The 2024 Film & TV Festival had another banger year, with critically acclaimed, sold-out screenings for wildly enthusiastic audiences. For the first time ever, SXSW closed Congress St in front of the Paramount Theatre, allowing for activations and stunts ranging from a smoke-billowing, 60-foot-long joint on top of a Bently for Cheech and Chong’s Last Movie, motorcycle stunts for The Fall Guy, a haunting choir of demonic nuns for Immaculate, and more. Bob Trevino Likes It won the Narrative Feature Jury and Audience Award, Grand Theft Hamlet took the Documentary Feature Jury Award and Resynator won the Documentary Audience Award.
SXSW also set the stage for several titles to go on and break records after their premieres. Civil War (A24), Immaculate (Neon), and 2023’s Late Night With The Devil (IFC) all delivered the largest openings in their distribution companies' histories upon release after the 2024 festival. Our opening night film Road House debuted to a record-breaking 50 million worldwide viewers on Prime Video over its first two weekends – the largest movie debut for an Amazon MGM Studios-produced original in the streamer’s history.
2024 By the Numbers: The SXSW Film & TV Festival presented 118 Features, including 91 World Premieres, and 58 first-time directors. The program featured 21 TV projects, plus 6 independent pilots; 80 Short films, 19 Music videos, and 36 XR Experience projects.
2024 Highlights Include: Features: Opening Night: Road House directed by Doug Liman; Closing Night: The Idea of You directed by Michael Showalter; Centerpiece Screening: The Fall Guy directed by David Leitch. Headliners: Babes directed by Pamela Adlon; Civil War directed by Alex Garland; Immaculate directed by Michael Mohan; Monkey Man directed by Dev Patel; Y2K directed by Kyle Mooney.
TV Premieres: Opening Night: David Benioff, D.B. Weiss, Alexander Woo’s 3 Body Problem; Prentice Penny’s Black Twitter: A People’s History, Giselle Parets’ Thank You, Goodnight: The Bon Jovi Story; TV Spotlight: Jen Statsky, Paul W. Downs, Lucia Aniello’s Hacks Season 3 Premiere; Alex Kurtzman, Michelle Paradise’s Star Trek: Discovery Final Season Premiere; Bayan Joonam, Charles Todd’s Magic City: An American Fantasy, and Duplass Brothers Indie TV Showcase.
Sampling of Talent: Jake Gyllenhaal, Conor McGregor, Daniela Melchior, Jessica Williams, JD Pardo, Lukas Gage, Nicholas Galitzine, Anne Hathaway, Michael Showalter, Ryan Gosling, Emily Blunt, Winston Duke, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Hannah Waddingham, Stephanie Hsu, Jovan Adepo, Rosalind Chao, Liam Cunningham, Derek Tsang, Alexander Woo, David Benioff, DB Weiss, Ilana Glazer, Michelle Buteau, Pamela Adlon, Alex Garland, Kirsten Dunst, Cailee Spaeny, Wagner Moura, Nicolas Cage, Jaeden Martell, Maxwell Jenkins, Sadie Soverall, John Leguizamo, Barbie Ferreira; Tommy Chong, Cheech Marin, Dan Stevens, Hunter Schafer, Lilly Singh, Hannah Einbinder, Jean Smart, Nick Kroll, Eleanora Romandini, Andrew Rannells, Amanda Seyfried, Sydney Sweeney, Álvaro Morte, Simona Tabasco, Daisy Ridley, Shazad Latif, Matilda Lutz, Sam Yates, Dev Patel, Jordan Peele, Pitobash, Sobhita Dhulipala, Sharlto Copley, Rudy Mancuso, Francesca Reale, Camila Mendes, Maria Mancuso, J.B. Smoove, Gloria Reuben, Utkarsh Ambudkar, Natalie Morales, Sonequa Martin-Green, Ed Harris, Mary Louise Parker, Ayo Edebiri, David Zellner, Nathan Zellner, Jesse Eisenberg, Christophe Zajac-Denek, Colman Domingo, Paul Raci, Brent Buell, Sonequa Martin-Green, Doug Jones, Mary Wiseman, Blu del Barrio, Alex Kurtzman, Wilson Cruz, David Ajala, Judd Apatow, Erin Lee Carr, Jon Bon Jovi, Lucy Boynton, Justin H. Min, Shameik Moore, D’Arcy Carden, Paul Reiser, Fawzia Mirza, Ali A. Kazmi, Hamza Haq, Amrit Kaur, Ayana Manji, Walton Goggins, Patrick Carney, Dan Auerbach, Kyle Mooney, Rachel Zegler, Jaeden Martell, Lachlan Watson, Daniel Zolghadri, Mason Gooding, Fred Durst and many, many more!
