The Whistle Stop F.I.L.M. Festival (Filmmaker Interactive Local Meetups) is a series of screenings of independent movies, which may be of local interest, of interest to a particular group of people with a community, or just for entertainment. Digital technology makes the WSFF program available to any community through the US and the world. The movies are selected.
This is not a typical screening and I don't want to be to encouraging to producers, since, as many events are evolving, this is a traveling festival that screens as a part of various conferences, with curated content that may be of interest to the conference attendees. This edition of the WSFF will be a part of the National Cohousing Conference in Nashville, TN. There will be 500 attendees with an opportunity to screen movies.
The movies will be playing in loops in a salon-style convention room.
Why?
The Whistle Stop F.I.L.M. Festival is a means to integrate and converge the arts into communities and venues where movies aren’t normally shown and to provide new audiences for independent movies. WSFF will be chugging into a community near you. We want great stories. Good stories trump production value.
Where?
The Maxwell House Convention Center in Nashville, TN May 19 - 21, 2017.
The Cohousing Association of the US is holding its national convention and has integrated movies into the program.
(If you want to host a WSFF, it's simple. Just pick any location to screen the program – in a private home on a computer or television; in a church basement, at the local library, in the back room of a restaurant).
No awards or prizes, but selection counts and you can download a laurel from this link. FilmFreeway has a great little tool to create laurels.
https://filmfreeway.com/laurels/5493/wsff