22nd Calgary Underground Film Festival

April 17-27, 2025

13th CUFF.Docs Documentary Film Festival

November 19-23, 2025

I Saw The Tv Glow: Opening Film

United States, 2024: 100 minutes: Canadian Premiere
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Globe Cinema
Thu, Apr 18 7:00 PM Sold Out
Thu, Apr 18 7:30 PM Sold Out

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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.

press for I Saw The Tv Glow: Opening Film

"A masterclass in queer storytelling whose genre ethos elevate it to new heights."
- Dread Central
"Bold, unhinged, extremely unusual, and also kind of magnificent ... you'll be talking about this horror film all year."
- Collider

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Narrative / Drama / Horror / Experimental / Thriller / Suspense / Coming of Age / LGBTQ+

English
100 minutes

credits

Director
Jane Schoenbrun

Producers
Sarah Winshall
Fruit Tree
Sam Intili

Screenwriter
Jane Schoenbrun

Cinematographer
Eric Yue

Cast
Brigette Lundy-Paine
Justice Smith
Ian Foreman
Helena Howard
Fred Durst
Danielle Deadwyler

Music
Alex G

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