USA Film Festival

NAME OF FESTIVAL: USA Film Festival

SINCE: 1971

WHERE: Dallas, Texas USA

ABOUT THE FESTIVAL

USA Film Festival is a curated event featuring only the best new features & shorts; U.S. and foreign films; Tributes to master artists; International Short Film & Video Competition with awards administered by national jury. Filmmakers present their works and discuss them with the audience.

Since its inception in 1971, the USA Film Festival has presented the world, national or regional premieres of thousands of studio and independent feature films and short experimental, animated, documentary and dramatic films.

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Winners Announced for the USA Film Festival’s 36th Annual National Short Film Competition

Winners Announced for the USA Film Festival’s 36th Annual National Short Film Competition

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The USA Film Festival announced the winners of the 36th Annual National Short Film & Video Competition. The awards program took place on Closing Night of the 44th Annual USA Film Festival in Dallas.  One Armed Man, directed byTim Guinee, won the First Place award for Fiction; Confusion Through Sand directed by Danny Madden won the First Place award for Animation and Not Anymore: A Story of Revolution directed by Matthew VanDyke won the First Place award for Non-Fiction.

VIDEO | Documentary “Rise Up, West” Added to Lineup for USA Film Festival

VIDEO | Documentary “Rise Up, West” Added to Lineup for USA Film Festival

 Rise Up, West

The documentary Rise Up, West has been added to the lineup for the 44th Annual USA Film Festival, taking place April 22 to 27, 2014 in Dallas, Texas.  After a fertilizer plant explosion killed 15 people in the town of West, TX the high school football team helped lead the town’s recovery. 

David Woodard, a West native, took the job as West High School coach just months before the blast.  He knew he’d spend the next ten games rebuilding a losing football program.  He did not know, within months, he’d be rebuilding his own hometown and his own home, destroyed by the explosion.  But he was the right man for the job with a focus and dedication that gave his players something and someone to believe during the darkest times of their lives.

“Native Boy,” “Nine to Ninety,” “Strange Fruit” Win Short Film & Video Competition at 2013 USA Film Festival in Dallas

“Native Boy,” “Nine to Ninety,” “Strange Fruit” Win Short Film & Video Competition at 2013 USA Film Festival in Dallas

The USA Film Festival announced the Winners of the 35th Annual National Short Film & Video Competition of the 43rd Annual USA Film Festival in Dallas. The festival ran April 24-28, 2013 at the Angelika Film Center in Dallas, Texas.  Native Boy, directed by Henry Roosevelt (pictured above, Read More … for trailer) about “A story about a boy on a quest to capture the sun” was awarded the First Place prize for Fiction. Nine to Ninety directed by Alicia Dwyer, which ” explores delicate moments of aging through the intimate perspectives of three generations of an Italian American family” was awarded the First Place prize for Non-Fiction. Strange Fruit, directed by Neal Sopata “is a short animated film that contrasts pastoral scenes of the Old South with the racial violence that occurred during the Jim Crow era in the United States” was awarded the First Place prize for Animation.

Chosen from more than 500 U.S. entries, the winners included:

USA Film Festival Announces 2011 Schedule

USA Film Festival Announces 2011 Schedule

The USA Film Festival announces the full schedule of events for the 41st Annual USA Film Festival, April 27 – May 1, 2011 at the Angelika Film Center Dallas, Texas. The festival opens with Alfred Hitchcock’s To Catch a Thief on its 55th anniversary. The lineup includes debut features by women writer/directors Massy Tadjedin (Last Night), Kathy Lindboe (NoNames), Caroline Bottaro (Queen to Play); debut films from writer/directors Nick Tomnay (The Perfect Host) and Sam Jaeger […]