Cinema Columbus Film Festival
Cinema Columbus Film Festival
Presented by CAPA, the Cinema Columbus Film Festival today announced the roster of independent films selected for the 2024 festival and its screening schedule for April 24-28.
The festival, which marks its third year in 2024, will present a total of 22 screenings involving nearly 50 feature and short films at seven locations, including the Drexel Theatre, Gateway Film Center, Studio 35 Cinema & Drafthouse, Grandview Theater & Drafthouse, McConnell Arts Center, the Wexner Center for the Arts, and the Southern Theatre.
“This year’s festival selections provide cinematic evidence that the world is full of uniquely talented filmmakers, both inside and outside of Columbus,” Festival Director Brett Reiter said. “The city has widened its embrace of film more and more in recent years, and it’s my pleasure to spotlight these emerging film voices for a community of emerging filmgoers.”
The 2024 festival will open at the Southern Theatre with False Positive, a documentary about Ohio State and Olympic sprinter Butch Reynolds from Akron-based filmmaker Ismail Al-Amin, to screen at 7 pm Wednesday, April 24. False Positive, a yet-to-be-released ESPN Films 30 for 30 documentary, is the untold story of the fastest man in the world, Butch Reynolds, whose legendary career was derailed by a faulty drug test in one of the greatest injustices in American sports history.
Reiter said that more than half of the films to be shown at this year’s festival are directed by women. More than 40 percent, he said, are directed by filmmakers of color. Additionally, numerous Ohio-based filmmakers will have work featured in this year’s festival, many of those from the Columbus area.