Boise Film Festival

Boise International Film Festival is an event to bring together the best the region has to offer. Incredible filmmakers, innovative arts and theatre, top notch food and a bustling creative community all make Boise the next best place to launch a festival. Started by film and television industry veterans, who fell in love with the city after moving here from Los Angeles in 2020 during the pandemic, this festival will be sure to draw executives, agents, managers, and other entertainment professionals with it's easy access from Los Angeles. Throughout the four day festival, there is ample opportunity to attend panels, Q&A's and masterclasses taught by some of today's top creatives and deal makers, while experiencing the charm and warmth of this beautiful city.
Oh, and our parties are going to be epic.
We are especially interested in films that have been shot in the Pacific Northwest, and have a special award for Best Film or Short shot in PNW category. We are a festival of discovery, discovery of new voices and faces and celebrating the next generation of film makers and artists.
Christine Holder
Executive Director
Christine Holder is a producer, manager, and a founding partner of Wonder Street Entertainment. She currently produces both feature and television content as well as representing creative forces in both the talent and literary world.
Christine launched into the management/production side of the business in 2008. Since then, she has produced such projects as Netflix’s critically acclaimed Beasts of No Nation which starred the award-winning Idris Elba and was directed by Cary Fukunaga, Walter featuring Milo Ventimiglia, William H. Macy and Virginia Madsen, and dark thriller I Will Follow You Into The Dark starring Ryan Eggold. In 2019, Christine, along with her husband Mark, ventured out to form their current shingle allowing their passion and laser focus to filter into a company built on cultural responsibility and integrity, transparency and inclusion. Her projects include the Octavia Spencer-starring Netflix series Self Made:Inspired by the Life of Madam CJ Walker (which recently earned the star her first best actress Emmy nomination) with producing partner LeBron James, The Mauritanian, based on the best selling auto biographical novel Guantanamo Diary, starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Jodie Foster, Shailene Woodley and Tahar Rahim. Currently, she has projects in various states of development at Netflix ,Paramount and others. In addition to producing, she also manages a full roster of talent and literary clients specializing in underrepresented story tellers with diversely unique voices. As a producer, Christine strives to push boundries on diversity and gender inclusion in both content and casting but also in all production team areas. With the support of Netflix, Self Made saw a record number of diverse female department heads and key hires, supporting the mission that film and television sets can and forever should be a powerful reflection of equality.
Mark Holder
Executive Director
Mark Holder is a producer and a founding partner of Wonder Street Entertainment. In addition to producing impactful stories for television and film, Mark guides a diverse team of managers and producers at Wonder Street.With a keen interest in telling important stories, Mark got involved in producing in 2012. Since then Mark has produced a dozen films including: STX films The Mauritanian, based on the best-selling memoir
Guantanamo Diary, starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Jodie Foster, Shailene Woodley and Tahar Rahim and directed by Academy Award Winner Kevin MacDonald. The film came out in 2019 to excellent reviews, multiple BAFTA nominations including Best Picture and two
Golden Globe noms one of which garnered Jodie Foster a Best Supporting Actress win. Netflix’s critically acclaimed Beasts of No Nation directed by Cary
Fukunaga and starring Idris Elba, who was nominated for a BAFTA and a Golden Globe Award for his groundbreaking performance. The hit Netflix series Self Made: Inspired by the Life of Madam CJ Walker starring Octavia Spencer(which earned the star her first best
actress Emmy nomination) with producing partner LeBron James and Springhill Entertainment; and most recently Mark is an Executive Producer on the one hour
hit drama East New York on CBS and the upcoming Spanish language series Banditos for Netflix which premieres this spring. In 2019 Mark ventured out to form the current shingle, Wonder Street, allowing his passion and laser focus to filter into a company built on cultural responsibility and integrity, transparency and inclusion.
Mark lives in Eagle and has fallen in love with all things Boise.