Preferred Film Festival Partners
Without film festivals, independent filmmakers would have few choices to have their films showcased. IFP Phoenix reaches out and builds partnerships with many film festivals across the country, which we proudly list here. These are festivals that we encourage all Arizona filmmakers to submit to for a quality experience.
Logan Film Festival
The Logan Film Festival (LFF) is a celebration of independent cinema from around the world and promotes a greater appreciation of the art and commerce of filmmaking. LFF is dedicated exclusively to truly self-financed filmmakers and seeks to inspire young filmmakers and emerging filmmakers to help them succeed in the film industry. About the Festival This year the 3-day festival will screen 48 dramatic, animated, and documentary films covering a wide variety of subjects and genres including Drama, Comedy, History, Social Justice, Health...
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Filmstock Film Festival
The Filmstock Film Festival connects audiences with creative visionaries by showing off up and coming filmmakers and their short films. Filmstock has four showings a year, once a year in each of the Four Corners states, and award-winning shorts have a chance to screen in all of them to receive a broader audience. About the Festival In 2009, Filmstock was founded to bring a voice to short filmmakers, and to put their visions on the screen. Over the years it has come to celebrate the beauty and artistic freedom found in the short film format,...
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Tucson Film and Music Festival
The Tucson Film and Music Festival (TFMF) celebrates filmmaking and music at an annual, multi-day event in Tucson, Arizona, showcasing music-related films and international music artists, with a special nod to films and filmmakers with a Southwest or Arizona connection.
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Phoenix Film Festival
Started in 2001, the Phoenix Film Festival has grown into Arizona's largest film festival with attendance in 2008 surpassing 20,000. The Festival has hosted Peter Fonda, Kevin Bacon, Kyra Sedgwick, Edward Burns, John Waters, Jane Seymour and Laurence Fishburne.
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International Horror Sci-Fi Film Festival
For 2012, the 8th Annual International Horror and Sci-Fi Film Festival will be taking place at the Phoenix Film Festival. You’ll be able to catch the best in horror and sci-fi independent films alongside over a hundred other independent films at the biggest film party of the year. Screenings will take place over six days at the festival.
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Sunscreen Film Festival
The Sunscreen Film Festival is an annual film festival hosted by the St. Petersburg-Clearwater Film Society, a Florida not for profit Corporation. The primary goal of the film festival is to encourage the creation, production, and exhibition of independent film in Florida through its educational programs and public screenings, thereby increasing awareness and support of local filmmaking as a cultural and economic asset.
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Taos Shortz Film Festival
The Taos Shortz Film Fest continues to bring world class cinema to the Taos, New Mexico community and beyond. To provide filmmakers with a venue to showcase their work, participate in workshops, panels, and network with fellow filmmakers, media companies, producers and distributors.
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Sidewalk Moving Picture Festival
Since its debut in 1999, filmmakers from across the country and around the world have come to Birmingham to screen their work at Sidewalk and have been thrilled to discover fresh, enthusiastic crowds eager to devour new independent cinema.
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Prescott Film Festival
The mission of the Prescott film festival is to provide the community with cultural events that entertain, inspire, and inform while supporting independent and critically acclaimed films and filmmakers from around the world.
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