Spring festival season is here and EVELYN just picked up its first official selection.
Jersey Shore Film Festival: First Yes
Jersey Shore Film Festival officially selected EVELYN for its 2026 lineup, June 4-28 in Deal Park, NJ. First selection of the circuit. One yes at a time.
The festival run is a marathon, not a sprint. We have submissions out across the East Coast: First Glance Philadelphia, Playhouse West, New Hope, Rehoboth Beach International, Stony Brook, NJ Independent, NY Lift-Off, plus a stack of horror and short-film festivals. Notifications trickle in over the next few months. Some will say yes. Most will say nothing. A few will say no. That is the work.
Why Festivals Still Matter
Every screening is a chance to test the film against a real audience. The Q&A. The lobby conversations. The emails days later from people who cannot stop thinking about the story. That is when you know you made something that matters.
What is Next for Four Olives
While EVELYN works the circuit, we are deep in development on what comes next. Sacrum Vindictae III on Amazon Prime proved there is an audience hungry for the stories we tell. The streaming numbers keep climbing, and that validation fuels everything we build from here.
We will share each festival decision as it lands. No hype. No invented lineups. Just the actual circuit, one notification at a time.