Cinedigm debuted the official trailer for Jethica, Pete Ohs’ offbeat genre-bender, which premiered at the 2022 SXSW film festival. The film starring Callie Hernandez (Under the Silver Lake), Ashley Denise Robinson (The Beta Test), Andy Faulkner (Youngstown), and Will Madden (The Wolf of Snow Hollow) has screened at festivals around the world including Busan, Overlook, Maryland, Filmfort, Germany’s B3 Biennial, and the Brooklyn Horror Film Festival — where it received a Special Jury Award.
The Brooklyn Horror Film Festival ended its 7th edition with the U.S. Premiere of the new 20th anniversary 2K restoration of Gaspar Noé’s Irreversible: Straight Cut. The horror fantasy thriller Mother Superior was awarded the top honors of Best Feature and Best Director for Marie Alice Wolfszahn in the Main Competition Features program.
Brooklyn Horror Film Festival returns for its 2022 edition, running October 13th to the 20th with screenings held at Nitehawk Cinema Williamsburg and Williamsburg Cinemas.
The Overlook Film Festival 2022 will close with the new horror thriller film The Black Phone starring Ethan Hawke. Based on an award-winning short story from Joe Hill’s best-selling 2005 collection 20th Century Ghosts, the new movie from the filmmakers of Sinister, marks the triumphant return to the genre for screenwriter C. Robert Cargill and director-screenwriter Scott Derrickson.
Check out the first clip from Jethica, a supernatural dark comedy shot in New Mexico in January 2021, in the midst of the pandemic, and world premiering at SXSW in the Visions section. Jethica boldly blends and bends genres, all at once shining as a sharp comedy and dire stalker thriller with an undead edge.
South by Southwest (SXSW) Conference and Festivals announced the full program for the 29th edition of the SXSW Film Festival set to take place in-person from March 11-20, 2022, with select films available online.