NOFF 2024 Conference

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View 2024 New Orleans Film Festival conference schedule here.

South Pitch 2024

The 14th Annual South Pitch was part of the 35th New Orleans Film Festival, awarding a total of $28,000 to South-based filmmakers. The program features two tracks: South Pitch Narrative and South Pitch Documentary. All pitchers received a minimum of a $1,000 award in addition to a travel stipend and pass to attend the festival. Read on to hear about our 2024 pitchers and their projects.

The winning pitch in each track received a $10,000 award. Winners are announced during the Festival Awards Brunch on the Sunday of the festival. All 2024 Jury Award winners can be found here.

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NOFF 2024 Party Schedule

Parties and receptions require a NOFF2024 All Access Pass or special invitation to enjoy access (unless otherwise noted). Purchase your All Access Pass today through this link.

NOFF 2024 All Access Passholders are also welcome at the VIP Lounge and Reception Space, daily Thursday Oct 17th – Monday Oct 21st, from 11AM – 8PM* at The Times-Picayune Avenue Gallery (840 St. Charles Ave).

*Sunday, Oct 20th open 12PM-8PM

Scroll down for the NOFF 2024 party schedule. Click on individual events to learn more!

View 2024 New Orleans Film Festival conference schedule here.

Cinema Reset

Cinema Reset is the New Orleans Film Festival’s innovative showcase of creative work at the intersections of film, media art, and technology from artists breaking new ground and diversifying the cinematic landscape of the American South. Patrons are encouraged to explore the Cinema Reset space throughout the festival. It lives in the NOFF festival hub at the Contemporary Art Center.

In 2024, we were thrilled to highlight three artists in the NOFF Hub as part of our Cinema Reset program: Kiley Brandt, Federico Cuatlacuatl, and Keum-Taek Jung. Contemplative and poignant, their genre-defying projects explore themes of identity, place, and the natural world through media installation, sculpture, video, and animation.

Last year’s program also includes an online panel, the Transient Territories Artist Panel, with the featured artists.

There was also an in-person workshop, Sound Secrets: The Art of Foley, a DIY workshop guided by Cinema Reset curator and artist Rachel Lin Weaver where you’ll roll up your sleeves, improvise, and explore imaginative, unexpected ways to create your own Foley sound effects.

Cinema Reset is curated by Rachel Lin Weaver, produced by Philana Li, and generously supported by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.

Click on each artist work(s) below to learn more about the 2024 Cinema Reset art and artists.

Artist works

Xochipitzahuatl-Nova is a three channel video installation with sculptural components that carry a sentiment embodied by many. To (be)long, is to reclaim territory transcending time and space as means to reclaim a new dimension between two worlds, between the past and the future, between two identities, between one’s many selves.

In his mythological landscapes where he includes mexican cultural items like the “jicara” or “woven palms,” Federico plays around the concept of smuggling traditions as acts of resiliency, self-preservation, resistance, and self-rematriation in a dimension of transborder indigeneity and one’s many selves: to be an alien; to be the other; to be the threat; to be the dream; to be the backbone; to be the invasion; to be a cultural nomad; to be (in)visible; to be 500+ years of historical weight; to be a “pinche indio” ; to embody hope…

About Federico Cuatlacuatl
b.1991, Coapan, Cholula, Mexico. 

Federico’s work is invested in disseminating topics of Nahua indigenous immigration, social art practice, and cultural sustainability. Building from his own experience growing up as an undocumented immigrant and previously holding DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals), Federico’s creative practice centers on the intersectionality of Nahualismos, Nahua Futurisms, and transborder embodiments. 

Find Federico Cuatlacuatl’s work on view at the NOFF Hub.

The vibrant, energetic imagery of this single-channel video reveals microscopic, multilayered connections between the natural world and abstraction, fluid shapes and textures. Geometric symbols, organic forms, and continuous motion work together to pull us into a deeper, more immersive experience of abstraction and transformation over time. The work invites us into a space beyond ordinary metamorphosis and emphasizes an awareness of our organic senses,  reminding us that we belong to the spaces we inhabit. 

Created frame-by-frame using a digital microscope and DSLR camera, the animation invites viewers to explore a forest of imagination, from bounded reality to the infinite.

About Keum-Taek Jung

The interdisciplinary artist Keum-Taek Jung teaches Graphic Design at Mississippi State University. His films have been showcased at international festivals and within museum exhibitions. He has a keen interest in experimental animation, particularly in exploring abstraction and the transformation of symbolism. Currently, he is exploring integrating UI/UX app design into his practice.

Find Keum-Taek Jung’s work on view at the NOFF Hub, join us as he leads an animation workshop, and learn more about his creative practice in the Cinema Reset panel online.

“Synthetic Pull” is a video installation featuring digital banners blowing in the wind. These banners consist of familial archival images from the artist’s birthplace, which have been stretched through scanning. In this work, the images become pennants of the artist’s imagined homeland—a place she never experienced, having been adopted at birth. Each stretched image symbolizes both a loss of data (truth) and the creation of new imagery and meaning (myth). The title, “Synthetic Pull,” illustrates the intangible creation of this imagined homeland and the digital illusion of its existence, like woven threads generated by the wind.

About Kiley Brandt

Kiley Brandt (MFA) is a video artist from North Carolina. In her work, Brandt attempts to inspire empathy through sound, poetry and immersive installation. Her research areas include diaspora, adoption, immigration and Mexican/American Border politics. She was a 2019 New Media Caucus: Border Control Presenter in Ann Arbor, Michigan and currently teaches as an Assistant Professor of Digital Foundations at Clemson University, SC.

Find Kiley Brandt’s work on view at the NOFF Hub, and learn more about her creative practice in the Cinema Reset panel online.