Best Little Boutique Film Festival

About 3 Minute Film Festival Film Festival

Our Mission

Our mission is to showcase the best films from around the world for anyone to view them and celebrate diversity. Our audiences inspire us to offer new perspectives. This doggie girl enjoyed the films...she sat quietly with her owner in the front row.

History

Founded in 2015, 3 Minute Film Festival Film Festival has grown to become one of the premier boutique film festivals in the country, attracting filmmakers and cinema enthusiasts from all over the world to participate. Our judges are professionals from the industry and/or cinephiles.

Venues

Our festival once took place in some of the most iconic places in Santa Barbara, like SBCAST -- center for arts, science & technology. We now hold our fashionable festival on-line where thousands of people are able to view the screening.

Our Mission

We are the best little boutique film festival on an international platform. We seek, select and screen the most diverse and interesting films limited to the challenging 3-minutes of creativity or less!

Our Festival

The 3-Minute Film Festival once screened in a physical space in Santa Barbara, California, with receptions and mingling with other filmmakers, actors, producers, judges and staff. It has always been free, with donations. However, now we are on-line for the foreseeable future. Perhaps we will return in 2025-6.

Our Programs

Our festival focuses on filmmakers, whether on-line or in person. Professionals, first-timers and students are often judged together. Being selected here carries more cache, especially against the backdrop of Santa Barbara, California, and Hollywood, where many film stars, filmmakers, producers and cinephiles live and work. It is not that different with our online event; we have a large following.

REVIEWS

Some of our Filmmakers most welcomed reviews. Thank you all.

Dasha Khritankova. Great festival! Great communication, friendly team. I have a very positive with this festival! December 2020

Derlis Alvarenga. Great for meeting and greeting, I had a wonderful time watching the works of fellow filmmakers and animators while attending the festival in Santa Barbara.January 2019

Tyler Cole. I was unable to attend this year, but so honored to be selected. The communication was also wonderful!! August 2018

John Maslowski. I really enjoyed this festival. Lynn is so nice. The screening was outdoors which in Santa Barbara is a beautiful thing.August 2018

Keith Cantrell. Just now getting around to writing this 5-star review, but the 3 Minute Film Festival was so much fun!!! I had never been to Santa Barbara before, so I enjoyed taking a road trip up from Los Angeles when my short film Paddleball Hole screened at the festival. Definitely arrive early so you can explore the beautiful city. I met some wonderful filmmakers at this event, and the festival director Lynn is well-organized and keeps everything running smoothly. Would love to participate again in the future. Thanks for a wonderful festival!