St. Louis International Film Festival

Annual film festival St. Louis International Film FestivalOfficial logoLocationSt. Louis, Missouri, U.S.Established1992LanguageEnglishWebsitecinemastlouis.org The St. Louis International Film Festival (also known as SLIFF or Cinema St. Louis) is an annual Oscar-qualifying film festival in St. Louis, Missouri, which has been running since 1992. The coordinating organization changed its name to "Cinema St. Louis" in 2003. The festival screens approximately 300 films over a period of 10 days during November. History SLIFF was established in 1992 for the purpose of producing, promoting, and presenting annual film events to advance film as an art form. In its first year, 25 films were shown during the last week of April, to an overall audience of 4,500. In 1993, the festival incorporated as a Missouri not-for-profit organization, and screened 33 films, with an increase of attendance by 20%. In 1994, the festival lasted 10 days, with films showing in three theaters, and 11 film directors attended their St. Louis premieres. 1994 also saw the founding of Cinema St. Louis, now known as Friends of the St. Louis International Film Festival, the membership society of the festival, which contri