Celebrating Flickers 39th Anniversary, the Rhode Island International Film Festival (RIIFF) discovers and empowers filmmakers. This year’s Festival will be a hybrid event with virtual presentations online and select drive-on and outdoor screenings. RIIFF is one of only a handful of Festivals worldwide that is a qualifying event for the Academy Awards (i.e. “Oscars.”), the Canadian Screen Awards and BAFTA (British Academy of Film and Television Arts). RIIFF incorporates gala celebrations, premiere screenings, virtual VIP guests, industry seminars, educational programs, music, architecture, history, a Providence Backlot Walking Tour, an HP Lovecraft Literary Tour, Filmmaker Conversations with Q&A’s plus award ceremonies into a weeklong extravaganza.

Cited as one of the “Best International and Short Film Festivals in the United States,” RIIFF is New England’s largest film festival, screening a record 300 films. The Festival offers countless networking opportunities that advance and enhance careers, and creates a supportive and encouraging environment for the most inquisitive creators and lovers of film. Its innovative programming, cultivated industry ties, and loyal audiences have made the Festival a strategic and desirable platform for film premieres, drawing hundreds of independent filmmakers from around the globe. RIIFF is widely recognized as a credentialed industry-