Bend Film Festival named one of Moviemaker Magazine’s ’50 Film Festivals Worth the Entry Fee’ of 2023
BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) – MovieMaker has announced that Bend Film Festival has been named to its annual list of 50 Film Festivals Worth the Entry Fee, celebrating festivals that serve moviemakers and audiences in some of the best destinations in the world.
MovieMaker, a film magazine and website based in Los Angeles, compiles its annual list based on surveys, filmmaker testimonials, and visits to festivals, among other factors. Key considerations include how much assistance a festival provides to traveling filmmakers; recent premieres at the festival; opportunities to meet distributors, fans, fellow filmmakers and press; and whether festivals are Academy-qualifying.
“With the film world in a state of constant change in recent years, festivals are more important than ever to help audiences and distributors find new films, and to remind all of us why we devote so much of our lives to making and loving movies,” said MovieMaker editor Tim Molloy. “The festivals on this list work incredibly hard to make it feel effortless.”
On receiving this honor, Head of Festival Programming Selin Sevinc said “Moviemaker Magazine's inclusion of our festival in their annual list is the type of industry recognition that helps us receive a bigger pool of film submissions to choose from year to year. A growing number of film submissions means there will be an increasingly higher quality of films that we can share with our community in Central Oregon and the larger Pacific Northwest. We pride ourselves in being one of the few organizations that are devoted to arts and culture in Central Oregon and the 50 Film Festivals Worth the Entry Fee stamp of approval greatly supports our cause.”
Here’s the url, https://www.moviemaker.com/50-film-festival-worth-entry-fee-2023/
Here’s MovieMaker’s 2023 list of 50 Film Festivals Worth the Entry Fee, in alphabetical order:
American Black Film Festival
American Documentary and Animation Film Festival (AmDocs)
Atlanta Film Festival
Austin Film Festival
BendFilm Festival
Bentonville Film Festival
Big Sky Documentary Film Festival
Brooklyn Film Festival
Busan International Short Film Festival Calgary International Film Festival
Calgary Underground Film Festival
Camden International Film Festival Cannes Indie Shorts Awards
Chicago International Film Festival
Chilliwack Independent Film Festival Cleveland International Film Festival Cucalorus
DeadCenter
EnergaCamerimage International Film Festival Evolution Mallorca International Film Festival Fantasia Film Festival
Fantaspoa International Film Festival Female Eye Film Festival
Festival du Nouveau Cinema
FilmQuest
Galway Film Fleadh
Hamptons International Film Festival Heartland International Film Festival/ Indy Shorts
HotDocs Canadian International Film Festival IndieLisboa International Film Festival Indie Memphis
Locarno Film Festival
Louisiana Film Prize
Mammoth Lakes Film Festival
Nashville Film Festival
NewFilmmakers Los Angeles
New Hampshire Film Festival
New Orleans Film Festival
Newport Beach Film Festival
Provincetown International Film Festival Santa Barbara International Film Festival Santa Fe International Film Festival SCAD Savannah Film Festival
Screamfest
Slamdance Film Festival
Tallgrass Film Festival
Tribeca Festival
True/False Film Festival
Warsaw International Film Festival
Whistler Film Festival
Woodstock Film Festival
MovieMaker is dedicated to the art and craft of making movies. The list of 50 Film Festivals Worth the Entry Fee in 2023 is in the Spring 2023 issue, with Owen Wilson on the cover.
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About BendFilm
Founded in 2003, BendFilm, Inc is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to celebrating independent cinema’s unique power to enrich lives, promote diversity and inspire change through vibrant educational programs and film festival experiences across Central Oregon. BendFilm’s signature event is the annual Bend Film Festival, named in 2019 as one of MovieMaker Magazine’s Coolest Festivals in the World and one of only 27 Academy-qualifying film festivals in the United States. With more than 6,000 attendees, the festival showcases more than 130 professional independent and student films and hosts a variety of public educational panels and post-screening talks with visiting filmmakers and award jurors. It also owns and operates the Tin Pan Theater – a boutique arthouse cinema located in downtown Bend’s Tin Pan Alley. To learn more visit bendfilm.org.
