The Phoenix Film Festival is the premier festival from the Phoenix Film Foundation and the largest film festival within the city of Phoenix. This was its 13th year, which saw more than a hundred films screened at the Harkins Scottsdale 101 from 4th to 11th April.
While I've religiously followed its sister event, the
International Horror & Sci-Fi Film Festival, since 2007, I've never been able to see much of the Phoenix Film Festival proper. I have seen enough to realise that this year's competition features were incredibly strong. That was obvious to me and it was backed up by the comments of other festival goers. The judges did not have an easy time of it this year.
While it always surprises me that the prominence of special guests seems to be lower than other large film festivals in Arizona, the Phoenix Film Festival has such a focus on indepedent film that almost every screening was accompanied by a Q&A from at least one of the filmmakers, often many of them. I should emphasise that this isn't just for local Arizona film, which is especially well represented, but for films from much further afield too, including many from outside the US. This year's special guests were D B Sweeney, Melora Walters and Natalie Imbruglia.
Here are all the films that screened this year, with titles linking to my reviews and the IMDb pages added for reference. Films screened as part of the International Horror & Sci-Fi Film Festival are covered
on a separate page.
Rating System
1 -
Abysmal | 2 -
Bad | 3 -
Poor | 4 -
OK | 5 -
Good | 6 -
Excellent | 7 -
Classic
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| World Cinema Feature Films |
| Title | Year | H | D | Director(s) | IMDb |
| Inch'Allah | 2012 | | | Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette | IMDb |
| In the Shadow | 2012 | | | David Ondricek | IMDb |
| Love in the Grave | 2012 | | | David Vondrácek | IMDb |
| Loveless Zoritsa | 2012 | 5 | 6 | Radoslav Pavkovic & Christina Hadjicharalambous | IMDb |
| Ninah's Dowry | 2012 | 6 | 6 | Victor Viyuoh | IMDb |
| Occupy: The Movie | 2013 | | | Corey Ogilvie | IMDb |
| Sanctuary | 2012 | | | Norah McGettigan | IMDb |
| Years Later | 2011 | | | Laura Gárdos Velo | IMDb |
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| Showcase Feature Films |
| .357: Six Bullets for Revenge | 2013 | | | Brian Skiba | IMDb |
| Babe | 1995 | | | Chris Noonan | IMDb |
| Da Vinci's Demons | 2013 | | | David S Goyer | IMDb |
| Eating Alabama | 2012 | | | Andrew Beck Grace | IMDb |
| Fight Like a Girl | 2013 | | | Jill Morley | IMDb |
| He's Way More Famous Than You | 2013 | 4 | 4 | Michael Urie | IMDb |
| It's a Disaster | 2012 | 6 | 6 | Todd Berger | IMDb |
| Kon-Tiki | 2012 | 6 | 6 | Joachim Rønning & Espen Sandberg | IMDb |
| Misa's Fugue | 2012 | | | Sean D Gaston | IMDb |
| Pit Stop | 2013 | | | Yen Tan | IMDb |
| Renoir | 2012 | | | Gilles Bourdos | IMDb |
| Still Mine | 2012 | 6 | 6 | Michael McGowan | IMDb |
| Stuck in Love | 2012 | 5 | 5 | Josh Boone | IMDb |
| The Brass Teapot | 2012 | 4 | 5 | Ramaa Mosley | IMDb |
| The East | 2013 | 5 | 5 | Zal Batmanglij | IMDb |
| The Kings of Summer | 2013 | | | Jordan Vogt-Roberts | IMDb |
| The Spectacular Now | 2013 | | | James Ponsoldt | IMDb |
| Underdogs | 2013 | | | Doug Dearth | IMDb |
| Unfinished Song | 2012 | 6 | 7 | Paul Andrew Williams | IMDb |
| Wish You Were Here | 2012 | 5 | 5 | Kieran Darcy-Smith | IMDb |
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| Animated Shorts |
| Buy Buy Baby | 2012 | | | Gervais Merryweather | IMDb |
| Fortuity Mist | 2012 | | | David Rogers | IMDb |
| Head Over Heels | 2012 | 5 | 5 | Timothy Reckart | IMDb |
| Here to Fall | 2012 | | | Kris Kelly | IMDb |
| Make a Wish | 2012 | | | Hee Jin Kim | IMDb |
| The Nebbish | 2012 | | | Barbara Mones | IMDb |
| Pound for Pound | 2012 | | | Justin Pixler | IMDb |
| Revenge of the Fly | 2012 | | | Tony White | IMDb |
| Shelved | 2012 | | | James Cunningham | IMDb |
| Stuper Powers: Rise of the Chipmunk King | | | | Greg Bro | n/a |
| SuperFuzz | 2013 | 6 | 6 | David Towles-Moore | IMDb |
| Worlds Apart | 2011 | | | Michael Zachary Huber | IMDb |
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| College Shorts |
| Brother | 2012 | | | Christopher Rickard | IMDb |
| God's Country | 2012 | | | Josh Mendoza | IMDb |
| The Hard Day Knights | 2012 | | | Alex Italics | IMDb |
| If You're Serious | 2012 | 5 | 5 | Zhi Li | IMDb |
| Passion and Acceptance | 2012 | | | Wayne Thomas | IMDb |
| Peace at Home | 2012 | | | Avital Epstein | IMDb |
| Tlaloc | 2012 | | | Sabrina Doyle | IMDb |
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| Documentary Shorts |
| Title | Year | H | D | Director(s) | IMDb |
| Bad Blood | 2012 | | | Shane Gabler & J B Schiess | IMDb |
| The Garden Pool | 2012 | | | Angus Cann | IMDb |
| Ivan and Arnold: Day Laborers from Both Sides of the Border | 2011 | | | Michael McPherson | IMDb |
| Kurdish: Searching for Newroz | 2012 | | | Raied Khayoun | n/a |
| LA Aboriginal | 2012 | | | Bayou Bennett & Daniel Lir | IMDb |
| Peggy's Story | 2012 | | | David Lindblom | IMDb |
| Pulling Teeth | 2012 | | | Steve Abruzzese & Jennifer Suwak | IMDb |
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| High School Shorts |
| Title | Year | H | D | Director(s) | IMDb |
| Abracadabra! | 2012 | | | Catriona Warren | IMDb |
| Alone Together | 2012 | | | Ben Kadie | IMDb |
| Look Up | 2012 | | | Jake Oleson & Amanda Prager | IMDb |
| Memories | 2012 | | | Joseph Procopio | IMDb |
| No Regrets | 2012 | | | Alfie Barker | IMDb |
| The Painted Girl | 2012 | | | Ben Kadie | IMDb |
| Piece of Cake | 2012 | | | Susan & Katherine Procopio | IMDb |
| Rain Dog | 2012 | 6 | 6 | Jordan Wippell | IMDb |
| Recipe for Love | 2012 | 5 | 5 | Gwyneth Christoffel | IMDb |
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| Live Action Shorts A |
| Title | Year | H | D | Director(s) | IMDb |
| 6 Years, 4 Months & 23 Days | 2012 | 6 | 6 | Gerard Roxburgh | IMDb |
| Amelia | 2012 | | | Frank Lucatuorto | IMDb |
| Elegy for a Revolutionary | 2012 | 5 | 5 | Paul Van Zyl | IMDb |
| Lure | 2012 | | | Warren Skeels | IMDb |
| New Broken Calculator | 2010 | | | Brandon Luck McDuffey | IMDb |
| The Test | 2012 | | | Anthony DiBlasi | IMDb |
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| Live Action Shorts B |
| Title | Year | H | D | Director(s) | IMDb |
| Counterfeiters | 2011 | | | Bryce Hirschberg | IMDb |
| The Farmer's Wife | 2012 | | | Francis Lee | IMDb |
| Harry Grows Up | 2012 | | | Mark Nickelsburg | IMDb |
| Heads Up | 2012 | | | Alex Merkin | IMDb |
| Life on the River | 2011 | | | Chris Remerowski | IMDb |
| Menschen | 2012 | 5 | 5 | Sarah Lotfi | IMDb |
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| Prime Shorts |
| Title | Year | H | D | Director(s) | IMDb |
| Alone Time | 2013 | 5 | 5 | Rod Blackhurst | IMDb |
| Docket 32357 | 2012 | 6 | 6 | Randy Wilkins | IMDb |
| Girl Clown | 2012 | 5 | 5 | Beth Spitalny | IMDb |
| HowardCantour.com | 2012 | 4 | 4 | Shia LaBeouf | IMDb |
| Loveseat | 2013 | 6 | 6 | Matthew Richmond | IMDb |
| Patti and Me, Minus Patti | 2012 | 4 | 5 | Brian McAllister | IMDb |
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| World Cinema Shorts |
| Title | Year | H | D | Director(s) | IMDb |
| Bound by Heart | 2012 | | | Outi Hartikainen | IMDb |
| Counting Happiness | 2012 | | | Venetia Evripiotou | IMDb |
| The Future | 2011 | | | Venetia Taylor | IMDb |
| Half Good Killer | 2012 | | | Brent Ryan Green | IMDb |
| Hush | 2012 | | | Georgia Oakley | IMDb |
| Jacob's Arrow | 2012 | | | Marta Borowski | IMDb |
The Phoenix Film Festival is the premier festival from the Phoenix Film Foundation and the largest film festival within the city of Phoenix. This was its 13th year, which saw more than a hundred films screened at the Harkins Scottsdale 101 from 4th to 11th April.
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