Next year’s festival will be held a bit earlier on April 1 & 2, 2011. Our call for entries starts on August 28th. Simply visit our SUBMIT A FILM section to enter.

Early Bird Deadline
October 15th
($20 for non-WAB, $15 for WAB)

Regular Deadline
November 30th
($25 for non-WAB, $20 for WAB)

Late Deadline
December 15th
($40 for non-WAB, $35 for WAB)

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Here are the films that the committee chose to win in several categories. Guest judge Stephen Susco (screenwriter of The Grudge films) chose his favorite as well.

Best Experimental: “You’re a Good Man, Antimin”
Committee High Score: “The Familiar”
Local Gem: “Always Reaching”
Best Drama: “138 Arlington”
Chairman’s Choice: “Blue Bus”
Stephen Susco Award: “”You’re a Good Man, Antimin”

Congratulations!

You can see photos from this year’s fantastic festival right HERE!

Festival director Tim Richardson was interviewed Wednesday on the WNDU morning show, which can be viewed online HERE.

Tim was also on the WSJV Fox Wake Up show with special guest filmmaker Lloyd Kaufman today. You can watch it HERE.

Last night we had an amazing kickoff at the Indiana University South Bend kickoff with short films and a screening of THE TOXIC AVENGER, with the film’s director Lloyd Kaufman. You can read all about it and see some video interviews from the event by Zorina Jerome right HERE. Photo at left courtesy of Zorina.

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The free Thursday night screening is 7 p.m. – 11 p.m. in Room 1001 in Wiekamp Hall at Indiana University South Bend. The first half of the evening will include a selection of short films, including the award-winning “The Vaudevillian”, about a ventriloquist’s strained relationship with his dummy after their act is canceled.

After an intermission, [...]

Read today’s South Bend Tribune article about the River Bend Film Festival and local filmmaker Devi Snively’s film TRIPPIN’, which is screening Saturday night: http://www.inthebend.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100424/INTHEBEND/100429699/1171/INTHEBEND

Also, the Thursday night screening of short films and THE TOXIC AVENGER at Indiana University South Bend is FREE!  Director Lloyd Kaufman of Troma will be at the festival Thursday through [...]

You can now purchase tickets and passes for the festival on this website in our TICKETS & PASSES area using a credit card or PayPal.

You can buy tickets at the event as well, but we do not accept checks or credit cards there.

We offer discounts for students and seniors, as well as day and weekend [...]

SECOND ANNUAL RIVER BEND FILM FESTIVAL
BRINGS 70 FILMS AND DIRECTOR LLOYD KAUFMAN TO MICHIANA

South Bend, Indiana –The Second Annual River Bend Film Festival will be held Friday, April 30 & Saturday, May 1 at the Century Center, and is sponsored by Mid America Filmmakers and Downtown South Bend. A free kickoff screening will take place [...]

Our free Thursday night screening is April 29, 7 p.m. – 11 p.m. in Room 1001 in Wiekamp Hall at Indiana University South Bend.  The venue is sponsored by the Ernestine M. Raclin School of the Arts.

The first half of the evening will include a selection of short films, including the award-winning “The Vaudevillian”, about [...]