The Santa Fe Independent Film Festival completed its 13th edition with its largest program to date—with 154 features and short films! We are ever grateful for your support and participation.
The 13th Annual SFiFF honored three-time Academy Award-Winning Writer and Director Oliver Stone with the Lifetime Achievement Award, hosted an in-person Masters Discussion with actress Cassidy Freeman, and hosted an online Masters Discussion with author Julia Cameron, which is publicly available.
SFiFF celebrated Closing Night with a sold-out, early screening of Spencer, directed by Pablo Larraín and starring Kristen Stewart and Timothy Spall. 2021 SFiFF demonstrated our team's enduring dedication to international film, screening films from 38 countries in 2021, including international submissions to the Academy Awards, The Worst Person in the World (Norway), Clara Sola (Costa Rica), Flee (Denmark), Memoria (Colombia), and Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn (Romania), which also earned the Golden Bear at Berlinale film festival. SFiFF also screened the U.S. Premiere of Night Raiders, directed by Danis Goulet, who earned the Emerging Talent Award at Toronto International Film Festival.
Santa Fe Independent Film Festival screened numerous international films and American independents, 25 feature films directed or co-directed by women, and 17 films as part of our New Mexico Film Program. The New Mexico Film Program—with films either created by New Mexican filmmakers, or shot in the Land of Enchantment—included 2021 SFiFF’s Best NM Narrative Feature All the World is Sleeping directed by Ryan Lacen and 2021 SFiFF’s Best NM Documentary Feature Shadow Weavers by Erica Nguyen. SFiFF also hosted a Directors Panel, Documenteurs Panel, and a New Mexico Film Salon to welcome local and visiting filmmakers to discuss the future of film.
17.11.2021 | Editor's blog
Cat. : FESTIVALS