Malibu Film Festival, Utah Film Festival, Monadnock International Film Festival – Film Festival Guide for April 7
Malibu Film Festival, Utah Film Festival, Monadnock International Film Festival – Film Festival Guide for April 7 from FilmsGoneWild.com
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Utah Film Festival
Welcome to the 15th Annual Utah International Film Festival
More passion than a room full of Oscar hopefuls.
More connections than a Hollywood power lunch.
More unforgettable moments than your favorite cult classic.
Hyperbole is fun, but at the Utah International Film Festival (UIFF), we are serious about celebrating cinema.
Our mission is to Impact, Inspire, Create, and Innovate.
What sets UIFF apart? It’s more than just a festival—it’s an experience.
From the moment your film is selected, you’re part of a vibrant community of filmmakers, screenwriters, and industry professionals who genuinely care about supporting and uplifting one another.
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Monadnock International Film Festival
Named as “Up and Coming Film Fest” by New Hampshire Magazine’s “Best of New Hampshire” issue, the Monadnock International Film Festival (MONIFF) showcases high-quality, independent cinema every April in the beautiful Monadnock Region, known for its vibrant arts, culture, and Mt. Monadnock, one of the world’s most climbed mountains. 2025 will mark the 13th annual festival. We plan to hold a 3-day in-person event in downtown Keene and ten days of online virtual screenings.
MONIFF features award-winning films on the festival circuit, domestic and foreign, along with premieres of regionally produced films by New Hampshire and New England filmmakers. Our mission is to celebrate independent films by offering audiences compelling stories from home and around the world, exposing them to diverse cultures, lifestyles, and points of view. We screen narrative and documentary feature-length films and animated, narrative, and documentary shorts. Films are shown in the Colonial Theatre’s new SHOWROOM in downtown Keene and additional community theatres in Jaffrey. In 2020, we moved to the virtual platform Eventive in response to the pandemic. We bring guest filmmakers to our festival to engage with audiences in lively Q&A discussions after screenings and participate in film industry panels.
The highlight of our festival is the Jonathan Daniels awards ceremony, honoring Keene’s Civil Rights hero and given to a filmmaker whose film combines artistic excellence with awareness around a timely social issue. Our first-year recipient was a renowned filmmaker and local resident, Ken Burns, for his documentary, “Central Park Five.” Other recipients include Brian Oakes, director of “Jim: The James Foley Story”; Beth Murphy, director of “What Tomorrow Brings”; and Talya Tibbon, director of “Sky and Ground.” We also give Audience Choice awards to Best Documentary Short, Best Narrative Short, and Best Documentary Feature.
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Malibu Film Festival
Malibu Film Festival ™ is a premiere film festival hosted at the prestigious Directors Guild of America (DGA) Theater Complex with select films streaming worldwide.
ABOUT MALIBU FILM FESTIVAL
Established in 1997, Malibu Film Festival ™ is a premier showcase for U.S. and international independent films. Malibu Film Festival is produced and staffed by members of the Director’s Guild of America (DGA); Television Academy (Emmys); Producer’s Guild of America (PGA) and IATSE.
Since 1999, Malibu Film Festival has been recognized as a premiere festival for discovering emerging directors. Honorees and Filmmakers who first presented their work at the festival are now amongst the biggest names in the industry include Academy Award® winning director, James Cameron (Avatar, Titanic, Terminator); Academy Award® winning director, Bryan Fogel (Jewtopia, Icarus, The Dissident); and, Academy Award® winning director, Ari Sandel (West Bank Story).
ABOUT PROGRAMMING
Malibu Film Festival programs high quality new films from emerging filmmakers. Malibu Film Festival provides audience members, filmmakers, festival programmers and industry professionals an opportunity to network and discover the next generation of creative talent.
The festival program is selected entirely from a blind submissions pool. No films are given special treatment based on who made them or who they know. Malibu Film Festival programers are comprised of award winning filmmakers, festival alumni, and working union members including DGA, SAG/AFTRA, IATSE and WGA.