Marfa Film Festival

The Marfa Film Festival has attracted talented filmmakers, international press, industry professionals and attendees from around the world to this remote oasis in far West Texas since 2008. This year’s festival, July 13-17, will pay tribute to the movie Giant — filmed in West Texas and starring Rock Hudson, Elizabeth Taylor and James Dean — while also sharing a carefully curated, diverse mix of features, shorts, music videos and experimental works, including a full afternoon schedule followed each evening by outdoor screenings of classics under the stars with beautiful 35mm projection by the Alamo Drafthouse Rolling Roadshow (which includes a 20- by 50-foot screen). The festival creates a relaxed social space where up-and-coming filmmakers and adventurous cinephiles mix with film veterans and legends. The films are shared one at a time so attendees can enjoy the entire program with spare hours to relax and socialize in that unhurried “sun-drenched desert town at the end of the world.” Filmmakers, films and musical talent featured at the festival have gone on to win Oscars, Emmys and Grammys. MFF 2016 will feature works of promising newcomers and celebrated masters, including world premieres and overlooked classics. Past guests have included America Ferrera, Elijah Wood, Lou Reed and Larry McMurtry.