FilmQuest, one of many largest style festivals on the earth and considered one of MovieMaker Journal’s “25 Coolest Movie Festivals within the World” in 2024, begins its eleventh season, in Downtown Provo this week and runs ten full days from October twenty fourth – November 2nd.
The pageant is headlined with tasks from and that includes Ed Harris, Joel McHale, Felicia Day, Doug Jones, Barbara Crampton, Tony Todd, Tobin Bell, Patricia Heaton, Cristo Fernández, Donal Logue, Peter Stormare, Katie Parker, Danny Trejo, and extra all through the over 300 movies showcased at FilmQuest this season, which incorporates characteristic movies and quick movies from 30 nations showcasing the trade’s hottest and greatest up-and-coming style filmmaking expertise.
“Annually, within the coronary heart of Utah, FilmQuest continues to defy expectations and switch heads all through the movie trade because it has firmly established itself as one of many world’s nice style movie festivals” stated Competition Founder & Director Jonathan Martin.
“The pageant has change into a landmark occasion centered in one of the crucial unlikely of locations, and it shouldn’t be missed by anybody who loves cinema or has aspirations of a profession within the movie trade.
“You merely aren’t going to make higher connections than you’ll on the pageant to advance your alternatives and notice your desires.
“For many who haven’t skilled the pageant, there may be by no means a greater time to return and see for your self what all of the fuss is about and to seek out out why the style movie trade has stood up and brought discover.”
Among the many many highlights from a program wealthy with feminine filmmakers contains the World Premiere of the extremely anticipated characteristic debut from Joanna Tsanis The Killgrin, the sci-fi comedy from Stimson Snead Tim Travers and the Time Traveler’s Paradox, Angela Gulner’s supernatural thriller The Beldham, the epic animated characteristic movie animated totally by one particular person, The Worlds Divide, the cosmic horror movie The Dæmon, Racheal Cain’s mind-bending sci-fi expertise Somnium, and the Tony Todd and Tobin Bell starring alien invasion movie The Bunker.
Labs and Workshops from distributors, podcasters, and established trade veterans, together with a lab from Kathryn Lyn, a Hugo Award nominated author and Star Trek: Unusual New Worlds author and producer.
The total record of Official Alternatives, movie data, and schedule for the pageant is obtainable at www.filmquestfest.com. Tickets and passes are additionally out there now by the web site. A digital presentation of the pageant can also be out there by way of the eoFLIX app (www.entertainmentoxygen.com) and tickets and passes can be found for the digital screenings on the app and runs by November eleventh.
The occasion will conclude with an audiovisual awards present on November 2nd with the presentation of the coveted Cthulhu Trophy to winners in characteristic movie, quick movie, scholar movie, animation, and music video classes.
An everyday on the MovieMaker Journal “High 50 Festivals Definitely worth the Entry Charge” record, the pageant web site states “FilmQuest helps lay a basis for brand spanking new and upcoming filmmakers, furthers the careers of extra established professionals, conjures up its patrons, and engages its group with yearly occasions that present additional alternatives and connections for its alumni and incoming filmmakers.”
For tickets and extra details about the 2024 FilmQuest, go to www.filmquestfest.com. For press inquiries and curiosity in protecting the pageant, both in-person or remotely, contact Jonathan Martin at jmartin@filmquestfest.com.
