UNESCO City of Literature

By designating Iowa City as a City of Literature, UNESCO has recognized Iowa City’s deeply elaborated cultural assets and its strong creative and economic foundations. Iowa City shares this distinction with only two other cities - Melbourne and Edinburgh.

IOWA'S FILM FESTIVALS

Cedar Rapids Independent Film Festival

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 eighth year of operation.

ICE Film Festival

Taking place in October, 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 long-running 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.

ICDOCS

Now in its seventh 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. Mary Blackwood and Theresa Seeberger are co-founders of ICDOCS as well as co-founders of Landlocked Film Festival.

Iowa City Environmental Film Fest

A brand-new fest in 2008 to show films that raise awareness about and find solutions to global environmental predicaments.

Wild Rose Festival

Des Moines - A long-running festival in Iowa's capital.

Iowa Independent Film Festival

A Mason City festival featuring the work of independent pioneer Henry Jaglom.

FILM & VIDEO LINKS

Filmmaker Magazine

MovieMaker Magazine

Iowa Film Office

Internet Movie DataBase (IMDB)

IMDB's list of film festivals

IMDB's list of film schools

Bijou Theater (University of Iowa)

Independent Feature Project (IFP)

International Documentary Association (IDA)

Danish Film Institute

Beofilm - Danish distributor

The Animation Workshop

Promofest - Spanish distributor

Iowa Scriptwriters Alliance

Writers Guild of America, West

Iowa Motion Picture Association

Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences

PA Training Seminar LLC

Directors Guild of America

The Digital Video Information Network

Film Editors Guild

IndieWire - independent film news

Millimeter - commercial movie news

PATV - Iowa City's public access channel

City Channel 4 - Iowa City channel




Landlocked Films LLC

This 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!