The regional spring festivals around the country in late April and early May are a great check-in on a bucket of titles ranging from second screenings of Sundance and SXSW premieres from earlier in the year to undistributed titles from the previous year’s fall festival cycle. 

Des attended the Seattle International Film Festival for the first time, Adam Patla was joined by Jacob Diedenhofer at the Chicago Critics Film Festival, and Philadelphia locals Danny Jarabek and Jake Fittipaldi attended PFS SpringFest.