Cinema Columbus Film Festival releases upcoming list featuring more than 50 films

The Cinema Columbus Film Festival will kick off with the central Ohio premiere of "Down to the Felt."

The Cinema Columbus Film Festival has released the complete list of shorts and feature-length films that will make up this year's festival offerings.

Covering all genres, the festival will feature the work of filmmakers from all around the world as well as here in Ohio.

Cinema Columbus will kick off with the central Ohio premiere of "Down to the Felt" — the largest independent motion picture produced in Columbus to date — before screening over 50 films across the five-day festival.

"So excited to share that homegrown, locally-produced, locally-made film with our central Ohio audiences," said Brett Reiter, festival director for Cinema Columbus. "And now it is my distinct pleasure... to share that we have some (other) amazing films coming in."

Reiter explained that, though the festival will feature the work of filmmakers from around the globe, many of this year's selected works will come from film students all around central Ohio.

"It's really a cool opportunity to showcase the future of Columbus filmmaking and put them in the same program... as other Columbus filmmakers or LA, New York — other industry filmmakers — and make a soup of beautiful independent film," Reiter said.

Reiter highlighted Denison University student Tyler Nguyen's short film "Stuck in Frame" which tells the story of why he loves film and wants to be a cinematographer.  He also spotlighted a feature film from Toledo called "Love Wolves" that examines life and parenthood.

Another aspect of the event is the ability to take advantage of Columbus's abundance of cinemas and venues ideal for festival screenings.

"It's so fun to match each theater with the programming that its audiences and regular patrons would like to see," Reiter said. "Celebrating and supporting other people's work is just as, if not more, fulfilling and just as much a part of the film industry as any other role would be, and I think that I relish that role to just be celebrating other people and their beautiful works of art."

To see the full list of films and venues as well as ticket information, visit the Cinema Columbus website here.

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