THE OVERLOOK FILM FESTIVAL RETURNS TO NEW ORLEANS JUNE 2 – 5 2022
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Introducing a re-imagined four-day celebration of horror in America’s most haunted city.
The Overlook Film Festival — a four-day celebration of all things horror — will be making its triumphant return to New Orleans, taking place June 2 through June 5, 2022. The festival will showcase exciting work in new and classic genre cinema, live events, and its trademark interactive activities. A summer camp for horror fans, Overlook welcomes its audiences to enjoy four days of events and screenings in one of America’s oldest and most haunted cities. Screenings and events will take place at the Festival Headquarters in the newly branded Prytania Theatres at Canal Place, located in Downtown New Orleans. Newly refurbished by the Brunet family, owners of the historic Prytania Theater, the Prytania is a 100+ year old institution with the distinction of being the longest continually operating theater in the south.Per festival guidelines and mandates, all attendees will need to provide proof of vaccination, and must wear a mask at all venues when not eating or drinking. The Overlook’s interactive content will also be re-imagined in 2022 with COVID-19 safety measures in place. The festival’s signature weekend-long immersive game experience will return, designed by NOLA’s premier escape room experience creators, Escape My Room. Further COVID-19 safety measures may be required for participation in any additional interactive and immersive programming.
The city of New Orleans continues working on making a full recovery from the devastating effects caused by Hurricane Ida in August 2021. Next year’s festival is dedicated to giving back to its adopted city, donating a portion of festival pass and ticket sales to the Hurricane Ida Relief and Recovery Fund, a project from the Mutual Aid Response Network led by Imagine Water Works.“Community is the entire reason we spend our free time putting on our theatre macabre year after year and genre fans everywhere are the bloody, beating heart of the fest so we want to do everything we can to give back to our host city and the fans and filmmakers we’ve missed so much,” added festival co-director Landon Zakheim. “So not only have we found a way to significantly lower pass prices, but we’ll also be donating a portion of all sales to local recovery efforts.”
Check out the full schedule HERE and some highlights below.
OPENING NIGHT FILMMONA LISA AND THE BLOOD MOON Filmmaker in AttendancePass holder screening: Thursday, June 2nd | 7:00 PM | Canal PlacePublic premiere: Thursday, June 2nd | 8:00 PM | Prytania Theater (Uptown)The pulsating, raucous, vibrant new fantasy from auteur Ana Lily Amirpour. An incredible cast including Jeon Jong-soo, Kate Hudson and Craig Robinson make this surreal crowd-pleaser glow. OPENING NIGHT PARTYThursday, June 2nd | 9:30 PM | Toulouse TheaterPresented by: Crescent CannaJoin us for a one-of-a-kind performance from homegrown impresario QUINTRON. Available to both festival pass and ticket holders. Don’t miss out!
HALLOWEEN IN JUNE – CLOSING NIGHT PARTYSaturday, June 4th | 9:30 PM | One Eyed JacksPresented by: Magnet ReleasingWe lost out on our most sacred holiday in 2020, so this year we’re making it up in style! Costumes are mandatory: bring your masks, hoard all the candy, make contact with the beyond, watch out for pranks, and dance the night away to your favorite spooky tunes to keep the spirits at bay at this fiendish immersive gathering. Don’t wait, boos and ghouls: tickets are on sale NOW!
HORROR TRIVIAPresented by: ShudderFree event — no passes or tickets are required to join. Friday, June 3rd | 4:00 PM | American Townhouse
Scare yourself with how much you actually know about horror. Prepare for prizes, drinks and four ghoulish rounds of horror trivia.
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