The DC Independent Film Festival is the ideal destination for the audiences who are looking for a different kind of cinema and want to acknowledge and appreciate the creativity of the small budget film-makers.
This festival is organized every year in the Washington D.C., United Sates. It gives a platform to independent film-makers to showcase their films at an international level. The Film Festival celebrates the vision, the creativity and the highest level of independent filmmaking in various categories. This festival has been organized in the Washington D.C area since 1998 and has become a prestigious platform for the independent film culture. The festival also gives the common audience a chance to immerse themselves in the individuality and creativeness of independent cinema. The DC Independent Film Festival includes discussions with filmmakers and many seminars on the art of film-making. The festival has also included the independent music festival where independent musicians perform their latest music.
The festival is open for public and is held at the George Washington University in the Jack Morton Auditorium of the media and public affairs building. Tickets for the festivals are also available at the Auditorium only. Besides the paid screenings, the festival also holds many free and special events like special film screenings on relevent issues, discussions after the movies screenings and guest lecturers. The DC Independent Film Festival is a ten days film festival that celebrates a beautiful but often neglected genre of films and gives it the much needed boost and support. The film festival also works as window to the outer world for the movies which more often than not are over-shadowed by the big budget movies supported by big studios.
