SCAD SAVANNAH Film Festival

SCAD Savannah – Fall 2022 – Savannah Film Festival – Red Carpet – Day 04 – Broughton Street – Photography Courtesy of SCAD

The event that Transforms Savannah Georgia’s Broughton Street in to a Hollywood Style Bash. 

October 21st-28th 2023

The Savannah College of Art and Design’s 26th annual SCAD Savannah Film Festival will return on October 21–28, 2023. The largest university-run film festival in the U.S., this eight-day celebration of cinematic excellence honors both professional and student filmmakers and welcomes major industry luminaries, including award-winning directors, writers, and actors.

Joe Manganiello

This year, the festival will kick off Saturday, Oct. 21, with the opening night screening of ‘NYAD,’ directed by Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin. The festival culminates Saturday, Oct. 28, with the closing night screening of “Origin,” filmed in Savannah and directed by Ava DuVernay. A key stop on the Academy Awards festival circuit, the SCAD Savannah Film Festival will screen 164 films, including 48 narrative feature films, 17 documentary feature films, and 100 shorts, with 10 world premieres and 4 U.S. premieres.

Asa Butterfield And Norman Reedus

The 2023 schedule includes Gala and Signature Screenings, professional and student competition films, the Docs to Watch, Sketch to Screen: Top Animated Contenders, Shorts Spotlight, Global Shorts Forum series, and the Behind the Lens panel series. The SCAD Savannah Film Festival has screened more than 180 Academy Award-nominated films and has honored more than 100 legendary actors, directors, producers, writers, and filmmakers from around the world. Students from an array of the university’s top ranked programs, including acting, animation, film and television, sound design, animation, themed entertainment design, dramatic writing, and more, will have the opportunity to engage and interact with these creative leaders throughout the festival providing insight that prepares them for future creative careers in the entertainment industry. 

Madelyn Cline Red Carpet Scad Savannah Film Festival 2022

SCAD Savannah – Fall 2015 – Meg Ryan Savannah Film Festival – Red Carpet, Thursday Night – Jen Library – Photography by Raftermen.

SCAD Savannah Film Festival Signature Screenings

Barbie 

(Director Greta Gerwig) 

BS High 

(Directors Travon Free and Martin Desmond Roe)

Expats 

(Director Lulu Wang) 

Isle of Hope 

(Director Damian Romay)

First Look:

“The Color Purple”

(Director Blitz Bazawule)

La La Land 

(Director Damien Chazelle)

Oppenheimer

(Director Christopher Nolan)

Savannah Film Festival / Eddie Redmayne

Past Lives 

(Director Celine Song)

Shadow Men: Inside Russia’s Secret War Company 

(Director Candace Rondeaux)

War Pony 

(Directors Gina Gammell & Riley Keough) 

SCAD Savannah – Fall 2017 – Savannah Film Festival – Green Room, Sunday Night – Jen Library – Photography Courtesy of SCAD

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