For eight years now, The Psychotronic Film Society of Savannah has served as the area’s only not-for-profit film society dedicated solely to screening cult, indie, experimental and fringe cinema from around the world.
The goal of the PFS of SAV is to regularly present unique motion pictures which most folks in the greater Savannah, GA area would likely never have the chance to see in a public setting.
We specialize in programming two basic types of films - those never before released in the USA, and those which have been, but which are rarely shown on the big screen.
With no dedicated art-house cinema in town (yet - we’re working on it right now!), we have created a “year-round festival” of one-day-only screenings designed to educate as well as entertain. We proudly show “really good” movies and “really bad” ones (the kind that are enjoyably inept or campy) and strive to avoid mediocrity in our selection process.
Every Wednesday night at 8pm, we show an amazingly diverse selection of features in the intimate, 50-seat, screening room environment of the award-winning Sentient Bean Coffeehouse and Vegetarian Restaurant on the Southern end of Forsyth Park.
Two Sundays a month, we screen recent, high-profile indie and foreign features (and all-time cult classics) at Muse Arts Warehouse’s 100-seat black box theater approximately one block West of the Civic Center off MLK, Jr. Blvd. This series is called MOVIES SAVANNAH MISSED, and each title screens three times on one day, at 2pm, 5pm and 8pm.
Occasionally, we screen major films on 35mm at the historic 1,200-seat Lucas Theatre for The Arts, and on digital video at the Jepson Center for The Arts’ 220-seat auditorium.
To date, our selections have included first-run films, unreleased titles currently on the festival circuit, little-known gems from decades past, and extraordinarily rare “lost” films which exist only in the hands of diehard private collectors.
Whether these are horror or sci-fi flicks, dramas, comedies, mysteries, thrillers, film noirs, musicals, martial arts movies, concert films, documentaries, “grindhouse” pictures, foreign films or avant-garde, experimental art-house pics, as long as they’re good (or jaw-droppingly atrocious) examples of their genre, The PFS shows them all!
We also insist upon quiet, respectful behavior during the films - a refreshing return to more well-mannered times (before cell phones, texting and the casual atmosphere of home theaters made watching movies frustrating for those who hate interruptions).
The PFS of SAV has been profiled on Georgia Public Broadcasting, in glossy culture mags such as Murmur, The South and Savannah Magazine, and in newspapers such as Connect Savannah and the Savannah Morning News. We were even recommended in the New York Times as a “must-do” event while visiting the city’s world-famous Historic Downtown District.
We’ve been named “Best Indie Film Series” and “Best Film Festival Runner-Up” annually by the readers of local alt.weekly Connect Savannah, and our programming has also been instrumental in The Sentient Bean being routinely named “Best Indie Film Venue In Town” in the same publication.
Please join us for some of the strangest and most enjoyable films you never knew existed - and bring a friend or two!
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Jim Reed
Executive & Artistic Director
The PFS of SAV
*** A Warning To The Curious: The PFS of SAV is not affiliated with Psychotronic Magazine, nor any other publication, film society or business entity bearing the name “Psychotronic.” We are a completely independent organization paying tribute to those dedicated fringe cinema enthusiasts who came before us. We operate in good faith and negotiate non-theatrical performance rights for all our public screenings which require them. We occasionally present rare titles believed in the Public Domain or for which no current domestic rights holder can be located. Any legitimate rights holders who feel we may have unintentionally infringed upon their holdings are encouraged to contact us directly with proof of U.S. exhibition rights ownership.