Phoenix Film Festival

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Phoenix Film Festival is a festival that celebrates feature films, documentaries, short films^[1] and their creators. Started in 2001, the annual celebration takes place in the city of Phoenix, Arizona. The Festival is run under the umbrella of the 501(c)3 non-profit Phoenix Film Foundation. The Phoenix Film Festival is the largest attended festival in Arizona^{[citation needed]}. Since 2014 it has been held in the Harkins Scottsdale 101 Theatre.^[2]

The in 2024 the festival hosted 290 screenings,^[3] parties, and workshops over eleven days and has hosted notable members of the film industry such as Kevin Bacon, Bo Burnham, Demetri Martin, Kyra Sedgwick, Laurence Fishburne, Edward James Olmos and Danny Trejo. The festival showed Arizona premieres of Coda,^[2] Chevalier, Renfield, Eighth Grade, Boyhood, Won't You Be My Neighbor, and many more.