About
The Flagstaff Mountain Film Festival’s mission is to provide a cultural alternative to the mainstream commercial film experience and to celebrate, promote, nurture and teach non-fiction filmmaking. The festival seeks to provide a window to the world and screen movies that inspire change.
The Festival was created in 2003 by two friends who shared a passion for cultural and outdoor-adventure documentary films. It began as a volunteer-run effort and has remained one ever since, with any profits from the event being reinvested into future festivals and the FMFF’s Student Filmmaking Program.
All year, our all-volunteer staff donates countless hours in order to bring a unique and awe-inspiring cultural event to Northern Arizona.
The 2010 festival exceeded all expectations. This was accomplished by the generosity of the local business community and yet again, a world-class line-up of films. Three of the incredible fifty documentaries that screened at the festival were all nominated for Academy Awards. This speaks to the quality programming of the festival.
Everyone seemed to have a successful festival experience.
What a privilege it was to see so many documentaries which offered fascinating perspectives of life from Uganda, Iran, Tasmania, Canada, Patagonia, Israel, Papua New Guinea, Tanzania, Greece, the Arctic Circle, Chile, Pakistan, the Swiss Alps, North Africa, Brazil, Hungary, Mexico, Kenya, Namibia and K2, the second highest mountain in the world. Kudos as well for your school program which presents these fine films and international perspectives to our youth in Flagstaff. Thank you also for keeping the price so affordable. excerpt from a letter to the editor published in the Arizona Daily Sun.
