Festival Data:

• Established: 1987
• Genre: Science Fiction - Fantasy (click to see)
• Attendance: 25000

• Competitive
• Has Panels

Festival Website:

Festival Description:

Dragon*Con is America's largest, multi-media, popular arts convention focusing on science fiction and fantasy, gaming, comics, literature, art, music, and film. The festival focuses each year on showcasing the finest independent short films of the fantastic. Aside from Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror films, Dragon*Con screens film of the imagination that steps out of the slice-of-life category. That includes short animated films of all types.

The Dragon*Con Independent Film Festival is a four day event of film screenings and panels, with directors, producers, writers, actors, SFX & makeup artists all sharing their expertise. The Festival competition is for short films (under 60 minutes). A few independent features are shown (out of competition).