Film Festivals

Chicago has a plethora of Film Festivals in which film enthusiasts can watch rare independent features, shorts, animations and experimental films. The films submitted have specific guidelines and rules for entry. There is typically a fee and an evaluation of your film before it is eligible for screening in the festivals.

We have compiled a list of film festivals in the Chicago area.

2002-2003

Black Harvest International Festival of Film and Video
A wide ranging selection of recent African features, and premieres of new African American independent films. more...

Black Point Film Festival
Black Point Film Festival is a celebration of independent film, music, and art that is set to take place in Lake Geneva, WI. more...

Chicago Underground Film Festival
he yearly Chicago Underground Film Festival is designed for experimental filmmakers.The Chicago Underground Film Festival showcases the defiantly industrial films, of independent films. more...

Chicago Alternative Festival
Films are submitted for competition. Films are Chicago premiere in: general films, digital, documentary, feature length, horror film. more...

Chicago Asian American Film Festival
The Asian Americans categories consist of general films, animated film, documentary, experimental feature length, new media, retrospectives. more...

Chicago International Children's Film Festival
The 17th Chicago International Children's Film Festival. Shows children the world, with 210 films from 41 different countries! more...

Chicago International Film Festival
The Chicago International Film Festival, North America’s oldest competitive international film festival. more...

Chicago Latino Film Festival
The annual Festival promotes Latino culture in the United States by presenting the best and most recent films and videos from Spain, Portugal, Latin America and the United States. more...

Chicago Silver Images Film Festival
Films and videos must reflect the mission of the Silver Images Film Festival: "To foster an understanding and respect for the vitality, experience, diversity, and wisdom of older people through the media of film and video" more...

Children's Penny Cinema Theater
The DuSable Museum of African-American History has searched the globe for films that represent the African and African-American experience. more...

Women in the Directors Chair
Originated by women 1997 the categories include general films, documentary, animated , experimental films, horror , feature length, video, digital, fantasy films, children , sci-fi. more...

Reeling: The Chicago Lesbian and Gay International Film Festival
Reeling presents dramatic features, documentaries, and shorts by and/or about lesbian, gay, bi-sexual, transgender people. more...

Screen-2-Stream
iFvChicago.com's very own Monthly Screening.Anybody can submit a film into our screening. The films are voted on by the audience and the winners are streamed on iFvChicago.com. more...

Silent Summer Film Festval
The Silent Film Society of Chicago is dedicated to the preservation and proper presentation of silent films. more...

St. Louis International Film Festival
This fest includes: documentary, Family/Children's, Australian Cinema, 'A Separate Cinema' exhibition of vintage posters and films of early African-American cinema. more...

Ohio Independent Film Feast
Categories include: animated film, documentary, educational films, experimental films, fantasy films, feature length, general films, horror films,more...

Outdoor Film Festival
Discover seven weeks of classic films every Tuesday at sunset. more...

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