deadCENTER Film Festival

Located in the heart of Oklahoma City, the mission of the deadCENTER Film Festival is to promote independent film arts.  Attracting filmmakers from across the globe, deadCENTER screens more than one hundred independent films over a five-day period in June in seven premiere downtown locations. Beyond screening world-class films, deadCENTER Film Festival hosts a professional panel series and a screenwriting competition for the avid film fanatic.

Tulsa International Film Festival

Hosted in the fall, The Tulsa International Film Festival (Tulsa IFF) takes place in downtown Tulsa. The annual event is a multi-genre festival with additional sub-divisions including Emerging Filmmaker, Nightmare Division, Women Behind the Camera and Indigenous Cinema. The festival schedules film screenings, parties, VIP events, filmmaker meet and greets, coffees, panels and workshops.

Trail Dance Film Festival

The Trail Dance Film Festival is an event organized by the Southwest Association of Film (SWAF), located in the southwestern Oklahoma city of Duncan.  It introduces up-and-coming filmmakers from around the globe to Oklahoma's emergent film industry and provides a welcoming forum to showcase films to local and visiting audiences amidst a beautiful Western landscape.

Bare Bones Film Festival

Bare Bones Film Festival is an annual event that runs for 11 days with several venues in downtown Muskogee. The festival provides a platform from which to showcase low-budget independent movies locally, regionally and internationally. Dubbed "The Friendliest Film Festival in the World" by its attendees, Bare Bones supports, motivates, and promotes the growing art form.

Oklahoma Dance Film Festival

Held annually in Tulsa in the fall, the Oklahoma Dance Film Festival (OkDFF) presents dance works created for the screen. The only festival of its kind in Oklahoma, this event features dance documentaries, choreography for the camera, and experimental short films that emphasize movement. These films use the language of dance and the medium of film to create a new stage for performance, a new genre of media known as Screendance. By presenting a diverse collection of acclaimed films from around the world and commissioning new works by local artists, OkDFF promotes the appreciation and creation of Screendance within the state of Oklahoma.

Tulsa Overground

Tulsa Overground is an annual, international, non-competitive, non-profit film festival known for short films, bands, and legendary after-parties. The festival welcomes all ages, all formats, all styles, all genres, and “anything goes” showcases of the most innovative work from around the world.  It is a cinematic grab bag of first-time filmmakers, student directors, professionals, and celebrated auteurs.  

American Indian Film Institute and Festival

Located in San Francisco, the American Indian Film Institute (AIFI) is a non-profit media arts center founded in 1979 to foster understanding of the culture, traditions, and issues of contemporary Native Americans.  The goals of AIFI are inherently educational: to encourage Native/non-Native filmmakers to bring to the broader media culture the Native voices, viewpoints and stories that have been historically excluded from mainstream media; to develop Indian and non-Indian audiences for this work; and to advocate tirelessly for authentic representations of Indians in the media.

South by Southwest Film Festival

Located on Austin, Texas, the SXSW® Film Conference and Festival is a uniquely creative environment featuring the dynamic convergence of talent, smart audiences, and industry heavyweights. A hotbed of discovery and interactivity, the event offers lucrative networking opportunities and immersion into the art and business of the rapidly evolving world of independent film. The internationally acclaimed nine-day festival celebrates raw innovation and emerging talent with a truly diverse program ranging from provocative documentaries to subversive Hollywood comedies.

Smithsonian Institution-
Native American Film & Video Festival

Organized by the Film and Video Center of the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, the Native American Film & Video Festival (NAF+VF) is the first international indigenous film festival, founded to celebrate the creative energy of Native American directors, producers, writers, actors, musicians, and cultural activists, and all who support their endeavors.

Slamdance

As a year-round organization, Slamdance serves as a showcase for the discovery of new and emerging talent and is dedicated to the nurturing and development of new independent artists and their cinematic vision. As the preeminent festival whose sole mission is to support truly independent works, Slamdance has established a unique reputation for premiering new films by first-time writers and directors working within the creative confines of limited budgets.  

Austin Women’s Film, Music & Literary Festival

Located in Austin, Texas, the Media Arts and Literacy Institute enables creativity, empowers the mind, and helps to cultivate expression.  It is the organization through which the legacy of M.A.L.I. Women’s Film & Performance Arts Festival continues. The festival is an outlet to view, interact, network, and purchase the works of female artists of diverse backgrounds and cultures.

Austin Film Festival

Held in the fall, the Austin Film Festival showcases the very best that the city has to offer—convenient downtown venues, parties at Austin’s fine bars and restaurants, and community partnerships—while presenting exclusive and interactive movie events With constant interaction between industry professionals and filmmakers, Austin Film Festival, Inc., is dedicated to furthering the art, craft, and business of screenwriting and filmmaking. It provides unique, year-round cultural events and services to enhance public awareness and participation and encourage dynamic and long-lasting community partnerships.

Chicago International Film Festival

The Chicago Film Festival, which has grown to become a world-renowned annual event, is North America’s oldest competitive international film festival.  The Festival is dedicated to fostering better understanding between cultures and to making a positive contribution to the art form of the moving image. Each year the festival specializes in showcasing the greatest directors, the freshest visions, and the strongest cinematic stories.

Toronto Film Festival

The Toronto International Film Festival ranks among the most prestigious international film festivals in the world.  For ten days, film lovers, filmmakers, industry professionals, and media watch the best in new cinema from established masters and new talent from around the world. The festival consistently strives to set the standard for excellence in film programming.

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