The Tallahassee Film Festival is accepting submissions for our 2019 film festival! Feature films, short films, animated films, documentary films, or television work – it’s all eligible as long as it was completed between January 2019 and January 10, 2020!

The Tallahassee Film Festival is just coming off another incredibly strong weekend packed with 80 films and more than 30 filmmakers and industry talent in attendance at the festival. We want to take a moment to thank and congratulate all the filmmakers who contributed selections this year, and share with you the winners at the 2019 Tallahassee Film Festival.

Baltimore electronic music wizard Dan Deacon will headline the 2019 Tallahassee Film Festival Saturday night party, with a DJ set at The Wilbury! The show, co-sponsored by Word of South and COCA, promises to be one highlight among many at our celebration of independent and international cinema. Deacon, whose eight albums include Spiderman of the Rings, Bromst and Gliss Riffer, is notorious for his wild and spontaneous live shows that meld the vibe of a performance-art happening with his free-thinking permutations on decades of avant-garde music lineage. In recent years, he also has won renown as a composer of film scores, work he will discuss in a special festival conversation.

A visionary immersion into Jamaican life, and, as its title implies, the lives of its women, Khalik Allah’s bracing, hypnotic documentary comes to light in a rush of imagery that conjures both the mythic and the matter-of-fact. These scenes are captured with sometimes overpowering intimacy in the raw grain of 8 and 16mm film, as well as video and still camera images, which the filmmaker, who has family roots on the Caribbean island, has been shooting since his adolescence.

Help us kick off our 2019 Opening Night on the red carpet with a fun throwback to the 90s! Bernadette is a nod to your favorite 90s high school rom-coms, so head to the movie theater with us (like you used to in the 90s!) and stay for the after party sponsored by CMX Cinemas Fallschase!

You could count the number of people walking out of the theater saying, ‘maybe I’m a Satanist.’

Penny Lane on her experience at the film’s Sundance premiere

Big news this week from the Tallahassee Film Festival!

Baltimore electronic music wizard Dan Deacon will headline our Saturday night party, with a DJ set at The Wilbury! The show, co-sponsored by Word of South and COCA, promises to be one highlight among many at our celebration of independent and international cinema. Deacon, whose eight albums include Spiderman of the Rings, Bromst and Gliss Riffer, is notorious for his wild and spontaneous live shows that meld the vibe of a performance-art happening with his free-thinking permutations on decades of avant-garde music lineage. In recent years, he also has won renown as a composer of film scores, work he will discuss in a special festival conversation.