Written by Leila Scott, Photos by Ben Krueger
Last updated: Oct. 16 at 4:14 p.m.
Today, The Savannah College of Art and Design announced the 2019 lineup for the 22nd annual SCAD Savannah Film Festival. Students have been waiting outside the Trustees Theater since midnight to purchase tickets for selected screenings. Early risers were handed ticket request forms around 9 a.m. this morning.
Last week 16 films were announced as Gala Screenings: “The Aeronauts,” “A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood,” “Clemency,” “Harriet,” “A Hidden Life,” “Honey Boy,” “Just Mercy,” “Knives Out,” “Motherless Brooklyn,” “Pain and Glory,” “Parasite,” “Portrait of a Lady on Fire,” “The Report,” “Seberg,” “The Truth” and “Waves.”
Today the complete list for the 2019 line-up was released. This year’s events include:
October 26, 2019
- Competition Film: “Well Groomed / Masters”
- “Southern Voices”
- “Learning to Skateboard in a Warzone (if you’re a girl)”
- Gala Screening: Portrait of a Lady on Fire
- “Forrest Gump”
- Gala Premiere: “The Aeronauts”
Danielle Macdonald will be honored with the Rising Star Award at 7:30 p.m.
October 27, 2019
- Competition Film: “Sell By / The Neighbors’ Window”
- Signature Screening: “Patti Cake$”
- Competition Film: “Only / Whiteout”
- Animation Corner: “Missing Link”
- Gala Screening: “Harriet”
- Gala Premiere: “Motherless in Brooklyn”
The Lifetime Achievement Award in Composing will be presented to Alan Silvestri at 6 p.m.
October 28, 2019
- 2019 Animated Shorts
- Shorts Spotlight: “Living on the Edge”
- Competition Film: “One Taxi Ride / Extra Innings”
- 2019 Student Block A
- Panel: “Meet the Industry Experts”
- “Sound Design and Mixing for Hollywood’s Creatures, Superheroes, and Villians”
- Competition Film: “The Pollinators / Homesick”
- 2019 Student Block B
- Refinery 29 + Level Forward Present “Shatterbox”
- Panel: From $100 to $100,000,0000: Financing and Distributing Entertainment
- “Working Man / Black Boy Joy”
- Gala Premiere: “Knives Out”
- Gala Premiere: “Clemency”
At 9:30 p.m. Aldis Hodge will receive the Discovery Award.
October 29, 2019
- Global Shorts Forum: “Home(less)”
- “Short History of the Long Road / Sylvia”
- “Wonder Women: Producers 2019”
- Animation Corner: “The Swallows of Kabui”
- “Wonder Women: Directors 2019”
- “Martha: A Picture Story / Crystal Frog”
- ” In Conversation: Alan Cumming”
- “Wonder Women: Writers 2019”
- Signature Screening: “Booksmart”
- “Wonder Women: Below the Line 2019”
- “Lost Bayou / Psychic”
- Signature Screening: “Greener Grass”
- Gala Premiere: “A Hidden Life”
- After Dark: “In Fabric”
Valerie Pachner will be presented with the Discovery Award and Olivia Wilde with the Rising Star Director Award at 7 p.m.
October 30, 2019
- Global Shorts Forum: “Beyond the Rainbow”
- Global Shorts Forum: “Matters of the Mind”
- Immersive Media in Entertainment
- Signature Screening: “Mickey and the Bear”
- Signature Screening: “Matters of the Mind”
- Gala Screening: “The Report”
- Panel: From Film Student to Filmmaker
- Season Four Premiere: “Man in High Castle”
- Gala Screening: “Pain and Glory”
- Animation Corner: “White Snake”
- Global Shorts Forum: “Perks and Perils of Being a Woman”
- Gala Premiere: “The Two Popes”
- Gala Premiere: “The King”
October 31, 2019
- Animation Corner: “Funan”
- Shorts Spotlight: “Wondrous World”
- Docs to Watch: “The Cave”
- Docs to Watch: “Maiden”
- Gala Screening: “Seberg”
- Docs to Watch: “American Factory”
- Gala Screening: “Honey Boy”
- Signature Screening: “Official Secrets”
- 2019 SCAD Alumni Panel
- Gala Premiere: “Just Mercy”
- After Dark: “The Lodge”
At 7 p.m. Elisabeth Moss will receive the Spotlight Award.
November 1, 2019
- “Best of Annecy”
- Shorts Spotlight: “Stay for the Laughs”
- Docs to Watch: “Apollo 11”
- Docs to Watch: “Knock Down the House”
- Dos to Watch: “The Biggest Little Farm”
- Gala Screening: “The Truth”
- SCAD Alumni Bring the Show to Savannah
- VFX: “Collaboration and Design from Script to Post”
- Docs to Watch Roundtable 2019
- Shorts Spotlight: “Dysfunction Junction”
- Gala Premiere: “Waves”
- Gala Premiere: “Parasite”
November 2, 2019
- Docs to Watch: “One Child Nation”
- “Best of Fest”
- Docs to Watch: “The Kingmaker”
- Docs to Watch: “Sea of Shadows”
- Docs to Watch: “Diego Mardona”
- WGF: “Writers on Writing: A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood”
- Gala Premiere: “A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood”
Samantha Morton will be presented with the Virtuoso Award at 7 p.m.
For tickets and passes visit the Savannah Box Office website or in person at the Trustees Theater, located at 216 E. Broughton St., Savannah. For updates follow the Savannah Film Festival’s Instagram and Facebook.
