Monticello Park Film Festival

The Monticello Park Film Festival aims to celebrate the endless possibilities of visual storytelling and highlight works that challenge the notions of what cinema is and can be moving forward.

Showcasing boundary pushing works from up-and-coming talents of the experimental, avant-garde, and arthouse worlds, MPFF is a community-building event aimed at bringing experimental film into the realm of event cinema, screening films on the largest screens and best sound systems possible - allowing the screened films to be experienced as the filmmaker intended, with all of their detailed work being appreciated fully.

MPFF also aims to help build the community of experimental film through lectures and conversations focused on the often under-discussed side of living as an experimental filmmaker - the logistics that go into the work, the ways to balance the love of experimental film vs. the necessities of financial stability (whether from a filmmaking or programming perspective), the realities of the opportunities available to newer/aspiring filmmakers, and how to start making work that speaks to filmmakers' true, unvarnished visions and getting their work seen in ways that circumvent the pre-existing organizations and institutions that act as gatekeepers to emerging voices.