Virtual Cinema Festival

We’re excited to present a COVID TIMES virtual festival. A film community built and designed to showcase outstanding short films made on Covid Times budgets and inspired by the rugged film landscape felt by the pandemic. Virtual Cinema Festival is a film community created by filmmakers for filmmakers. In honor of the “movie going experience” the spring 2021 program kicks-off with a slate of films, director interviews and a future of cinema talkbacks from Central Cinema, a Seattle art house movie theater. We celebrate groundbreaking and innovative storytellers who are creating within their own powers during this disruptive era. The pandemic has stripped life down to it’s bare essentials and some Guerrilla filmmakers are seeing the crisis as opportunity and are not waiting idly for the cavalry to come and fund their next project. Instead, they are tenaciously taking it to the streets, inventing new ways to develop stories, grabbing their cameras, and building movies by any means necessary. Virtual Cinema Festival (VCF) is a seasonal roadshow festival that streams its program and conducts workshops and talkbacks from independently-owned movie palaces from all around the country. We will continue working to bring the disenfranchised film world together by connecting the film community in a new way that builds a strong future for the industry by creating spaces for dialogue and collaboration. Virtual Cinema Festival will support and develop new and upcoming talent by showcasing short films and TV pilots that have pulled off the magic trick of not only telling a great story, but of work produced on a minimal budget. In addition to short films and TV pilots, VCF seeks to showcase independently produced transmedia projects. A single story or story experience told across multiple platforms and formats using current digital technologies, allowing for even more flexibility and innovation than any other Cinema festival can offer. Covid has stripped us down to the essentials. Now, more than ever, is our moment to showcase how collaboration and agility can set us up for a better future for film in a post pandemic world.