Maryland’s film festivals have unique personalities but one attribute they all share - they offer the viewing public an opportunity to explore the very best of world cinema while encouraging artistic development and excellence.
Maryland Film Festival
May 3-6, 2012
Maryland Film Festival is an annual four-day event that takes place the first weekend of each May, presenting top-notch film and video work from all over the world. Each year the festival screens approximately 50 feature films and 75 short films of all varieties -- narrative, documentary, animation, experimental, and hybrid -- to tens of thousands of audience members.
Baltimore
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SILVERDOCS
June 18-24, 2012
AFI Silver Theatre
8633 Colesville Road
Washington, DC.
Silverdocs is the most talked about documentary festival in the United States, called “Non-Fiction Nirvana” by Variety, the “Pre-eminent documentary Festival in the US” by Screen International and the “premiere showcase for documentary film” by Hollywood Reporter. Silverdocs encompasses a seven-day international film festival and five-day concurrent conference that promotes documentary film as a leading art form, supports the work of independent filmmakers and fosters an atmosphere for public dialogue and civic engagement around the issues and ideas explored in the films.
These film festivals receive funding awards from the Maryland Film Festival Grant Program administered by the Maryland Film Office. The program is intended to support both established and emerging festivals, and inspire new ones.
