Phoenix Film Festival

Phoenix Film Festival
Location	Phoenix, Arizona, USA
Language	International
http://www.phoenixfilmfestival.com

Phoenix Film Festival is a festival that celebrates feature films and their creators. The celebration takes place annually in the city of Phoenix, Arizona. The festival began as a showcase for feature films made for less than $1 million and short films made for less than $50,000.

History

Sponsored by the Sundance Channel, Golan Ramras and Chris LaMont started the festival in 2001 with the help of Program Director Greg Hall. The Phoenix Film Festival is now the largest attended festival in Arizona. In 2005 it had 15,000 attendees and featured tributes to such guests as Kevin Bacon, Kyra Sedgwick, and Tom Ortenberg from Lionsgate Films. Celebrity guests included Tom Arnold and Danny Trejo, as well as filmmakers Don Roos and Ken Kwapis, and featured Arizona premieres of Happy Endings, Mad Hot Ballroom and Loverboy.

Past winners

Feature film

• 2011 - A Little Help (Best Picture)
• 2011 - As If I Am Not There (Best World Cinema Feature)
• 2010 - The Rivals
• 2009 - Lightbulb
• 2008 - Take
• 2007 - Little Chenier
• 2006 - Andrew Jenks, Room 335
• 2005 - Checking Out
• 2004 - Break a Leg
• 2003 - Melvin Goes to Dinner
• 2002 - Do It for Uncle Manny
• 2001 - Middlemen

External links

• Official website
• Google News Results for Search "Phoenix Film Festival"
• Phoenix Film Festival at the Internet Movie Database