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The 2024 Sundance lineup is coming into fuller view, including celebrations for its 40th edition and its shorts program. The festival will take place January 18 through 28 in-person in Park City and Salt Lake City, with a selection of titles available online nationwide from January 25 through 28 via digital platforms.

The festival will introduce new short films for 2024 across eight curated programs, including a festival retrospective hosted by Mark and Jay Duplass. This year’s programming for new titles features 53 short films selected from 12,098 submissions, the highest number on record. Of these submissions, 5,323 were from the U.S., and 6,799 were international. The selected shorts represent 22 countries.

In addition to the shorts programming, the special 40th edition celebration screenings and events kick off on January 23, bringing Sundance alumni together for conversations and gatherings while revisiting iconic films like new 4K restorations of “Napoleon Dynamite” for its 20th anniversary, the 25th anniversary of “Three Seasons,...

Stars: Noah Segan, Victoria Moroles, Josh Ruben, C.L. Simpson | Written and Directed by Noah Segan

Actor Noah Segan follows up “M.I.S.T..E.R.” his segment from last year’s Scare Package with his first feature, Blood Relatives, a comedy that proves blood, and the thirst for it, is thicker than water.

Francis (Noah Segan) is a vampire. He keeps to himself and travels the backroads trying to avoid attention. He’s been doing a fairly good job of it too until the clerk at a motel makes a comment about a girl who can’t be more than sixteen in his room. He’s confused, but as it turns out she’s right. The girl’s name is Jane, and she claims to be his daughter by way of an indiscretion while he was passing through Elk River. And she has the fangs to prove it. Since...

As a vampire without American identification, you could say Francis (Noah Segan) is an illegal immigrant regardless of the fact he’s lived in the country longer than anyone else currently alive with a legitimate birth certificate. Why he chooses to drive through red states in his vintage Barracuda while confusing Alex Jones-loving, conspiracy-theorizing yokels with Yiddish is therefore a mystery. This is the solitary bachelor life he’s chosen, though. And perhaps that part of the country is simply better suited for a nomadic lifestyle demanding a sense of secrecy considering the trail of bodies Francis inevitably leaves in his wake (animal meat makes him bloated). There’s also no shortage of racist criminals no one will miss for him to kill. Happiness is an unnecessary luxury. Survival is paramount.

Everything changes when he finds a fifteen-year-old girl skulking around his motel room. Not only is it a...

Sometimes, reconnecting with long-lost family can suck, as seen in Blood Relatives. The upcoming horror-comedy revolves around 115-year-old Yiddish vampire Francis who is confronted by Jane, who reveals herself to be his teenage daughter with similar abilities, save for her being able to go out into the daylight, throwing off his lone wolf lifestyle.

Scare Package alum and frequent Rian Johnson collaborator Noah Segan is writing, directing, and leading the cast of Blood Relatives alongside Plan B's Victoria Moroles, Akasha Villalobos, C.L. Simpson, Doug Benson, and Josh Ruben. Taking influence from a wide variety of vampire titles, as well as single-parent stories, the horror-comedy proves to be a subversive and exciting feature directorial debut from Segan.

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In anticipation of the film's release, Screen Rant spoke exclusively with writer, director, and star Noah Segan to discuss Blood Relatives, the various influences from the vampire genre,...

Family road trips are getting a lot bloodier with Blood Relatives. The film centers on a young woman who endeavors to find her long-lost father, a 115-year-old vampire, only to find her efforts dampened by being used to an isolated lifestyle. As he attempts to drop her off with family on her mom's side, the two begin to learn about one another and help break each other's walls down.

Noah Segan and Victoria Moroles lead the cast of Blood Relatives alongside Akasha Villalobos, C.L. Simpson, Doug Benson, and Josh Ruben. Hailing from Segan in his feature directorial debut, the horror-comedy is a subversive take on the father-child relationship drama full of heart, dad jokes, and blood.

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Ahead of the film's arrival, Screen Rant spoke exclusively with star Victoria Moroles to discuss Blood Relatives, going from the world of werewolves to vampires,...

Noah Segan – whose credits include Brick, Knives Out, Starry Eyes, and Tales of Halloween – not only stars in the vampire comedy Blood Relatives, which is set to be released through the Shudder streaming service on November 22nd, he also wrote and directed the movie. With the release just over a month away, a trailer for Blood Relatives has arrived online, and you can check it out in the embed above!

Blood Relatives has the following synopsis:

Francis (Segan), a 115-year-old Yiddish vampire, still looks 35. He’s been roaming around American backroads in his beat-up muscle car for decades, keeping to himself, and liking it that way. One day, a teenage kid, Jane, shows up. She says she’s his daughter, and she’s got the fangs to prove it. They go on the road, deciding whether to sink their teeth into family life.

Segan has been racking up acting credits since the ’90s,...

"What do you want from me?!" "Everything!!" Shudder has revealed an official trailer for an indie horror comedy titled Blood Relatives, about a vampire on a road trip with his estranged daughter. This marks the feature directorial debut of actor Noah Segan, best known as "Kid Blue", appearing quite often in Rian Johnson films and plenty others. A vampire's loner lifestyle is thrown into disarray when a teenager shows up claiming to be his daughter, and she's got the fangs to prove it – on a road trip across America's blacktops, they decide how to sink their teeth into family life. Blood Relatives stars Noah Segan and Victoria Moroles, with Akasha Villalobos, C.L. Simpson, Ammie Masterson, Tracie Thoms, Jon Proudstar, & Josh Ruben. It looks like some low budget, bloody dark comedy, vampire fun. Enjoy. ›››

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