Back to truly independent film making.  The festival features and promotes independent work of both filmmakers and screenwriters.   Bloody Hero Independent Film Festival is dedicated to supporting and promoting independent artists from around the world. That means we review every submission on equal ground regardless of production budgets.  We pride ourselves in the knowledge that we place as few restrictions as possible on the themes, genre, content and subject matter of the submissions we accept in the hopes of finally shining a light on amazing art that hasn’t been discovered by the mainstream. We strive to make this festival a welcoming place for all kinds of filmmakers.  In the spirit of freedom of artistic expression we welcome all submissions.    We especially appreciate unique, highly entertaining pieces from film makers that have taken great care in thorough character development as well as present a singularity of vision. Many people assume that with a name like Bloody Hero, that this festival is strictly horror and thriller films.  And though we do have an appreciation for compelling thrillers, we are a festival that supports all genres including documentaries for social change, romantic comedies, animations an so on.  The title “Bloody Hero” is an homage to the struggles that independent filmmakers endure to get their films made without multi-million dollar budgets and production teams.  We don’t believe that such budgets are a prerequisite to telling a great story, or making a highly entertaining or compelling film.

The Festival is hosted at Phoenix Center for the arts.  The Center is located in downtown Phoenix at 1202 North 3rd Street (the east end of Margaret T. Hance Park). Multiple rooms will be utilized screening programming blocks that will be rotated ensuring that there will be multiple opportunities to see a particular film.  This way attendees don’t have to choose between two films that happen to be screening at the same time.

Friday February 8th there will be an official mixer for film makers and industry professionals.  The event will commence after close of screenings for the day at 9:30 pm. Each official selection will be comped two tickets and additional tickets can be purchased by clicking here.

For additional information on the schedule of events during the festival pleas click here.