The 2025 SCAD Savannah Movie Pageant lineup is right here, and it’s a lineup so sturdy it reveals simply how necessary the Georgia pageant, working this 12 months from October 25 to November 1, has change into as an awards season cease on the street to Oscar.
Opening with David Freyne’s “Eternity,” that includes Craig Brewer’s “Tune Sung Blue” because the Centerpiece, and shutting with Rian Johnson’s “Wake Up Useless Man: A Knives Out Thriller,” the twenty eighth version of the pageant can even function gala screenings of Yorgos Lanthimos’ “Bugonia,” David Michôd’s “Christy,” Kristen Stewart’s “The Chronology of Water,” Guillermo del Toro’s “Frankenstein,” Chloé Zhao’s “Hamnet,” Bradley Cooper’s “Is This Factor On?,” Noah Baumbach’s “Jay Kelly,” Park Chan-Wook’s “No Different Alternative,” Joachim Trier’s “Sentimental Worth,” Jafar Panahi’s “It Was Simply an Accident,” Kleber Mendonça Filho’s “The Secret Agent,” and Oliver Laxe’s “Sirât,” Ryan White’s “Come See Me within the Good Gentle,” Andrew Jarecki and Charlotte Kaufman’s “The Alabama Answer,” Ugo Bienvenu’s “Arco,” and plenty of extra among the many Oscar contenders within the lineup.
Offered in partnership with IndieWire can even be a particular three-panel collection known as “Behind Their Lens,” specializing in administrators, producers, and artisans respectively. Confirmed administrators are Mary Bronstein (“If I Had Legs I’d Kick You”), HIKARI (“Rental Household”), Leslye Headland (“The Acolyte”), and Eva Victor (“Sorry, Child”). The producers panel will function Ellen Goldsmith-Vein (“Springsteen: Ship Me from Nowhere“), Debra Hayward (“Good Grief”), Riva Marker (“Actuality”), and Alison Owen (“Again to Black”). And the craft-focused artisans panel will function Kira Kelly (cinematographer, “Him”), Pam Martin (editor, “Springsteen: Ship Me from Nowhere”), Taylor Pleasure Mason (editor, “Him”), and Shunika Terry (hair designer, “Sinners”).
There can even be panels with Gersh brokers speaking concerning the artwork of illustration and a panel with longtime James Bond screenwriters Neal Purvis and Robert Wade. In complete, there will likely be 56 narrative options and 16 function documentaries screened on the Savannah Movie Pageant this 12 months.
Rose Byrne, Tessa Thompson, Oscar Isaac, Benny Safdie, Jennifer Lopez, Rian Johnson, Zoey Deutch, Joel Edgerton, and extra will likely be among the many in-person honorees.
“Each October, SCAD transforms Savannah right into a grasp class in moviemaking, with our 2025 SCAD Savannah Movie Pageant lineup that includes J.Lo, Mark Hamill (the unique Skywalker!), ‘Depraved’s’ Jon M. Chu, and so many extra who assist SCAD Bees make the leap from classroom to name sheet,” mentioned SCAD President and Founder Paula Wallace in an official assertion. “Come for the Oscar-bound premieres and keep for the splendor of the South’s most cinematic metropolis. Silver-screen goals reside right here — lights, digital camera, SCAD!”
Try the total 2025 SCAD Savannah Movie Pageant lineup beneath.
Gala Screenings
The SCAD Savannah Movie Pageant is famend for spotlighting main award contenders, screening a mess of studio and streamer movies previous to their wider launch. The pageant will open Saturday, Oct. 25, with a screening of “Eternity.” “Tune Sung Blue” will display Thursday, Oct. 30, because the Centerpiece Gala Presentation. On Saturday, Nov. 1, the pageant will shut with “Wake Up Useless Man: A Knives Out Thriller.” The next 18 movies have been chosen for distinguished screenings:
- Bugonia — Focus Options (dir. Yorgos Lanthimos)
- Christy — Black Bear Footage (dir. David Michôd)
- The Chronology of Water — The Forge (dir. Kristen Stewart)
- Eternity — A24 (dir. David Freyne)
- Frankenstein — Netflix (dir. Guillermo del Toro)
- Hamnet — Focus Options (dir. Chloé Zhao)
- Is This Factor On? — Searchlight (dir. Bradley Cooper)
- Jay Kelly — Netflix (dir. Noah Baumbach)
- No Different Alternative — Neon (dir. Park Chan-wook)
- Nouvelle Obscure — Netflix (dir. Richard Linklater)
- Nuremberg — Sony Footage Classics (dir. James Vanderbilt)
- Rebuilding — Bleecker Road (dir. Max Walker-Silverman)
- Rental Household — Searchlight (dir. HIKARI)
- Sentimental Worth — Neon (dir. Joachim Trier)
- Tune Sung Blue — Focus Options (dir. Craig Brewer)
- The Testomony of Ann Lee — Searchlight (dir. Mona Fastvold)
- Practice Goals — Netflix (dir. Clint Bentley)
- Wake Up Useless Man: A Knives Out Thriller — Netflix (dir. Rian Johnson)
Particular Shows
Get a have a look at buzzworthy movies from the world’s main filmmakers premiering on the pageant or not but in extensive launch. In earlier years, these movies have gone on to win Academy Awards and different prestigious accolades:
- A Personal Life — Sony Footage Classics (dir.Rebecca Zlotowski)
- Belén — Amazon MGM Studios (dir. Dolores Fonzi)
- Breathless (1960) — Rialto Footage (dir. Jean-Luc Godard)
- It Was Simply an Accident — Neon (dir. Jafar Panahi)
- Left-Handed Lady — Netflix (dir. Shih-Ching Tsou)
- Merrily We Roll Alongside — Sony Footage Classics (dir. Maria Friedman)
- Peter Hujar’s Day — Sideshow/Janus (dir. Ira Sachs)
- Sirât — Neon (dir. Oliver Laxe)
- The Love That Stays — Sideshow/Janus (dir. Hlynur Palmason)
- The President’s Cake — Sony Footage Classics (dir. Hasan Hadi)
- The Secret Agent — Neon (dir. Kleber Mendonça Filho)
- Urchin — 1-2 Particular (dir. Harris Dickinson)
Signature Screenings
The Signature Screenings collection options premiere and particular screenings, with some adopted by Q&As with choose administrators, writers, actors, and producers. This 12 months’s collection of movies and collection embrace:
- Blue Moon — Sony Footage Classics (dir. Richard Linklater)
- Massive Rock Burning — (dir. David Goldblum)
- Don Bluth: Someplace Out There — (dir. Dave LaMattina, Chad Walker)
- E.T. the Additional-Terrestrial — Common Footage and Amblin Leisure (dir. Steven Spielberg)
- Hedda — Amazon MGM Studios (dir. Nia DaCosta)
- Highest 2 Lowest — A24 (dir. Spike Lee)
- Him — Common Footage (dir. Justin Tipping)
- If I Had Legs I’d Kick You — A24 (dir. Mary Bronstein)
- Kiss of the Spider Girl — Roadside Sights (dir. Invoice Condon)
- The Lifetime of Chuck — Neon (dir. Mike Flanagan)
- One Battle After One other —Warner Bros. Footage (dir. Paul Thomas Anderson)
- Preparation for the Subsequent Life — Amazon MGM Studios (dir. Bing Liu)
- SCAD Presents: André Leon Talley — Type is Without end (dir. Zach Stafford, Clay Haskell)
- Sinners — Warner Bros. Footage (dir. Ryan Coogler)
- The Smashing Machine — A24 (dir. Benny Safdie)
- Splitsville — Neon (dir. Michael Angelo Covino)
- Twinless — Roadside Sights (dir. James Sweeney)
In Dialog: Depraved: For Good with Director Jon M. Chu
Director Jon M. Chu sits down with Vainness Truthful’s Rebecca Ford for an in-depth exploration of the extraordinary artistry of the 2 Depraved movies and their outstanding journey to the massive display. This In Dialog occasion will embrace a dialogue of Chu’s award-winning profession and can function new revelations and insights into Depraved: For Good, the epic, electrifying, emotional conclusion to final 12 months’s international cinematic cultural sensation, which turned probably the most profitable Broadway movie adaptation of all time.
Docs to Watch
The twelfth annual Docs to Watch collection will likely be accompanied by a roundtable with the administrators hosted by Scott Feinberg of The Hollywood Reporter. Chosen movies embrace:
- 2000 Meters to Andriivka (dir. Mstyslav Chernov)
- The Alabama Answer (dir. Andrew Jarecki, Charlotte Kaufman)
- Apocalypse within the Tropics (dir. Petra Costa)
- Come See Me within the Good Gentle (dir. Ryan White)
- IT’s By no means Over, Jeff Buckley (dir. Amy Berg)
- Natchez (dir. Suzannah Herbert)
- My Mother Jayne (dir. Mariska Hargitay)
- The Excellent Neighbor (dir. Geeta Gandbhir)
- Riefenstahl (dir. Andres Veiel)
- The Story of Silyan (dir. Tamara Kotevska)
Pixels and Pencils: Prime Animated Contenders
Offered in partnership with Selection, Pixels and Pencils highlights the administrators behind the highest animated movies of the 12 months. Showcasing a broad array of creative avenues and animation types, this collection culminates within the administrators roundtable panel, hosted by Selection senior awards editor Clayton Davis. Chosen movies embrace:
- Arco (dir. Ugo Bienvenu)
- Elio (dir. Madeline Sharafian, Domee Shi)
- First Look: In Your Goals (dir. Alex Woo)
- KPop Demon Hunters (dir. Chris Appelhans, Maggie Kang)
- Little Amélie or The Character of Rain (dir. Maïlys Vallade)
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Chrome Alone 2 — Misplaced in New Jersey (dir. Kent Seki)
Panels
Be a part of the SCAD Savannah Movie Pageant for conversations and panels with business stars and insiders. This 12 months’s panels embrace:
The Behind Their Lens collection, offered in partnership with IndieWire, celebrates cinematic powerhouses who defy the percentages and obstacles to deliver us among the most influential and poignant movies and tv collection in recent times. Panels embrace:
- Behind Their Lens: Administrators, with panelists Mary Bronstein (If I Had Legs I’d Kick You), HIKARI (Rental Household), Leslye Headland (The Acolyte), and Eva Victor (Sorry, Child).
- Behind Their Lens: Producers, with panelists Ellen Goldsmith-Vein (Springsteen: Ship Me from Nowhere), Debra Hayward (Good Grief), Riva Marker (Actuality), and Alison Owen (Again to Black).
- Behind Their Lens: Artisans, with panelists Kira Kelly (cinematographer, Him), Pam Martin (editor, Springsteen: Ship Me from Nowhere), Taylor Pleasure Mason (editor, Him), and Shunika Terry (hair designer, Sinners).
The Beneath the Line collection, highlighting the contributions of below-the-line expertise to the artwork of cinema, with a give attention to costume design and manufacturing design:
Beneath the Line: The Energy of Casting
–Panelists embrace Kate Rhodes James (Gladiator 2)and Bernard Telsey (Depraved: For Good).Extra panelists to be introduced.
Beneath the Line: The Artwork of Manufacturing Design
–Panelists embrace Juliana Baretto (Rebuilding),Jim Bissell (E.T. the Additional-Terrestrial),andAlexandra Schaller (Practice Goals).
Beneath the Line: Scoring for the Display screen with the Alliance for Ladies Movie Composers
–Panelists embrace Chanda Dancy, Florencia di Concilio, Laura Karpman, and moderator Allyson Newman.
- The SCAD Alumni Voices panel highlights graduates of the college’s top-ranked movie and tv diploma packages. Panelists embrace actor Sebiye Behtiyar, animation supervisor Nathan Engelhardt, and composer EmmoLei Sankofa, with extra to be introduced.
- The unique Leisure Weekly’s Breaking Massive Panel and Awards, hosted by pageant media accomplice Leisure Weekly.
- Selection’s 10 Artisans to Watch, hosted by pageant media accomplice Selection. Individuals will likely be introduced Wednesday, Oct. 15.
- The Artwork of Illustration: Gersh Brokers on Constructing Careers in Leisure welcomes a panel of brokers from Gersh, one of many largest leisure and sports activities companies on the earth, as they pull again the curtain on the artwork of illustration.
- The ABC’s of Leisure Legislation will break down the necessities of Leisure legalese, equivalent to contracts, copyrights, credit, and distribution phrases, in clear, sensible functions that each rising inventive ought to know.
- Writing Bond: Crafting the Legend of 007 with screenwriters Neal Purvis and Robert Wade will discover how the writing pair have been the inventive drive shaping the world’s most well-known spy. On this dialog, Purvis and Wade pull again the curtain on their collaborative course of.
Competitors Movies
The SCAD Savannah Movie Pageant celebrates the work of established and rising filmmakers, from feature-length movies to shorts. The juried competitors showcases the most effective {of professional}, animated, and scholar movies chosen from greater than 2,100 entries yearly. Pageant jurors embrace Alex Barasch (journalist, The New Yorker), Clifton Collins Jr. (actor), Leslye Headland (director, author) Richard Lawson (critic), and Mary Neely (actor, producer, author).
Narrative Options
From side-splitting comedies to heart-wrenching dramas, these narrative function movies signify variety in storytelling, excellence in appearing and directing, and exemplary cinematography and enhancing:
- Rains Over Babel (dir. Gala del Sol)
- Rosemead (dir. Eric Lin)
- She Dances (dir. Rick Gomez)
- Charliebird (dir. Libby Ewing)
Documentary Options
Past easy topic issues, these documentaries current compelling tales that illuminate and educate audiences in a thought-provoking and well timed method:
- Room to Transfer (dir. Alexander Hammer)
- The Librarians (dir. Kim A. Snyder)
- Yanuni (dir. Richard Ladkani)
Skilled Shorts
Operating the gamut of material and elegance, these quick movies are chosen primarily based on their particular person deserves in storytelling and execution:
- The Final Dance (dir. Hayden Mclean)
- All of the Empty Rooms (dir. Joshua Seftel)
- Rise (dir. Jessica J. Rowlands)
- The Singers (dir. Sam Davis)
- Freeman Vines (dir. André Robert Lee, Tim Kirkman)
- Past Silence (dir. Marnie Blok)
- Synthesize Me (dir. Bear Damen)
- OK/NOTOK (dir. Pardeep Sahota)
Animated Shorts
These animated movies signify the range of the craft, from easy, hand-drawn figures to stop-motion and digital rendering, showcasing distinctive storytelling at its most interesting:
- Snow Bear (dir. Aaron Blaise)
- Saq Nikté and the Spirit of the Masks (dir. Ester Weiner)
- Murmuration (dir. Janneke Swinkels, Tim Frijsinger)
- Hullabaloo: The Curse of the Cheshire Cat (dir. James Lopez)
- ReRooted (dir. Delphine Coudray)
- Forevergreen (dir. Nathan Engelhardt, Jeremy Spears)
- Éiru (dir. Giovanna Ferrari)
- anybody lived in a fairly how city (dir. Daniel Kreizberg)
- Cardboard (dir. Jean-Philippe Vine)
- Wednesdays with Gramps (dir. Chris Copeland, Justin Copeland)
Scholar Shorts
With stable storytelling and rising imaginative and prescient, these movies signify a broad vary of classes together with live-action, narrative, documentary, and animation. Shorts from scholar filmmakers at SCAD and universities world wide which can be a part of the competitors embrace:
Scholar Animated Shorts
- Tips on how to make a buddy (dir. Jinfei Ge, Bin He, Myrtille Huet, Julie Jarrier-Stettin, Yuqiang Zhang)
- ÜMIT (dir. Amina Ömirjan)
- The Story of Three Sisters (or How the World Got here to Have 4 Seasons As an alternative of One) (dir. Raphaëlle Bourgon, Anchi Huang, Vega Lázaro, Son Tra Le, Priyam Parikh, Jianuo Wen, Di Wu)
- Snubbed (dir. Jesse Braak, Kian Sherritt)
- Catfish (dir. Aurélie Galibois, Aurélie Martin, Camille Naud, Cristina Ganusciac, Hee Younger Park, Vedushi Sinha)
- The Day We Flew (dir. Ryan Wang)
- Jour de vent (Windy Day) (dir. Martin Chailloux, Al Kim Crespin, Elise Golfnse, Chloe Lab, Hugo Taillez, Camille Truding)
- Wormwood (dir. Matthieu Dupille, Binlin Xie, Alexander Vanderplank, Ninon Quemener, Philémon Martin, Chenhe Liu)
- Bugsick (dir. Venya Aggarwal)
- Acrobats (dir. Eloïse Alluyn, Hugo Danet, Anna Despinoy, Antonin Guerci, Alexandre Marzin, Shali Reddy)
- Misplaced Observe (dir. Sam “Luna” McKee)
- The Shyness of Timber (dir. Bingqing Shu, Maud Le Bras, Jiaxin Huang, Simin He, Lina Han, Loïck Du Plessis D’Argentré, Sofiia Chuikovska)
- Dragfox (dir. Lisa Ott)
- Without end (dir. Theo Djekon, Pierre Ferrari, Cyrine Jouini, Pauline Philippart, Anissa Ferrier)
Scholar Narrative Shorts
- Take Two (dir. Colleen Ryan)
- Wrestle-Off (dir. Sabatino Ciatti Jr.)Breastmilk (dir. Ifeyinwa Arinze)If Birds Believed in God (dir. Samer Saifan)
- You & Me (& Chaz & Rodney) (dir. Lilly Lion)
SCAD Scholar Documentary Shorts
- The Path of Puma-36 (dir. Amelie Bluestone)
- Actual Pretend Warfare (dir. Tommy Dilger)
- Get Your Gravel On: Gravel Racing within the Borderlands (dir. Pablo Echevarría)
- The Final Lobsterman (dir. Jason Conforti)
- Drag Me To Church (dir. Isabella Sullivan)
- Cornellskop: Freedom from Worry (dir. Nathan Oliva)
- Terpsichore (dir. Abigail Cunningham)
International Shorts Discussion board
The International Shorts Discussion board is a curated assortment of worldwide shorts throughout a number of genres that concentrate on world points. These embrace:
For the Love of Sport
- We’ll Go Down in Historical past (dir. Cameron Richards, Charlie Tidmas)
- Ahead Is a Tempo (dir. Robin Oroso)
- Icebreakers (dir. Marlo Poras, Jocelyn Glatzer)
- It’s Our Ball (dir. David Morrison)
- Into the Chutes (dir. Jenna Rice)
- Hoops, Hopes & Goals (dir. Glenn Kaino)
Portraits of Perseverance
- The Inexperienced Buffalo (dir. Joel Caldwell)
- Ibuka, Justice (dir. Justice Rutikara)
- The Return (dir. Jeremy S. Levine)
- Inside, The Valley Sings (dir. Nathan Fagan)
- Oh Whale (dir. Winslow Crane-Murdoch)
A Place in This World
- A Coloration I Named Blue (dir. Sybilla Patrizia)
- Artwork with Each Breath (dir. Caroline Josey Karoki)
- Name to Serve (dir. Cole Sax, Phil Hessler)
- _PREVIEW_ (dir. Quinlan Orear)
- Largo (dir. Salvatore Scarpa)
- Susana (dir. Gerardo Coello Escalante, Amandine Thomas)
- No Manner Again (dir. Tom Turner)
- Shanti Rides Shotgun (dir. Charles Frank)
- Retirement Plan (dir. John Kelly)
Shorts Highlight
This 12 months’s Shorts Highlight themes are:
Dearest Daughter
- Curly Joe, Two Kittens, 4 Packing containers & Scent of Fireplace (dir. Apo W. Bazidi, Anna Benner)
- Hatchlings (dir. Jahmil Eady)
- Miriam (dir. Josie Andrews)
- Koko Suzanne (dir. Zach Bandler)
- Of All The Issues (dir. Steff Lee)
- KÜĪ (dir. Kahu Kaiha)
- Who Are You, Nanu? (dir. Anjini Taneja Azhar)
- On a Sunday at Eleven (dir. Alicia Okay. Harris)
Actuality Askew in Black & White
- Two Individuals Exchanging Saliva (dir. Alexandre Singh, Natalie Musteata)
- Collectors (dir. Susan C. O’Brien)
- Cineál Fiáin (WildKind) (dir. John McDaid)
- Em & Selma Go Griffin Looking (dir. Alexander Thompson)
- With out Heaven (Cennetsiz) (dir. Merve Bozcu)
- Hurikán (dir. Jan Saska)
Sweetness within the Bitter
- Dressed to the Nines (dir. Madeleine Shenai, Ivana Mazza-Coates)
- Previous Dykes (dir. Ezra Rose)Witness (dir. Radha Mehta, Saif Jaan)
- In every single place I Look (dir. November Nolan)
- The Second Time Round (dir. Jack Howard)
- One Day This Child (dir. Alexander Farah)
- Automagic (dir. Ashok Vish)
After Darkish — The Horror Inside
- Wait, Your Automotive? (dir. Reece Feldman)
- The Rebirth (dir. Connie Shi)
- Taking part in God (dir. Matteo Burani)
- The Lone Piper (dir. Matthew Kravchuk)
- Chew (dir. Félix Dobaire)
- Luz Diabla (dir. Gervasio Canda, Paula Boffo, Patricio Plaza)
- The Pearl Comb (dir. Ali Prepare dinner)
Beforehand introduced honorees at this 12 months’s pageant are:
- Will Arnett will obtain the Luminary Award.
- Hannah Beachler will obtain the Selection Artistic Influence in Manufacturing Design Award.
- Craig Brewer will obtain the Highlight Director Award.
- Rose Byrne will obtain the Luminary Award.
- Miles Caton will obtain the Rising Star Award.
- Jon M. Chu will obtain the Vanguard Director Award.
- Zoey Deutch will obtain the Breakthrough Efficiency Award.
- Joel Edgerton will obtain the Vanguard Award.
- Mark Hamill will obtain the Lifetime Achievement Award.
- Oscar Isaac will obtain the Icon Award.
- Rian Johnson will obtain the Excellent Achievement in Directing Award.
- Jennifer Lopez will obtain the Virtuoso Award.
- Dylan O’Brien will obtain the Lumiere Award.
- Benny Safdie will obtain the Maverick Director Award.
- Miles Teller will obtain the Distinguished Efficiency Award.
- Tessa Thompson will obtain the Distinguished Efficiency Award.
