ComingSoon is debuting an exclusive Dances With Films trailer, previewing the upcoming 27th edition of the annual independent film festival in Los Angeles.
2024’s Dances With Films will take place from June 20-30, 2024, with the opening night for the festival taking place last night. The latest iteration of the festival features a new co-presenting partnership with Outfest for additional LGBTQIA+ programming and a bigger and more beefed-up Midnight and Horror genre section.
Check out the trailer for the 27th annual Dances With Films below:
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The festival will take place at the TCL Chinese 6 Theatres and feature 232 films, including 38 narrative features, 17 documentary features, 25 television and streaming pilots, 152 short films, and a number of world premieres across the board.
All tickets for Dances With Films screenings are available now for $24, with passes granting access to all films and events available for $375. The full schedule of projects of films being showcased at the festival is also available on its website.
Among films set to be shown at Dances With Films, the festival will be bookended by the world premieres of Mahesh Pailoor’s drama Paper Flowers and Terre Wiesman’s Max Dagan. Narrative features making their world premieres include Patrick VanZandt’s Addy Daddy, Nayip Anthony Garcia’s Almost Popular, Benjamin-Shalom Rodriguez’ America’s Next Top Immigrant, Nida Chowdhry’s Anxious., Verner Maldonado’s Best Man Dead Man, Rich Ronat’s Culprit, Alec Wry, Sam Slade, and Kevin Mix’s Death Perception, Matt Warren’s Delicate Arch, Jack McCafferty’s Dreaming of You, Parker Brennon’s Hauntology, Emily Moss Wilson’s Inheritance, Ori Yardeni and Emil Ben Shimeon’s The Man Who Saved the Internet With a Sunflower, Jeff Wolfe’s Mourning Rock, Jean Barker’s Nobody Leaves ‘Til Jesus Comes, Kerry Ann Enright’s Nobody Wants to Shoot a Woman, David Beck and Jennifer Bobbi’s Regarding Us, Aaron Inman’s Shepherd, Nicholas Giuricich’s Spark, Carter Ward’s Step Back, Doors Closing, Craig Ouellette’s Straight On Till Morning, and Jessica Boss’ Unnamed.
Additionally, Devin Lawrence’s The Disinvited, Ryan Barton-Grimley’s Listen Carefully, and Meg Rickards’ Snake will make their North American Premieres, and Matthew Leutwyler’s Fight Like a Girl will make its U.S. Premiere at Dances With Films LA. While, feature-length documentaries making their world premieres at DWF: LA include Leon Lozano’s A Little Hope for Chicago, Ryan S. Porush’s A School Grows in Watts, Christopher Riel’s The Big White House, Eryl Cochran’s Dance As You Are, Razieme Iborra’s How the West Was One, Jayson McNamara and Andrea Tortonese’s Norita, Rebecca Corry’s Saving Jones, Meredith Yinger’s Scars Unseen, Alec Goldberg and Boson Wang’s Sitting in the Fire, and Bill Guttentag’s Spyral.