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11th Annual Film Festival
August 21-24, 2025

 

Passes on Sale Now!

*Thursday – Friday film screenings and filmmaker reception 
*Saturday includes screenings ALL DAY 
*Sunday includes festival screenings, brunch, and the Award Ceremony 
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Early Deadline is January 7th! Head over to filmfreeway.com/BlackCatPictureShow to submit your film today!

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INTERNATIONAL ADJUDICATED FILM FESTIVAL

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The Black Cat Picture Show is an international adjudicated film festival (the only one in Augusta) that provides a platform for independent film artists to exhibit their work. Le Chat Noir theatre provides an intimate setting that facilitates the exchange of ideas in order to cultivate artistic growth.

 

 

 

2024 Black Cat Picture Show Winners

Best Documentary: The Darkside of SOCIETY by Larry Wade Carrell

Best Short Narrative: THE OVERLOOK by John Gray

Best Microshort: The little romance of Will-O’-the-Wisp and Raindrop by Baptiste Denuit & Johan Denis

Best Animation: Les Bêtes by Michael Granberry

Best Student Film: Mis-Alignment by Pablo Riesgo Almonacid

Best Feature Narrative: The Imposters by Nicholas Winter

Viewer’s Choice Award: The Strangers’ Case by Brandt Andersen

Staff Pick: TIGHTROPE by Emma Paige Vines

Wages of Cine Award: OLD MAN SLAUGHTER by R. S. Trashley

The festival awards
(*- and cash prizes) in the following categories:
  • Feature Narrative*
  • Short Narrative*
  • Documentary*
  • Animation*
  • Student*
  • Viewer’s Choice Award*
  • Staff Pick*
  • Micro Short*

Thurs & Fri • August 21-22

Thursday PM block

6p

The Sales-Off  (40m, ANI,USA)

Ditch (8m, SHO,USA)

The Sapling (25m, SHO, USA)

Lupe Q and the Galactic Corncake  (5m, MSH, Canada)

730p

Breakfast with Truffles  (17m, SHO, Russia Federation)

In Your Eyes (2m, STU, Singapore)

A Bird Hit My Window and Now I’m a Lesbian (8m, ANI, USA)

Safety First  (5m, MSH, USA)

Where the Deer Sleep  (12m, ANI, USA)

TEASER TRAILER   (3m, STU, USA)

830p

A Cell Phone Movie (75m, FEA, USA)

 

Friday PM Block

530p

The Humming Grows (12m, STU, USA)

Behind the Black Diamond (27m, SHO, USA)

Killing Chuck (38m, SHO, USA)

7p         A24 film~ Eddington

935pish FILMARTISTS’ RECEPTION

Saturday • August 23

Saturday AM Block

11a  

Holderlin’s Echo (89m, DOC, Germany)

1p

Bloodverse – To Remind Me of Life (20m, SHO, Austria)

Ms. Rossi 3: Ms. Rossi Meets the Mob (20m, SHO, USA)

Ever There (12m, SHO, USA)

230p

Bloody & Bruised: The Untold Story of the Backroom (104m, DOC, USA)

 

Saturday PM Block

6p

In Half (24m, ANI, Spain)

Smile for the Dead (54m, DOC, USA)

FISHMONGER (25m, STU, USA)

8p 

Fright Night

10p

Wages Of Cine PICKS

The Threshold (39m, ANI, Italy)

Posies  (11m, SHO, USA)

FISHMONGER  (25m, STU, USA)

Sunday • August 24

Sunday  AM

10a

BRUNCH

11a  

Paris 70 (14m, SHO, Spain)

10th Life (5m, ANI, USA)

Spring Waltz (12m, ANI, Italy)

A Guest in My Country (16m, SHO, USA)

The Last Gunfight…Yet! (3m, MSH, France)

Forever (5m, ANI, USA)

Pharmacy Museum Tour, New Orleans (5m, MSH, USA)

The Final Meow (17m, STU, Norway)

Trumpet Gumbo (14m, SHO, USA)

The Loving Couple (7m, ANI, Canada)

1p 

Breakfast in Beaufort: Journeys Through Time (29m, DOC, USA)

2p

Nobody Wants to Shoot a Woman (92m, FEA,USA)

4p AWARDS

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