NOW ACCEPTING 2025 SUBMISSIONS
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
Early Deadline is January 7th! Head over to filmfreeway.com/BlackCatPictureShow to submit your film today!
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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*
- Best Performer
- Best Editor
- Best Cinematographer
- Best Production Design
- Best Sound Design
- Best Special Effects
Thurs & Fri • August 22-23
Thursday PM block
6:30p
Moje Własne Słowa (In My Words) (Doc, 80min, GER)
8:00p
Mid Iris (Sho, 23min, US)
It Was Love To Me (Sho, 16min, US)
TIGHTROPE (Ani, 5min, US)
Radio Hope (Sho, 22min, US)
Matinee Baby (Sho, 19min, US)
10:00p
All I Ever Wanted (Doc, 99min, US)
Friday PM Block
5:30p
Pollo Loco (Sho, 26min, US)
Mis-Alignment (Stu, 20min, US)
Why Dogs Howl (MSh, 5min, US)
Chairs (Sho, 19min, UK)
7:00p
Corpsepaint (Sho, 12min, US)
THE OVERLOOK (Sho, 19min, US)
[INSERT SHORT FILM TITLE] (Sho, 13min, CA)
8:00p
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9:45 pm Film Artist’s Reception:
MENU:
TBA
Saturday • August 24
Saturday AM Block
11:00a
The Imposters (Fea, 88min, UK)
Saturday PM Block
1:00p
Being Satori Circus ~ A Performance Documentary in Five Acts (Doc, 96min, US)
3:00p
What not to do at a Funeral (Sho, 13min, US)
Launch at Paradise (Sho, 15min, US)
It’s For You: Ephemeral Art & the Death of the Public Phone (Doc, 29min, US)
6:00p
In the Silence (Fea, 47min, US)
The Sitters (Ani, 4min, US)
Tag (MSh, 4min, US)
Cart Return (MSh, 4min, US)
Unrest in Peace (Sho, 13min, US)
Whiskered Away (Stu, 5min, US)
Les Bêtes (Ani, 12min, US)
8:00pm
40th Anniversary Screening of Return of the Living Dead
10:00pm
The Darkside of SOCIETY (Doc, 76min, US)
12:00am
Wages of Cine Pick – OLD MAN SLAUGHTER (Fea, 60min, US)
Sunday • August 25
Sunday AM
10a BRUNCH
Sunday’s Brunch Menu:
TBA
11:00am
The little romance of Will-O’-the-Wisp and Raindrop (Msh, 3min, BE)
Col-ored Tags (Sho, 27min, US)
Sewing Love (Ani, 9min, JP)
After ISIS (Doc, 6min, US)
Vance and the Afterlife (Sho, 11min, US)
HARLEM FRAGMENTS (Sho, 17min, US)
Callie and Bee: Hoop Dreams (MSh, 1min, US)
12:30p
Hope For The Holidays (Doc, 98min, US)
2:30p
The Strangers’ Case (Fea, 104min, JO)
5:00p
AWARDS CEREMONY
THANK YOU FOR SUPPORTING OUR FILM FESTIVAL
