Film Festivals

Film Festivals during:
 

May

MountainFilm in Telluride  (05/24/2013 - 05/27/2013)

Location: Telluride
Website
Contact: Peter Kenworthy
Address: 109 E. Colorado Ave, Suite 1
Telluride, CO 81435
Phone: 970.728.4123 Ext. 10
The Mountainfilm Festival is a four-day, six-senses experience of art, adventure, culture and the environment. It attracts filmmakers, photographers, conservationists, mountaineers and explorers from around the world. Their audiences also come from around the world to gather in theaters that range from historical to state-of-the-art in the box canyon of Telluride, Colorado and the gondola-linked town of Mountain Village.
 

June

Conscious Media Film Festival  (06/19/2013 - 06/20/2013)

Location: Boulder, CO
Website
Contact: Una Morera
Phone: 303-222-3811
The Conscious Media Film Festival presented by GaiamTV.com, a festival dedicated to showcasing the convergence of science and spirituality is seeking inspiring and meaningful films that integrate spiritual, experiential, scientific, and contemplative ideas. Screeningswill be held June 19th & 20th in beautiful downtown Boulder, Colorado at the historic Boulder Theater in concert with the 16th annual prestigious Lifestyles of Health and Sustainability conference (LOHAS.com).
 

Filmstock Film Festival  (06/21/2013 - 06/22/2013)

Location: Denver, CO
Date for Submission of films: 03/31/2013
Website
Contact: Andrew Nease
Address: Filmstock Film Festival
PO Box 1390
Scottsdale, Arizona 85281
Filmstock continues its mission by connecting filmmakers with audience members from the American Southwest with a festival event in each of the Four Corners states. Four award winning films from one state's Filmstock will advance to screen at the next three Filmstock events, putting the filmmakers work in front of audiences in four different states!

Filmstock New Mexico - March 2013
Filmstock Colorado - June 2013
Filmstock Utah - September 2013
Filmstock Arizona - December 2013

Filmstock Colorado accepts short of any genre or origin to play in Filmstock Film Festival's June Colorado event! Four award winners from Filmstock Colorado will move on to screen at the subsequent Filmstock Utah, Arizona and New Mexico!
 

The Intendence Film Festival  (06/26/2013 - 06/30/2013)

Location: Arvada, CO
Website
Contact: info@intendence.org
Address: The Intendence Film Festival
P.O. Box 9248
Denver, Colorado 80209
The Intendence Film Festival is a gift to the people of Colorado. Its mission is to provide an inclusive film event that features the world-class talents of the Colorado film industry while acknowledging good filmmaking wherever it originates. It also encourages and recognizes emerging young filmmakers.
 

July

Denver Indie Film Fest  (07/24/2013 - 07/29/2013)

Location: Denver, CO
Date for Submission of films: 02/25/2013
Website
Contact: denverindiefest@gmail.com
Address: 10205 Charissglen Lane
Highlands Ranch CO 80126
Phone: (720) 515-4003
DENVER INDIE FEST (DIFF) is a premiere event in Colorado for emerging and established independent filmmakers. Focused on the art, craft and business of indie film, DIFF strives to become a voice for the indie film community in Colorado and around the world by offering a unique outlet to connect indie film fans with standout films and filmmakers.
 

August

48 Hour Film Project  (08/02/2013 - 08/04/2013)

Location: Denver
Website
Contact: Kristin Nolan
Phone: 303-880-7575
The 48 Hour Film Project is a wild and sleepless weekend in which you and a team make a movie—write, shoot, edit and score it—in just 48 hours. On Friday night, you get a character, a prop, a line of dialogue and a genre, all to include in your movie. 48 hours later, the movie must be complete. Then it will show at a local theater, usually in the next week.
 

Telluride Film Festival  (08/29/2013 - 09/02/2013)

Location: Telluride
Date for Submission of films: 04/15/2013
Website
Contact: mail@telluridefilmfestival.org
Address: 800 Jones Street
Berkeley, California 94710
Phone: 510.665.9494
Each Labor Day weekend, the tiny mountain village of Telluride, Colorado triples in size. Swells of passionate film enthusiasts flood the town for four days of total cinematic immersion, embarking on a viewing odyssey, blissfully spending entire days in flickering dark rooms. With only an appreciation of celluloid to guide them, these devotees flock to the show, year after year. Why? Blind faith. We don’t reveal the program until everyone lands in town. Yet the Telluride family trusts that a unique experience will unfold.
 

Colorado Film Festival  (08/31/2013 - 08/31/2013)

Location: Online
Date for Submission of films: 01/31/2013
Website
Contact: Sarise Christiansen
Address: 4385 Wadsworth Blvd, Suite 151
Wheat Ridge, Colorado 80033
The Colorado International Film Festival strives to set a standard for excellence in recognizing the important work of emerging talent and masters of the cinema craft around the world. Quite simply, it is our mission to discover and celebrate extraordinary films. This year's festival will see over $10,000 in prizes awarded to the winners.

The Colorado International Film Festival is a non-traditional online film festival. Films are not physically screened for the public. Awards will be announced via Internet, targeted press release, email blast, social media, as well as listed on our website. It is requested, though not required, that awards won be mentioned in the promotional materials of the films being awarded. Awarded films may be displayed on our official YouTube channel and our social media pages at the discretion of the winning filmmakers.
 

September

DocuWest International Documentary Film Festival  (09/11/2013 - 09/15/2013)

Location: Foothills Art Center, Golden, CO
Date for Submission of films: 04/30/2013
Website
Contact: info@docuwestfest.com
Address: 809 15th Street
Golden, CO 80401
Phone: 303.279.3922
DocWest looks to explore the world of our people, our politics, our societies, our history and ourselves through the lens of filmmakers from around the globe. We embrace the idea that cinematic truth revealed in a non-narrative manner can allow the filmmaker to make choices that presents life either surreptitiously or purposely based on the choices they make.
 

TrindieFest  (09/12/2013 - 09/15/2013)

Location: Trinidad, CO
Date for Submission of films: 03/31/2013
Website
TRINDIEFEST HELPS WINNING FILMS WITH DISTRIBUTION DEALS & LEADS

As of today TrindieFest has had the privilage of helping THREE OF A KIND secure a distribution company (PUSH WORLDWIDE) and get exposure at this year's AFM (American Film Market). Plus Another film KARAOKE MAN is trying to work out the details for their deal.
"We are excited that our festival was able to open doors for our entries and give great films the chance to be seen", says Kirk Loudon, Co-Director of TrindieFest.
 

Breckenridge Film Festival  (09/19/2013 - 09/22/2013)

Location: Breckenridge
Date for Submission of films: 05/03/2013
Website
Contact: Dianna Nilsson
Address: PO Box 718
Breckenridge, Co 80424

Phone: 970-453-6200
For over a quarter century BFF has celebrated the art of filmmaking. Each spring a unique and varied array of independent films, premieres, receptions, educational programs and retrospectives honoring featured guests takes place high in the Colorado Rockies.

The Breckenridge Film Festival was established in 1981, making it one of the oldest film festivals in the country. It is a 501(c)(3), private, non-profit organization governed by a volunteer board of directors. Funding for the Festival comes from local public and private grants, sponsorships, fundraising events, individual contributions, in-kind assistance, and revenue from tickets and merchandise. More than 150 individual volunteers, local theaters and other venues are involved in this annual event.
 

Crested Butte Film Festival  (09/26/2013 - 09/29/2013)

Location: Crested Butte, CO
Date for Submission of films: 02/15/2013
Website
Contact: Michael or Jennifer Brody
Phone: 303.204.9080
The Crested Butte Film Festival is a four-day celebration of international films that coincide with the turning of the aspen leaves. We showcase award-winning shorts, documentaries, and narrative features in Gunnison and Crested Butte.
 

Aspen Filmfest  (09/26/2013 - 10/01/2013)

Location: Aspen
Date for Submission of films: 05/01/2013
Website
Contact: info@aspenfilm.org
Address: 110 East Hallam St.
Suite 102
Aspen, CO 81611

Phone: 303.882.5596
Coinciding with Autumn's changing leaves, Aspen Filmfest offers a feast of film and fall color that satisfies filmmakers and film lovers alike. With an emphasis on independent productions from around the world, Aspen Filmfest champions filmmaking at its finest.

Intimate in scale and celebratory in tone, Filmfest offers new features and documentaries, as well as unique presentations, special events, and family films. Special programs include tributes to distinguished artists. Past honorees include such luminaries as Julie Christie, Harrison Ford, Rob Reiner, Sydney Pollack, Bob Rafelson, Michael Douglas, Anjelica Huston and William H. Macy, and such notable new talents as Jason Reitman, Paula Patton and Anton Yelchen.
 

October

Mile High Horror Film Festival  (10/03/2013 - 10/06/2013)

Location: Alamo Drafthouse Littleton
Date for Submission of films: 05/31/2013
Website
Contact: Info@milehighhorrorfestival.com
Address: P.O. Box 8287
Denver, CO 80201
USA
Phone: 720-897-7960
The Mile High Horror Film Festival's mission is to showcase the very best independent genre films from around the world. It hosts film screenings and events throughout the year with its annual weekend-long festival taking place each fall. In 2012 it hosted over 50 films from 10 different countries.

The festival showcases a wide array of celebrities, artists, authors, and filmmakers from the horror genre.
 

Indie Spirit Film Festival  (10/03/2013 - 10/06/2013)

Date for Submission of films: 06/15/2013
Website
Contact: Jim Turner
Address: IFSOC Office
Tim Gill Center for Public Media
315 E Costilla St
Colorado Springs,CO 80903
The Independent Film Society of Colorado (IFSOC) is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization formed to promote the appreciation and celebration of Independent film in Colorado. Specifically, the mission and purpose is to bring Independent filmmakers and audiences together to cultivate a thriving film community by having events such as the annual Indie Spirit Film Festival, film seminars, and film series.
 

F-Town Film Festival  (10/19/2013 - 10/19/2013)

Location: Fruita, Colorado
Date for Submission of films: 02/01/2013
Website
Contact: Kelley Griffin
Phone: 970-858-0360
Film submissions must be bike related, and can be submitted online beginning February 1st. The website, www.f-townfilmfest.com has all the details!