The Cincinnati Film Festival is a yearly cultural event and international film competition held in

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, supporting surrounding tri-state region. Since 2010, the all-volunteer staff had screened over 1000 submitted films from 36 countries.

History

* The 2010 event was a collaborative event with the former

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, screened over 100 films and was held over 9 days in 11 venues across the

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and

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tri-state region. Held October 8–16, 2010, submissions were sent in from 31 countries. * The 2011 festival scaled back to 90 films over 4 days, September 29 - October 2, 2011 and held in downtown Cincinnati, during the first official "Film in Cincinnati Week". * The 2012 festival screened over 100 films September 6–13, 2012 at the Esquire Theatre, Clifton Performance Theatre, and Clifton Cultural Arts Center in the Clifton area, St. Michael the Archangel Church in Lower

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, the

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and the

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in the Over-the-Rhine district of Cincinnati. Screening events earlier that year also took place at the

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. * In 2015, The CFF brought on award-winning screenwriter and Founder of Screenwriting Staffing, Jacob N. Stuart, to quarterback their Screenplay Contest.

Culture

This Film Festival also includes several question and answer sessions, panels and filmmaker workshops led by industry professionals.

Partners

The CFF is also a Community Cinema partner, bringing the

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films broadcast on

Independent Lens ''Independent Lens'' is a weekly television series airing on PBS featuring documentary films made by independent filmmakers. Past seasons of ''Independent Lens'' were hosted by Angela Bassett, Don Cheadle, Susan Sarandon, Edie Falco, Terrence H ...

. It also runs the Cincinnati leg of the international competition, the

48 Hour Film Project The 48 Hour Film Project is an annual film competition in which teams of filmmakers are assigned a genre, a character, a prop, and a line of dialogue, and have 48 hours to create a short film containing those elements. The competition has been ac ...

References

External links

* Film festivals in Ohio Festivals in Cincinnati {{US-film-festival-stub