IOWA CINEMA EVENTS COALITION

Landlocked Film Festival is a charter member of the recently formed Iowa Cinema Events Coalition. This organization's goals are to co-promote festivals and other film- and videomaking events in Iowa and to foster Iowa filmmakers.

LANDLOCKED FILMS LLC - An independent production company not affiliated with Landlocked Film Festival

Landlocked Films LLC is an entirely separate entity from Landlocked Film Festival. It's a video production company based in Boulder, Colorado. While the festival is not associated with the production company, we applaud the company as a creator of independent video addressing a variety of fascinating topics. Check out their site!

IOWA'S FILM & VIDEO FESTIVALS

Cedar Rapids Independent Film Festival

April 13-14, 2007, Marion

CRIFF screens films and videos with an Iowa connection and gives out the Eddy Award for top achievers in several categories. This festival is in its seventh year of operation.

ICE Film Festival

Taking place from October 4-6, 2007, the Iowa City Experimental Film Festival seeks films and videos that question cinematic conventions by exposing their limitations, doing away with them altogether, or even demonstrating why they might be useful and effective in the first place.

Hardacre Film Festival

The Hardacre Film & Cinema Festival began in 1996 as a project straight from the hearts of film lovers local to the Tipton area in Cedar County, located in Eastern Iowa. Festival films are screened in the classic art deco Hardacre Theater. This beautiful, locally-operated theater has been in operation since 1917 and continues to exhibit first-run films daily.

ICDOCS

April 20-22, 2007, Iowa City

Now in its fifth year, ICDOCS offers an eclectic range of short documentaries from around the world and brings documentary film/videomakers to Iowa City to serve as judges.

Wild Rose Festival

October 2007, Des Moines - TBA

Iowa Independent Film Festival

April 20-22, 2007, Mason City - Henry Jaglom and Tanna Fredericks will screen Hollywood Dreams.

Keokuk Film Festival

September 6-9, 2007, Keokuk - A new festival this year, with a goal of providing a meaningful forum in which aspiring independent filmmakers can showcase their work and share their visions.

INDEPENDENT FILM & VIDEO LINKS

Filmmaker Magazine
Iowa Digital Filmmakers Guild
Iowa Film Office
Internet Movie DataBase (IMDB)
IMDB's list of film festivals
Bijou Theater (University of Iowa)
Independent Feature Project (IFP)
International Documentary Association (IDA)