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Since 1999, the DC Independent Film Festival (DCIFF) — the oldest independent film festival in Washington, DC — has showcased bold features, documentaries, shorts, animation, and experimental works from around the world. Reimagined in 2022 as an Annual Film Forum, DCIFF connects filmmakers and audiences through conversation, networking, and innovative programming in the Nation’s Capital.

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Advice from Experienced Screenwriters on how to move from plays, novels and memoirs to scripts for the screen.

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DC Independent Film Forum 2025 / Feb 12-17

DCIFF  brings the annual forum of films, workshops and discussions  to celebrate established and emerging talent in fiction, documentary and animation filmmaking. DCIFF --- keeping a truly independent spirit alive in the DMV for 26 years!

Shoshana Rosenbaum - Moderator - adapted a short story into a film and is a local filmmaker with her first feature The Other You is screening at DCIFF 2025.Bailey Kobe: Bringing his film adaptation of the novel God is An Astronaut by Alyson Foster to DCIFF 2025 as writer/director.  Bailey is an established film professional in LA and DCIFF screened his first feature film Rag Doll.Alex Goldberg: Bringing a short film to DCIFF2025, Alex showed his feature Closure at DCIFF several years back.  Alex is a versatile playwright,  screenwriter, TV writer and director, also based in LA.Terrell Tannen: Author and screenwriter coming to DCIFF with his new memoir <a href="https://www.terrelltannen.com/tell-the-story" title="https://www.terrelltannen.com/tell-the-story" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Tell the Story</a> about the realities of working in Hollywood: Tell the Story: A Hollywood Odyssey.  Photos by <a href="https://unsplash.com/@waldemarbrandt67w?utm_content=creditCopyText&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=unsplash" title="https://unsplash.com/@waldemarbrandt67w?utm_content=creditCopyText&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=unsplash" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Waldemar</a> on <a href="https://unsplash.com/photos/a-close-up-of-an-open-book-with-writing-on-it-WAchuh1Gc-0?utm_content=creditCopyText&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=unsplash" title="https://unsplash.com/photos/a-close-up-of-an-open-book-with-writing-on-it-WAchuh1Gc-0?utm_content=creditCopyText&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=unsplash" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Unsplash</a> and by <a href="https://unsplash.com/@rainbennett?utm_content=creditCopyText&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=unsplash" title="https://unsplash.com/@rainbennett?utm_content=creditCopyText&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=unsplash" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Rain Bennett</a> on <a href="https://unsplash.com/photos/a-notebook-pen-eyeglasses-and-a-cup-of-coffee-on-a-Z5JJifMtbCo?utm_content=creditCopyText&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=unsplash" title="https://unsplash.com/photos/a-notebook-pen-eyeglasses-and-a-cup-of-coffee-on-a-Z5JJifMtbCo?utm_content=creditCopyText&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=unsplash" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Unsplash</a>

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