It's finally time for the Fentress Film Fest 2021! 

We are SO excited to get this festival started!! We are looking forward to recognizing hardworking filmmakers from all over the world who are creating art to change the world! The festival will be all this week, from January 4th-9th, 2021 and will be 100% virtual due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Since the festival will be virtual, we will be hosting online events all week long so that the selected filmmakers can get to know each other, and so that the online community can engage with each filmmaker's work before the actual awards ceremony!

If you want to watch the films or vote for the People's Choice Award, please go to: https://vimeo.com/ondemand/fentressfilmfest Voting for the PCA will close on Friday (01/08) at 11:59pmEST, so make sure to cast your votes soon!! 

Our nomination ceremony will be on Friday (01/08) at 7:00pmEST, and then the awards ceremony will be on Saturday (01/09) at 5:00pmEST. If you're interest in finding out the winners of the festival, stay tuned for those videos, which will go live on our site at: https://www.fentressfilms.com/fentress-film-fest.html#/

​Thanks so much for supporting the festival!

Calling all filmmakers!!

Today, 12/11/2020 is the final deadline to submit your films to the Fentress Film Fest! 

We only accept submissions via FilmFreeway (link to submit is below):

If you plan to submit or have already submitted to the fest, please stay tuned as our panel of judges score your film. We will be announcing our official selections on 12/21/2020. 

We are looking forward to showcasing amazing films by artists all over the world! We hope you attend our virtual festival from 01/04/21-01/09/21! More info to come.

Announcing the Fentress Fall Readings, a night of staged readings of new works written by women! Join us on Friday, November 20th at 7pm(ET) for this special one night event!

The works to be performed include: Learning Unconditionality (written by: Heidi Eikenhorst & Samantha Bozin), Stuck in Nowheresville (written by: Heidi Eikenhorst & Samantha Bozin), The Alpha Complex (written by: Samantha Bozin), and Rufus Always Wins (written by: Samantha Bozin). Disclaimer: Only a selection of scenes from each play/film will be performed, but we hope to produce full-fledged productions of each piece of work in the future. 

Due to COVID-19, all performances will be virtual and we will be streaming on Youtube and Instagram at 7pm(ET). Please check back here, on our Instagram, or on our Facebook for the link to watch!

We hope to see you there (virtually of course).

Stay safe,
Fentress Films Team

Check out the official poster to our new film, Dangerous Discourse!!!

The film was written by Miles Thompson and Samantha Bozin, directed by Samantha Bozin, and stars Aidan Martinez (known for Roadtrip-2020 and Silent Bark- preproduction), Candace Michelle (known for Bubblegum Girls-2017 and Gentrified-2019), and Matt Tierney (known for Hair- 2020 and Interabled-preproduction), with music by Brion Bowman.

Since the US is at a crossroads with the upcoming election, we thought it would be the perfect time to create a film that talks about politics, and moreso, how young people in America deal with political discussions. Talking about politics is oftentimes very stressful and can cause rifts in relationships when people disagree. Learning how to have these intense political conversations is a right of passage in any young person's life. So... our film, Dangerous Discourse, explores exactly that! 

The film is about a group of friends in their 20's that are trying to navigate how to have political discussions without blowing up at the people they love when they disagree, as well as the value of learning to say "I was wrong".  

Not only is Dangerous Discourse incredibly relevant in regards to storyline, but it's also  very unique because it was entirely rehearsed and filmed over Zoom!!! Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we wanted to create a film as safely as possible and we also wanted to give actors from all across the country the opportunity to create meaningful art during this uncertain and scary time. So, with over 900 submissions and 150 auditions for the film, we ended up hiring three actors and five crew members from all across the US!

We are so incredibly excited to share our film with you, but for now, you can check out our official poster (above) and be on the lookout for the trailer, which will be dropping on Friday 09/25/20!!!