2022 TFF Award Winners Announced

The Tallahassee Film Festival held its 14th annual festival on Labor Day weekend, with over 50 films to choose from. We appreciate all the hard work and artistry the filmmakers put into their films. The audience and our directors had some tough choices to make this awards season, but we’re excited to share these winners after Sunday’s awards ceremony. A big thank you goes to our Florida Filmmaker Award co-sponsor, Flamingo Magazine. Be on the lookout for an article about this year’s recipient in their upcoming issue.

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2022 Films

With nearly 50 films on four screens this Labor Day weekend, we’re proud to present a program that includes the inspired work of everyone from first-time filmmakers to established arthouse auteurs. Every year our selections shine a light on new independent work by filmmakers and talent that are going places.

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2022 Festival

The 2022 Tallahassee Film Festival takes place September 3-4 at multiple venues downtown and in the All Saints district between FAMU and FSU. Each year, the festival highlights prize-winners and audience favorites from major festivals such as Sundance, SXSW and Tribeca, and offers a showcase for fresh discoveries of new, fiercely independent work – often with the filmmakers in attendance. Past years have included Denis Villeneuve (Dune), Bong Joon-ho (Parasite), Barry Jenkins (The Underground Railroad), Zoe Lister-Jones (The Craft Legacy), Joe Swanberg (Easy), Paolo Sorrentino (The Young Pope), Kat Candler (Queen Sugar), and Khalik Allah (Lemonade).

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Submit Your Film

The Tallahassee Film Festival is accepting submissions for our 2022 film festival! Feature films, short films, documentary films, animated or television work – it’s all eligible as long as it was completed after January 1, 2021! Selected filmmakers will be notified on or before August 1, 2022. Read the Terms and Rules.

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2021 TFF Award Winners Announced!

The Tallahassee Film Festival held its 13th annual festival this weekend with almost 50 films from around the world and the US. It was a blast to be able to finally get back together again and watch movies with fresh voices and boundary-pushing creative perspectives. The audience and our directors had some tough choices to make this awards season, but we’re excited to share these winners after last night’s awards ceremony. A big thank you to our Florida Filmmaker Award co-sponsor, Flamingo Magazine. Be on the lookout for an article about this year’s winner in their upcoming issue.

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2021 Films

The complete film program for the 2021 Tallahassee Film Festival is announced! Select films in our program will also be available to stream online in our virtual cinema during the Festival dates. If you are attending in person, buy a pass and see all the films!

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Film Schedule

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2021 Initial Slate Of Films Announced

The Tallahassee Film Festival returns Sept. 18-19, 2021 to Railroad Square Art District for its 2021 edition, highlighted by a free outdoor screening of Dash Shaw’s acclaimed, all-star animated fantasy “Cryptozoo” and favorites from the Sundance, Toronto, Tribeca, San Sebastian and Fantasia film festivals. Passes are now on sale for the festival, which will host screenings at the Residence Inn on Gaines Street, the new Hyatt House hotel in Railroad Square, Cap City Video Lounge and the Railroad Square Craft House. Read more for some highlights!

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2022 Festival

The 2022 Tallahassee Film Festival takes place September 3-4 at multiple venues downtown and in the All Saints district between FAMU and FSU. Each year, the festival highlights prize-winners and audience favorites from major festivals such as Sundance, SXSW and Tribeca, and offers a showcase for fresh discoveries of new, fiercely independent work – often with the filmmakers in attendance. Past years have included Denis Villeneuve (Dune), Bong Joon-ho (Parasite), Barry Jenkins (The Underground Railroad), Zoe Lister-Jones (The Craft Legacy), Joe Swanberg (Easy), Paolo Sorrentino (The Young Pope), Kat Candler (Queen Sugar), and Khalik Allah (Lemonade).

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Help Support Us

The Tallahassee Film Festival appreciates and needs your support. We are a small, all-volunteer 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Your proceeds will go towards the mission of the Tallahassee Film Festival; future film screenings and events; community-wide educational and arts opportunities; and much more.

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Hotels

Whether you’re traveling into Tallahassee from abroad or visiting from within our own backyard for a staycation, be sure to take advantage of our special guest rate at our 2022  host hotel, the Hyatt House Tallahassee Capitol-University in the historic Railroad Square Art District!

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2021 Initial Slate Of Films Announced

The Tallahassee Film Festival returns Sept. 18-19, 2021 to Railroad Square Art District for its 2021 edition, highlighted by a free outdoor screening of Dash Shaw’s acclaimed, all-star animated fantasy “Cryptozoo” and favorites from the Sundance, Toronto, Tribeca, San Sebastian and Fantasia film festivals. Passes are now on sale for the festival, which will host screenings at the Residence Inn on Gaines Street, the new Hyatt House hotel in Railroad Square, Cap City Video Lounge and the Railroad Square Craft House.

Testimonials

Great festival! Was awesome to be able to screen my short film, The Itch, in the town that educated [me] and in the building where I saw so many films while in college. They love movies and movie makers. They treat you right!

Tim Driscoll, Filmmaker

The Tallahassee Film Festival was absolutely wonderful! My team and I were very lucky to have been selected to screen our short film and the experience was nothing short of incredible. The TFF team was very friendly and they did an excellent job at communicating the schedule of the festival and arranging the events for the filmmakers. Filmmakers came from all over the country, from Texas, to California, and the networking was wonderful. I can't wait to come back next year to support the TFF team. 10/10 would recommend to any filmmaker who is looking to submit to a festival.

John Forier, Filmmaker

This festival benefits from a great and knowledgeable team. Despite it being fairly new, their programming was really good and we enjoyed all of the Q&As with some top documentary filmmakers. Definitely worth the submission fee!

Malia Bruker, Festival-goer

Unfortunately I wasn't able to make it in person - but the virtual presence was robust and extremely easy to navigate ! Really grateful for the online component. Great communication overall. Sounds like the in person audience was a blast. Thanks for having my film !

Grace Sloan, Filmmaker

Tallahassee is an excellent film festival. I live in the UK and unfortunately I was unable to attend, but I keenly followed their social media feeds. They clearly built a strong dedicated audience because they select wonderful films. It was an honour to have my short film PRACTICE selected. I highly recommend this festival.

Deva Palmier, Filmmaker