Organized in 2006 to promote Western Pennsylvania digital filmmaking and filmmakers, the festival has attracted entries from as far away as Vermont.
Subjects and genres have ranged from a documentary history of iron furnaces in Venango County to a short video about a gay teen who had the courage to stand up to bigotry and intolerance in Franklin high schools – and the determination to tell his story to the world.
For festival purposes, Western Pennsylvania includes any place in the Commonwealth west of Harrisburg. If you have lived in Western Pennsylvania at some time in your life, or if you have produced a video about a Western Pennsylvania subject, your video is eligible for the Venango Digital Film Festival. Videos are previewed by the organizing committee and winners are selected by the audience.
For competition purposes, the videos must be from 10 to 30 minutes in length.
The organizing committee planned the festival on a very short time frame the first year and is learning as it goes.
The second year saw a third venue, the Crawford Center in Emlenton, added to The Latonia in Oil City and the Barrow-Civic Theatre in Franklin.
The committee will soon have a Web site with information for the 2009 film festival. Stay Tuned.
Here's a selection from the 2007 festival:
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