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This year, the festival is broadening its focus on the growing impact the Hispanic population is having on America, with its “Latin Xperience” showcase.

“That’s part of what making a movie out of the box is like: open to change and keeping an open mind.”

The winner's of last year's Shorts Challenge return with their short film that explores the conflicts between the Black and Jewish Communities

“Watching it, we want you to feel like a fly on the wall. We want you to feel like you are the character.”

He calls this his “most ambitious” project to date and says that he feels an urgency to make it now.

What if a Black, female lawyer disguised herself as a white man in order to more easily navigate corporate America?

“I like the idea that we don’t have a frame of reference for whatever it is that’s out there,” she said.

There on screen was another beautiful actress of a certain age, Michaela Watkins, wiping sweat off her brow, popping Ambien and bidding farewell to her youthful vitality.

Acclaimed for films like "A Few Good Men" and "LBJ," Reiner now delves into the world of Christian Nationalism with "God & Country."

Will Fritz and Casey Baum have spent years perfecting the sidekick schtick.

It has been said that a great crying scene can make or break a movie. If so, “Anxious Nation” delivers in spades.

What does it mean to be a woman?

Country music is an undeniably universal genre that connects people from all over the world.

“King Coal” starts with a crash of thunder and the drum of a heartbeat.

Some would argue that the increasingly common term “affordable housing” is a paradox; after all, how could something so vital to survival be anything other than affordable?

The Grotto is a heartwarming film about finding community and forging your own happiness.

Coffee Talks is one of AFF’s best-kept secrets...

When independent filmmaker Mark Pedri’s self-narrated documentary feature “Dear Sirs” opens a creaky door on his grandfather’s modest suburban home in Rock Springs, WY...

Emily the Criminal will be featured as a spotlight film at the 10th Annual Annapolis Film Festival. Today, we hopped on the phone with Director, John Patton Ford to discuss the film and the festival.

​​What would you get if you crossed Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory with the lush botanicals of The Secret Garden?

Pulling from a rich archive of old photos, videos, and testimony, Co-Directors/Co-Writers Matt and Ryan Mayers provide a candid but necessary look at how the United States in particular treats its veterans of war.

A deeply nostalgic semi-autobiographical story from director/writer Pan Nalin, “Last Film Show” is not only a love letter to cinema, but to the Indian state Gujarat where he was born.

Director/producer/cinematographer Margaret Byrne shines an immensely intimate and sympathetic light on the various victories and losses of three individuals fighting battles that hit close to home.

With the rise of conflicts in recent years causing mass exoduses of people fleeing their native countries, ‘Peace by Chocolate’ is a story in dire need to be told about the universal pursuit of safety and happiness.

What is it about the lone mic standing on an empty stage in front of a buzzed audience that brings out a performer’s darkest demons?

Imagine an automatic restaurant. So-called automats thrived in the U.S. from 1912 to 1991 and they were so much more than just buildings with vending machines.

As we celebrate our tenth year, we would like to draw attention to those who have been with us from the very beginning.

Derek Horne SFiFF Shorts Programmer and Director of Programming for Annapolis Film Festival joins us to talk #Sundance in our pajamas.

On November 6, the Annapolis Film Society was treated to an advance screening of the spectacular new Warner Bros. film King Richard.

With a handful of the blue and white tickets dispensed to just 360 hand-picked people in Annapolis Saturday, Myron Brown brought his family of five to Maryland Hall’s Bowen Theater for “inspiration.”

If you have not already tuned in to the 9th annual Annapolis Film Festival (AFF) what are you waiting for!?

Vinyl is back in a big way! And Directors Christopher Boone and Kevin Smokler took notice.

At 18 months old, Evan Bertrand of Annapolis was diagnosed with autism. Now, this diagnosis will not stand in his way as he takes to the stage at Maryland Hall to perform with his piano in front of a sold out crowd.

After a year of COVID, we can all use a good laugh and as Producer, Director and Screenwriter Casimir Nozkowski says, he tried to make a funny with a heart! And he did!

The moral of this film is you don't mess with indigenous women.

Take $10,000 in cash nailed to a post, a set of steak knives. Put a bunch of non-motorized boats in some of the most treacherous water in North America, and see how they do for 750 miles.

Are adults over-parenting ther kids? Can you become too involved in their lives? What happens when a young adult has a list of questions from Mom at a job interview? Have we gone too far? Not far enough?

Why are film festivals important? - AFF Director of Programming has compiled a list outlining some of the most important reasons why:

The Evening Hour is a story about the reality of people living in rural Appalachian towns, but it’s also a slow burn drugs-and-crime thriller that will make your heart race.

Ashleigh Coffelt is a contestant for the Annapolis Film Festival's 2020 Shorts Challenge.

After winning the AFF 2019 Shorts Challenge, Laura Tejero Núñez is prepared to screen her short film "Frida"!

For four days every year, I look forward to being part of something so incredibly special that it is one of the biggest highlights of my year.

It’s Worth it to Plan Ahead for Festival Date Nights!

A riveting narrative about grief, faith, adolescence, and everything in between, Fishbowl tells the story of three girls coping with the loss of their mother while their father begins to lose his grip on reality.

Some ideas are bigger than others, especially in the world of cutting-edge technology and innovation that is Silicon Valley.

Organ Pipe National Monument, at Arizona’s border with Mexico, is home to 31 species of cacti, including the one it is named for, making its 516 square miles a paradise for birders, hikers and photographers.

When most couples take a trip to New York City, they don’t travel 6,689 miles across the Atlantic Ocean from Morocco in a two-person rowboat, attempting a feat yet to be accomplished by anyone.

Imagine a small town where football is king and the players all princes, winning the devotion of bleacher-bound souls in every neighborhood.

Five Finalists will duke it out in front of a live panel of industry judges and a voting audience at the Annapolis Film Festival’s Shorts Challenge: Pitch Contest.

Growing up in Kuwait, the daughter of expats from South Asia, Aqsa Altaf was well-acquainted with injustice and racism. It was there she decided to turn to filmmaking as a medium to spread truth and awareness.

From the moment her four-inch silver heel stretches out of the passenger side of the car and touches the ground in Tchaiko Omawale’s “Solace,” Lynn Whitfield could be hero or villain.

Up on stage, with just a few minutes to present, the six young filmmakers pitched their visions of what a film should be using still photos, a few clips and their own words.