The Benson Film Festival celebrates film, art, and community. The vision of this festival is to incorporate neighborhood artists and businesses, highlight filmmakers, and create an immersive and connective experience for the community. The Benson Film Festival aims to bring local, national, and international artists & filmmakers together right here in the Benson Creative District!

The festival is presented by Authento Creative in collaboration with the Benson Theatre.

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Filmmakers are encouraged to submit their projects for consideration in this year’s festival. Films will be selected by a panel consisting of artists and community leaders.
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  • Frumble Films

    Thank you to the Benson Film Festival team for screening our student short, "Sew Lucky." We are honored to be a part of the first student shorts block at the Benson Film Festival. We also appreciated the opportunity to network with local filmmakers and watch a variety of films from around the world!

    April 2025
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  • Joi Katskee

    A wonderful film community supporting filmmakers of all kinds from all parts of the globe and showcases a great variety of amazingly produced films.

    April 2025
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  • hardeep giani

    So honoured to have our short film 'Rose, Mary and Time' screened at Benson Film Festival - its so great that festivals like this are flourishing.

    April 2025
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  • Jordan Barclay

    Thank you for including my film Sack Race With Knives! Communication was great and the festival Director, Michael is the nicest guy! Unfortunately I had another festival to attend that weekend.

    May 2024
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  • Kyle Garrett

    The Benson Film Festival is super cool. Great branding and social media presence, and you can tell they care about film and filmmakers. Even though I couldn't attend, they were super supportive of my music video and sent me updates after it screened. From what I can tell, the audience and filmmakers in attendance had a special time. I'm really hoping for bigger and bigger things for this excellent fest!

    April 2024
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