ATHENS FILM FESTIVAL

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THURSDAY 8-15

Badge Pick up/Registration @ Ciné Box-Office 3:30-5PM

Festival Welcome Happy Hour @ Ciné LAB 3:30-7PM

Opening feature @ Ciné Theater C1 7:15-9:15 PM

UGLY SWEATER

Logline: Determined to study astrophysics at an Ivy League college, high-school senior Ruby faces her anxiety as it appears vividly in her dreams, prompted by a seemingly magical ugly Christmas sweater. Within this tumultuous year, Ruby experiences first love, nostalgia, the power of sisterhood, and a new path to find peace.

Director: Lauren Musgrove

Rated PG-13

Runtime: 80 Minutes

FRIDAY 08-16

The Power of the Audience: Crowdfunding and Crowdsourcing in Independent Film

@ Ciné LAB 1 - 2 PM

Description: Filmmaker, author, and Professor Marty Lang  (Director of the University of Georgia MFA in Film, Television and Digital Media Program) and Athens native filmmaker, podcaster Aaron Strand come together to discuss their success and proven strategies for crowdsourcing and funding films!

Rated G

Reel Peaches 1 @ Ciné Theater C1 2:15-4:00PM

Logline: Unconditional love, loss, isolation, celebration, snoring, redemption, and more in the first Georgia REEL Peach block featuring Stay, Our Beloved, Nocturnal Roar, Stick Season and Chessboxer.

Rated R

Combined  Time: 65:38

Stay 10:52

Director: Eli Saban

Our Beloved 12:02

Director: Clare Methe

Nocturnal Roar 7:56

Director: Robert Landau

Stick Season 13:48

Director: Emily Pulcastro

Chessboxer 21:00

Director: Albin Pepe

Festival Happy Hour @ Ciné LAB 9-9:45PM

Feature @ Ciné Theater C1 10:00-MIDNIGHT

The Founder Effect

Logline: When a young boy goes missing in the town of Hope, his grandfather must grapple with their family history and navigate mysterious phenomena as he sets out on a quest of conscience to save his grandson from the shadows.

Director: Justin MacGregor

Rated PG-13

Runtime: 1:51

SATURDAY 08-17

Festival Happy Hour @ Ciné LAB 1-1:45PM

TV Pilots Featured @ Ciné Theater C2 2:00-4:00PM

Heebuck (TV Pilot) & The Countdown (TV Pilot)

Heebuck 

Logline: A sheriff named Heebuck navigates the trail & tribulations of a small town while being introduced to his new partner C.H.A.R.L.I.E.

Director Heebuck: Michael Polish

Rated PG-13

Combined Runtime: 58:44

The Countdown

Logline: A dark comedy about two best friends staring down the barrel of 40, facing the painful truth that their individual hopes for motherhood have been bested by dead-end careers and unfaithful partners. At the end of their collective ropes, a rage- and alcohol-fueled science experiment becomes their dark solution to the genetic injustice of their biological clocks.

Director The Countdown: Melanie Renfroe

Rated PG-13

Combined Runtime: 58:44

Feature @ Ciné Theater C1 2:15-4:15PM

The First Two

Logline: After an unsuccessful marriage attempt Sasha needs to leave Budapest and her Hungarian boyfriend to continue her studies in the USA. As the day progresses, their special bond makes separating in the morning a difficult choice.

Director: Balázs Szövényi-Lux

Rated R

Runtime: 83 minutes

Jury Nominated Shorts Program @ Ciné LAB 2:30 - 3:45 PM

Festival Happy Hour @ Ciné LAB 4pm-5pm

Closing Feature @ Ciné Theater C1 5:15-7:15PM

Out and About

Logline: Inside the mind of a middle aged man as he tries to come to terms with his life over the course of an afternoon walk through his hometown.

Director: Peter Callahan

Rated R

Festival Happy Hour @ Ciné Lobby 7:30pm-9:pm

AWARDS CEREMONY! @ Cine LAB 9:30pm-10pm

Award Categories!

Student Short

Animated Short

Foreign Narrative Short 

Georgia Short

Narrative Short

Audience Award

Narrative Feature