News & Announcements

Hello Everyone! I am so excited for the next edition of A Seat at the Table , our FFA accessibility webinar series! In our second session, "The Guest Arrivals" we are focusing on how your audiences, staff, and filmmakers physically access your in-person events. We will be covering physical access to screening spaces, ...read more

There's a particular kind of festival week where everything just works . Where the theaters, the hotel, the coffee, and the party are all within a few minutes' walk, the weather holds in the low 70s, and the staff seem genuinely delighted you showed up. That was Indy Shorts. I spent three days in Indianapolis with the ...read more

Thank you for joining us for FFA's Accessibility Webinar Series, which begins this week on Thursday, July 23rd ( you can still register here! ) A framing motif through our work is that of hosting a dinner party. Take a film festival and boil it down to its essence: entertaining, informing, educating - or keeping people ...read more

To the FFA Community, I’m thrilled to introduce myself as the new Executive Director of Film Festival Alliance! To have the opportunity to once again work alongside people I deeply respect, in a field that I truly love, feels incredibly special. Getting to do this kind of work, twice in a career, is something I don’t take ...read more

ICYMI: Film Festival Alliance is on the hunt for our next leader. We’re a strong organization with a dedicated membership, a supportive team, and a meaningful mission. As we look ahead, I chatted with our outgoing Executive Director, my colleague and friend Barbara Twist, to reflect on her time at FFA and discuss her hopes ...read more