Montreal Independent Film Festival

The IMDb qualifying seasonal and annual Montreal Independent Film Festival has turned into one of the most popular visionary festivals on FilmFreeway.

Cannes award winners, Oscar nominees and emerging independent artists have competed together in various sections of the festival. MIFF is a hybrid film festival which is a blending of traditional forms of festivals with a new form of a virtual seasonal festival which creates further opportunities for independent film projects and artists to be noticed, awarded, screened and recognized in the film industry.

Our annual screening takes place in the spring of each year in Cinema du Parc of Montreal. Montreal Independent Film Channel is our online web channel which screens our award winners and the official selections of the season upon request. Montreal Independent Film Magazine is our online magazine which promotes the award winners in association with Toronto Film Magazine and Film Daily.  

The winners of the seasonal festival are further nominated to be an official selection of the annual festival in spring of each year. Our annual event currently is a hybrid program with live screenings of films in cinema and through our channel.

All the winners are also promoted individually on social media to thousands of film industry professionals and artists who follow our festival online. All the seasonal winners can request for a bonus in order to further promote, market and distribute film projects.

Through our screening platform, we offer daily, hourly and weekly screenings of independent features and shorts throughout the whole season. We screened hundreds of independent shorts and features in the last year from all over the globe. Some of our films had thousands of views and were selected by other festivals and secured distribution deals. However, online screening is optional and has to be requested by the producer and is not mandatory for entering various sections of the competition due to premiere status of projects. Screening is only mandatory for the annual competition of the festival in spring.

MIFF also continues to select jury members who are assigned to various sections of the festival in each season. The festival invites filmmakers, critics, actors, writers, composers, cinematographers and many agents and distributors from all over the world. MIFF also provides the option for the winners of each season to vote for the new edition of the festival. 

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