly work.
THE HARBOR MEN (d. Casey T. Malone)
World Premiere
Throughout a waterfront viral outbreak, dock employee Steven Dorre witnesses a wierd homicide that places him in possession of a case—the contents of which convey into query all the things he thought he knew to be true.
HOT SPRING SHARK ATTACK (d. Morihito Inoue)
U.S. Premiere, Opening Night time Choice
In a small scorching spring city in Japan, a ferocious historic shark reawakens and begins terrorizing the native scorching spring services. Because the risk escalates, the townspeople band collectively to guard their beloved city from the menacing predator, resulting in a fierce and thrilling battle.
HOUSE OF ASHES (d. Izzy Lee)
Grieving widow Mia should survive psychological and supernatural horrors whereas below home arrest.
HUNG UP ON A DREAM: THE ZOMBIES DOCUMENTARY (d. Robert Schwartzman)
British Invasion icons The Zombies replicate on paving 60 years and counting of their musical path from teenage associates to legends within the Rock and Roll Corridor of Fame.
I HATE MYSELF AND WANT TO DIE (d. J. Davis)
I Hate Myself and Need to Die is a darkish comedy a couple of depressed younger man whose makes an attempt to kill himself hold getting interrupted by his household and associates. Unaware of his intentions, they pull him into more and more weird adventures over the course of a single night time, whereas he appears again on his life and decides whether or not or to not undergo together with his lethal plan.
I REALLY LOVE MY HUSBAND (d. G.G. Hawkins)
When a girl grows disillusioned along with her golden-boy husband throughout their tropical honeymoon, she recruits an enigmatic expat to spice issues up—for higher or worse.
KING BABY (d. Equipment Redstone, Arran Shearing)
A warped fashionable fairytale performs out in a crumbling “kingdom” populated solely by a king and a servant. The arrival of a model queen throws their rigorously constructed world into isolation, insanity, and murderous megalomania.
THE MISADVENTURES OF VINCE & HICK (d. Trevor Stevens)
World Premiere
Not too long ago launched from jail, Hick Dunn needs nothing greater than to make it to his daughter Katie’s tenth birthday celebration throughout the US desert. An opportunity encounter with a silver-tongued con man named Vince Campbell opens a chance for Hick to get a experience. The catch? He has to revert again to a lifetime of felony misadventures.
OBEX (d. Albert Birney)
Conor Marsh lives a secluded life together with his canine, Sandy, till at some point he begins enjoying OBEX, a brand new, state-of-the-art pc recreation. When Sandy goes lacking, the road between actuality and recreation blurs and Conor should enterprise into the unusual world of OBEX to convey her house.
OPERATION WAKALIGA: FATE AND BLOOD (d. Ori Yakobovich, Maya Rudich, Nabwana IGG)
U.S. Premiere
A primary-of-its-kind action-comedy cooperation between Wakaliwood in Uganda and Israel. The Ugandan tiger mafia kidnaps the son of the prime minister of Israel. This shadow group identified for black magic and mastery of kung fu, are planning to sacrifice the son prime minister so as to carry out a singular spell that requires royal Jewish blood. With a view to rescue him, the State of Israel sends a pair of particular commando fighters to Uganda, whose partnership was damaged up by a bitter battle prior to now. If the commandos aren’t capable of overcome their troublesome previous the destiny of the Jewish and the Ugandan folks may be doomed eternally.
PAVEMENTS (d. Alex Ross Perry)
An examination of the long-lasting 90s indie band, “Pavements” seems to be simply one other music documentary, till it doesn’t. A prismatic, narrative, scripted, documentary, musical, metatextual hybrid, the movie intimately reveals the band making ready for his or her sold-out 2022 reunion tour whereas concurrently monitoring the preparations for a musical primarily based on their songs, a museum dedicated to their historical past and a big-budget Hollywood biopic impressed by their saga as an important band of a era.
THE PEE PEE POO POO MAN (d. Braden Sitter Sr.)
A paranoid younger man launches a weird crime spree in opposition to the residents of Toronto on this psycho-spiritual thriller comedy starring Rishi Rodriguez, Spencer Rice (Kenny vs. Spenny), and Paul Bellini (Children within the Corridor).
The Chattanooga Movie Pageant is a 501c3 non-profit run completely by a small however passionate crew of volunteers. All proceeds from the competition’s ticket and badge gross sales and donations go on to the staging of every 12 months’s competition. For extra info, go to chattfilmfest.org or observe us on Instagram, Fb, Bluesky, TikTok, and YouTube and even be part of our month-to-month digital secret screening collection with the Double Secret Cinema Society on Patreon.
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