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 20-21
Thursday PM block
5p
Inertia 60min
6P
BREAK
6:30p
Waking Up From a Nap on a Long Day of Doing Nothing 29min
The Woodland Book Nook 3min
HVAC 11min
Soft Rain 2min
Kaya 12min
7:30p
BREAK
8p
Al Tuck My Blues Away 91min
Friday PM Block
4p
Party USA 90min
5:30p
BREAK
6p
A Girl Called Alice 15min
How to Hide It 13min
Alienated! 4min
The Last Draft 13min
THE STONES OF DUNAMASE CASTLE 18min
Sound of the Somme 13min
Air de Fete 20min
7:35p
BREAK
8p
FilmAugusta presents A24’s The Invite
9:45
FILMMAKERS RECEPTION
Saturday • August 22
Saturday AM Block
10a
Angst 94min
11:30a
My Foot is in Heaven 15min
A MOTHER’S LOVE 22min
Breaking & Entering 12min
12:30p
The Color of Exile 90min
2p
BREAK
2:30p
My boyfriend, a mannequin 80min
4p
BREAK
Saturday PM Block
4:30p
I Took the Road Less Traveled 90min
6p
BREAK
6:30p
Pyre 20min
Just Being Nice 5min
Trial of the Concubine 1min
The Damned Thing 20min
The Beneath 8min
7:30p
BREAK
8p
Flying Colors presents Christine
10:30p
Wages OF Cine presents Traction Park Massacre 90min
Saturday AM Block
10a
Angst 94min
11:30a
My Foot is in Heaven 15min
A MOTHER’S LOVE 22min
Breaking & Entering 12min
12:30p
The Color of Exile 90min
2p
BREAK
2:30p
My boyfriend, a mannequin 80min
4p
BREAK
Saturday PM Block
4:30p
I Took the Road Less Traveled 90min
6p
BREAK
6:30p
Pyre 20min
Just Being Nice 5min
Trial of the Concubine 1min
The Damned Thing 20min
The Beneath 8min
7:30p
BREAK
8p
Flying Colors presents Christine
10:30p
Wages OF Cine presents Traction Park Massacre 90min
Sunday • August 23
Sunday AM
10a
BRUNCH
11a
Empathy Rehearsals 20min
Iridescent 9min
Tandem 14min
Underdog 6min
Onion 3min
Something Pointless 15min
ima wa ima 5min
Like a Hurricane 5min
Signalman 6min
Mom Walkers 5min
12:30p
BREAK
1p
These Boys: The 1937 Flood 55min
2p
BREAK
2:30p
The Land We Fight For 40min
4p AWARDS
THANK YOU FOR SUPPORTING OUR FILM FESTIVAL
