Festival Data:

• Established: 1989
• Genre: General
• Attendance: 10000
• Accredited Industry Attendance: 10
• Total Number of Films Submitted: 670
• Total Number of Films Screened: 90
• Total Screenings: 27
• # of Shorts Screened: 75
• # of Features Screened: 15

• Competitive

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Festival Description:

Formed by The New Orleans Film Society (NOFS) in 1989 with the mission of advancing the appreciation of film and providing the New Orleans community greater access to film, the New Orleans Film Festival showcases a diversity of local, national, and international films highlighted by the participation and interaction of filmmakers and industry professionals.

Two decades later the Festival attracts record-breaking crowds each year and has a year-round program that includes the French Film Festival, free sneak previews of new art house film releases, and special events designed to benefit local film and video audiences, artists and professionals.

Film entry categories are:

• Narrative Feature – Fiction films 40 minutes or more.

• Narrative Short – Fiction films 39 minutes or less.

• Documentary Feature – Non-fiction films 40 minutes or more.

• Documentary Short – Non-fiction films 39 minutes or less.

• Animation – Films of any length, animated by any means.

• Experimental – Films 30 minutes or less that explore new and creative uses of film and video, whether in technique, form or both.

Film Awards, plus prizes of cash, services or in-kind, are given in the following categories;

• Narrative Feature

• Narrative Short

• Documentary Feature

• Documentary Short

• Animation

• Experimental

• Louisiana Filmmaker

Film Submissions:

• Call for Entry: http:/ / neworleansfilmsociety.org/ pages/ detail/ 35/ Call-for-Entries