Santa Fe Independent Film Festival

A Film Festival Different

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The Santa Fe Independent Film Festival returns Wednesday, Oct. 16 through Sunday, Oct. 20 at a number of venues around The City Different including Lensic Performing Arts Center, Center for Contemporary Arts, The Screen and more. Night one kicks off with a 60th anniversary screening of Billy Wilder's Some Like It Hot at 3pm at Jean Cocteau Cinema and caps off with opening night film, Just Mercy at 7pm at Violet Crown. Michael B. Jordan, Jamie Foxx, O'Shea Jackson Jr. and Brie Larson star in this dramatic true story of Harvard grad Bryan Stevenson, who heads to Alabama to defend people who were wrongly condemned because they could not afford legal proper representation. Dozens more thought-provoking features, documentaries and shorts from filmmakers around the world follow. Tickets for the opening night film and party are $30. Learn more at santafeindependentfilmfestival.com

  (Devin D. O'Leary)

Wednesday Oct 16, 2019

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1050 Old Pecos Trail
 Santa Fe, NM 87505
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The 11th Annual Santa Fe Indepdent Film Festival (SFIFF) offers five days of exceptional film programming and exclusive events in downtown Santa Fe. As New Mexico's largest film events, SFIFF anticipates submissions from over 1,500 filmmakers from around the world, from which our team of film-professionals, local artists, and movie-lovers will select the best 100 films.

Our event takes place in 5 local theaters and a playhouse as well as other local restaurants, hotels, and galleries in downtown Santa Fe.

Join us October 16th-20th, 2019 to see this year's best local, national, and international films!

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Cinema Different

By Devin D. O'Leary

The 11th annual Santa Fe Independent Film Festival kicked off this past Wednesday, Oct. 16. The highly respected fest continues through Sunday, Oct. 20 at venues throughout Santa Fe. In addition to all the films, there are educational panels, workshops, filmmaker Q&As and nightly networking events. You can check out Hollywood classics (Some Like It Hot, The 400 Blows, The Wizard of Oz), several short film programs (including the Institute of American Indian Arts Student Shorts) and loads of features. Among the great documentaries at this year’s SFIFF are We Up: Indigenous Hip-Hop of the Circumpolar North (Oct. 18, 3pm at Jean Cocteau Cinema), which traces the rising stars of Arctic indigenous hip-hop, and Mr. Toilet: The World’s #2 Man (Oct. 19, 3pm at The Screen), a look into the life of an eccentric entrepreneur in Singapore who wants to solve the world’s sanitation problem. Features include the French psychodrama Sibyl (Oct. 17, 4:50pm at CCA), the Croatian romance Aleksi (Oct. 18, 9:30am at CCA) and the apocalyptic Native American zombie flick Blood Quantum (Oct. 20, 7:30pm at CCA). Of course that’s just the tip of the iceberg. There are dozens more films to pick through. Many of the filmmakers will be on hand to introduce their works. Among this year’s special honorees are Jane Seymour (there will be a tribute to her career featuring the 1980 romance (Somewhere In Time Oct. 18, 7pm at the Lensic) and Tantoo Cardinal (her 2018 drama Falls Around Her plays Oct. 19, 7pm at the Lensic). For a complete list of films and events, go to santafeindependentfilmfestival.com. Full festival passes are $325. Individual tickets are $14.

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