TYLER, Texas — Tickets are now on sale for Tyler's 2024 film festival.
The 2024 Tyler Film Festival, presented by Dobbs & Porter law office, will be held at Liberty Hall. It begins Sept. 12 and runs through Sept. 14. The festival is comprised of students and independent short films shorter than 15 minutes from Texas and around the world.
The city of Tyler said this year's festival will not have dedicated themes for each showing, instead presenting a variety of films every night, and will feature Q&A sessions with some of the filmmakers, cast and crew from the short films. Tickets are $10 for an evening pass or $25 for a three-day pass and can be purchased at www.TylerFilmFest.com and www.LibertyTyler.com.
The festival's schedule is below:
Night 1
- My Pencils Death - Director Diego Rotmistrovsky
- THE SPRAYER - Director Farnoosh Abedi
- Ofrenda - Director Tyler Garcia
- HOPE - Director Volkan Girgin
- Queen of Death - Directors Elise and Emily Holder
- Curiosity - Director Tito Contreras
- Larry McMurtry's All My Friends Are Going to Be Strangers - Chapter 1 - Director Stephen Purvis
- Pitage - Director Ali Khaledi
- From Stone to Stone - Director Louie Clive Norman
Night 2
- The Word - Director Rob M. Neilson
- Take me to Hawkins, Texas - Director Ben Fenton
- Not According to Plan - Director Anna Makeeva
- I Used to Play Piano - Director Grayson Lackey
- Life is Like a Play - Director Olivia Carter
- Duvar Duvar / Wall, the Wall - Director Yusuf Ölmez
- 5/3/0 - Director Danilo Stanimirović
- Bed Bugs - Directors Christopher Greening and Conner Baudier
- Audience Favorite from Night 1
Night 3
- A Summer’s End Poem - Director Lam Can-zhao
- 5:01 - Director Seth Sonnier
- The Sunset of Green Snails - Director Mohammad Hasani
- Victim - Director Sina Abhari
- Ink - Director Ashley Worley
- Titty Boy - Director Austin Ford Franklin Culp
- Almost Perfect: The 99th Pitch - Director John Benjamin Terrell
- First and Last - Director DeAnda Mechelle Frost
- Audience Favorites from Night 2
An awards reception ceremony will take place on Sept. 14 following a showing of the films.
The 2024 Tyler Film Festival is sponsored by Dobbs & Porter, Sharon and James Wynne, True Vine Brewing, CBS19, Heart of Tyler, Visit Tyler and the Texas Film Commission. Some films feature mature content, and parents are urged to use discretion and refer to the festival schedule and program guide for film content, which will be out at a later date.