These famous awards, chiseled from granite, the heaviest award in the film industry, are awarded to the best films of the 23rd Annual New Hampshire Film Festival. Awards include the Van McLeod Award, Narrative Grand Jury Award, Documentary Grand Jury Award, Best Feature, Best Documentary, Shorts Jury Award - Animation, Shorts Jury Award - Documentary, […]
Join a handful of industry gurus from exciting companies like CAA, Hulu, Greenwich Entertainment and Factory 25 as they share insights and answer audience questions on a variety of topics including independent film financing outside of the traditional studio system, film festival participation and strategies, and the ever-evolving distribution landscape of theatrical and streaming/at-home releasing. […]
Presented by Immersive Aerial Media and Wow Signal Media For the first time in festival history, you’re invited to take an up-close and personal look inside the field of aerial drone videography. Join two of the most in-demand, professional drone and camera operators – Michael Holzwarth from Immersive Aerial Media and John McCarthy from Wow […]
Presented by Studio Lab Join us for a 90-minute immersive, interactive look inside the future of filmmaking. Studio Lab’s Virtual Production Deep Dive offers festival attendees, filmmakers, and industry professionals a hands-on experience with cutting-edge virtual production technology. These sessions (including Q&A) demystify the XR workflow, from ideation to execution, and will provide a behind-the-scenes, […]
Presented by Studio Lab Join us for a 90-minute immersive, interactive look inside the future of filmmaking. Studio Lab’s Virtual Production Deep Dive offers festival attendees, filmmakers, and industry professionals a hands-on experience with cutting-edge virtual production technology. These sessions (including Q&A) demystify the XR workflow, from ideation to execution, and will provide a behind-the-scenes, […]
Presented by Green & Co. *Entry exclusively for filmmakers and sponsors All artists, industry passholders and 2025 sponsors are welcome to attend.
There are a lot of parallels between making a 10-minute short film and a 100-minute feature film, and there are infinitely more differences. We invite you to join an enlightening discussion with a handful of talented filmmakers on the challenges and opportunities of making the leap from shorts to features (and sometimes back again). Hear […]
Presented by Studio Lab Join us for a 90-minute immersive, interactive look inside the future of filmmaking. Studio Lab’s Virtual Production Deep Dive offers festival attendees, filmmakers, and industry professionals a hands-on experience with cutting-edge virtual production technology. These sessions (including Q&A) demystify the XR workflow, from ideation to execution, and will provide a behind-the-scenes, […]
Presented by ARRI Join us for an engaging session exploring how ARRI’s comprehensive ecosystem—cameras, lenses, lighting, and stabilization systems—addresses the unique challenges of production. This interactive presentation will foster discussion on balancing budget, schedule, and scope, while preserving artistic vision. Together, we will examine how the intersection of technology, psychology, and mathematics enables us to […]
Presented by Studio Lab Join us for a 90-minute immersive, interactive look inside the future of filmmaking. Studio Lab’s Virtual Production Deep Dive offers festival attendees, filmmakers, and industry professionals a hands-on experience with cutting-edge virtual production technology. These sessions (including Q&A) demystify the XR workflow, from ideation to execution, and will provide a behind-the-scenes, […]
Presented by MacDowell, New Hampshire Public Radio & The Music Hall The Music Hall, MacDowell, and New Hampshire Public Radio present Across the Table Conversations, a multidisciplinary talks series spotlighting emerging and established MacDowell Fellows in public conversation. This special New Hampshire Film Festival edition will feature celebrated documentary filmmaker Jessica Kingdon in conversation with […]
Our 2025 lineup of panel discussions and workshops kicks off with a timely conversation about artificial intelligence’s emergence and growing impact on our creative society, especially the film and television industry. There are already so many burning questions surrounding the subject: What are AI’s capabilities? What are the ethics of its application? Is it helpful […]
Presented by Northwestern Mutual These famous awards, chiseled from granite, the heaviest award in the film industry, are awarded to the best films of the 22nd Annual New Hampshire Film Festival. Awards include the Van McLeod Award, Narrative Grand Jury Award, Documentary Grand Jury Award, Best Feature, Best Documentary, Shorts Jury Award - Animation, Shorts […]
What’s going on with the history-making writers and actors strikes you keep hearing about? What about the state of the film and television industry as a whole? Is show business in trouble or looking just fine and dandy down the road? Come hear how some folks on the front lines are feeling about everything. One […]
Content, Creation and Consumption and How Branded entertainment is playing a major role in the Film and Television Industry. CNN reported that American’s devote more than 10 hours a day to screen time so join us for a discussion alongside A filmmaker, producer for National Geographic TV, ESPN films executive, and an entertainment research specialist […]
With a format that is one part Inside the Actors Studio and one part talk show, come prepared to listen, laugh and pose questions to our entertaining special guests as they share stories and anecdotes from their experiences about any and all things comedy. Moderator GREG KRETSCHMAR HOST, GREG AND THE MORNING BUZZ Greg Kretschmar is the […]
Sexts, lies, and Carlos Danger: Watch the wildest political meltdown in recent history as it unfolds. It’s 2013 and Anthony Weiner—still reeling from the sex scandal that ended his political career two years earlier—is back in the spotlight as he mounts an audacious comeback campaign for New York City mayor. But it’s not long before […]
After spending two decades in prison for a crime he didn’t commit, Mo struggles to put his past behind him as he readjusts to a new life working in an animal shelter. Doris is trapped in another sort of prison: an abusive marriage. A dramatic encounter brings these two troubled souls together, and a possible […]
An exhausted, workaholic actress, Anna Baskin, 44, abruptly extricates herself from a successful but mind-numbing TV role, returning to her past life in New York to reinvent herself.
That Lloyd "Swee' Pea" Daniels became an NBA player was no surprise – at age 16 he was named "the next Magic Johnson" and possibly the best player that had ever lived. That his NBA debut happened at age 25, with bullets still lodged in his chest and a body ravaged by years of crack-cocaine […]