MTN Craft Film Festival

Mtn Craft Film Festival

Date	First weekend in October
Venue	Robinson Grand Performing Arts Center
Location	Clarksburg, West Virginia
Type	Film Festival
Cause	Appalachian Culture
Website	Official website

The Mtn Craft Film Festival is an annual film festival established in 2023 and based in Clarksburg, West Virginia. ^[1] The festival aims at promoting Appalachian culture and film, featuring long and short documentary and scripted narrative films created by Appalachians, about Appalachia, or featuring Appalachian locations/crew. ^{[2] [3]}

Awards

The Mtn Craft Film Festival gives out a total of six awards, which include four judge-based, one audience-choice, and one Mtn Craft award; ^[4]

Judges Choice Awards

• Best Documentary Short
• Best Scripted Short
• Best Experimental Short
• Best Student Short
• Audience Choice - Best Short Film
• Mtn Craft Award (Best of WV)

Audience Choice Awards

• Short Film

Notable Films

• 2023 - King Coal, screened at the MTN Craft Film Festival

References

1. "The mountain craft film fest day two highlights- clipped version". WDTV. October 4, 2024. Retrieved October 12, 2024.
2. Pincavitch, Trevor (October 2, 2024). "2nd annual Mountain Craft Film Festival kicks off soon in Clarksburg, West Virginia". WV News. Retrieved October 12, 2024.
3. Bruce, Maxwell (July 22, 2024). "There And Back Again: How W.Va.'s Film Office Is Back With A Mission". WVPB. Retrieved October 12, 2024.
4. "MTN Craft Film Festival - Film Freeway". Film Freeway. Retrieved October 12, 2024.