Thin Line Fest is the longest-running documentary film festival in Texas and includes a multi-genre, city-wide music festival and photography exhibition. Thin Line Fest 2025 returns to downtown Denton, the last cool city in Texas, with more opportunities to explore, discuss, and dissect how the mediums of music, film, and photography connect. Curated panels, pop-up visual art installations, mini-workshops, and performances by world-class musicians will complement the film program.
Thin Line Fest explores the liminal spaces– the border spaces and the tension that exists between different places or feelings where harmony and friction, growth and stagnation, and imagery and sound co-exist. Thank you for your interest, we hope you will submit your work.
FilmFreeway is used only for Film/Video submissions. For photography submissions visit https://artcall.org
Cash awards will be fulfilled at the festival (if present), or as soon as possible after the close of the festival. Any award that includes a certificate of credit will be mailed from the award sponsor. These are generally mailed within 2-3 weeks post-festival.
Award eligibility is subject to any restrictions or conditions imposed by applicable laws and regulations (international, federal, state, or otherwise), and the award recipient is responsible for all applicable taxes, customs, tariffs, insurance, and similar charges or costs (if any).
2025 Awards:
--Best Overall Feature Documentary
--Best Overall Short Documentary
--Best Overall Micro-Short Documentary
--Emerging Filmmaker
--Best Cinematic Vision, Feature Documentary
--Best Student Documentary (Documentary film made by a current student, of any age
or level. Submissions in this category will not be considered for any other award)
--Best “Sound on Screen” - A documentary film (feature-length or short) that treats sound, music, or musicians as the subject of the documentary.
--Best Music Video
--Best Local Music Video (DFW-based filmmaker or band)