Slate of movies announced for 2026 Reedy Reels Film Festival

GREENVILLE, S.C.  -- Documentaries on basketball, a movie about falling in love on a park bench, a humorous story of park rangers chasing a litterer and many more are part of the cavalcade of offerings at this year’s Reed Reels Film Festival.

The 2026 Reedy Reels Film Festival will bring 85 films March 27 through 29 at the South Carolina Children’s Theatre, 153 Augusta Street, Greenville. It is sponsored by Piedmont Natural Gas and VisitGreenvilleSC. 

Tickets start at $10 for single film sessions and go through $135 or weekend passes. Tickets and the entire weekend schedule can be found here.

The weekend movie schedule looks like this. Each session also includes Q & A sessions afterwards.

Friday Night Film Block:

The Best Solution: A 17 year-old high school student comes to terms with the loss of her closest friend, while trying to figure out a way to embrace the future.

The Artis Residence: When Vera, the matriarch of the quirky Artis family, decides to make a break with her old life, she finds she has to resort to unique measures.

Saturday 9:30 am: Mini Documentaries

Better Together: Furman's Championship Quest: This 5-episode limited docuseries earned a 2025 Southeast EMMY® nomination for Best Sports Documentary and a nomination at the 7th Annual Hashtag Sports Awards for Best Documentary.

Hoops of Heritage shows how Serbia’s turbulent past wars, sanctions, and hardships forged a national identity around basketball. From street-corner hoops to packed arenas, the game unites the country’s seven million people and fuels a talent pipeline that produced NBA stars like three-time MVP Nikola Jokic.

Saturday 1:15 pm: Drama Film Block

The 250^Th: United States Marines, former and active, discuss their experiences as Marines and express their thoughts about the Marine Corps and its 250-year history.

Cascades: A couple walks towards a crossroads on the day of their 30th wedding anniversary. Marcus and Denise have been happily married for 30 years. Well, almost happily married. Can they overcome the one thing that just might tear them apart?

Real Journalism: Two strangers meet, fall in love, and then land their dream job. Will their relationship stand up to the pressures of work and life, or will they adapt to the changing times?

Have a Seat: A park bench anchors a love story told through key moments of a new relationship, becoming a reflection on how ordinary places can hold extraordinary memories.

Cereal: A mother and son share a special bond that carries them through a difficult diagnosis. As the family sets off on a grand adventure together, they realize what the best memories are made of. 

Hotel Cortex: This is a true one-take short film following Miles, a man navigating the shifting landscape of his memories as he searches for his wife. Inside this dreamlike hotel, each hallway leads him deeper into fragments of his life’s moments of love, loss, and forgotten time.

Temoria: A woman visits a botanist with the power to bend nature itself, and with her enchanted herb she journeys through space and time to reach her husband, only to learn that saving him may unleash a dangerous new future.

Good-Man: Set in suburban America, Henry Goodman fights to liberate his own mind and overcome his father's small-town ideas of being a good man.

Abducted and Alone: When a newlywed NASA engineer who dreams of going into space is abducted by aliens, her captors suddenly die. In trying to convince the ship’s computer system to send her home, she faces a dilemma which will determine not only her future but that of all Earth.

Go Fish: On his birthday, a lonely boy only wishes his goldfish were real, and when his goldfish comes to life, they have the best day ever.

Saturday 4:40 pm: Comedy Film Block

The Litterbug: Park Ranger Charlie and her young recruit Ranger Casey track down a serial litterer known as the Litterbug.

Screw Loose: When a critic unknowingly insults her, a writer takes him along for a wild chase to track down a stranger’s thieving ex-boyfriend and a good story.

V.I.P. (Very Intrusive Person): Sometimes, reading the room is easier said than done. Especially if it's a hotel room.

Small Hours: An affable bartender runs a downtown New York City lounge with the help of his not- so-silent partner ex-girlfriend and his irresponsible brother.

Emergency Contact: A mentally exhausted auntie and her 4th grader niece, nervous about the family's fate, use their imagination to pass the time during a major storm.

Walkie Talkie: Two childhood friends meet again after 15 years of holding an apology.

Tin Can: J.C. finds new happiness near the Mexican border but the price he pays could get him kicked out of the only country he knows.

Saturday 7:15 pm: Creative Commercial and Music Videos

Habitat for Humanity for Spartanburg:  Commercial for the affiliate.

Spray it Forward Cannon County: Cannon County is a 30-second motion graphics PSA highlighting the urgent need to spay and neuter pets in rural Tennessee.

DreamBrew: Uncommission advertisement for the company Dreambrew, an ice coffee brew.

Distance Disappears| DoorDash: A couple in a long distance relationship tries their best to keep in touch.

Lawnmaster Neighbors: Commercial project for Lawnmaster in Greenville, SC.

Become - Closet Children Creative Brand Campaign Film: A reflection of how it can feel at times to create and work in this overwhelming, fast paced and commercialized industry

Earn Your Strikes: Raymarine, a legacy leader in marine electronics trusted by the U.S. Coast Guard, needed to reconnect with serious saltwater angler.Defeat the Peak: Campaign created to prepare its residential energy customers for a rate structure change by educating them on reducing energy use during peak hours as a way to save money.

The Wisdom of the Horse - Bramblewood Stables: Poetic Advertisement for Bramblewood Stables in Greenville.

Sober: A music video titled Sober, for a song by David Robinson.

The Well: A man struggling to move past the shame he carried from his father's abuse seeks healing at the Well.

Shadow In The Water: Shadow in the Water is a music video based on (and created for) the short film Carolina Rain.

Christmas Fire: Christmas Fire is a tender Christmas music video that follows a man as he walks through a winter street.

Saturday 8:15 pm: Horror and Suspense

The Recluse: In early 2025 a breach at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory puts residents of Oak Ridge and surrounding counties at risk.

The Other Within: Rosie's relationship with Piper is costing her friends and having deadly consequences, but maybe that's exactly what she wants.

Can I Come In?: At the dawn of an apocalyptic event, as society and civility stand on the brink, an unwanted visitor knocks on the door where a group of displaced neighbors shelter together.

A Second Chance: Traumatized by her past relationship, Katie seeks solace with a new lover. However, she soon discovers that her emotional wounds remain unhealed.

Night Light: A young woman, feeling the pressures of the outside world, has a panic attack while trying to fall asleep.

RIPPLE: Three interconnected people tell a tragic story of loss and regret, connecting a mother, her estranged daughter facing her own struggles, and a remorseful man in a heartbreaking chain of events.

The Night Rambler: When Jack’s old friend William returns from the cattle drives he carries a series of dark tales.

Sunday 9:30 am: Student Films

Jurassic Joyride: This is a short film about a bored young caveboy whose discovery of a spaceship takes him on an adventure that changes his life and world forever.

Pulled Taut: Lucia, chronic overthinker, is encouraged to sign up for an archery class.

A Heist Away From Home: After a deliveryman collides with a multi-millionaire, he enlists his best friend's help to execute a once-in-a-lifetime heist.

Wishful Thinking: After the loss of his wife, Sam finds himself discontent with the monotony of his life.

Beyond the Ginko: When Yuan goes from China to the United States for College cultural pressures mount and Yuan must make a decision between erasing his culture or embracing it.

fading.: After receiving shocking news, Lindsey’s sudden change in behavior causes a disconnect between her and her closest friends.

Chie Thang: Short 30-second fight animation.

Rebirth: Three-minute movie in Mandarin.

Primitive: In 2035, Iris uses her AI for everything. But when her AI runs out of battery, she's left with... herself. Welcome to the future of helplessness.

My Shadow is Brighter: A young, helpful girl goes through personality changes that only she can conquer.

They Seek: You hide because they seek.

Murder Gum and Fly Fishing: The re-telling of Edger Allen Poe’s Tell-Tale Heart where Travis, a teenage Fly Fishermen, attempts to convince his lawyer he is not crazy.

The Language of The Universe: In the dirt it shall be found.

Revolution: After a simple command crosses a line, one boy becomes witness to a revolution that he never meant to start.

A Wren’s Lament: Willow, a high school student with a passion for reading, finds that many of her favorite books are suddenly disappearing from her school library's shelves. 

Koschei The Deathless: A prince has been captured by an evil wizard and his sister must try to save him.

First Night Out: A twenty something attends her first party in the big city.

Five Stages of a Crush: A hopeful teen artist reimagines the five stages of grief as the stages of a crush.

Bread: 34-second film.

Rumpelstiltskin: A interpretation of the classic tail of Rumpelstiltskin.

The Princess and the Pea: The story of the princess and the pea told through abstract stop motion.

Sunday 12:35 pm: Mixed Mini Films

The Watcher: When a real estate broker returns to his family's rural farm, he's unsettled by a scarecrow that seems to be more than just decoration.

Rewrite: An investigator follows a trail that leads to a house where fiction and reality begin to collide.

Say His Name: A fractured family gathers to confront the dark grip of addiction and unravel decades of buried secrets.

Simon Says: When a mysterious and alluring woman enters a dimly lit downtown bar, she’s not looking for love, she’s hunting. 

I Am With You: After an unexpected loss, JC Jordan is forced to navigate loss, grief, the complexities of mental health.

The Endless Wave: Professional wake surfer Evan Feierabend takes us through different aspects of the sport, exploring the craft and what it's like to compete.

Do Evil Thoughts Make An Evil Man?: A man on his deathbed makes a horrible confession.

El Bohemio Dorado: A film rooted in magical realism that follows a young man who finds himself at a crossroads in life

Sunday 2 pm: Mini Documentaries

Color Beyond The Lines: The black communities in the mountains of NC fought to give their children a quality education.

Embers - Ten Years Of Looking Back At Cameroon Cigar Lounge: A documentary celebrating the success of Cameroon Cigar Lounge.

A Butterfly Has Been Released: Join a remarkable journey in "A Butterfly Has Been Released," as hospice nurse Allyson spends her last 39 days, living and dying with brain cancer.

Sunday 4 pm: Feature Film

Money By Sundown: When kidnappers take her teenage daughter, a small town divorcee must team up with her good-for-nothing ex-husband in order to pull together the ransom money.

About Reedy Reels: 

Reedy Reels promotes the appreciation of the art of filmmaking while generating support for independent filmmakers, especially in the Upstate. The festival will engage the community and create exposure for local filmmaking while building inspiration and new opportunities for local artists. Learn more at reedyreels.com.