Roanoke Film Festival celebrates the culture and art of the moving image through filmmaking and filmgoing experiences of exceptional merit and diversity that inform, educate and entertain.
As well as being a most special place for film industry professionals to meet, the Festival is especially attentive to the talent of artists who contribute to the growth of the medium. The Festival has the perfect balance between artistic quality of films and commercial impact. Not only are the films presented assured a unique and international platform, but the Festival as well reveals and reflects evolution and trends in world cinema while defending the notion of "auteur cinema for wide audiences".
Roanoke Film Institute is a non-profit organization dedicated to the discovery and development of independent artists and audiences. Through its programs, the Institute seeks to discover, support, and inspire independent film and theatre artists from the United States and around the world, and to introduce audiences to their new work.
The Institute's programs include the annual Roanoke Film Festival, held in and around Roanoke, Virginia each year and widely regarded as the premier U.S. showcase for American and international independent film. Through year-round support and a series of Labs, the Feature Film Program supports emerging independent screenwriters and directors through the development of their feature film projects. The Documentary Film Program assists nonfiction filmmakers from around the world with a series of workshops in editing, storytelling, and scoring for documentary films as well as providing grants to nonfiction film projects through the Roanoke Documentary Fund. Connecting filmmakers with musicians, the Film Music Program's Composers Lab allows accomplished musicians to explore composing for film. With a series of Labs and retreats that provide a creative environment for playwrights, directors, composers, and librettists, to develop new work with dramaturgs and full casts, the Theatre Program supports the development of independent theatre.
The Independent Producers Conference brings together emerging independent producers with established industry professionals for an intensive conference that explores the ever-changing independent production landscape. Other special initiatives of the Institute include the Native American Initiative which facilitates the participation of Native and Indigenous artists in the Institute's artistic development programs and the Roanoke Film Festival. The Institute also maintains the Roanoke Film Collection to conserve and archive the history of independent film.
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