NOW ACCEPTING 2025 SUBMISSIONS
12th Annual Film Festival
August 20-23, 2026
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
Early Deadline is January 7th! Head over to filmfreeway.com/BlackCatPictureShow to submit your film today!
BECOME A COLLABORATOR WITH AUGUSTA’S ONLY
INTERNATIONAL ADJUDICATED FILM FESTIVAL
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.
2025 Black Cat Picture Show Winners
Best Documentary: Bloody and Bruised: The Untold Story of the Back Room
Best Short Narrative: Paris 70
Best Microshort: The Last Gunfighter…yet
Best Animation: Spring Waltz
Best Student Film: Fishmonger
Best Feature Narrative: A Cell Phone Movie
Viewer’s Choice Award: Behind The Black Diamond
Staff Pick: The Final Meow
Wages of Cine Award: POSIES
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
THANK YOU FOR SUPPORTING OUR FILM FESTIVAL
