EXCLUSIVE: The Sundance Film Festival may have relocated out of Utah but The Desertscape International Film Festival remains very much in state and will be bookended by Sundance selection If I Go Will They Miss Me, starring Danielle Brooks, and Lionsgate’s Paul Rudd-Nick Jonas movie Power Ballad.
The eighth edition of the festival, presented by the Film and Media Alliance of Southern Utah (FMASU), runs April 1–4, with screenings and events centered at the Electric Theater in downtown St. George, Utah.
The festival will showcase 50 features and shorts. Walter Thompson-Hernandez opener If I Go Will They Miss Me is a coming-of-age tale about a young boy trying to connect with his distant father while navigating life in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles. The film was recently acquired by Rich Spirit in a near $1M deal that includes U.S. rights and select international territories, with a fall theatrical
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