"Your Shorts Are Showing" Lake Placid Film Festival Nov. 7-10, 2024

Lake Placid Film Festival: November 7-10, 2024
SHORT FILM COMPETITION - "Your Shorts are Showing"

The Lake Placid Film Festival is the best walkable boutique film festival in the East. It's an opportunity for filmmakers to showcase their short films and to learn from film industry experts in our Filmmaker Educational Seminars, while networking with like-minded filmmakers.

The top 30 'Official Selected' Shorts will be screened at the Lake Placid Film Festival on Friday, November 8, 2024. Films will be promoted on our social media and website channels during and after the event.

Your entry includes a weekend of perks and parties!
*Two Free All-Session passes for you and a guest to panels, shorts, and feature films
*Free entry to the Opening Reception
*Free entry to all Educational Seminars including Made Upstate and Catalyst Episodic Showcase programs.
*Free entry all weekend to the Filmmakers Lounge & daily networking opportunities
*Filmmaker Awards party, Adirondack-style

Hear from and interact with film professionals. We will keep you updated as details are finalized as to who is scheduled to appear. Last year (2023) we had:

**Barbara DeFina (Goodfellas, Age of Innocence, You Can Count on Me)
**Summer Crockett-Moore & Tony Glazer (Choice Films, Umbra Stages)
**Artists in Residence: Kris Lefcoe (Superstore), Pamela Cederquist (Mindhunter)
**Film Commissioners from across New York, including Jerry Stoeffhaas (Governor's Office), Debby Goedeke (Albany), Tim Clark (Buffalo), and Nora Brown (Rochester/Finger Lakes)
**Paul Hardart (NYU Clinical Professor of Marketing, Being John Malkovich, Pitch Black)

Our film industry judges include film critics, directors, and screenwriters. Your short will be judged on originality, directing, writing, performance, structure, sound, and other film quality categories.

Throughout the years, Adirondack Film has featured and hosted Academy award-winning directors such as Guillermo Del Toro, John Sayles, Milos Forman, Norman Jewison, and Martin Scorcese. Notable attendees have included actors Debra Winger, Kyra Sedwick, John Favreau, Matthew Modine, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Cliff Robertson, Peter Riegert, Steve Buscemi, Tony Shalhoub, Patricia Clarkson, Campbell Scott, William Defoe, and others.

PAST WINNERS:
“...a wonderful opportunity to share my film and have a quality in-depth conversation with an engaged audience” -Ryan O’Leary
“...the love, appreciation, and respect that the festival’s organization showed for its filmmakers and their audiences was obvious throughout the entire event” -Mark Burns
“...you fall in love with the space…with Lake Placid. And the more creative people I can talk with, the better. Sitting by the fire with other filmmakers is great” -Marco Baratta