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A scene from 2019's Audience Award winner "Links of Life", one of several films to premiere at the Red Rock Film Festival.

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17th Annual Festival use the links below.

Festival: October 10-15, 2023
Cedar City, Utah



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The backdrop of Southern Utah with stellar selections and judges will still be the same.

It's all about the premieres
In 2019, the Red Rock Film Festival presented the US Premiere of "Links of Life", Americas Premiere of "Who Made You?" and "In Your Eyes", North American Premiere of "Galore", International Premiere of "Village of the Missing", Western States Premiere of "Sheep Hero". Last year the festival had the US Premiere of "Lovely Jackson" plus several other films so new, we added them to the Internet Movie Database ourselves.

This will include streaming live Q&As and panels directly to our audience, an instant gateway to the Festival, filmmakers and special guests.

Special Advanced Passes are available in at the following locations:
Online at Eventive
• Phone: (435) 705•5555

• Frontier Homestead
635 N. Main, Cedar City, UT 84720

The Red Rock Film Festival and Market  is an international gathering for cinematic art in Festival City, USA (Cedar City, Utah,) and St. George, Utah. It is retreat for independent premieres, films, and panels that both enlighten the senses and empower the mind. All genres are considered and a wide diversity are selected.

Second Section of the Red Rock Film Festival coming this Winter, featuring the Winners Showcase.

Summer Film Series from M.A.R.S.
featuring award-winning features and shorts from the festival circuit plus other surprises.


Save the Cedar Theatre Experience
Help us save the Cedar Theatre Experience. We are raising funds to save chairs, screen and bring back the Cedar Theatre either in the old theater B or a new location. Donations have already started! Donate now or Adopt a Chair. Get your name on a plate on the back of a chair from the Cedar Theatre for five years. $400: Chair in Row 1, $300: Chair in Row 2, $200: Chair in Row 3, $100 Chair is Row 4 or above.

 

17th Annual Red Rock Film Festival
Festival: October 10-15, 2023
Frontier Homestead, Cedar City, Utah
Cedar City Visitor's Center, Cedar City, Utah

Utah Film Market
Market:
October 10-14, 2023
Frontier Homestead, Cedar City, Utah



Red Rock Film Festival is an international gathering for cinematic art in Festival City, USA (Cedar City, Utah.) It is the perfect backdrop to the 14th Annual Festival and the backdrop for independent premieres, films, and panels that both enlighten the senses and empower the mind. All genres are considered and a wide diversity are selected.



It was an honor to have so many great judges on the 2019 Grand Jury:

Documentary Feature/Featurette:
Olya Schechter - 2019 - DF
Wayne Ewing - 2019 - DF
Diogo Varela Silva - 2019 -DF

Fiction Feature/Featurette:
Lisa Giles - 2019 - FF
Sarah Knight - 2019 - FF
Ed Ehrenberg - 2019 - FF

Fiction Short/Collegiate Fiction Short:
Scott Ballard - 2019 - FS - CFS
Jeroen Bogaert - 2019 - FS - CFS
Dekel Berenson - 2019 - FS - CFS

Experimental Short/Short-Short/ Animation Short/Music Video/Grand Jury:
Yulia Ruditskaya - 2019 - AS - MV - ES - SS
Aidan McAteer - 2019 - AS - MV - ES - SS
Steven Seibold - 2019 - AS - MV - ES - SS

Documentary Short Grand Jury:
Rebekah Fergusson - 2019 - DS
Iza Pajak - 2019 - Utah - DS
Francesco Capuano - 2019 - Utah - DS

Utah Filmmaker Grand Jury:
Iza Pajak - 2019 - Utah - DS
Francesco Capuano - 2019 - Utah - DS
Olya Schechter - 2019 - Utah

Young Filmmaker Grand Jury:
Morgana McKenzie - 2019 YF
Tracey Adlai - 2019 YF
Cindy Mich - 2019 YF

2019 Selections
41 countries submitted films to 2019's festival, and over 60 films and events were scheduled for the 13th Annual Red Rock Film Festival. To read more about the films see the schedule at the top.
The Festival began as a film series in 2004 and became the Red Rock Film Festival in 2007 showing independent films and premieres, some have even moved on to be  nominated for an Academy Award.
The Red Rock Film Festival is an opportunity to see films before they go to the theaters and meet filmmakers, participate in Q&As and vote for your favorite films!

13th Annual Red Rock Film Festival

2019 GRAND JURY PRIZE

Best Documentary Feature
"Przypadek Johanny Langefeld" ("The Case of Johanna Langefeld") directed by Władysław Jurków, Gerburg Rohde-Dahl (Poland)

Best Fiction Feature
"Feral" directed by Andrew Wonder (USA)

Best Documentary Featurette
"Village of the Missing" directed by Michael Del Monte (Canada)

Best Fiction Featurette
"Mani Rosse” ("Red Hands”) directed by Francesco Filippi (Italy)

Best Fiction Short
"Une Bombe au Coeur" ("Heart Bomb") directed by Rémi St-Michel (Canada)

Best Animation Short
"Mani Rosse” ("Red Hands”) directed by Francesco Filippi (Italy)

Best Documentary Short
"Still Plays With Trains" directed by Ross Kauffman (USA)

Best Experimental Short
"Sanguine" directed by Cade Langsdon (Utah, USA)

Best Music Video
"Italy & (This is) Water" directed by Ioan Gavriel, Anja Franziska Plaschg (Austria)

Best Short-Short
"Yarrow: The Virtues of Monochrome" directed by Abraham Joffe ACS, Dom West (Australia)

Best Collegiate Fiction Short
"Mi Smo Videli Leto" ("Dog Days of Summer") directed by Nikola Stojanovic (Serbia)

Best Young Filmmaker Short
"Horizon" directed by Lance Pospiech, Jason Baker (USA)

Best Utah Filmmaker Film
"Ashes to Ashes" directed by Taylor Rees, Renan Ozturk

Best Acting in a Fiction Short:

Alexis Lefebvre in "Une Bombe au Coeur" ("Heart Bomb") — Nominee (Canada)

Jelena Tjapkin in "Mi Smo Videli Leto" ("Dog Days of Summer") — Winner (Serbia)

Best Cinematography in a Documentary Short:

Abraham Joffe ACS, Dom West for "Yarrow: The Virtues of Monochrome" — Winner  (Australia)

Henry Roosevelt and Ross Kauffman for "Still Plays with Trains" — Nominee (USA)


AGLET AWARDS

Fiction Feature Production
"Feral" directed by Andrew Wonder (USA)

Documentary Feature Production
"Galore" directed by Dylan Tonk, Lazlo Tonk (Netherlands)

Animation Short Production
"Come and See" directed by Enrico Lambiase (UK)

Documentary Short Production
"I Can. I Do." directed by Matt Rath (USA)

Experimental Short Production
"Sanguine" directed by Cade Langsdon (Utah, USA)

Fiction Short Production
"Mi Smo Videli Leto" ("Dog Days of Summer") directed by Nikola Stojanovic (Serbia)

Music Video Production
"Jungle Urbaine" ("Urban Jungle") directed by Kévin Payet, Charlotte Poncin (France)

Short-Short Production
"Come and See" directed by Enrico Lambiase (UK)

No featurettes qualified for Aglets for 2019


SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS

Acting in a Fiction Feature
Annapurna Sriram in "Feral" (USA)

Directing of a Documentary Feature
"Przypadek Johanny Langefeld" ("The Case of Johanna Langefeld") directed by Władysław Jurków, Gerburg Rohde-Dahl (Poland)

Cinematography in a Documentary Feature
Päivi Kettunen for "The Other Side of Mars" (Finland)

Editing in a Music Video
Ioan Gavriel, Anja Franziska Plaschg for "Italy & (This is) Water" (Austria)
and
Kévin Payet for "Jungle Urbaine" ("Urban Jungle") (France)

Editing in a Documentary Short
Hypatia Porter and Mark Becker for "Still Plays with Trains" (USA)

Music Soundtrack in a Documentary Short
for "Still Plays with Trains" (USA)

Production Design in a Fiction Short
Liz Cairns, Sophie Jarvis  for "The Seahorse Trainer" (Canada)

Visual Effects in a Fiction Short
"The Seahorse Trainer" (Canada)

SPIRIT OF THE FESTIVAL

Nik Sheehan, Albert Nerenberg, and Chris Fassbender of "Who Farted?" (Canada)

AUDIENCE AWARDS

Fiction Feature
"Links of Life" directed by Marie-Hélène Roux (France)

Documentary Feature
"Blenio, Utah" directed by Patrick Botticchio, Alberto Bernad (Switzerland)

Documentary Featurette
"Blenio, Utah" directed by Patrick Botticchio, Alberto Bernad (Switzerland)

Fiction Featurette
"Terrolun and Lunlun" directed by Hiroyuki Miyagawa (Japan)

Animation Short
"The Most Magnificent Thing" directed by Arna Selznick (Canada)

Documentary Short
"Still Plays with Trains" directed by Ross Kauffman (USA)

Fiction Short
"America" directed by George ve Gänæaard, Horia Cucută (USA)
(2 min. Short-Short qualifies as a Short as well)

Experimental Short
"Sanguine" directed by Cade Langsdon (USA)

Music Video
Jungle Urbaine" ("Urban Jungle") directed by Kévin Payet, Charlotte Poncin (France)

Short-Short
"Yarrow: The Virtues of Monochrome" directed by Abraham Joffe ACS, Dom West (Australia)
 
Collegiate Fiction Short
"Treasure" directed by Lucas Sachs (New Zealand, USA)
 
Young Filmmaker Short
"Margot" directed by Logan Polish (USA)

Utah Filmmaker Film
"Common Ground: The Story of Bears Ears" directed by Paige Sparks


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