360 365 Film Festival
The High Falls Film Festival is an annual film festival held each spring in Rochester, New York. Founded in 2001, the festival's mission is to focus on quality independent films from around the world. The current festival focus is on the work of women in all areas of film, video and new media, highlighting Rochester’s standing as the home of motion picture film (George Eastman) and the women's rights movement (Susan B. Anthony). The festival has also presented a summer film camp for teens and a teen film festival.
Past editions of the festival have each included some 90 features, documentaries, shorts, children's and young adult programs, student filmmaking competitions, panel discussions, master classes, and informal "Coffee With" events featuring visiting filmmakers and stars. The festival is a lively mix of emerging and well-established talent, with past guests that include actresses Christine Lahti, Angela Bassett, Jane Alexander, Candice Bergen, Joan Allen, Famke Janssen, CCH Pounder, and Sally Kellerman, voice-over actress Nancy "Bart Simpson" Cartwright, producer Lauren Shuler Donner, editor Thelma Schoonmaker, and director Vicky Jenson. Other guests include actors Philip Seymour Hoffman and Bill Pullman, and director James Ivory.
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