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Our Mission

The Ann Arbor Film Festival showcases independent and experimental film and video. Established in 1963, this internationally-renowned festival is the oldest of its kind in North America. Each year the festival attracts entries from moving image artists worldwide and screens more than 100 films before audiences during six days in March.
The Ann Arbor Film Festival fosters the growth of emerging and established film and videomakers. The festival is open to film and video of all categories that demonstrate a high regard for the medium as an art form. The festival’s mission is to provide a worldwide public forum for moving image exhibitions, to encourage and showcase artists of the moving image, to promote the moving image as art, and to offer educational outreach.

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The Awards

The festival awards filmmakers with over $15,000 in awards each year. An awards jury, comprised of three internationally-recognized film/videomakers, determines the allocation of award monies in the form of some 20 named prizes.
The Ann Arbor Film Festival has recently added the new daily Audience Award, and is the only festival to offer this award on a daily basis. Within each day’s films in competition, by audience votes, a filmmaker wins the daily $500 award. $3000 total in Audience Awards are given away during festival week.

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