N. Scott Momaday.
John Sayles and Maggie Renzi.
Max Evans.
John Waters.
These are a few icons that were honored at the Santa Fe Independent Film Festival in 2017.
And it's part of the reason the film festival was named by MovieMaker as one of the "50 Film Festivals Worth the Entry Fee in 2018."
It's the fifth consecutive year for the honor. READ MORE

Hooray for Tamalewood! 

Once again, a major movie industry publication has listed Santa Fe as one of the nation's top small cities for filmmakers, while also listing Albuquerque as the No. 1 big city for making films.

Moviemaker magazine, which bills itself as "the world's most widely read independent film magazine," last week published its annual lists of best places for filmmakers to live. READ MORE

"Craft" is the operative word at Santa Fe Independent Film Festival, where Masters Discussions--on screenwriting with Bill Broyles (Castaway, Jarhead), and on acting with Cassidy Freeman, Wes Studi, and Ara Woland, take deep dives into honing creative approaches from practical perspectives. With its eclectic pool of expert opinions from which to glean, SFIFF also proves that you don't have to learn how to make movies from moviemakers alone. READ MORE

Much like the movies in its lineup, the inaugural Santa Fe Independent Film Festival had a dogged crew and a bare-bones budget. Jacques Paisner and two like-minded friends--David Moore and actor Gary Farmer--came up with the idea for the festival in 2009 and transformed the nonprofit teen arts center Warehouse 21 into a makeshift theater. READ MORE

The Santa Fe Independent Film Festival will honour the city's rich history, as a centre for Native American arts and culture, by announcing its Indigenous Film Programme, which aims to highlight the best new short film projects by indigenous filmmakers, and feature films, including indigenous themes, and subjects.

The 10th edition of the festival will run from 17 October to 21 October. READ MORE

The Santa Fe Independent Film Festival this week announced its first 10 feature film selections, including pictures from Japanese, Brazilian and South Korean directors, as well as a documentary about the popular Santa Fe-based arts collective Meow Wolf.
Some 40 feature films will screen at the festival in October, in addition to an armful of shorts, panels and parties at theaters across town. READ MORE

It's almost time for the Santa Fe Independent Film Festival 2018. The festival will once again serve as an instrument to connect filmmakers with New Mexico film lovers through showcasing world-class filmmaking.

The Santa Fe Independent Film Festival, better known as SFIFF and Santa Fe IFF, devotes itself to the nurture of creative, independent, cutting-edge cinema and the promotion films in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The festival screens features and shorts of all types, including narrative, documentary, international, and animated. READ MORE

The Santa Fe Independent Film Festival's 10th Anniversary winners were honored today, with Horizonti directed by Tinatin Kajrishvili winning Best Narrative Film, and The Silence of Others directed by Almudena Carracedo and Robert Bahar wining Best Documentary.
SFIFF also honored animator and director Bill Plympton with the Lifetime Achievement Award and, a Visionary Award for documenteur Alexandria Bombach. READ MORE

Santa Fe Independent Film Festival - Santa Fe, New Mexico - October 17-21, 2018
The Santa Fe Independent Film Festival (SFIFF) began in 2009 as a fringe festival that took place in a community center. It invests in the advancement of independent, innovative, and cutting edge cinema bringing 5 days of excellence in filmmaking to the inclusive and diverse community of Santa Fe, New Mexico. READ MORE

The Santa Fe Independent Film Festival returns Oct. 17 through 21 for its 10th annual outing. Some 40 features, shorts and documentaries are scheduled to screen over the course of the 5-day movie fest. Special guests this year include animator Bill Plympton (I Married a Strange Person!, Idiots and Angels, Hair Hight, Cheatin'), who will be on hand to accept a lifetime achievement award (Saturday, 7pm). Local actor Gary Farmer will be there to introduce a special, restored print of Jim Jarmusch's 1995 avant-Western Dead Man (Saturday, 1:10pm). READ MORE

America


Matthew K. Gutierrez
Time catches up with us all, and for 93-year old America, the twilight of her life culminates in gathering her three grandsons to care for her in the feature-length documentary debut from co-directors Erick Stoll and Chase Whiteside. READ MORE

For the fifth consecutive year, the Santa Fe Independent Film Festival has been named one of 50 film festivals "worth the entry fee," according to MovieMaker Magazine, a quarterly trade publication that has produced an annual list of top-tier festivals in the U.S. and abroad since at least 2012. READ MORE