The Orlando Film Festival is an annual film festival held in Orlando, Florida, for independent filmmakers to showcase their work.
The festival attracts upwards of 300[1] entries from filmmakers in more than 30[citation needed] countries every year.
The festival culminates in an award ceremony presenting over 40 filmmaking and screenwriting awards, with a combined value of prizes and in-kind services estimated at more than $1 million.
Past celebrity attendees are Marcia Gay Harden (2006),[2] Joe Pantoliano (2007),[3] Olympia Dukakis, Haley Joel Osment and Alison Brie (2010).
[4] The 2015 festival ran from 21 to 25 October and began with the 45-minute documentary about the rise to prominence of the Orlando City Soccer Club.