Montreal Independent Film Festival

Montreal Independent Film Festival has turned into one of the most popular visionary festivals on FilmFreeway. Cannes award winners, Oscar nominees and emerging independent film projects have competed together in various sections of our seasonal and annual IMDb qualifying festival.

MIFF is a hybrid film festival which is a blending of traditional forms of festivals with a new form of a virtual festival that could create further opportunities for independent film projects and artists to be noticed, awarded, screened and recognized in the film industry.

The winners of the seasonal edition are further nominated to be an official selection of the annual festival in spring of each year with live screenings of films, online events, red carpet and award ceremony in Montreal.

Every edition, we offer screening to the seasonal award winners for three days online. However, this has to be requested by the producer of the project and is not mandatory for entering various sections of the film competition. All projects of the seasonal edition can compete without online public screening.

All the seasonal winners are promoted on Film Daily, Toronto Film Magazine, and Montreal Independent Film Magazine. The winners are also promoted individually on social media to thousands of film industry professionals and artists who follow our festival online. All the winners can request for a bonus from our publicity and online screening department in order to further promote and screen projects.

Our publicity department has featured and promoted over 400 projects in the past year in various magazines. Our screening department has screened over 300 shorts and features online in the past year through Toronto Film Channel and some of our films had thousands of views in the 24 hour window and were selected by other festivals and secured distribution deals.

We are an organization committed to selecting, awarding, promoting, featuring and screening international and Canadian projects of all genres.