The Phoenix Film Festival is the premier festival from the Phoenix Film Foundation and the largest film festival within the city of Phoenix (as Jason Carney pointed out after I posted last year's index page; The Harkins Scottsdale 101, as its name suggests, is almost literally a stone's throw from Scottsdale, but it's still in Phoenix). 2014 is its 14th year, which will see more than a hundred films screened between from 3rd to 10th April.
2013 was a stellar year for the Phoenix Film Festival, led by an excellent set of competition features, and it's going to take some real effort to outdo it. Clearly that's exactly what they're aiming to do and some of the selections certainly seem to suggest that, beginning with the opening night movie, Tom Hardy's Locke.
I don't know who the special guests are yet, but there will surely be some. I'm already starting to see filmmakers announce that they'll be there in person, always one of the biggest reasons to go to any festival, especially this one.
Here are all the films scheduled to screen 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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| Competition Feature Films |
| Title | Year | H | D | Director(s) | IMDb |
| 45RPM | 2012 | 5 | 4 | Juli Jackson | IMDb |
| The Frontier | 2014 | | | Oren Shai | IMDb |
| The House That Jack Built | 2013 | 6 | 5 | Henry Barrial | IMDb |
| Jake Squared | 2013 | 6 | 6 | Howard Goldberg | IMDb |
| The Joe Show | 2013 | | | Randy Murray | IMDb |
| King of Herrings | 2013 | 6 | 5 | Eddie Jemison & Sean Richardson | IMDb |
| Life Inside Out | 2013 | | | Jill D'Agnenica | IMDb |
| Little Hope Was Arson | 2013 | | | Theo Love | IMDb |
| Misfire: The Rise and Fall of the Shooting Gallery | 2013 | | | Whitney Ransick | IMDb |
| Teddy Bears | 2013 | 5 | 5 | Thomas Beatty & Rebecca Fishman | IMDb |
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| World Cinema Feature Films |
| Title | Year | H | D | Director(s) | IMDb |
| Another World | 2014 | | | Thomas Torelli | IMDb |
| The Aryans | 2014 | | | Mo Asumang | IMDb |
| Godfather's Story | 2013 | | | Petr Nikolaev | IMDb |
| It's Only Make Believe | 2013 | | | Arild Østin Ommundsen | IMDb |
| Mad Ship | 2012 | | | David Mortin | IMDb |
| Seven Lucky Gods | 2013 | | | Jamil Dehlavi | IMDb |
| When I Saw You | 2012 | | | Annemarie Jacir | IMDb |
| Young Man Afraid | 2012 | | | Christer Fasmer | IMDb |
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| Showcase Feature Films |
| Title | Year | H | D | Director(s) | IMDb |
| Bears | 2014 | | | Alastair Fothergill & Keith Scholey | IMDb |
| Belle | 2013 | | | Amma Asante | IMDb |
| Boyhood | 2014 | 6 | 6 | Richard Linklater | IMDb |
| Broken Leg | 2014 | | | Kieran Thompson | IMDb |
| Clueless | 1995 | 5 | - | Amy Heckerling | IMDb |
| Dom Hemingway | 2013 | 3 | 4 | Richard Shepard | IMDb |
| Every Everything: The Music, Life & Times of Grant Hart | 2013 | | | Gorman Bechard | IMDb |
| For No Good Reason | 2012 | | | Charlie Paul | IMDb |
| Frontera | 2014 | | | Michael Berry | IMDb |
| Gabrielle | 2013 | | | Louise Archambault | IMDb |
| GMO OMG | 2013 | | | Jeremy Seifert | IMDb |
| God's Pocket | 2014 | | | John Slattery | IMDb |
| The Grand Seduction | 2013 | | | Don McKellar | IMDb |
| Joe | 2013 | | | David Gordon Green | IMDb |
| Kidnapped for Christ | 2014 | | | Kate Logan | IMDb |
| Life's a Breeze | 2013 | 5 | 5 | Lance Daly | IMDb |
| Lilting | 2014 | 6 | 5 | Hong Khaou | IMDb |
| Locke | 2013 | | | Steven Knight | IMDb |
| The Longest Game | 2013 | | | Camille Thoman | IMDb |
| Lousy Bastards | 2014 | | | Roman Kasparovsky | IMDb |
| Mutual Friends | 2013 | | | Matthew Watts | IMDb |
| Obvious Child | 2014 | | | Gillian Robespierre | IMDb |
| The Perks of Being a Wallflower | 2012 | | | Stephen Chbosky | IMDb |
| The Pirate Fairy | 2014 | | | Peggy Holmes | IMDb |
| The Trouble with the Truth | 2011 | | | Jim Hemphill | IMDb |
| Trust Me | 2013 | | | Clark Gregg | IMDb |
| Water & Power | 2012 | 5 | - | Richard Montoya | IMDb |
| Words and Pictures | 2013 | | | Fred Schepisi | IMDb |
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| Animated Shorts |
| Title | Year | H | D | Director(s) | IMDb |
| Chasm | 2013 | | | Megan Lloyd | IMDb |
| A Clean Break | 2013 | | | Richard Cunningham III | IMDb |
| Creamen | 2013 | | | Esther Casas | IMDb |
| Curious Cat's Christmas | 2013 | | | Jiyoon Lee | IMDb |
| Estefan | 2012 | | | Jeff Call | IMDb |
| The Grim: Episode One | 2013 | | | Hasani Walker | n/a |
| The Illusion | 2013 | | | Mohammed Reza Hanafi | IMDb |
| The Missing Scarf | 2013 | | | Eoin Duffy | IMDb |
| Sausage | 2013 | | | Robert Grieves | IMDb |
| Snowdysseus | 2013 | | | Evan Curtis | IMDb |
| Woody | 2013 | | | Stuart Bowen | IMDb |
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| College Shorts |
| Title | Year | H | D | Director(s) | IMDb |
| Anniversary | 2013 | | | Janice Duncan | IMDb |
| Clean | 2013 | | | Seo-Young Jun | n/a |
| Dollop | 2012 | 6 | 6 | Greg Porper | IMDb |
| For the Birds | 2013 | | | Tara Atashgah | IMDb |
| Sheltered Love | 2014 | | | Alex Italics | IMDb |
| 'Til Death | 2013 | | | Connor Gaston | IMDb |
| Ultramarine | 2013 | | | Matthew Earl | IMDb |
| We are Enemies | 2014 | | | Ilya Rozhkov | IMDb |
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| Documentary Shorts |
| Title | Year | H | D | Director(s) | IMDb |
| Dancing Outside the Box | 2012 | | | David Block | n/a |
| Eugene | 2013 | | | Jason Stanfield & Jordan Olshansky | IMDb |
| Families are Forever | 2013 | | | Vivian Kleiman | IMDb |
| Flyelyfe NYC | 2013 | | | Jack Stannard | IMDb |
| Three Counties Out: Guns and the Heartland | 2013 | | | Zach Toombs | IMDb |
| White Manor | 2012 | | | Ashkan Soltani | IMDb |
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| High School Shorts |
| Title | Year | H | D | Director(s) | IMDb |
| As Always | 2013 | 5 | - | Rodolfo Lissia | IMDb |
| Black Rock Creek | 2013 | | | Malone Lumarda | IMDb |
| The Brother | 2012 | 5 | - | Michael Stevantoni | IMDb |
| The Farm | 2013 | 4 | - | Malone Lumarda | IMDb |
| Life's a Dive | 2013 | | | John Taschner | IMDb |
| Progress/Run | 2012 | | | Melvin Cheng | n/a |
| The Talk | 2013 | | | Hadley Hillel | IMDb |
| Versus | 2012 | 4 | - | Shannon MacIntyre, Danae Fishman & Hannah Christman | IMDb |
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| Live Action Shorts A |
| Title | Year | H | D | Director(s) | IMDb |
| The Architect | 2013 | | | Doug Dearth | IMDb |
| The Best Friend | 2013 | | | Melissa Sadoff Oren | IMDb |
| Missing Piece | 2013 | | | Jennifer Honn | IMDb |
| Next Life | 2012 | | | Casimir Nozkowski | IMDb |
| The Sidekick | 2013 | | | Michael J Weithorn | IMDb |
| This is Normal | 2013 | | | Justin Giddings & Ryan Welsh | IMDb |
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| Live Action Shorts B |
| Title | Year | H | D | Director(s) | IMDb |
| 113 Degrees | 2013 | | | Sabrina Doyle | IMDb |
| The Heebie-Jeebies | 2013 | | | Todd Slawsby | IMDb |
| The Hero Pose | 2013 | | | Mischa Jakupcak | IMDb |
| Ice | 2013 | | | Anthony Tarsitano | IMDb |
| Seasick Sailor | 2013 | | | Torre Catalano | IMDb |
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| World Cinema Shorts |
| Title | Year | H | D | Director(s) | IMDb |
| The Boy and the Bus | 2013 | | | Simon Pitts | IMDb |
| Mousse | 2012 | | | John Hellberg | IMDb |
| Mr Invisible | 2013 | | | Greg Ash | IMDb |
| Roland | 2013 | | | Trevor Cornish | IMDb |
| The Uncles | 2013 | | | Gerard Monaco | IMDb |
The Phoenix Film Festival is the premier festival from the Phoenix Film Foundation and the largest film festival within the city of Phoenix (as Jason Carney pointed out after I posted last year's index page; The Harkins Scottsdale 101, as its name suggests, is almost literally a stone's throw from Scottsdale, but it's still in Phoenix). 2014 is its 14th year, which will see more than a hundred films screened between from 3rd to 10th April.
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