The Oxford International Film Festival (OIFF) is quickly becoming one of the Midwest's fastest-growing international film events, featuring more than 70 of the best new short and feature-length independent films from around the globe each year, amidst 4-days of screenings, workshops, celebrity guests, concerts, filmmaker panels, parties & receptions, an opening-night premiere event and closing-night awards gala. In 2009, the festival, which was founded in Oxford, Ohio, will move to West Chester, Ohio and convert the Savannah Center (and surrounding venues) into a film-lovers dream destination.

The Oxford International Film Festival is what the Cincinnati Enquirer called "Sundance without snow..." and was predicted by the Journal-News to "...soon be Midwest's largest film festival". With over 530 submissions from 41-countries on 6-continents in it's first year alone, over 200 filmmakers in attendance, and featuring more than 50 local, regional, US and WORLD premiere films each year, the Oxford International Film Festival is already a globally-recognized premiere-event both by audiences, international media and industry-professionals alike.

The Oxford International Film Festival was created by independent film and event Director/Producer JC SCHRODER in the spring of 2006. Realizing that there was no major outlet for filmmakers or audiences in the region, and no major film festival to speak of -- Schroder began building support for what would become the first, largest and only major film festival in the region.

The first annual Oxford International Film Festival took place April 5-8, 2007 at the Marcum Conference Center in Oxford, Ohio, and was an incredible success, garnering public interest and media attention across the globe. As a result, the Miami [valley] Film Association was founded (the name stemming from the Miami-Ohio River, which runs through the region) as a non-profit organization not only to manage the festival, but dedicated to supporting a variety of new year-round community and student film programs in the region.





The Oxford International Film Festival's focus is on what we like to call the "LIVE Experience". We strongly believe that the film festival experience should be set apart from just going to your average theater to watch a movie. Our view is that this is a Festival, and therefore a Live, Interactive environment no matter if you're an audience member, a filmmaker, or an industry professional.

We accomplish this by bringing in as many of the filmmakers as we can manage to interact with audiences after the films, provide multiple special events ranging from panels to workshops, receptions, meals, galas, lounges, concerts, you name it... to allow filmmakers, industry, and audiences to interact directly with each other every chance we get. We allow audiences and industry to not only rate, but actually write reviews about the films they've seen, and let the filmmakers respond to them (and learn from them). There's a reason filmmakers and audiences alike request to come back to Oxford year after year!

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