The Flyway Film Festival is an annual independent film festival along the shores of Lake Pepin in Wisconsin and Minnesota, United States, held in October.
In 2017, Rick Vaicius, Flyway's longtime executive director, departed the organization.
In 2019, Flyway celebrates its twelfth year with Diana Masters-Penegor (formerly Vaicius) as executive director.
[3] The festival hoped to raise $10,000 to cover the travel expenses of 120 film-makers and film experts.
[1] The 2009 Flyway Film Festival debuted the International Zombie Summit, a genre-specific event of classic and cutting-edge independent zombie films, including Dead Snow, Colin, and Redneck Zombies, while standard programming in 2009 included the Dutch drama The Storm, which was much praised at the Berlin International Film Festival; and Francesco Quinn in the short The Gnostic.