Orlando Film Festival

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Orlando Film Festival
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Location Orlando, Florida, U.S.
LanguageInternational
Website http://www.orlandofilmfest.com/

The Orlando Film Festival is an annual film festival held in Orlando, Florida, for independent filmmakers to showcase their work. The festival attracts upwards of 1,000[ citation needed ] entries from filmmakers in more than 30[ citation needed ] countries every year.

History

The festival is open to film of all lengths and genres, including experimental, narrative, animation, documentary and genre hybrids. Past celebrity attendees are Marcia Gay Harden (2006), [1] Joe Pantoliano (2007), [2] Olympia Dukakis, Haley Joel Osment and Alison Brie (2010). [3]

The 2015 festival ran from 21 to 25 October and began with the 45-minute documentary about the rise to prominence of the Orlando City Soccer Club.[ citation needed ]

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References

  1. "Marcia Gay Harden at the Orlando Film Festival", Orlando Sentinel Archived 26 October 2012 at the Wayback Machine
  2. Douglas Lorah, "Joe Pantoliano at the Orlando Film Festival", Green Room Orlando, 24 October 2007
  3. "Olympia Dukakis, Haley Joel Osment, & Alison Brie at the Orlando Film Festival". Montana Amazon - The Tribute Site. Archived from the original on 24 July 2011. Retrieved 2 August 2011.[ unreliable source? ]