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Location | Orlando, Florida, U.S. |
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Language | International |
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.
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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