Ogeechee International History Film Festival

The Ogeechee International History Film Festival (OIHFF) is going into its sixth year as the world’s longest-running, open-submission international history film festival. The OIHFF, based in Statesboro, Georgia, is devoted to screening and promoting quality historical documentary films from professional, student, and amateur filmmakers from around the globe. It had its inaugural year in 2017 and is a collaboration project between the Georgia Southern University History Department and the Statesboro Convention and Visitors Bureau (SCVB). Having an open-submission, international festival, allows it to be an outlet for filmmakers across a wide spectrum of experience, from seasoned professionals to people who are just starting out in film. The 2022 festival season will be a hybrid festival, incorporating online and in-person events. Only the award winners and other special selections will be screened in person. All official selections will be screened on our online festival platform, ogeechee.sparqfest.live. It is our tradition to screen the the previous year's winning feature film the week before the festival to kick off the new season. We then screen one premier film on the opening night and then begin the jury-screening of the professional film submissions the following day. The last day consists of the competition for student films.