SWFF "Official Selections Revealed!

Everyone at SWFF is happy to announce the amazing lineup of short and feature films for our 2022 Online Festival Event this July 29-31st!  We are doing a hybrid event this year as we will be presenting two screenings live and in-person - our GA Spotlight Presents DAVE RAJKUMAR and or "Best of the Festival" screenings will be on Saturday, July 30th starting at 6:00 PM!  All other films will be available to view online for the three days of our event.

We also have Panel Discussions (all virtual and online on Sunday, July 31st) and other stuff for you to enjoy throughout the weekend event.  For more info on the event check out all our social media pages and our website (which is under construction) and for tickets go to - https://filmfreeway.com/somethingwickedfilmfestival/tickets

We hope to see you there and remember to keep supporting independent film-makers!

2020 Special Screenings!

As 2020 marks the 5^th Anniversary of Something Wicked Film Festival (www.somethingwickedfilmfestival.com), we wanted to do something special for our audience since this year’s event will be completely an Online Festival event.  One of the things we will be offering is the 5^th Year Anniversary of Festival Director Kevin L. Powers’ feature film House of Secrets (2015) which screened at the very first SWFF event!  Powers will be offering an intro to the film among other great material to celebrate the occasion.

Next up is the 15 Year Anniversary of HELL’S END from our 2020 Lifetime Achievement Award recipient Ron McLellen!  He returns to our event after having opened the very first year of our event with his All Hallows Eve: The Lord of the Harvest: Director’s Cut!  Hell’s End is the filmmaker’s little seen sci-fi/horror/WWII feature.  More special announcements to be announced for this film later!  In addition to this special screening, SWFF will hosting special screenings of several of McLellen’s celebrated horror fan films to celebrate our new Fan Film category for our event.  We will definitely be screening the festival favorite “Revenge of the Sandman” based off the popular Michael Myers franchise, but we are also looking into screening some of his other fan films as well, so, we look forward to announcing more news on that soon.

Although we will not be doing any GA Spotlight Screenings this year (as part of the great thing about these screenings is for audiences to meet the filmmaker), we hope that what we do offer will get filmmakers and audiences just as excited!

We will still have our Panel Discussions (all Live throughout the weekend) and the added bonus of live filmmaker interviews!  This will be an amazing weekend come this August 7-9^th!  We hope you will join us!  Tickets for the event can be purchased through Film Freeway (https://filmfreeway.com/somethingwickedfilmfestival/tickets) and/or Ticket Source (https://something-wicked-film-festival.ticketleap.com/something-wicked-film-festival/).

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TICKETS!

Something Wicked Film Festival’s 2020 event will be completely online due to the current situation we find ourselves in post COVID-19 quarantine.  All of us here at SWFF decided not to postpone our event but to embrace the current times and continue bringing independent film-makers and outlet from which their films can be seen.  This year’s event will be different as all of our “official selections” will be available in one place from August 7-9, 2020!

My team and I are working on the website (which will be linked through our Main Website at www.somethingwickedfilmfestival.com) as we speak in order for audiences to be able to view all the films from one location all day throughout the weekend.  But once the weekend is over all the films will disappear and you’ll have to see them at a different film festival so make sure to purchase your tickets and spend all weekend in bed or on the couch watching some amazing films.

We have an amazing selection of films from returning film-maker’s including the feature TEACHER SHORTAGE from director Troy Escamilla (MRS. CLAUS) and Jax Price with his latest horror short PINE.   We also have some amazing features for audiences this year from the German fantasy musical REEL ME and the fantasy troll film UNDER CONTROLL, to name a few.  This year I’d like to highlight our fan film selection which includes the Stephen King based film WILLA and even a couple Star Wars fan films DROID STORY and THE PATH OG THE GREYS and two new shorts from film-maker Chris R. Notarile with DOMINO and TYPHOID MARY (based on Marvel Comic book characters).  This is just a few of the films on display this year including our regular horror, animation, experimental, sci-fi, and fantasy selections.

We want to ensure that even though this will be an online event, that audiences still get an amazing experience including Live panel discussions and film-maker interviews including other Live Special Events!   Tickets for this year’s event will be sold through Film Freeway (https://filmfreeway.com/somethingwickedfilmfestival/tickets) or through Ticket Leap (something-wicked-film-festival.ticketleap.com/something-wicked-film-festival/) so make sure to purchase your tickets for the event.  Once you purchase tickets you will be emailed a PASSWORD that will allow you access to the all the films (so if you don’t get an email from us with that PASSWORD a week before the event please make sure to contact us).

Also, remember to continue supporting indie films and film-makers!

SWFF AND COVID-19

We know that for the last few months the COVID-19 pandemic has taken a toll on film-makers across the globe.  Something Wicked Film Festival (www.somethingwickedfilmfestival.com) has always been an event that showcased films from all over the world and we know that film-makers have, unfortunately, not been able to continue filming during this time (or complete films already in production).  This means that the number of submissions has dwindled based on previous years but that doesn’t mean that we are going to take this lying down!  We are seeing a new wave of indie film-making that is taking this time to improve screenplays, take extra time editing existing films (or tackling films that have been sitting on the shelf), and we’ve even heard stories about film-makers converting web series into feature length films just because they now have all this time.  We love to hear these stories as it means that even when the world looks bleak, film-makers are still going to thrive.  I am looking forward to viewing some of these completed projects and am looking forward to hearing about some amazing new films on the horizon as we enter into unchartered territory when it comes to the future on film-making and SWFF will be there to continue screening and supporting film-makers across the globe as we have always done and hope to continue doing!

Keep telling your stories any way you can no matter the obstacles put before you!