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2025 Screamfest NOLA Award Winners
New Orleans, LA (Nov 2, 2025) - Screamfest® NOLA, celebrating its 8th annual festival in New Orleans, is excited to announce their 2025 award winners. The festival took place October 30 to Nov 2, 2025 at the Broad Theaters. 
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2026 Films

Screamfest Nola Film Guide

Film Category

Apocalypse Z: New World

Meet the Filmmaker

Carles Torrens

Director
Synopsis
The story takes us to the Canary Islands, which have become Europe’s last refuge following the outbreak of the TSJ virus. When a special mission sets out for the mainland in search of vital supplies, Roberto joins the team with questionable intentions. The dangerous operation turns into a desperate race for survival, and Roberto and his companions find themselves caught between hordes of infected and divided loyalties. Then the timeless question arises: save yourself, or risk everything to preserve what little humanity remains?
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CopyPaste!

Meet the Filmmaker

Keira Schehl

Director
Synopsis
When a glitch overtakes the dress-up game, “Copy Paste”, its main character, Dolly, disappears. Molly, her sidekick, must survive the destabilized world as it forces her to take Dolly’s role. Pressured by her warping reality and the game’s player, Molly must decide who she is; or who she must become.
Film Category

Donor

Synopsis
After volunteering to be the egg donor for her now-pregnant friend, a woman grows to regret her choice in the aftermath of her own miscarriage—and considers taking back the only baby she has left.
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The Night Driver

Meet the Filmmaker

JEREMY WEISS

DIRECTOR
Synopsis
One night in the middle of the country, traveling salesman Hurdis Matheson drives down a dark stretch of highway when he accidently hits a longhaired stranger. The stranger survives, but is badly wounded. Hurdis agrees to drive him to the hospital. As they drive, he realizes something is wrong with his passenger. Before he knows it, The Stranger becomes violent and attacks him. A couple of days later in California, Hurdis’ wife Cheryl Jones begs for her old friend Detective Hank Granger to help find her husband. She hasn’t heard from him in two days, and suspects something happened to him. Granger agrees to help but becomes entangled in a bigger case with the FBI regarding Hurdis Jones. They suspect he is a serial killer on a rampage, leaving a trail of homicide scenes across the country. Meanwhile, Hurdis is running, driving and speeding to get home. But everywhere he turns, The Stranger stalks him. He can’t seem to lose him. What will happen next will lead to a climax that will leave audiences speechless. Reminiscent of films such as High Tension or The Sixth Sense, The Night Driver swerves with twists and turns that deliver shocking surprises that no one can anticipate.
Film Category

THE REVIEW

Meet the Filmmaker

Samuel Gonzalez Jr.

Writer / Director
Synopsis
Desperate to rebuild her career, a disgraced food critic stumbles upon a strange new pizza place in need of a review. What seems like the perfect opportunity for a comeback soon twists into a grotesque nightmare, forcing her to discover that every star matters—and every word comes with deadly consequences.
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Trick 'r' Treat - w/ 4K Restoration of Season's Greetings

Meet the Filmmaker

Michael Dougherty

Director
Synopsis
It is said that Halloween is the night when the dead rise to walk among us and other unspeakable things roam free. The rituals of All Hallows Eve were devised to protect us from their evil, and one small town is about to be taught a terrifying lesson that some traditions are best not forgotten. Nothing is what it seems when a young couple learns the dangers of blowing out a Jack-o-Lantern before midnight; four beautiful women cross paths with a costumed stalker; a group of pranksters discovers the horrifying truth buried in a local legend; and a cantankerous hermit is visited by a strange trick-or-treater with a few bones to pick. Costumes and candy, ghouls and goblins, monsters and mayhem... the tricks and treats of Halloween turn deadly as strange creatures of every variety-- human and otherwise --try to survive the scariest night of the year.

Screamfest NOLA

2026 Festival Schedule

October 16 - 15, 2026

📍 The Broad Theater — New Orleans, LA

Friday, October 16

7:00 PM

Trick 'r Treat w/ Season's Greetings

4K Restoration Screening

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9:00 PM

Muffled

Feature Film Premiere — A NOLA True Crime & Horror Screening

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Saturday, October 17

12:00 PM

Shorts Block 1

Saturday Short Film Selection includes No Volvere' - AYA - Yellow - CopyPaste - Watchman's Woods - The Creek

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2:00 PM

Shorts Block 2

Saturday Short Film Selection includes New Rules - Tailor Made - Dawn - Survivors Loss - Dead Air - The Review

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4:00 PM

Shorts Block 3

Saturday Short Film Selection includes Donor - Pyre - Hivemind Deluxe - Poly - Idle Hands

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6:00 PM

HUMAN

A Screamfest NOLA Special Screening

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8:00 PM

Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer

4K Restoration Screening

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Sunday, October 18

1:30 PM

Dead Dawn

Special Film Screening

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3:30 PM

Silt

Exclusive Independent Cosmic Horror Screening

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6:00 PM

Apocalypse Z: New World

Special Screening

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8:00 PM

The Night Driver

Screamfest NOLA Closing Night Premiere!

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