Film Festival of Columbus

09/15/2019

The 2019 Film Festival of Columbus awards have been announced!

Here are the winners:

Best Short Film - ON AIR - director Bastiaan Rook

Best Ohio Short Film - STAIRWELL STORIES - director Jack Campise

Best Ohio Feature - TEST CITY, USA - director Kyle Skinner

Best Documentary Feature, presented by Tito's Handmade Vodka - HEADS UP: WILL WE STOP MAKING CENTS - director Zack Edick, Jamie Kovach

Audience Award Feature: MEMORY: THE ORIGINS OF ALIEN - director Alexandre O. Phillippe

Grand Prize Feature - BLISS - director Joe Begos

Congratulations to all the winners and all the film that were selected for our 2019 program!

09/14/2019

It’s the final day of the festival and we have so many great movies today!

Here is today’s schedule:
10:00am - ONE w/filmmakers in attendance
12:00pm - NY Dog Film Festival 2019
1:00pm - FFOCOL Family Block w/teen screenplay winners
2:30pm - A CHANCE OF SNOW
3:00pm - FFOCOL Ohio Shorts 2019 Block A
4:15pm - FFOCOL Ohio Documentary Shorts
5:00pm - FFOCOL Ohio Shorts 2019 Block B
7:00pm - FFOCOL 2019 Awards
7:30pm - MOPE w/director Lucas Heyne in attendance
8:00pm - SPEED OF LIFE
9:15pm - THE DEATH OF DICK LONG

09/13/2019

Day three of the festival is happening now! Still to come today:

3:00pm - HEADS UP: WILL WE STOP MAKING CENTS? with director Zach Edick in attendance!
8:00pm - MAJOR ARCANA w/short film RITE
9:00pm - ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK (1981) 4k restoration!

09/12/2019

Friday the 13th and a full moon this week?

Come celebrate at the Film Festival of Columbus as we present ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK (1981) 4k restoration at 9:00pm at Gateway Film Center.

Seems like a great fit to us.

09/12/2019

After last night's great opening selections our day 2 features an amazing group of documentary films and international short films as well as the episodic premiere of 5A and 5B!

All screenings today at Gateway Film Center.

Here is the full schedule for today:

12:00pm - THE FAN CONNECTION - World Premiere!
1:00pm - VITAMANIA: THE SENSE AND NONSENSE OF VITAMINS
2:00pm - MY DADS, MY MOMS, AND ME
3:00pm - FFOCOL International Shorts (in competition)
4:00pm - THE INTERPRETERS
5:00pm - LIKE HARVEY, LIKE SON
6:00pm - TEST CITY, USA
7:00 pm - Episodic premiere: 5A, 5B THE SERIES
8:00pm - MURDER IN THE FRONT ROW: THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA THRASH METAL STORY
9:00pm - PICK IT UP! SKA IN THE 90'S

09/10/2019

Join us for opening night festivities and screenings tomorrow night at 6:00pm at Gateway Film Center!

Here are the opening night selections and showtimes:

6:00pm MEMORY: ORIGINS OF ALIEN
7:00pm BLISS
8:00pm BEFORE YOU KNOW IT
9:00pm HARPOON

Tickets and festival passes here: gatewayfilmcenter.org

Movie trailer for BLISS below.

SUBSCRIBE: http://bit.ly/DARKSKY_YT Directed by Joe Begos Starring Dora Madison, Tru Collins, Jeremy Gardner, George Wendt, and Rhys Wakefield A brilliant pa...

09/07/2019

GQ listed the 10 best horror films of 2019 — and one of them is part of our opening selections, director Rob Grant’s, HARPOON. The movie screens Wednesday, September 11 at 9:00pm.

This horror/comedy includes rivalries, dark secrets, and sexual tensions when three best friends find themselves stranded on a yacht in the middle of the ocean under suspicious circumstances.

Tickets on sale at gatewayfilmcenter.org.

How many of these ten films have you seen?

09/05/2019

09/04/2019

Great article about "Before You Know It" which is screening opening night this year, Wednesday, Sept 11.

https://www.indiewire.com/2019/01/before-you-know-it-review-hannah-pearl-utt-sundance-1202039775/

Get tickets here: https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/purchase/13754?siteToken=kss9amz4k7zc5wx9fmrfq8xw7w

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The multi-hyphenate and her partner Jen Tullock craft the kind of indie offering that doesn't always work anymore, but this strange family comedy is an amusing exception.

09/03/2019

Still looking for a few volunteers for this years' festival. Super easy gig, and you get to see all the films for FREE! Email [email protected] for more info. Feel free to spread the word!

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08/28/2019

Have you had a chance to check out the opening line-up for this year's Film Festival of Columbus. It's a DOOZIE!

Films include Bliss, that's right! See it right here in Columbus before it's released!

Tickets here (it will sell out): https://gatewayfilmcenter.org/featured_film_series/film-festival-of-columbus/

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OI8fjr4Va7Q

http://www.filmfestivalofcbus.com/wednesday

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On the eve of Alien’s 40th Anniversary, Memory (the title of the script’s first draft) unearths the largely untold origin story behind Ridley Scott’s cinematic masterpiece: its roots in Greek and Egyptian mythology, underground comics, parasitology, H.P. Lovecraft, the art of Francis Bacon, an...

08/26/2019

We are still in need of a few volunteers for this year. If you're interested you can email Louisa at [email protected] for more information. It's easy, fun, and you'll get a t-shirt and a pass to see any (or all) of the films this year.