SXSW Sydney’s Screen Festival 2024 headliners named
South by Southwest Sydney (SXSW Sydney) has unveiled the list of headliners for its Screen Festival.
The announcement:
South by Southwest Sydney® (SXSW Sydney) is thrilled to roll out the purple carpet for its Headliners, the biggest and hottest screenings of the week. These five films embrace the signature bold, genre-focused storytelling of the SXSW Sydney 2024 Screen Festival presented by IHG Hotels & Resorts.
Colin Daniels, managing director, SXSW Sydney said: “We are incredibly excited to unveil our Screen Festival Headliners that capture the spirit of SXSW Sydney. These bold, hilarious, captivating and thrilling films lead a program not just for film fans, but the tech, music, and games audiences that form the rich tapestry of the SXSW Sydney audience.”
The SXSW Sydney 2024 Screen program Headliner line-up of not-to-be-missed Australian premieres will surprise and delight film lovers this year, with some of the world’s biggest stars and directorial talent bringing their hottest new properties Down Under.
TUESDAY 15 OCTOBER – THE FRONT ROOM
Max & Sam Eggers’ new A24 horror The Front Room starring pop star Brandy as a newly-pregnant woman facing hell as her diabolical mother-in-law (Kathryn Hunter) moves in.
WEDNESDAY 16 OCTOBER – SMILE 2
Smile 2, the eagerly awaited sequel to the 2022 box office smash hit, stars Aladdin’s Naomi Scott as global pop sensation Skye Riley who begins to experience increasingly terrifying and inexplicable events as she embarks on a world tour. Director Parker Finn will attend SXSW Sydney to present the film.
THURSDAY 17 OCTOBER – PAVEMENTS
Pavements, an experimental hybrid of narrative, scripted, documentary, musical, and metatextual elements from director Alex Ross Perry (Her Smell) about the indie rock outfit, Pavement. Co-written by Ross Perry and Stephen Malkmus from Pavement, this unique, not-to-be-missed piece of cinema comes direct to SXSW Sydney from Venice and New York film festivals.
FRIDAY 18 OCTOBER – NIGHTBITCH
Amy Adams’ darkly comedic fairy tale Nightbitch about a stay-at-home mother who, frustrated after leaving behind a career as an artist for a life consumed by parental duties, transforms into a dog. Adapted from Rachel Yoder’s cult book of the same title, Adams’ performance is receiving early Oscars buzz after the film’s premiere at TIFF.
SATURDAY 19 OCTOBER – SATURDAY NIGHT
Hot from Telluride and TIFF comes Jason Reitman’s Saturday Night, based on the true story of what happened behind the scenes in the 90 minutes leading up to the first broadcast of Saturday Night Live. Starring some of the world’s hottest young acting talent including Gabriel LaBelle (The Fabelmans), Rachel Sennott (Shiva Baby), Dylan O’Brien (The Maze Runner franchise), Nicholas Braun (Succession), Kaia Gerber (Bottoms) and Finn Wolfhard (Stranger Things) alongside industry legends Willem Dafoe and J.K Simmons, Saturday Night is full of humour, chaos, and the magic of a revolution that almost wasn’t.
Every session in the SXSW Sydney 2024 Screen Festival is open to anyone with a Screen Badge or Wristband, granting unlimited access to screenings during the event. For those itching to get their tickets now to individual Headliner or Featured sessions in the blockbuster line-up of films, Rush Tickets are now on sale for just $25. Guarantee your seat at the biggest films playing across the week, showing at the ICC Darling Harbour Theatre, Ritz Randwick and Dendy Newtown. Get your Badge, Wristband or Rush Tickets at sxswsydney.com.
More details on the broader line-up for the SXSW Sydney 2024 Screen Festival can be found here. The Opening Night film for the Screen Program will be announced at a later date.
SXSW Sydney is delivered in partnership with the NSW Government through its tourism and major events agency, Destination NSW. Plan your SXSW Sydney 2024 trip now, visit sydney.com.
Source: NIXCO
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