About Us
Our Mission
The International Fine Arts Film Festival is a creative effort to screen videos and films from around the world in the arts disciplines. We are essential for talented professionals and students to show their work. There are many art disciplines inspired by the muses: From story-telling to dance, music, science, and formats in documentary, animation and experimental which often combine disciplines. International artist Rita Blitt is a Cannes award-wining example of blending the arts of painting, photography and dance with her film Caught in Paint. Watch it below. The trailer from the 2019 Season -- The Collector, by Maria Teresa Alvarado, is unique. And, if in a jam to think, and create, try the short The Surrendering of Gregory Beeman, for a slow burst of inspiration.
Lynn M. Holley, Founding Director of the IFAFF(.org) and the 3MinuteFilmFestival(.com), and the PoetryFilmFestival.org, announces that the 8th Season of IFAFF open for entry on FilmFreeway.
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The Tides
The Tides
The Tides
Tides
0:02:47
USA
Sophie Williams, Director
The beginnings of a movement to amplify the under-heard voices of dance. Created and directed by female Cypriot/New Zealander artistic director, Sophia Williams, and choreographed by Leiland Charles on the Artists of Pointeworks.
Formula
The Tides
The Tides
Formula
0:03:00
USA/China
Yue Zhu, Director
Formula:mskin, bones, lights, air...
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Special Award
Misophonia- Animation
Misophonia
0:09:00
USA
Linda Wingerter, Director
USA
Misophonia is a richly layered and textured world transcends the humble reused materials it’s made from. Filmed with live-performed puppetry on a multiplane stage, puppets made from pizza boxes elegantly move through breathtaking cityscapes of vintage papers and painted cellophane, immersed in an ever-building atmosphere of sound.
Misophonia is a film by The Stringpullers Puppet Company, commissioned by Heather Henson’s Handmade Puppet Dreams Film Series.Our mission is to showcase the best films from around the world, celebrate diversity, and inspire audiences to explore new perspectives.
We Have Award s for 7th Season - 2023.
The Discarded
The Discarded
0:02:55
United Kingdom
Uli Meyer, Director
Discarded shows how a character designer struggles with the design of a cartoon cat, only to end up on a short trip through the looking glass.
Director Statement
"Film is such a wonderful language. It is much harder for me to express myself in words."
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Three Souls in Search of an Embrace
Three Souls in Search of an Embrace
0:14:16
United States
Filmed in Argentina
Tom Donohue,
Greg Shaya, Directors This film is about three dancers, one blind, one in a wheelchair, and one born with just one leg. They compete to be accepted in perhaps the most exclusive of environments: the World Tango Championship of Buenos Aires. There
Three Souls in Search of an Embrace
0:14:16
United States
Filmed in Argentina
Tom Donohue,
Greg Shaya, Directors This film is about three dancers, one blind, one in a wheelchair, and one born with just one leg. They compete to be accepted in perhaps the most exclusive of environments: the World Tango Championship of Buenos Aires. There is no category for "the physically challenged". There is, however, a chance. Tango is danced with the soul.
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Flow
Esta Noche no,...no
Flow: A film about painting
0:10:50
United Kingdom
Alan McGowan, Director
Flow is an exploration of paint, space and sound combining physical performance, life painting, music and film.
Artist Alan McGowan, model Topaz Pauls and musicians Tim Vincent Smith and Matt Wright collaborate to produce a changing, shifting, developing scene recorded in paint.
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Esta Noche no,...no
Esta Noche no,...no
Esta Noche no,...no
Esta noche no, ..no,
0:10:00
Spain
Luis Carlos Rodriquez, Director
This film is an audiovisual experiment by Luis Carlos Rodríguez, produced by Enrique Hurtado, and is based on a poem by Eduardo Fraile Valles, interpreted and choreographed by Cristina Calleja, recited by the poet himself, and with music by Juan Carlos Martín. Wonderful langu
Esta noche no, ..no,
0:10:00
Spain
Luis Carlos Rodriquez, Director
This film is an audiovisual experiment by Luis Carlos Rodríguez, produced by Enrique Hurtado, and is based on a poem by Eduardo Fraile Valles, interpreted and choreographed by Cristina Calleja, recited by the poet himself, and with music by Juan Carlos Martín. Wonderful language. It is much harder for me to express myself in words."
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Timeless
Esta Noche no,...no
The Procession
The Better Angels
0:13:00
Australia
Michael Cusack, Director
A young soldier trying to escape the horrors of war, finds an abandoned house and within its walls the stories of what might have been.
The Procession
Esta Noche no,...no
The Procession
The Procession
0:18:44
USA
Andrew Margetson, Director
Our television screens are dominated by the ever-increasing displacement of individuals who have been forced to pack up, flee, relocate in fear of prosecution, persecution or ecological threat.
The world is on the move. ‘The Procession by Hew Locke’, from acclaimed contemporary Guyanese-Br
The Procession
0:18:44
USA
Andrew Margetson, Director
Our television screens are dominated by the ever-increasing displacement of individuals who have been forced to pack up, flee, relocate in fear of prosecution, persecution or ecological threat.
The world is on the move. ‘The Procession by Hew Locke’, from acclaimed contemporary Guyanese-British artist, Hew Locke, brings the viewer face-to-face with 140 individual sculptures, representing a procession of adults, children, and horses. Each figure carries the weight of their historical and cultural past.
The Better Angels
The Eye Begins in The Hand
The Eye Begins in The Hand
The Better Angels
0:13:00
Australia
Michael Cusack, Director
A young soldier trying to escape the horrors of war, finds an abandoned house and within its walls the stories of what might have been.
The Eye Begins in The Hand
The Eye Begins in The Hand
The Eye Begins in The Hand
The Eye Begins in The Hand
0:18:31
USA
Yehuda Sharim, Director
El Ojo Comienza En La Mano, is a tribute to campesino histories in rural CA through the artwork of an artist largely absent from critical conversations on Chicanx art, Ruben A. Sanchez, as well as an unsentimental reckoning with the fate of many cultural workers that struggle between paying rent and/or creative endeavors.
Ta Mara
The Eye Begins in The Hand
Barbara Rachko
Ta Mara
0:10:00
Poland
Iwona Pasinska, Director
This production was inspired by the life and paintings of Tamara Lempicka. Principal photography took place in Park Mużakowski which has been listed on the UNESCO List of World Cultural and Natural Heritage since 2004. The Park is administered on the Polish side by the National Heritage Institut
Ta Mara
0:10:00
Poland
Iwona Pasinska, Director
This production was inspired by the life and paintings of Tamara Lempicka. Principal photography took place in Park Mużakowski which has been listed on the UNESCO List of World Cultural and Natural Heritage since 2004. The Park is administered on the Polish side by the National Heritage Institute and on the German side by Fürst–Pückler–Park Bad Muskau Foundation.
Barbara Rachko
Lost From Sight
Barbara Rachko
Barbara Rachko - True Grit
0:14:03
USA
Jennifer Alexis Cox, Director
Barbara Rachko is"True Grit," her uplifting story of an accomplished artist who overcame gender barriers, and a deep tragic loss, to forge a path that is uniquely her own.
Lost From Sight
Lost From Sight
Lost From Sight
The Eye Begins in The Hand
0:18:31
USA
Yehuda Sharim, Director
El Ojo Comienza En La Mano, is a tribute to campesino histories in rural CA through the artwork of an artist largely absent from critical conversations on Chicanx art, Ruben A. Sanchez, as well as an unsentimental reckoning with the fate of many cultural workers that struggle between paying rent and/or creative endeavors.
Embroideresses
Lost From Sight
Lost From Sight
Embroideresses
0:07:40
Sweden
Bo Sjökvist, Director
Two dancers try to approach previous generations of Swedish women by trying to understand their craft, embroidery. To translate embroidery into dance. What exactly is a cross stitch and can you really walk with a thread? The film follows the two dancers when they dry to develop an embroidery
Embroideresses
0:07:40
Sweden
Bo Sjökvist, Director
Two dancers try to approach previous generations of Swedish women by trying to understand their craft, embroidery. To translate embroidery into dance. What exactly is a cross stitch and can you really walk with a thread? The film follows the two dancers when they dry to develop an embroidery dance performance. Their process is interspersed with interviews with three embroiderers who talk about their love for the craft and the difficulties of making the perfect stitch