1 Potato Film Event
Thu Mar 16 - 4:00 pm :: Nexstage Theatre
The Sun Valley Film Festival developed the 1 Potato Initiative to support emerging filmmakers and incentivize filmmaking in the state of Idaho. We’re inviting the winner of the screenplay competiti...
AWOL
Fri Mar 17 - 9:00 pm :: Tito's Handmade Vodka Cinetransformer
Director: Deb Shoval Writers: Deb Shoval, Karolina Waclawiak Producers: L.A. Teodosio, Jessica Caldwell, Michel Merkt Cinematographer: Gal Deren Cast: Lola Kirke, Breeda Wool, Dale Soule...
Beyond The Wall
Fri Mar 17 - 7:45 pm :: Nexstage Theatre
Directors: Jenny Phillips, Bestor Cram Producer: Jenny Phillips, Bestor Cram Editor/Writer: Andrew Kakura Beyond the Wall follows five formerly incarcerated men who are attempting to re...
Big Sonia
Sun Mar 19 - 6:00 pm :: Opera House
Directors: Leah Warshawski, Todd Soliday Producer: Leah Warshawski DP/Editor: Todd Soliday Story Producer: Eric Frith Graphic Artist: Rachel Ignotofsky Animator: Dawn Norton Additional Ed...
Bitch
Sat Mar 18 - 6:45 pm :: Tito's Handmade Vodka Cinetransformer
Director/Writer: Marianna Palka Producers: Daniel Noah, Josh C. Waller, Elijah Wood, Mike Moran Cinematographer: Armando Salas Compser: Morgan Z. Whirledge Cast: Jason Ritter, Jaime King, ...
Blood Road
Wed Mar 15 - 6:00 pm :: Opera House
Director: Nicholas Schrunk Producer: Sandra Kuhn Writer: Mark Anders Editor: Emad Hashim Cinematographer: Ryan Young Featuring: Rebecca Rusch, Huyen Nguyen Red Bull Media House Film B...
Brave New Jersey
Fri Mar 17 - 9:30 pm :: Opera House
With Patron Support from Dan, Pattie, Kristina, and Daniel Frandson Director: Jody Lambert Writers: Michael Dowling, Jody Lambert Producers: Taylor Williams, Jen Roskind Cast: Tony Hale, H...
Buster's Mal Heart
Sat Mar 18 - 3:45 pm :: Opera House
With Patron Support from Elizabeth and William Kahane Director/Writer: Sarah Adina Smith Producers: Travis Stevens, Jonako Donley Cinematographer: Shaheen Seth Editor: Sarah Adina Smith Cas...
Camera Store
Wed Mar 15 - 7:30 pm :: Tito's Handmade Vodka Cinetransformer
Director/Writer: Scott Marshall Smith Producers: Robert Reed Peterson, Nicholas Cafritz Cast: John Larroquette, John Rhys-Davies, Cheryl Ladd It’s Christmas Eve morning 1994. Ray LaPine...
Charlie vs Goliath
Fri Mar 17 - 5:30 pm :: Nexstage Theatre
Director: Reed Lindsay Producers: Reed Lindsay, Philip Landrum, Ronica Reddick, Anthony Weldon Associate Producers: Gary Hornbuckle, Barbi Reed Director of Photography: Reed Lindsay Cinem...
Coffee Talks: Allison Williams
Fri Mar 17 - 10:00 am :: Nexstage Theatre
Coffee Talks are the crown jewel of the Festival. The Festival’s most popular series features a moderated Q&A with artists and filmmakers who have changed the cinematic landscape. Free and open to ...
Coffee Talks: Bobby and Peter Farrelly
Sun Mar 19 - 10:00 am :: Nexstage Theatre
Coffee Talks are the crown jewel of the Festival. The Festival’s most popular series features a moderated Q&A with artists and filmmakers who have changed the cinematic landscape. Free and open to ...
Coffee Talks: Brett Ratner and Jonathan Glickman
Sat Mar 18 - 10:00 am :: Nexstage Theatre
Coffee Talks are the crown jewel of the Festival. The Festival’s most popular series features a moderated Q&A with artists and filmmakers who have changed the cinematic landscape. Free and open to ...
ConTent: The Score
Fri Mar 17 - 2:00 pm :: Tito's Handmade Vodka Cinetransformer
Join Chris Douridas, KCRW DJ and music supervisor (American Beauty, Captain Fantastic, Shrek 2) and composer Nick Urata (Crazy, Stupid Love, Naledi) as they discuss the art of scoring and supervisi...
Conversation with The Originals
Sat Mar 18 - 7:45 pm :: Nexstage Theatre
An in-depth conversation with the indigenous voices of the Idaho community and Standing Rock movement. The panel includes Dr. LaNada War Jack, Sarah Sunshine Manning and Cody Lucich. War Jack is a...
Custody
Sun Mar 19 - 1:15 pm :: Opera House
Director/Writer: James Lapine Producers: Katie Mustard, Lauren Versel Cast: Viola Davis, Catalina Moreno, Hayden Panettiere, Ellen Burstyn, Tony Shalhoub Legal proceedings and intimate f...
Dave Made A Maze
Sun Mar 19 - 2:30 pm :: Tito's Handmade Vodka Cinetransformer
Director: Bill Watterson Writers: Bill Watterson, Steven Sears Story by: Steven Sears Producers: John Charles Meyer Cast: Nick Thune, Meera Rohit Kumbhani, James Urbaniak, Adam Busch ...
ENCORE SCREENING: Blood Road
Sat Mar 18 - 1:30 pm :: Community School
Director: Nicholas Schrunk Producer: Sandra Kuhn Writer: Mark Anders Editor: Emad Hashim Cinematographer: Ryan Young Featuring: Rebecca Rusch, Huyen Nguyen Red Bull Media House Film B...
ENCORE SCREENING: Naledi - A Baby Elephants Tale
Sat Mar 18 - 6:00 pm :: Liberty Theatre
Naledi: A Baby Elephant’s Tale Directors: Ben Bowie, Geoff Luck Executive Producers: Paul G. Allen, Jody Allen, Carole Tomko, Ellen Windemuth Producers: Hilary Sparrow, Emre Izat Ci...
FILM LAB FINALIST: Break the Hold
Sat Mar 18 - 4:30 pm :: Tito's Handmade Vodka Cinetransformer
Writer/Director: Suzannah Herbert Writer/Producer: Lauren Belfer Producers: Steven Klein, Mary Rohlich, Seth Gordon Executive Producers: Micheline Levine Consulting Producer: Sam Pollar...
FILM LAB FINALIST: Unlovable
Fri Mar 17 - 4:30 pm :: Tito's Handmade Vodka Cinetransformer
Director: Suzi Yoonessi Writers: Charlene deGuzman, Sarah Adina Smith, and Mark Duplass Producer: Jen Roskind Executive Producers: Sarah Smick, Ian Michaels, Cary Anderson Co-Producer: ...
Finding Oscar
Thu Mar 16 - 5:30 pm :: Opera House
Director: Ryan Suffern Producers: Ryan Suffern, Frank Marshall Executive Producer: Steven Spielberg Cinematographer: Michael Parry Editor: Martin Singer FINDING OSCAR is a feature-...
Future Filmmaker Forum
Sat Mar 18 - 5:00 pm :: Nexstage Theatre
AUGUST CINDERELLA IF I ASK LONG HAIRED WARRIOR LOOP MUSIC SAVED MY LIFE NEWSMAN PUGET SOUND STAGE 5 *SVFFreebie
Get Out
Thu Mar 16 - 9:15 pm :: Tito's Handmade Vodka Cinetransformer
Director: Jordan Peele Writer: Jordan Peele Producers: Jason Blum, Edward H. Hamm Jr., Jordan Peele, Sean McKittrick Cinematography: Toby Oliver Music By: Michael Abels Cast: Da...
Idaho Short Film Series
Sun Mar 19 - 1:00 pm :: Nexstage Theatre
IDAHO SHORT FILM SERIES *Filmmakers in Attendance for Q&A BUTTERCUP (12 min.) (WORLD PREMIERE) Writer/Director: Megan Brotherton Producers: Elizabeth Bates, Megan Brotherton Associ...
L.A. TIMES
Fri Mar 17 - 7:00 pm :: Opera House
Director/Writer: Michelle Morgan Producers: Ryland Aldrich, Alix Madigan, Jared Stern Cast: Michelle Morgan, Jorma Taccone, Dree Hemingway, Kentucker Audley, Adam Shapiro, Robert Schwartzman,...
Machines
Fri Mar 17 - 7:00 pm :: Tito's Handmade Vodka Cinetransformer
Director: Rahul Jain Producers: Rahul Jain, Thanassis Karathanos, Iikka Vehkalahti Cinematographer: Rodrigo Trejo Villanueva Sound Design: Susmit “Bob” Nath Sound Re Recording Mixer: Adrian...
Main Street Mix: DJ N8
Fri Mar 17 - 10:00 pm :: Festival HQ at the Warfield
Don your dancing shoes and party pants as we let loose at our DJ-led dance party with DJN8. We're shaking off the cold winter night at festival HQ with a no-host bar. DJ N8, otherwise known as Na...
Naledi - A Baby Elephants Tale
Fri Mar 17 - 4:00 pm :: Community School
With Patron Support from Lisa Firestone and Caspar von Winterfeldt Directors: Ben Bowie, Geoff Luck Executive Producers: Paul G. Allen, Jody Allen, Carole Tomko, Ellen Windemuth Producers: H...
Nat Geo WILD’s Animal Moms: Toddlers
Sat Mar 18 - 11:45 am :: Opera House
Produced for Nat Geo WILD by Oxford Scientific Films Oxford Scientific Film Series Producer and Director: Rob Neil Executive Producers: Caroline Hawkins, Alice Keens-Soper Nat Geo WILD Senior ...
Nat Geo WILD’s Walking With Giraffes
Fri Mar 17 - 5:15 pm :: Opera House
Produced for Nat Geo WILD by Iniosante Iniosante Director: Ashley Scott Davison Walking with Giraffes examines the decline of wild giraffes and its implications in our rapidly changing wor...
National Geographic Channel’s Parched: Money Flows
Thu Mar 16 - 7:30 pm :: Tito's Handmade Vodka Cinetransformer
Directed by Jed Rothstein Produced for National Geographic Channels by Jigsaw Productions National Geographic Channel National Geographic Channel Executive Producers: Tim Pastore, Kevin Tao...
No Light and No Land Anywhere
Sun Mar 19 - 4:45 pm :: Tito's Handmade Vodka Cinetransformer
Director/Writer: Amber Sealey Executive Producer: Miranda July Producers: Amber Sealey, Alysa Nahmias, Drea Clark Cinematographer: Catherine Goldschmidt Cast: Gemma Brockis, Jennifer Laf...
Party For The People
Thu Mar 16 - 9:00 pm :: Whiskey Jacques
Presented by Old Forester ,br> 21+ Bite off some local flavor with Sonablast! Records as we kick off a weekend of killer parties in true Ketchum fashion. Musical guest The Pass, Louisville’s h...
Re/Collection
Thu Mar 16 - 4:00 pm :: Nexstage Theatre
Directors: Deborah Correa, Eva Konstantopoulos Writer: Eva Konstantopoulos Producers: Bryan Murphy, Michael Tetro Director of Photography: Evan Jake Cohen Executive Producer: Eva Konsta...
Rita
Sun Mar 19 - 6:00 pm :: Opera House
Director: Ron Torres Producer: Jason Caldwell Cinematographer: Tucker Debevec 2nd Unit: Jason Caldwell Associate Producer: Gabbi Jewell Editor: Ron Torres Cast: Rita Thara Yenga ...
Salon: Bob Poole
Thu Mar 16 - 12:00 pm :: Festival HQ at the Warfield
Bob Poole is an Emmy Award winning cinematographer, whose extensive credits include documentaries for PBS, NATURE and NOVA, BBC, over 30 films for Discovery Networks, and an additional 35 plus film...
Salon: Ken Biller
Fri Mar 17 - 12:00 pm :: Festival HQ at the Warfield
Ken Biller is a TV writer, producer, and director, who is currently the Showrunner and Executive Producer of National Geographic’s global event series Genius. Prior to Genius, he was the Showrunner...
Salon: Suzannah Herbert, Michelle Morgan, and Suzi Yoonessi
Sat Mar 18 - 12:00 pm :: Festival HQ at the Warfield
Join directors Suzannah Herbert Break the Hold, Michelle Morgan LA Times and Suzi Yoonessi Unlovable for a discussion about directing films as a woman in the industry.
Screenwriters Lab
Sat Mar 18 - 2:00 pm :: Nexstage Theatre
Charles Randolph, Academy Award-winning® co-screenwriter of The Big Short, joins us March 18th as this year's host of the Sun Valley Screenwriters Lab. Presented by Variety, the Lab is one of SVFF'...
See Yourself Out
Thu Mar 16 - 4:00 pm :: Nexstage Theatre
Writer/Director: Kevin Nielsen Producer: Kevin Nielsen Executive Producer: Ron Torres Director of Photography: Zach Voss Cast: Nicholas Paul Garcia, Aaron M. Kiefer When unforesee...
Shorts Program 1
Fri Mar 17 - 8:45 pm :: Community School
Shorts Program 1 Filmmakers in Attendance for Q&A SCREENING: Friday, 8:45│Community School KENDALL GOT A ROSE (6 min.) Writer/Director: Luke Haskard Cinematographer: Mitchell S...
Shorts Program 2
Sat Mar 18 - 3:45 pm :: Community School
Short Program 2 Filmmakers in Attendance for Q&A SCREENING: Saturday, 3:45│Community School ASPHYXIA (10 min.) (WORLD PREMIERE) Writer/Director: Will Lowell Producers: Katherine ...
SVFF Awards Bash
Sat Mar 18 - 10:00 pm :: Whiskey Jacques
The Lemon Twigs will run the stage at our Saturday Night Awards Bash, a righteous evening not to be missed. Join awardees, filmmakers and special guests at Whiskey Jacques as we raise glasses and g...
SVFFreebie: Beetlejuice
Sat Mar 18 - 3:00 pm :: Liberty Theatre
SVFFREEBIE In Honor of Geena Davis Director: Tim Burton Writers: Michael McDowell, Warren Skaaren Producers: Michael Bender, Richard Hashimoto, Larry Wilson Cast: Michael Keato...
SVFFreebie: Before the Flood
Thu Mar 16 - 2:00 pm :: Tito's Handmade Vodka Cinetransformer
SVFFREEBIE In Honor of Brett Ratner Director: Fisher Stevens Writer: Mark Monroe Producers: Brett Ratner, Leonardo DiCaprio, Fisher Stevens Cinematography By: Antonio Rossi Narra...
SVFFreebie: Manchester by the Sea
Sat Mar 18 - 11:15 am :: Tito's Handmade Vodka Cinetransformer
SVFFREEBIE In Honor of Chris Moore MANCHESTER BY THE SEA Writer/Director: Kenneth Lonergan Producers: Chris Moore, Lauren Beck, Matt Damon Cast: Casey Affleck, Kyle Chandler, Michel...
Take Every Wave: The Life of Laird Hamilton
Fri Mar 17 - 2:30 pm :: Opera House
Director: Rory Kennedy Screenwriters: Mark Bailey, Jack Youngelson Producers: Rory Kennedy, Paul Speaker, Mark Bailey, Jack Youngelson Executive Producers: Jonathan S. Marshall, William Cawl...
The Happy Film
Thu Mar 16 - 3:30 pm :: Opera House
Directors: Ben Nabors, Stefan Sagmeister, Hillman Curtis Producer: Ben Nabors Cinematographer: Ben Wolf Editors: Sam Citron, Akiko Iwakawa-Grieve Composer: Colin Huebert Featuring: Ste...
The Hero
Thu Mar 16 - 7:45 pm :: Opera House
Director: Brett Haley Writers: Brett Haley, Marc Basch Producers: Houston King, Sam Bisbee, Erik Rommesmo Cast: Sam Elliott, Laura Prepon, Krysten Ritter, Nick Offerman, Katharine Ross ...
The Lavender Scare
Sat Mar 18 - 2:00 pm :: Tito's Handmade Vodka Cinetransformer
Director/Producer: Josh Howard Director of Photography: Richard White Editor: Bruce Shaw Associate Director: Jill Landes Associate Producers: Barbara Pierce, Bruce Shaw Composer: Joel G...
The Ornithologist
Sat Mar 18 - 9:30 pm :: Tito's Handmade Vodka Cinetransformer
Director/Writer: João Pedro Rodrigues Producers: João Figueiras, Diogo Varela Silva Cast: Paul Hamy, João Pedro Rodrigues, Xelo Cagiao Fernando, a solitary ornithologist, is looking for bl...
The Privates
Sun Mar 19 - 2:30 pm :: Tito's Handmade Vodka Cinetransformer
Writer/Director: Dylan Allen Producer: Eddy Vallante Cinematographer: Evan Jake Cohen Editor: Robert Grigsby Wilson Cast: Omar Maskati, Lilli Stein, Alex Herrald, Rachel Trachtenburg ...
The Tenth Step
Sun Mar 19 - 3:30 pm :: Nexstage Theatre
Director: Gerry Moffatt Producers: Pia Saengswang Moffatt, Gerry Moffatt Writer: Pia Saengswang Moffatt Editors: Gerry Moffatt, Pia Saengswang Moffatt, Mark Oliver Music Consultant: Zacha...
Untamed with Filipe DeAndrade
Fri Mar 17 - 5:15 pm :: Opera House
Produced for Nat Geo WILD by Comfort Theory Comfort Theory DP & Presenter: Filipe DeAndrade Comfort Theory Producer: McKenzie Barney Director/Editor: Brian Moghari Nat Geo WILD Execut...
Walking Out
Sat Mar 18 - 8:45 pm :: Opera House
Directors: Alex Smith, Andrew Smith Writers: Alex Smith, Andrew Smith Producers: Brunson Green, Laura Ivey Director of Photography: Todd McMullen Cast: Matt Bomer, Josh Wiggins, Bill Pullman...
When War Comes Home
Wed Mar 15 - 8:30 pm :: Opera House
Director/Producer: Michael W. King Executive Producers: Debra Coleman Hyde, Jennifer G. Harris Co-Executive Producers: Duncan L. Niederauer, Ed Fouche Writer/Researcher: Anthony Valletta Comp...