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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!
AUDIENCES: To
Learn More CLICK HERE
FILMMAKERS: To Learn More
CLICK HERE
INDUSTRY: To Learn More CLICK
HERE
SPONORS: To Learn More CLICK
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