Sky Arts Film Festival

03/14/2024

SAFF 2024 March Newsletter -

We're thrilled to share some exciting news with you all! SAFF is delighted to announce a special partnership with the esteemed 54filmfest for our upcoming SAFF24 event.

03/11/2024

Let's give a warm welcome to first-time 54 Sponsor . Based in beautiful Bowling Green, Kentucky, the Sky Arts Film Festival showcases films made locally and around the world. Select winners from this year's Fest will screen in October at the 2024 Sky Arts Film Festival. We are excited to partner with Sky Arts to provide additional screening opportunities for our filmmakers. Thank you, Sky Arts team!

02/19/2024

SAFF February 2024 Newsletter -

01/16/2024

SAFF now has an official newsletter! Click the link in our bio to subscribe. We have a lot of exciting developments coming that will give everyone more opportunities to participate in SAFF as well as enhance the experience of what it means to be a filmmaker.

12/04/2023

Madison Whittle was the first Western Kentucky University graduate whose degree read “user experience.”

09/25/2023

That’s a wrap on SAFF! We can’t thank everyone who participated enough. See you next year!

09/23/2023

Sunday September 24th 6:30PM – 8PM

“Everybody Wants To Be Loved”

Narrative | 1:20:00 | Directed by: Katharina Woll | Drama

A blisteringly hot summer day. Psychotherapist Ina notices something is wrong with her. But she doesn’t have time to worry about it: Patients are waiting at the practice, her daughter is threatening to move in with her father, her boyfriend wants to emigrate to Finland, and her self-centered mother is celebrating her 70th birthday. Ina wants to please everyone. But then everything changes.

09/21/2023

Short Film Block 5, The Choices We Make – Sunday September 24th 4PM – 5:30PM

Films about the actions in our lives and the consequences those actions can have.

Featuring:
Overcast
Boys Will Be Boys
The Last Liftoff
Pierre’s Hair
SHE
If The Trees Heard Us
Thru The Night
Decorator
Liz & Karla

09/20/2023

Short Film Block - Searching for yourself – Sunday September 24th 2PM – 3:30PM

Featuring:
Battle Rattle
Moth
Camino a Casa
Mind Over Matter
Rose-Colored Glasses
Flying Blind
Hometown Spirit

09/20/2023

Saturday night double feature. Playmaker and Booked.

Saturday, September 23rd @ 8:30pm, back to back feature films. First “The Playmaker”

The story of Paul Green will capture you. This native son of North Carolina went to Broadway and back with a dream. That someday he could write a new ending for the Old South. Can a play create justice? Can an actor perform change?

This documentary takes a deep dive into how Green’s controversial plays made waves in the areas of integration, capital punishment, and chain gang reform in 1920’s North Carolina.

Followed by “Booked”

BOOKED begins when two high school theatre geeks and best friends, Kenny Harris and Owen Mitchell, are snubbed for the leads in their senior musical. To retaliate against their invalidating classmates and teacher, they audition for the world’s top BFA Musical Theatre programs to prove to everyone they have what it takes. BOOKED is a modern coming-of-age comedy that explores the complex dynamics of childhood friendships, suburban familial tribulations, the triviality of high school theatre, and the farcical yet completely real and highly competitive process that is auditioning for drama school.

09/15/2023

Saturday, Sept 23rd 6:30pm-8:00pm, “Saturday Night Scares” short film block at featuring:

Sorry for the Delay
Dwelling
Daisy
The Ritual
Paleface
Feller in the Cellar
Hole
Enter the Room
Goodnight, August
Gone Grey

All details are on our website. Link in our bio!

09/14/2023

Saturday, Sept 23rd @ 4pm “Made Me Smile” Short Film block featuring:

Galactic Greed
Horace Gaither - Gotta Go
The Olden Golden
Joints
The Harbinger
Unbreakable
The Moonlight Sword
The Winged Detectives
Carrots For Conrad

09/07/2023

Saturday, Sept 23rd at 2pm Appearing in Person – Documentary | Directed by: Bradley A. Hanson

Forty years past his peak as a teenage banjo prodigy, an aging musical journeyman returns to his family home in Tennessee to reckon with the death of loved ones and his own failing health, with only months to go before the bank lays claim on this last place that knows him well.

08/31/2023

Have you saved the date for yet? Our event is Sept 22nd-24th at

Visit our website to purchase your passes!

08/25/2023

Stories from the SKY – Friday September 22nd 5:30PM – 7PM

A collection of short films by local filmmakers telling local stories helping us all see the view from the SKY.

Stewards of The Land – Documentary | 6:37 | Directed by: Thomas Wavid Johns

Manufactured Luck – Narrative Short | 15:20 | Directed by: Kevin Keck | Family Drama

In Situ – Narrative Short | 12:09 | Directed by: Walker Burris Cody | Drama

The Illness – Documentary Short | 24:00 | Directed by: Mike Wilkinson

Link to info about films below:

https://skyartsfilmfestival.com/short-film-block-1/

08/22/2023

In partnership with the Elephant 6 Recording Co. is the kickoff for the Southern Circuit Film Series which will be hosted in Bowling Green at on opening night of the at 7:30pm CST and on Western Kentucky University's campus through April 2024.

The showing is FREE to the public thanks to our partnership with and

This documentary feature film is about the Elephant 6 Recording Company & collective: Neutral Milk Hotel, the Olivia Tremor Control, the Apples In Stereo, Elf Power, the Music Tapes, the Minders, the Gerbils, of Montreal, Beulah, Dressy Bessy, Great Lakes & more.

In US theaters August 25th and on VOD September 1 (Amazon & Apple TV) from Greenwich Entertainment. In Canadian Theaters August 25th and VOD September 26th from levelFILM.

*Q&A with Filmmakers after Screening*

08/10/2023

📢 Thrilled to announce that The Playmaker is an official selection for the Sky Arts Film Festival! 🥳

This festival is so special to me because it's held in Bowling Green, KY - home of WKU where I started my filmmaking journey. Can't wait for this festival and to visit my old stomping grounds again. 📽️✨

Festival Details: https://skyartsfilmfestival.com/saff-2023-schedule/

08/10/2023

We're ready for another at the Sky Arts Film Festival in Bowling Green, Kentucky! Thank you to the festival staff, as well as our cast, crew, and supporters for making this such a special season for our team.

Check out skyartsfilmfestival.com for more info. We'll see you there.

And keep an eye out for more exciting news this week!

08/10/2023

We’re looking forward to sharing Paleface with everyone in Bowling Green at the Sky Arts Film Festival in September!

01/02/2023

Submissions for the 2023 festival are now live! Link to to submit is in bio.

10/27/2022

We are so excited to announce that “Rhythm in the Darkness” WON Best Documentary Feature Film at Sky Arts Film Festival!

A big thank you to everyone at the festival, all who came to support the film, and everyone who made this documentary possible!

10/17/2022

That’s a wrap on the inaugural Sky Arts Film Festival! The SAFF team can’t thank everyone enough. To all who submitted films, had their films screened, attended, sponsored, volunteered, and made this event happen, you are the real stars.

We hope you will join us for the next one. See you next year!

10/16/2022

That’s wrap on Day 3! See you Sunday for the last day of the festival. Thank you for the awesome workshop and for all the filmmakers who attended the festival.

10/16/2022

And finally, thank you Forerunner, Cafe Kindness, and BGMU for sponsoring this year! Cafe Kindness City of Bowling Green, KY - Municipal Government

10/15/2022

Day 2 in the books! See you for day 3!

10/15/2022

Shout-Out to Davis Insurance, IFT, and The Warren County Public Library for sponsoring this year! A massive thank you to all of these businesses! Davis Insurance Warren County Public Library

10/14/2022

Day 1 of SAFF is in the books! Thank you to everyone who came to support. See for Day 2!

10/14/2022

Aaaaand a HUGE round of applause to Yonts+Co, TSG, and South Central Bank for sponsoring the Sky Arts Film Festival this year! Thank you all!

10/13/2022

We would like to give a massive shout-out and thank you to our host, The Capitol, and to News40 for sponsoring this year's Sky Arts Film Festival!!

10/12/2022

Travis Newton from WKU Film welcomes everyone to the Sky Arts Film Festival next week!