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Phoenix Film Festival
LocationPhoenix, Arizona, USA
LanguageInternational
Websitehttp://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.[1]

Past winners

Feature film

References

  1. ^ Phoenix Film Festival
  2. ^ http://www.filmthreat.com/blogs/34018/
  3. ^ http://www.filmthreat.com/blogs/34018/

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