BILLINGS, MONTANA

MINT Film Festival

The Montana International Film Festival (MINT) is one of the fastest-growing Montana film festivals in the state. The 7th annual festival season concluded on Sept 22. We’ll be back in 2025 for our 8th year.

Submissions will open shortly!

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Your Guide to MINT 2024

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7TH ANNUAL

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presented by MONTANA DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

September 19 – 22, 2024

Join us at the MINT Film Festival from September 19-22, where we celebrate movies, culture, storytelling, and our shared humanity. Whether you have time for just one film or plan to binge every screening with us, we look forward to experiencing these powerful stories with you.

The 2024 festival season features 65 films from 10 countries, a red carpet opening night, after parties, a special screening, special guests, and filmmaker Q&As.

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Celebrating 7 Years!

2024 marks our 7th annual film festival season! A huge thank you to our Montana community for supporting MINT and to the filmmakers, sponsors, donors, volunteers, and special guests for making the festival a unique and memorable arts & entertainment event in Billings!

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MINT is a Montana film festival for filmmakers by filmmakers.

MINT is one of the fastest-growing Montana festivals throughout the Northwest. We attract over 4500 engaged audience members each year (and growing) and connect with hundreds of filmmakers, directors, and actors. 

Montana festivals are merging creative experiences with the Big Sky landscape, and it’s an experience worth having at least once in your life. It’s easy to fall in love with this state once you attend a festival screening or a special event. Billings events and festivals are expanding with more creativity, opportunity, and community! Experience film and community like never before with the MINT Film Festival.

Film festivals are ticketed or public events organized by non-profit organizations, universities, or private institutions. A film festival is an opportunity to discover unreleased films and talent from around the world. Filmmakers need audiences to see their movies. Typically, before securing distribution deals, films need to screen at festivals to obtain buzz and reviews from critics and the press. 

Festivals can promote a wide range of film genres and topics or focus on niche areas of interest. For example, the Sundance Film Festival focuses on a wide range of genres and topical films worldwide, while the Big Sky Documentary Festival focuses on documentary-only films. All festivals are unique to their region and play a role in the economic stability of their community.

The MINT Film Festival focuses on a wide range of genres, from short narrative films to traditional and contemporary documentary subjects, narrative features, and animation.

Thanks to virtual platform technology, seeing unreleased films is easier than ever. As modern times adjust to our social and political climate, virtual cinemas have become the go-to method for viewing online content and discovering new talent.

Film festivals attract visitors, filmmakers, and industry vendors and sponsors to their respective communities. Festivals can increase tourism traffic to their state and region, which supports local and small businesses. 

A film festival fills the gap between unreleased films and audiences. Festivals attract filmmakers worldwide and are a place to discover the next great actor or director. See movies before anyone else at your local film festival!

It’s critical for filmmakers to engage with audiences and show their work. Depending on the filmmaker, a festival is an essential step towards selling and distributing films. At festivals, filmmakers network with other filmmakers, creating new opportunities for collaboration on future film projects. 

Making movies doesn’t happen in a vacuum; it requires funding, creativity, collaboration, resources, and energy. At festivals, filmmakers come away feeling energized, inspired, and motivated to tell stories, and this type of energy sparks bold new films.

Do you have a film that is ready for our programming team to watch? Submit your film today (pending submissions are open).