I Saw The Tv Glow: Opening Film

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This year's Opening Night Film is the Canadian premiere of the Sundance 2024 A24 release from visionary filmmaker Jane Schoenbrun (WE'RE ALL GOING TO THE WORLD'S FAIR). When a lonely teenager is introduced by a classmate to a mysterious late-night TV show, the world within the show begins to feel more real than real life.

Owen is just trying to make it through life in the suburbs. This all changes when a friend shows him a TV program, which offers a vision of a supernatural world beneath their own. In the pale glow of the television, Owen’s view of reality begins to crack. Shot on gorgeously hypersaturated 35mm and fuzzed-out VHS with an original soundtrack, Jane Schoenbrun’s evocative and uncanny story of suburban horrors and coming of age in the mid-1990s creates a foreboding feeling that unspools across decades before reaching a breaking point. Starring Justice Smith in a jaw-droppingly authentic performance and featuring bit parts from icons such as Phoebe Bridgers and Fred Durst, I SAW THE TV GLOW is a haunting tale of self-actualization that will not soon be forgotten.

OPENING NIGHT AFTERPARTY
Join us after the film for drinks, food and music at The Derrick across the street from Globe Cinema (620 8 Ave SW). Special DJ set from CJSW's Station Manager Adam Kamis.

Tickets cost $15 and include both the film and afterparty. Admission to afterparty is subject to capacity.  Multi-pack tickets are not accepted for this special event.

Pre-show on screen visual show by modal

OFFICIAL SELECTION
Sundance Film Festival 2024
Berlinale 2024
SXSW 2024

DIRECTOR'S BIO
Jane Schoenbrun is a non-binary filmmaker and writer dedicated to making and supporting personal, queer cinema. Their work includes I SAW THE TV GLOW, WE'RE ALL GOING TO THE WORLD'S FAIR, A Self-Induced Hallucination, and the punk rock variety TV show THE EYESLICER. Their first novel is almost finished, and their New Year's Resolution is to get more comfortable with silence.