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"Essential  Art  House  —  50  Years  of  Janus  Films"

Janus Films logo  

Janus Films Essential Art House 50-disk set  

Janus/Criterion b&w and color DVD box set [10/2006] 50 disks & book for $764.99
FIFTY FILMS including Eisenstein's "Alexander Nevsky" [Russia 1938]; Wajda's "Ashes and Diamonds" [Poland 1958]; Antonioni's "L'Avventura" [Italy 1960]; "Ballad of A Soldier" [Russia 1959]; Cocteau's "Beauty and The Beast" [France 1946]; "Black Orpheus" [Brasil 1959]; "Brief Encounter" [U.K. 1945]; "The Fallen Idol" [U.K. 1948]; Ichikawa's "Fires On The Plain" [Japan 1959]; Ozu's "Floating Weeds" [Japan 1959]; Clément's "Forbidden Games"
[France 1952]; Truffaut's "The 400 Blows" [France 1959]; Renoir's "Grand Illusion" [1937]; "Häxan" [1922 silent]; Kurosawa's "Ikiru" [Japan 1952]; "The Importance of Being Earnest" [U.K. 1952]; Eisenstein's "Ivan The Terrible, Part II" [Russia 1958]; "Le Jour se Lève" [France 1939]; Truffaut's "Jules and Jim" [France 1962]; "Kind Hearts and Coronets" [U.K. 1949] starring Alec Guinness; Polanski's "Knife In The Water" [Poland 1962]; Hitchcock's "The Lady Vanishes" [U.K. 1938]; "The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp" [U.K. 1943]; Forman's "The Loves of A Blonde" [Czech 1965]; Fritz Lang's "M" [Germany 1931] starring Peter Lorre; Jacques Tati's "Mr. Hulot's Holiday"
[France 1953]; "Miss Julie" [Sweden 1951]; Pabst's "Pandora's Box" [Germany 1929] starring Louise Brooks; "Pépé le Moko" [France 1937] starring Jean Gabin; Olmi's "Il Posto" [Italy 1961]; "Pygmalion" [U.K. 1938]; Kurosawa's "Rashomon" [Japan 1950]; Olivier's "Richard III" [U.K. 1955]; Renoir's "The Rules of The Game" [France 1939]; Kurosawa's "Seven Samurai" [Japan 1954]; Bergman's "The Seventh Seal" [Sweden 1957]; "The Spirit of The Bee-hive" [Spain 1973]; Fellini's "La Strada" [Italy 1954]; David Lean's "Summertime" [U.K. 1955] starring Katharine Hepburn & Rossano Brazzi; "The Third Man" [1949] starring Orson Welles; Hitchcock's "The 39 Steps" [U.K. 1935]; Mizoguchi's "Ugetsu" [Japan 1953]; De Sica's "Umberto D." Italy 1952]; Bergman's "The Virgin Spring"
[Sweden 1960]; Buñuel's "Viridiana" [Spain 1961]; Clouzot's "The Wages of Fear" [France 1953]; Fellini's "The White Sheik" [Italy 1952]; Bergman's "Wild Strawberries" [Sweden 1957]; and 3 documentaries by Saul J. Turell

"Essential  Art  House  Films"
on DVD  from  Criterion
Essential Art House DVD box sets from Criterion  

Essential Art House DVD box sets from Criterion  

Essential Art House DVD box sets from Criterion  

Volume 1: Criterion Collection DVD set [9/2008] 6 disks for $89.99
contains Cocteau's "Beauty and The Beast" [France 1946]; Renoir's "Grand Illusion" [1937]; Polanski's "Knife In The Water" [Poland 1962]; "Lord of The Flies" [1963] (not in 50-disk set above); Kurosawa's "Rashomon"
[Japan 1950]; and Bergman's "Wild Strawberries" [Sweden 1957]

Volume 2: Criterion Collection DVD set DVD [2/2009] 6 disks for $89.99
contains "Black Orpheus" [Brasil 1959]; Truffaut's "The 400 Blows" [France 1959]; Kurosawa's "Ikiru" [Japan 1952]; Fellini's "La Strada" [Italy 1954]; "The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp" [U.K. 1943]; and "Pygmalion"
[U.K. 1938]

Volume 3: Criterion Collection DVD set [6/2009] 6 disks for $74.99
contains Wajda's "Ashes and Diamonds" [Poland 1958]; Clément's "Forbidden Games" [France 1952]; Kurosawa's "Hidden Fortress" [Japan 1958] (not in 50-disk set above); "Last Holiday" [1950] starring Alec Guiness (not in 50-disk set above); Olivier's "Richard III" [U.K. 1955]; and Fellini's "Variety Lights" [1950] (not in 50-disk set above)
Volume 4: Criterion Collection DVD set [9/2009] 6 disks for $74.99
contains René Clément's "Gervaise" [France 1956] starring Maria Schell (not in 50-disk set above); Marcel Carné’s dark masterwork "Le Jour se Leve (Daybreak)" [France 1939] starring Jean Gabin; Anatole Litvak’s tragic romance "Mayerling" [France 1936], starring Charles Boyer & Danielle Darrieux (not in 50-disk set above); "The Tales of Hoffman" [U.K. 1951] in Technicolor, directed by Michael Powell & Emeric Press- burger, starring Moira Shearer; Hitchcock’s "The 39 Steps" [U.K. 1935] starring Robert Donat & Madeleine Carroll; Akira Kurosawa's "Throne of Blood (Kumonosu jo)" [Japan 1957] starring Toshiro Mifune & Isuzu Yamada (not in 50-disk set above)
Volume 5: Criterion Collection DVD set [4/2010] 6 disks for $66.23
contains "Brief Encounter" [U.K. 1945] directed by David Lean; "Floating Weeds" in Technicolor [Japan 1959] by Yasujiro Ozu; Gillo Pontecorvo's "Kapo" [1960] (not in 50-disk set above); François Truffaut's "Jules and Jim" [France 1962]; "Fellini's 8½" [Italy 1963] starring Marcello Mastroianni (not in 50-disk set above); and "Loves of A Blonde" [Czech 1965] by Milos Forman

Official Rejection documentary poster  "Official Rejection" [indep; festival circuit & DVD release 2009]
107-minute color documentary following a group of filmmakers who take their independent feature Ten 'til Noon [2006] along the film festival circuit – showing the politics, pitfalls, triumphs & comic tragedies they encounter & endure along the way, a report on the indie world and what happens when the shooting is over. (The two-disk version contains 2 hours of bonus features.) Co-produced, written & directed by and co-starring Paul Osborne; co-produced by and co-starring Scott Storm & Paul J. Alessi; co-starring Brian Osborne
Shut Up & Shoot Pictures widescreen color DVD [11/2009] 2 disks for $18.99
Shut Up & Shoot Pictures widescreen color DVD [11/2009] for $13.99
full credits at IMDbofficial movie site

Story of the Sundance Film Festival  "Party In A Box: The Story of The Sundance Film Festival" [1999]
by Lory Smith {a co-founder of the Sundance Festival}

Gibbs Smith Publrs 9¼x6¼ pb [10/99] out of print/used
International Film Festival Guide  "International Film Festival Guide" [3rd edition 2000]
Edited by Shael Stolberg

Hushion House 9x6 pb [2/2000] out of print/used
Sundance To Sarajevo  "Sundance To Sarajevo: Film Festivals & The World They Made" [2002]
by film critic Kenneth Turan

Univ CA Press 9x6 pb [11/2003] for $12.44
Univ CA Press 9¼x6¼ hardcover [4/2002] for $35.00
Sundance Festival Virgin's Guide  "Sundance: A Festival Virgin's Guide - Surviving Park City & Thriving At America's Most Important Film Festival" [2005]
by Benjamin Craig

Cinemagine Media Publng 8x5¾ pb [10/2005] for $17.13
Cannes Festival Virgin's Guide  "Cannes: A Festival Virgin's Guide - Attending The Cannes Film Festival For Filmmakers & Film Industry Professionals" [5th edition 2006]
by Benjamin Craig

Cinemagine Media Publng 8¼x5¾ 5th edition pb [1/2006] for $18.94
Ultimate Film Festival Survival Guide  "Chris Gore's Ultimate Film Festival Survival Guide: The Essential Companion For Filmmakers & Festival-Goers" [orig 2000, rev 2009]
iFilm/Lone Eagle 4th edition 9x6 pb [9/2009] for $16.46
iFilm/Lone Eagle 3rd edition 8¾x6 pb [9/2004] out of print/used
iFilm/Lone Eagle 2nd edition 9x6pb [3/2001] out of print/used


Software

Discovered in late 2011: A company called Festival Genius has designed a two-part system for film festivals.
The background part is that they help festivals big & small organize & promote, and {optionally} build an interface
on their website; the foreground part is the PDA/phone apps that allow attendees to buy tickets and organize running
around at the film festival in real time. Recent customers include Austin F/F, Little Rock F/F, London
Short F/F
, Slamdance F/F, Sundance F/F, and Traverse City F/F.

download Festival Genius iPhone app 2.3 by Slated


Film Festivals Around The World

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Festivals Schedule from ReelMind.com
Film Festival Today Magazine
film festival list at Intl. Documentary Assn.
UTYX.com Film Resources film festival directory
film festival listings on Yahoo! Directory
Film Festival Club

GoFilmFest Independent Film & Film Festival ezine

FilmFestReview blog [est. 9/2009] at WordPress

Spiritual Cinema Circle online consciousness cinema club

International Film Festival Summit [est. 2002]       International Film Festival Summit [est. 2002]
Austin, Texas [Dec 2011 = #8]
Europe [April 2011 = #4]


Moviemaker Magazine 25 Coolest Film Festivals Summer 2009Disposable Film Fest [est. 2007] multiple locations & dates

European Film Festivals Coordination

Freedom Film Festival [Feb 2004 = #7] in Los Angeles, CA & Berlin, Germany

HDfest: High-Definition Film Festival [est. 2000] multiple locations & dates

traveling Ion Intl. Short Films, Animation & Games Festival [Oct 2007 = #4]

Resfest Digital Film Festival [1996-2006]
Festival Internacional de Cine de Mexico) or FICCO [closed 2009] in Mexico City

Moviemaker Magazine 25 Film Festivals Worth The Entry Fee Summer 2010BabelGum Online Film Festival [March 2010 = #3]

BigStar Online Film Festival [yearlong; 2010 = #1]; listed as Moviemaker Magazine 25 Film Festivals Worth The Entry Fee Summer 2010

Moviemaker Magazine 25 Film Festivals Worth The Entry Fee Summer 2010 Lunafest: traveling festival of short films by, for & about women [est. 2000; Oct-June]

United Film Festivals [est. 2006]      Moviemaker Magazine 25 Coolest Film Festivals Summer 2009United Film Festivals [est. 2006] multiple locations & dates
United Film Festivals - Los Angeles, CA [April 2010 = #4]
United Film Festivals - San Francisco, CA [June 2010 = #2]
United Film Festivals - Tulsa, OK [July-Aug 2010 = #8]
United Film Festivals - Chicago, IL [Sept 2010 = #2]
United Film Festivals - New York City [Oct 2010 = #4]
United Film Festivals - London. U.K.[Nov 2010 = #2]

Festival du Cinema de Paris [short films; January]

FilmFestivals.com of France            Cannes Festival in France

My French Film Festival [Jan 2012 = #2] online {for fee}

Worldwide Short Film Festival [June 2010 = #9] in Toronto, Canada            Dubrovnik Intl. Film Festival & traveling Cinema Croatia Retrospective

eleven-day Jameson Dublin International Film Festival [Feb 2011 = #9] in Dublin, Ireland
National University International Film Festival or FICUNAM {Feb 2011 = #1] in Mexico City
Mexico City International Film Festival or FICCMEXICO {Feb 2011 = #1] in Mexico City
European Spiritual Film Festival [Feb March 2012 = #5] online & Paris, France
biannual FESPACO Pan-African Film & Television Festival [est. 1969; March 2009 = #21]
NatFilm Festival, Denmark [March 2004 = #15]
One World Intl. Human Rights Documentary Film Festival [March 2010 = #12] in Prague, Czech Republic
The Hippodrome Festival of Silent Cinema [March 2011 = #1] in Scotland
10-day-long Byron Bay Film Festival [March 2012 = #6] on Australia's East Coast
Toronto Silent Film Festival [April 2011 = #2] in Canada
British Silent Film Festival [April 2011 = #14], at the Barbican Cinemas in London, UK
Moviemaker Magazine 25 Coolest Film Festivals Summer 2009Locarno [Switzerland] Intl. Film Festival [May 2009 = #62]
Sydney Film Festival [June 2009 = #56] in Sydney, Australia
Gay & Lesbian Humanist Assn. Film Festival [July 2005] in London, U.K.

Fünfseen Film Festival [July-Aug 2011 = #5] in Germany

Copenhagen [Denmark] Intl. Film Festival [est. Aug 2003]
Odense [Denmark] Intl. Film Festival [Aug 2003 = #18]
Venezia [Italy] Intl. Film Festival [Aug-Sept 2003 = #60]
Forssa Silent Movie Festival [Aug-Sept 2011 = #11] in Finland
Toronto [Canada] Urban Film Festival [Sept 2011 = #5]
Copenhagen [Denmark] Intl. Children's Film Festival [Sept-Oct 2003 = #4]

Calgary Intl. Film Festival [Sept-Oct 2009 = #10] in Alberta Province, Canada

Mostra Internacional de Cinema de São Paulo, Brasil [Oct 2003 = #27]
Mumbai Film Festival [Oct 2011 + #13] in India
B.F.I. London Film Festival [Oct 2010 = #54]

Pordenone [Italy] Silent Film Festival [Oct 2003 = #22]            World Film Festival of Bangkok, Thailand [#6 = Oct 2008]            Raindance F/F in London UK [Nov 2011 = #20]

Moviemaker Magazine 25 Film Festivals Worth The Entry Fee Spring 2011  Whistler Film Festival [Nov 2011 = #11] in British Columbia, Canada
Festival Internacional del Nuevo Cine Latinamericano [Dec 2009 = #31] in Havana, Cuba
Puerto Vallarta Film Festival [Dec 2009 = #6] in Mexico



United States Film Festivals

The New York International Independent Film & Video Festival [est. 1993]
in NYC, L.A., Las Vegas & Miami

First Nations / First Features 'a showcase of indigenous film & media'
in Washington, DC & New York City [May 2005]

New York Midnight [est. 2002] year-long multicity events

Chautauqua Classic Film Series in Boulder, Colorado

year-long Northwest Film Forum [est. 1995] in Portland, Oregon

Sundance Film Festival [Jan 2011 = #27] in Park City, Utah
browse Sundance Festival Store at Amazon {last update 2008}

SlamDance Film Festival [Jan 2003 = #9]
Freedom Cinema Festival [Jan 2005 = #2] in Park City, Utah
'Laugh Is Hope' Comedy & Film Festival [Jan 2004 = #1] in Houston, Texas
Moviemaker Magazine 25 Coolest Film Festivals Summer 2009Trail Dance Film Festival [Jan 2010 = #4] in Duncan, Oklahoma

Reel Music Film Festival [Jan-Feb 2006 = #23] in Portland, Oregon

Portland [Oregon] Intl. Film Festival [Feb 2006 = #29]
Moviemaker Magazine 25 Film Festivals Worth The Entry Fee Spring 2011  Sedona [Arizona] Intl. Film Festival & Workshop [Feb 2011 = #17]
Moviemaker Magazine 25 Film Festivals Worth The Entry Fee Spring 2011  Moviemaker Magazine 25 Coolest Film Festivals Summer 2009Boulder [Colorado] International Film Festival [Feb 2009 = #5]
The Texas Black Film Festival [Feb 2011 = #4] in Dallas, Texas

New Mexico Italian Film Festival [Feb 2011 = #5] in Albuquerque, New Mexico         Kansas Silent Film Festival [Feb 2009 = #13] in Topeka, Kansas         Magnolia Independent Film Festival [Feb 2009 = #12] in Starkville, Mississippi

Durango [Colorado] Independent Film Festival [March 2010 = #10]         Williamsburg [Virginia] Film Festival [March 2010 = #14]         Garden State Film Festival [March 2012 = #10] in Asbury Park, New Jersey         Chicago [Illinois] International Movies & Music Festival [March 2010 = #2]

Western Film Festival [March 2003 = #13] in Scottsdale, Arizona
Moviemaker Magazine 25 Film Festivals Worth The Entry Fee Spring 2011  Moviemaker Magazine 25 Coolest Film Festivals Summer 2009South By Southwest Film Festival [March 2010 = #17] in Austin, Texas
Durango [Colorado] Intl. Film Festival [March 2006 = #1]
Moviemaker Magazine 25 Film Festivals Worth The Entry Fee Spring 2011  Moviemaker Magazine 25 Coolest Film Festivals Summer 2009Environmental Film Festival [March 2009 = #17] in Washington, DC
Moviemaker Magazine 25 Coolest Film Festivals Summer 2009Ann Arbor [Michigan] Film Festival [est 1963; March 2010 = #48]
Moviemaker Magazine 25 Coolest Film Festivals Summer 2009Sepastopol [California] Documentary Film Festival [March 2010 = #3]
Monster-Mania Con [March 2011 = #17] in Cherry Hill, NJ
Moviemaker Magazine 25 Film Festivals Worth The Entry Fee Spring 2011  Omaha [Nebraska] Film Festival [March 2012 = #7]
Cinefest 31 [March 2011 = #31] in Liverpool (Syracuse), New York
Moviemaker Magazine 25 Film Festivals Worth The Entry Fee Spring 2011  Cleveland Intl. Film Festival [March 2012 = #36]
Moviemaker Magazine 25 Film Festivals Worth The Entry Fee Spring 2011  True/False Documentary Film Festival [March 2012 = #9] in Columbia, Missouri

Key West [Florida] Indie Fest [Easter Weekend]
Sarasota [Florida] Film Festival [March-April 2006 = #9]

Worldfest Houston [Texas] Intl. Film Festival [April 2003 = #36]
Wisconsin Film Festival [April 2010 = #12] in Madison, Wisconsin
Florida Film Festival [April 2011 = #20] in Maitland (Orlando), Florida
Miami [Florida] Latino Film Festival [April 2003 = #6]
Sin Fronteras {Latino/Latina} Film Festival [April 2006 = #4] in Albuquerque, New Mexico
Moviemaker Magazine 25 Coolest Film Festivals Summer 2009Roger Ebert's Film Festival [April 2009 = #11] in Champaign, Illinois
Moviemaker Magazine 25 Film Festivals Worth The Entry Fee Summer 2010Dallas [Texas] International Film Festival [April 2011 = #5]
Moviemaker Magazine 25 Film Festivals Worth The Entry Fee Spring 2011  Full Frame Documentary Film Festival [April 2010 = #13] in Durham, NC
Moviemaker Magazine 25 Film Festivals Worth The Entry Fee Spring 2011  Buffalo Niagara Film Festival [April 2012 = #6] in Buffalo & Tonawanda, NY
Riverrun International Film Festival [April 2010 = #13] in Winston-Salem, NC
Monsterpalooza [April 2011 = #3] in Burbank, California
free TromaDance Film Festival [April 2011 = #12] in Ashbury Park, New Jersey
Cinema Wasteland Movie & Memorabilia Expo [April 2011 = #14 - also Oct] in Ohio
Hill Country Film Festival [April 2011 = #2] in Fredericksburg, Texas
Moviemaker Magazine 25 Film Festivals Worth The Entry Fee Spring 2011  Kansas City FilmFest [April 2012 = #4] in Missouri
Kansas City Filmmakers Jubilee [April 2012 = #16] in Missouri

Bare Bones Independent Film Festival [April 2010 = #11] in Muskogee, Oklahoma         Phoeniz Film Festival [April 2010 = #10] in Arizona         Vail Film Festival [April 2010 = #7] in Colorado

Charleston International Film Festival [April 2010 = #4] in Charleston, South Carolina         Atlanta [GA] Film Festival [April 2010 = #31]

Tribeca Film Festival [April-May 2006 = #5] in New York City
Moviemaker Magazine 25 Coolest Film Festivals Summer 2009Sunscreen Film Festival [April-May 2009 = #4] in St. Petersburg, Florida
Moviemaker Magazine 25 Film Festivals Worth The Entry Fee  Summer 2010San Francisco Intl. Film Festival [April-May 2010 = #53!]

Tribeca Underground Film Festival [May 2006 = #3] in New York City
High Desert Shorts Intl. Film Festival [Memorial Day Weekend 2011 = #6] in Pahrump, NV
Moviemaker Magazine 25 Coolest Film Festivals Summer 2009 & 2010Big Island Film Festival [May 2012 = #7] in Waikoloa, Hawai'i

Memphis [KY] Film Festival [June 2003 = #32]
Maui [HI] Film Festival [June]
Moviemaker Magazine 25 Film Festivals Worth The Entry Fee  Summer 2010 Little Rock Film Festival [June 2010 = #4] in Downtown Little Rock, Arkansas
Moviemaker Magazine 25 Coolest Film Festivals Summer 2009Gen Art Film Festivals [June 2011 = #16] in New York City
Moviemaker Magazine 25 Coolest Film Festivals Summer 2009Gen Art Film Festivals [June 2009] in Chicago {folded 5/2010}
Moviemaker Magazine 25 Coolest Film Festivals Summer 2009'What The Hell Did I Just Watch?' Comedy Video Festival [June 2009 = #4] in Seattle, WA
Moviemaker Magazine 25 Coolest Film Festivals Summer 2009Lake Placid [NY] Film Forum [June 2009 = #3]
Moviemaker Magazine 25 Coolest Film Festivals Summer 2009 & 2010Brooklyn Intl. Film Festival [June 2010 = #13] in Brooklyn, NY
Snake Alley Festival of Film [June 2012 = #1] in Burlington, Iowa

CineVegas International Film Festival [June 2009 = #11]         Seattle International Film Festival [June 2011 = #37] – known as America’s largest festival

Roswell [NM] Intl. SciFi Film Festival [June-July 2011 = #1]

Moviemaker Magazine 25 Film Festivals Worth The Entry Fee  Summer 2010 The Martha's Vineyard Film Festival [June-Aug 2010 = #7] in Chilmark, Massachusetts

Tombstone [AZ} Western Film Festival & Symposium [July 2005 = #5]
St. Louis [MO] Filmmakers Showcase [July 2005 = #5]
Moviemaker Magazine 25 Film Festivals Worth The Entry Fee Spring 2011  Moviemaker Magazine 25 Coolest Film Festivals Summer 2009Woods Hole [MA] Film Festival [July 2009 = #18]

Moviemaker Magazine 25 Coolest Film Festivals Summer 2009 - outdoors on the beach on Kauai, Hawaii at sunset for five bucks!Hawaii Ocean Film Festival [July 2011 = #6] on Kauai, Hawai'i
'Slapsticon' silent comedy film festival [July 2007 = #5] in Arlington, VA
Moviemaker Magazine 25 Film Festivals Worth The Entry Fee  Summer 2010 Stonybrook [NY] Film Festival [July 2010 = #15]

Charlotte NC Western Film Fair [July 2009 = #32]            New York International Latino Film Festival [July-Aug 2009 = #10]

Plaza Classic Film Festival [Aug 2011 = #4] in Downtown El Paso, TX

Roxbury [Boston MA] Film Festival [Aug 2002 = #4]
Moviemaker Magazine 25 Film Festivals Worth The Entry Fee Summer 2010ACEfest [Aug 2010 = #4] in New York City
Landlocked Film Festival [Aug 2010 = #4] in Iowa City, Iowa
Albuquerque [NM] Film Festival [Aug 2011 = #3] in Albuquerque, NM
Peachtree Village International Film Festival [Aug 2011 = #6] in Atlanta, Georgia
Moviemaker Magazine 25 Film Festivals Worth The Entry Fee Spring 2011  Rural Route Film Festival [Aug 2011 = #10] in New York City

Telluride [CO] Film Festival [Labor Day Weekend 2009 = #36]            Moondance International Film Festival [Sept 2009 = #10] in Boulder, Colorado

Cinema Texas Intl. Short Film Festival [1996-2006] in September in Austin, TX

Moviemaker Magazine 25 Film Festivals Worth The Entry Fee Spring 2011  Moviemaker Magazine 25 Coolest Film Festivals Summer 2009Coney Island [NY] Film Festival [Sept 2009 = #9]
Cinesation Film Preservation Festival [Sept 2010 = #20] in Massillon, Ohio
New York City Short Film Festival [Sept 2008 = #4]
Telluride [CO] Indie Fest [Sept]
Cheyenne [WY] Western Film Festival [Sept] = call 307/635-4646
Bluegrass Independent Film Festival in Louisville, KY [Sept]
Condé Nast Traveler Intl. Film Forum, New York City [Sept]
Toofy Film Festival [Sept 2006 = #3] in Boulder, CO
Ashfield Short FilmFest [Sept 2011 = #5] in Ashfield, Massachusetts
Yellowstone [MT] Film Festival [Sept]
Central Florida Film Festival [Sept 2010 = #6] in Orlando, FL
Williamsburg Intl. Film Festival [Sept 2010] in Brooklyn, New York
Emerald Eye Short Film Festival [Sept 2003 only] in NC {placeholder site}
Spirit Quest Film Festival [Sept 2009 = #1] in Erie, PA
Elgin Short Film Festival [Sept 2010 = #2] in Elgin, Illinois
Moviemaker Magazine 25 Coolest Film Festivals Summer 2009Sidewalk Moving Picture Festival [Sept 2009 = #11] in Birmingham, AL
Moviemaker Magazine 25 Coolest Film Festivals Summer 2009 & 2010Fantastic Fest [Sept 2010 = #6] in Austin, Texas
Moviemaker Magazine 25 Film Festivals Worth The Entry Fee Spring 2011  DC Shorts Film Festival [Sept 2010 = #7] in Washington, DC
Moviemaker Magazine 25 Film Festivals Worth The Entry Fee Spring 2011  Rome [GA] Intl. Film Festival [Sept 2011 = #8]
Wild Film! International Wildlife Film Festival [Sept 2007] in Taos, NM
Gallup [NM] Inter-Cultural Film Festival [Sept-Oct 2005]

Moviemaker Magazine 25 Film Festivals Worth The Entry Fee Spring 2011  HaydenFilms Online Film Festival for Student & Independent Filmmakers [5.0 deadline Fall 2012]

Santa Fe [NM] Film Festival [Oct 2011 = #12]
Moviemaker Magazine 25 Film Festivals Worth The Entry Fee Spring 2011  Moviemaker Magazine 25 Coolest Film Festivals Summer 2009IndieMemphis Film Festival [Oct 2009 = #12] in Memphis, TN
Winslow [AZ] Film Festival [Oct 2003 = #2]
Moviemaker Magazine 25 Film Festivals Worth The Entry Fee  Summer 2010 United Nations Association Film Festival [Oct 2010 = #13] at Stanford University in Palo Alto, CA
Taos [NM] Mountain Film Festival [Oct 2004 = #4]
Hawaii International Film Festival [Oct 2010 = #30] based on Honolulu
Syracuse [NY] International Film Festival [Oct]
Buffalo [NY] International Film Festival [Oct 2010 = #4]
Denver [CO] Indigenous Film & Arts Festival [Oct 2007 = #4]
Sun Valley [Idaho] International Film Festival [Oct 2003 = #4]
Moviemaker Magazine 25 Film Festivals Worth The Entry Fee  Summer 2010 Kansas Intl. Film Festival [Oct 2010 = #10] in Overland Park, Kansas
Midwest Film Festival [est. Oct 2003] in Scottsbluff, NE
International Horror & Sci-Fi Film Festival [Oct 2005 = #6] in Phoenix, AZ
Eerie Horror Film Festival [Oct 2009 = #6] in Erie, PA
Moviemaker Magazine 25 Film Festivals Worth The Entry Fee Summer 2010 San Antonio Independent Christian Film Festival [Oct 2010 = #7]
Moviemaker Magazine 25 Film Festivals Worth The Entry fee Summer 2010 Chicago Intl. Children's Film Festival [Oct 2010 = #27]
Moviemaker Magazine 25 Film Festivals Worth The Entry Fee Summer 2010FirstGlance Philadelphia Film Festival [Oct 2009 = #12]
Ellensburg [WA] Film Festival [Oct 2009 = #5]
Camden [Maine] International Film Festival [Oct 2009 = #5]
G.I.A.A. Festival of Short Films & Videos [Oct 2010 = #4] in New York City
Tucson [AZ] Film & Music Festival [Oct 2010 = #6]

Bare Bones 'Script 2 Screen' Independent Film Festival [Oct 2009 = #8] in Tulsa, Oklahoma         Austin [TX] Film Festival & Conference [Oct]        Camden [Maine] International Film Festival [Oct 2009 = #5]

Asheville [NC] Film Festival [Nov]
Moviemaker Magazine 25 Film Festivals Worth The Entry Fee Spring 2011  Northwest Film & Video Festival [Nov 2004 = #30] in Portland, OR
St. Louis [MO] International Film Festival [Nov 2005 = #14]
Puro Mexicano Tucson [AZ] Film Festival [Nov 2005]
Red Rock Film Festival [2011 = #5] at Zion Canyon, Utah
Moviemaker Magazine 25 Film Festivals Worth The Entry Fee Summer 2010Starz Denver Intl. Film Festival [Nov 2010 = #33] in Colorado
Moviemaker Magazine 25 Film Festivals Worth The Entry Fee Spring 2011  Moviemaker Magazine 25 Coolest Film Festivals Summer 2009Big Apple Film Festival [Nov 2010 = #7] in Tribeca, New York City
Moviemaker Magazine 25 Film Festivals Worth The Entry Fee Spring 2011  Moviemaker Magazine 25 Coolest Film Festivals Summer 2009Cucalorus Film Festival [Nov 2009 = #15] in Wilmington, NC
Moviemaker Magazine 25 Film Festivals Worth The Entry Fee Spring 2011  Fort Lauderdale Intl. Film Festival [Nov 2011 = #26] in Florida

Myrtle Beach [SC] International Film Festival [Dec 2009 = #5]
Moviemaker Magazine 25 Film Festivals Worth The Entry Fee Summer 2010Black Maria Film + Video Festival [Dec 2009 = #29] in Jersey City, NJ



California Film Festivals

Kern County Film Festival [last held Jan 2004]

Palm Springs [CA] Intl. Film Festival [Jan 2009 = #20]

Wild & Scenic Environmental Film Festival [Jan 2007 = #5]
Moviemaker Magazine 25 Film Festivals Worth The Entry Fee Summer 2010Santa Barbara [CA] Intl. Film Festival [Jan-Feb 2011 = #26]
San Luis Obispo [CA] Intl. Film Festival [March 2007 = #13]
Mexico International Film Festival & Awards [Spring 2011 = #4] in San Diego, California
Moviemaker Magazine 25 Film Festivals Worth The Entry Fee Summer 2010Newport Beach [CA] Film Festival [April 2010 = #11]
San Francisco Intl. Film Festival [April 2003 = #46]
International Family Film Festival [April 2004 = #10] in Valencia, CA
California Independent Film Festival [April 2010 = #12] in Orinda, CA
Palm Springs [CA] Arthur Lyons Noir Film Festival [May 2009 = #9]
Coachella Independent Film Festival in Indio, CA [May 2004 = #5]
Catalina Island Museum Silent Film Benefit [June 2010 = #23]
Moviemaker Magazine 25 Coolest Film Festivals Summer 2009San Francisco [CA] Frozen Film Festival [July 2010 = #4]

San Francisco [CA] Silent Film Festival [July 2009 = #14]

San Francisco [CA] Jewish Film Festival [July-Aug 2003 = #23]
Palm Springs [CA] Intl. Short Film Festival [Aug 2009 = #13]
Moviemaker Magazine 25 Film Festivals Worth The Entry Fee Summer 2010Big Bear Lake [CA] Intl. Film Festival [Sept 2010 = #11]
Outfest: San Diego [CA] Gay & Lesbian Film Festival [Sept 2003 = #6]
Lake Arrowhead [CA] Celebration of Film [Sept]
Channel Islands Indie F/F in Oxnard, CA [Sept 2003 = #6]
San Diego [CA] Underwater Film Festival [Sept 2003]
Sacramento [CA] Horror Film Festival [Sept 2009 = #3]
Mill Valley Film Festival [Oct 2011 = #34] in Marin County, California
San Diego [CA] Asian Film Festival [Oct 2003 = #4]
Shasta County Arts Council Silent Film Festival [Oct 2010 = #5] in Redding, CA

Lone Pine Film Festival [Oct 2011 = #22]

New Media Film Fest [Nov 2010 = #1] in San Francisco or Los Angeles

San Diego [CA] Latino Film Festival [Nov 2011 = #17]

San Francisco [CA] Silent Film Festival Winter Event [Dec 2009 = #5]


Los Angeles / Hollywood
Film Festivals

Going Green Film Festival [est. 2010; dates TBD] in Los Angeles, California

A.S.F.L.A. Scandinavian Film Festival [Jan-Feb 2003 = #4]

Hollywood Black Film Festival [Feb]

Pan-African Film Festival [Feb 2004 = #12]
Santa Monica [CA] Film Festival [Feb]
A.C.F. Freedom Film Festival [Feb 2003 = #6]
Israel Film Festival [Feb-May]
The Other Venice Film Festival [March 2004 = #1] in Venice, CA
Spaghetti Western Film Festival [March 2011 = #1] at the historic El Portal Theatre in North Hollywood, CA

HollyWeb Festival [March 2012 = #1] for web series

American Cinematheque's Festival of Film Noir in April
[1999 = #1][2000 = #2][2001 = #3][2002 = #4][2003 = #5][2004 = #6]
[2005 = #7][2006 = #8][2007 = #9][2008 = #10][April 2009 = #11]
[April 2010 = #12]

L.A. Italian Film Awards Festival [April 2003 = #5]
Polish Film Festival in L.A. [April 2004 = #5]
Going Green Film Festival [April 2012] at The Grove in Los Angeles
Moviemaker Magazine 25 Film Festivals Worth The Entry Fee Spring 2011  L.A. Comedy Shorts Film Festival [April 2012 = #4] in Los Angeles
Malibu Intl. Film Festival [April 2005 = #6]
MethodFest Breakout Independent Film Festival [April 2004 = #6] in Burbank, CA
L.A. Harbor Intl. Film Festival [April-May 2005 = #2]
Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles [April 2005 = #3]
Inspiration Film Festival [April 2005 = #1] in Santa Monica, CA
Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival [April-May 2005 = #21]
Beverly Hills [CA] Film Festival [May 2004]
Moviemaker Magazine 25 Film Festivals Worth The Entry Fee  Summer 2010FirstGlance Hollywood Film Festival [May 2009 = #9]
New Media Film Festival & Market [May 2011 = #2]
Moviemaker Magazine 25 Film Festivals Worth The Entry Fee Summer 2010Los Angeles [CA] FilmFest [June 2010 = #16]
CineGear Expo [June 2010 = #14] at Paramount Studios in Hollywood, CA
New Media Film Festival [May 2011 = #2] in Downtown Los Angeles, CA

Santa Catalina Island Film Festival [May 2011 = #1?]
Outfest: Los Angeles Gay & Lesbian Film Festival [July 2004 = #22]
Dances With Films in Santa Monica [July 2004 = #7]

L.A. Latino Intl. Film Festival [July 2004 = #8]        Action On Film Int'l Film Festival [July 2011 = #7] in Pasadena, CA - voted one of the top '25 Festivals Worth The Entry Fee' by MovieMaker Magazine

L.A. Chinatown F/F [July-Aug 2003 = #3] [note: pdf file]
InFACT™ Theatrical Documentary Showcase {formerly DOCtober} [Aug 2003]
Feel Good Film Festival [Aug 2009 = #2] in Hollywood, CA
Artivist Film Festival [August 2011 = #8] in Hollywood, CA
Intl. Documentary Assn. [est. 1982] DocuWeek Festival in L.A. [Aug 2007 = #11]
Women's Image Network Film Festival [Aug 2004 = #5]
Don't Knock the Rock Film & Music Festival [Aug 2003 = #1]

HollyShorts Film Festival [August 2009 = #5] in West Hollywood, CA        L.A. Intl. Shorts F/F [Aug 2008 = #12]        Silver Lake F/F [Sept 2003 = #4]        WideScreen F/F in Long Beach [Sept 2003 = #9]

World 3D Film Expo [Sept 2003]
Malibu [CA] International Film Festival [Sept 2004 = #5]
SoCal Independent Film Festival [Sept 2007 = #3] in Huntington Beach, CA
Cinecon Classic Film Festival [Sept 2010 = #46] at the Egyptian Theater in Hollywood, CA
Moviemaker Magazine 25 Coolest Film Festivals Summer 2008Cinema City International Film Festival [Sept 2009 = #3] in Century City (West Los Angeles)
SingaFest Asian Film Festival [Sept-Oct 2011 = #1] in Westwood (West Los Angeles), CA

Intl. Student F/F in North Hollywood CA [Sept 2003 = #1]        Hollywood Film Festival [Oct 2006 = #10]

Westwood Intl. Film Festival [Oct 2006 = #2] in Los Angeles, CA
L.A. Femme Intl. Film Festival [Oct 2011 = #7] in Hollywood, CA
Backlot Film Festival [Oct 2009 = #6] in Culver City, CA
Moviemaker Magazine 25 Film Festivals Worth The Entry Fee  Summer 2010 ShriekFest: Los Angeles Intl. Horror/SciFi Film Festival [Oct 2010 = #10]
Vietnamese Intl. F/F [Oct-Nov 2003 = #1]
A.F.I. Fest 'presented by Audi' [Oct-Nov 2009 = #23] in Hollywood, CA

Bel Air F/F in Los Angeles CA [Nov 2010 = #3]

Festival of German Cinema L.A. [Nov]
Intl. Buddhist Film Festival [Nov 2003 = #1]
PXL This Film Festival [Nov]
Hungarian Film Festival [Nov 2010 = #10] in West Los Angeles, CA
Nihilist Film Festival [Dec 2003 = #5]
Valley Film Festival [Dec 2004] in North Hollywood, CA


New Mexico Film Festivals

Magic Lantern's New Mexico Film Industry Pages

RioFest Intl. Environmental Film Festival [Jan 2007 = #1] in Socorro, NM
White Sands Film Festival [Feb 2007 = #3] in Alamogordo, NM
Albuquerque, NM Italian Film Festival [Feb 2010 = #4]
Sin Fronteras {Latino/Latina} Film Festival [April 2006 = #4] in Albuquerque, NM
Taos Picture Show film festival [April 2005 = #2]
Indigenous Independent Film Festival [April 2006 = #1] in Albuquerque, NM
New Mexico Filmmakers Showcase [May 2006] in Albuquerque, NM
Organ Mountain Film Festival [May 2005] in Las Cruces, NM
Roswell [NM] Intl. SciFi Film Festival [June-July 2011 = #1]
Santa Fe, NM 'Summer In The Dark' Noir Film Festival [July 2006 = #9]
Duke City Shootout filmmaking film festival [July] [requires Flash ]
Roswell [NM] Film Festival "1947" [2007 = #1?]
PAHfest Digital Media Festival [July 2006] in Grants, NM
Local Shorts Film Festival [Aug 2007 = #5] in Albuquerque, NM

Albuquerque [NM] Film Festival [Aug 2011 = #3] in Albuquerque, NM

Northern New Mexico Film Festival [Sept 2007 = #2] in Las Vegas, NM

Santa Fe [NM] Film Festival [Oct 2011 = #12]

Silver City [NM] Short Film Festival [Oct 2008 = #3]
Southwest Gay & Lesbian Film Festival [Sept-Oct]
Gallup [NM] Inter-Cultural Film Festival [Sept-Oct 2005]
Taos [NM] Shortz Film Fest [Oct 2011 = #5]: Flash siteMySpace site
New Mexico Middle-Eastern Film Festival [Oct 2005 = #2]
Duke City DocFest [Oct 2010 = #1] in Albuquerque, NM
Fiery Film Fest [Oct 2005 = #5] in Clovis, NM
Taos [NM] Mountain Film Festival [Oct 2005 = #5]
Fans of Film Festival for Social & Environmental Change [Oct 2010 = #2] in Albuquerque, NM



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