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Today, Chattanooga Film Festival organizers gave their fans even more bang for their 2025 badge buck by announcing another jam-packed wave filled with a veritable Whitman’s sampler of the genre programming for which Cff has become known.

The third and final wave of Chattanooga Film Festival 2025 includes a film programmed by a very special guest, another World Premiere, sneak preview screenings, and their biggest 2025 shorts program ever!

Joining the festival’s programmers and curating a secret screening as part of the 2025 edition of their fan-favorite Redeye secret screening series is David Dastmalchian, who will give fans insight into the wild world of his selection, a film presented by longtime Cff co-conspirators Arrow Video.

Joining the festival’s already-announced lineup is the World Premiere of Alan At Night, a Top Secret Sneak Preview screening of a fantastically funny new film, and a screening of Abigail Before Beatrice.

Then, there’s their massive shorts program,...

The Chattanooga Film Festival has announced the final wave of programming and closing night film for its 12th annual event, which will take place June 20-28 both in-person in Tennessee and virtually.

Joining the team’s programmers and curating a secret screening as part of the 2025 edition of their fan-favorite Redeye secret screening series is actor and horror stalwart David Dastmalchian. Look for new world premieres, a massive short film slate, and special live episodes of podcasts including Bloody FM’s Horror Queers. The new additions round out an already packed wave one and two for programming at this year’s fest.

Read on for the third and final wave…

‘Abigail Before Beatrice’

Abigail Before Beatrice (d. Cassie Keet)

An isolated woman is confronted by her past when a fellow former cult member reaches out with news that their leader has been released from prison early. What happens when your...

A struggling widower and his daughter become trapped in his convenience store as a mysterious affliction ravages the world outside, but the danger turns out to be closer than he thinks in Bari Kang's debut feature, Itch! Still reeling from his wife’s sudden and violent death, Jay (Bari Kang) is having a hard time getting his life back together. His daughter Olivia has been staying with her grandfather as Jay can barely manage to get out of bed most of the time. When Grandpa has to stay home to take care of his ailing wife, Jay has to not only care for Olivia, but also run his dad’s store, and all with a wicked hangover. Pretty soon that headache turns out to be the least...

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Stars: Bari Kang, Olivia Kang, Douglas Stirling, Patrick Michael Valley, Ximena Uribe, Mia Ventura Lucas | Written and Directed by Bari Kang

Known for his crime thrillers Lucky and The Scrapper, writer/director Bari Kang makes the transition to horror with his latest film, Itch!, which had its World Premiere at Dances With Films. It’s the second film from the festival I’ve reviewed, and like Bleeding, it looks at a supernatural creature, in this case zombies, from a different perspective and with an emphasis on the psychological as well as the physical risks of dealing with them.

Jay (Bari Kang) recently lost his wife, something their young daughter Olivia (Olivia Kang) can’t seem to accept, refusing to speak and writing notes asking to visit her mother. That, and a growing pile of past due medical bills, have him preoccupied to the point he’s not paying attention to...

Smile 2 Digital, 4K Uhd, Blu-ray, and DVD Release: "The malevolent curse from the #1 original horror movie of 2022, Smile, is taken to shocking new levels in “the scariest movie of the year by a mile”, Smile 2. The box office hit arrives for purchase on Digital November 19, 2024 from Paramount Home Entertainment.

Smile 2 will also be available on Digital as part of a two-movie collection with the original Smile and will arrive on 4K Ultra HD, in a 4K Ultra HD SteelBook®, and on DVD on January 21, 2025.

Hailed as a “terrifying masterpiece”, writer/director Parker Finn’s Smile 2 ratchets up the horror with a “razor-sharp and inventive” story that takes viewers on “a wild, terrifying ride”. The film is Certified Fresh™ with an 86% Critics Score* on Rotten Tomatoes® and has been praised as “one of the best horror sequels ever made”.

Fans who purchase the film on Digital** or...

Bari Kang’s hard hitting crime thriller led by a diverse cast The Scrapper premieres On Digital this December A crime thriller led by a diverse cast, The Scrapper will be available to purchase or rent starting on December 7th from 1091 Pictures. Jeffrey Cooper, Owner of Cut Entertainment Group, negotiated the deal on behalf of …

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The moral and legal battle between self-preservation and helping other people is a powerful one, especially for those who wish to overcome their tumultuous past and create a better life for themselves and their families. That’s certainly the case for actor Bari Kang’s anti-hero of Jake in the new crime thriller, ‘The Scrapper.’ The film […]

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Bari Kang’s hard hitting crime thriller led by a diverse cast The Scrapper premieres On Digital this December A crime thriller led by a diverse cast, The Scrapper will be available to purchase or rent starting on December 7th from 1091 Pictures. Jeffrey Cooper, Owner of Cut Entertainment Group, negotiated the deal on behalf of …

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It’s taken five years for Lucky (Bari Kang) to save the money and find the footing — no matter how much illegal activity both pursuits warranted — necessary to acquire a bride believable enough to fool Ins and earn his green card. He has a legit job as a mechanic with his “brother” Ricky’s (Daniel Jordano) garage during the day, helps “lose” customers’ taxis at night to earn extra cash from a fence while they receive insurance checks, and even procured himself a license from the shady jack-of-all-trades Sunny (Obaid Kadwani) to look the part of a legitimate immigrant before the law renders it official. Finally the time has arrived to take that next step forward just as fate enters to show this kind-hearted soul the irony of his name.

Kang as writer/director foreshadows this quickly spiraling destruction of his character’s dream by starting his debut feature Lucky...

There’s no such thing as easy money. Now repeat it: there’s no such thing as easy money. Now tell that to Lucky.

In Bari Kang’s “Lucky,” the newbie filmmaker pulls quadruple duty — he wrote the film, directed it, produced it, and stars in it as its eponymous character — in a story about a striving young immigrant who gets mixed up in some very bad stuff (with some very bad people) when he becomes convinced that he can make cash quickly.

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The undocumented cab driver is struggling to make ends meet, so when he gets the chance to pull some quick jobs that involve carting certain items from place to place, he goes for it. But what once seemed like a snappy way to use his...