{"id":913789,"date":"2026-10-02T19:10:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T19:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/913789\/"},"modified":"2026-10-02T19:10:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T19:10:13","slug":"scad-savannah-film-fest-keanu-reeves-seth-rogen-set-for-honors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/913789\/","title":{"rendered":"SCAD Savannah Film Fest: Keanu Reeves, Seth Rogen Set for Honors"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tLater this month, a veritable parade of A-list movie stars and filmmakers \u2014 many of whom are in serious contention for Oscars\u00a0\u2014 will head south to attend screenings of their work and collect special honors at the 29th edition of the SCAD Savannah Film Festival<\/a>, the nation\u2019s largest university-run film festival.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Hollywood Reporter can exclusively report that they will include Josephine supporting actress\/producer Gemma Chan (Lumiere Award); Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother supporting actor John Cho (Luminary Award); The Liberation lead actress Carrie Coon (Luminary Award); Misty Green lead actress Rosalind Eleazar (Breakthrough Award); Club Kid writer\/director\/lead actor Jordan Firstman (Rising Star Director Award); Paper Tiger writer\/director\/producer James Gray (Auteur Award); I Play Rocky lead actor Anthony Ippolito (Breakthrough Award); Backrooms director Kane Parsons (Next Gen Award); Elsinore supporting actress Billie Piper (Marquee Award); and The Invite supporting actor Seth Rogen (Spotlight Award).<\/p>\n

\n\tAdditionally, the four principal stars of Peter Berg\u2019s WWII drama The Mosquito Bowl \u2014 Tom Francis, Nicholas Galitzine, Ray Nicholson and Bill Skarsg\u00e4rd \u2014 will be presented with the fest\u2019s Ensemble Award.<\/p>\n

\n\tAnd beloved screen veteran Keanu Reeves will be presented with the Legend of Cinema Award at a screening of The Matrix, and will separately participate in a panel about BRZRKR, a comic book series that he co-wrote, alongside co-writer Matt Kindt and illustrator Ron Garney.<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tThe Mosquito Bowl stars Ray Nicholson, Tom Francis, Bill Skarsg\u00e5rd and Nicholas Galitzine<\/p>\n

\n\tThey all join several previously announced honorees: VisionQuest lead actor Paul Bettany (Virtuoso Award); The Good Daughter lead actress Meghann Fahy (Spotlight in Television Award); La Bola Negra lead actor\/songwriter Guitarricadelafuente (Discovery Award); The Lowdown lead actor Ethan Hawke and creator\/executive producer Sterlin Harjo (Outstanding Collaboration in Television Award); A Talent for Murder lead actress Helen Mirren (Legend of Entertainment Award); The Debut lead actress Julianne Moore (Icon Award); Furious lead actress Emmy Rossum (Outstanding Achievement in Television Award); and Dune: Part Three production designer Patrice Vermette (Creative Impact in Production Design Award).<\/p>\n

\n\tPlus, for the 13th year in a row<\/a>, the fest has invited 10 outstanding documentaries to be screened at the fest and represented by their directors on its \u2018Docs to Watch\u2019 panel, which will be moderated by yours truly on Wednesday, Oct. 28: American Doctor (Poh Si Teng), Avedon (Ron Howard), Cookie Queens (Alysa Nahmias), Everest: The Other Side (Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi), The Last First: Winter K2 (Amir Bar-Lev), My Undesirable Friends: Part II \u2013 Exile (Julia Loktev), Once Upon a Time in Harlem (David Greaves), One in a Million (Itab Azzam and Jack MacInnes), The Trial of Alec Baldwin (Rory Kennedy) and You Can See Everything (Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim).<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\t(Top row, L to R) \u2018American Doctor,\u2019 \u2018Avedon,\u2019 \u2018Cookie Queens,\u2019 \u2018Everest: The Other Side\u2019 and \u2018The Last First: Winter K2\u2019; (bottom row, l to r) \u2018My Undesirable Friends: Part II \u2013 Exile,\u2019 \u2018Once Upon a Time in Harlem,\u2019 \u2018One in a Million,\u2019 \u2018The Trial of Alec Baldwin\u2019 and \u2018You Can See Everything.\u2019<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tIbrahim Al-Otia\/Watermelon Pictures\/Courtesy Everett Collection; Susan Middleton\/Netflix; Roadside Attractions\/Courtesy Everett Collection; Jimmy Chin; Apple TV+; Venice Film Festival; Sundance Film Festival (2); Blue Ant; A24<\/p>\n

\n\tChristina Routhier, the fest\u2019s senior executive director, tells THR, \u201cEvery honoree represents a different path into this industry, and we are so excited to welcome these artists to Savannah for their range, expertise, and stories, which are defining this year in film. Our students don\u2019t just watch these artists on screen \u2014 they study them. This October, they will sit across from them in an intimate master class, ask the questions they\u2019ve always wanted to ask, and hear firsthand about the choices, challenges and experiences that shaped their careers. This kind of access is at the heart of what makes this festival, and a SCAD education, so distinct.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe 29th SCAD Savannah Film Festival will take place Oct. 24\u201331.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Later this month, a veritable parade of A-list movie stars and filmmakers \u2014 many of whom are in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":913790,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[64,63,447,134,481537],"class_list":["post-913789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-scad-savannah-film-festival"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=913789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913789\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/913790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=913789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=913789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=913789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}