Vail Film Festival

The 20th annual Vail Film Festival was December 7-10, 2023.

All films submitted and screened at the 2023 event must have one woman involved as either director, producer, cinematographer, or screenwriter.

The 2023 festival will screen Feature Films, Shorts, Documentaries, and Student Films. The festival fosters filmmakers through Panel Discussions, a daily Hospitality Lounge, Nightly Parties, and networking opportunities with leading film industry professionals.

Past Vail Film Festival tribute recipients and attendees include Olivia Wilde, Aaron Paul, Allison Janney, Giancarlo Esposito, Krysten Ritter, Jesse Eisenberg, Kate Bosworth, Josh Lucas, Zach Braff, Michelle Monaghan, Luke Wilson, Tate Taylor, Kevin Smith, Michael Imperioli, Jane Seymour, Fred Schepisi, Adrian Grenier, Harold Ramis, Tricia O'Kelley, Kaitlin Olson, Tim Daly, Jeremy Davies, Sophia Bush, among others.

Past premieres and highlights include "Sun Dogs" directed by Jennifer Morrison and starring Melissa Benoist, Xzibit, Allison Janney, and Ed O'Neill, "Mary Goes Round" starring Aya Cash, "Custody" starring Viola Davis, Hayden Panettiere, Tony Shalhoub, Ellen Burstyn, "Enemy" starring Jake Gyllenhaal, "Locke" starring Tom Hardy, "Forgetting Sarah Marshall" starring Jason Siegel, Kristen Bell, "The Guitar", directed by Amy Redford, "In Search of a Midnight Kiss", "Knocked Up", Judd Apatow's follow up to "The 40 Year-Old Virgin", "Snow Cake" starring Sigourney Weaver and Alan Rickman, the Cannes Award-winning "Red Road", "The Oh in Ohio" (starring Paul Rudd, Parker Posey, Mischa Barton and Danny DeVito), "American Dreamz" (starring Hugh Grant, Dennis Quaid, Mandy Moore), "The Sasquatch Dumpling Gang" (from the filmmakers of "Napoleon Dynamite"), Luke Wilson's "The Wendell Baker Story", Tiffani Thiesen's "Just Pray" and David Duchovny's "House of D".