place

Cedar Rapids Independent Film Festival

American film festival stubsFilm festivals in IowaTourist attractions in Cedar Rapids, Iowa

The Cedar Rapids Independent Film Festival was founded in 2001 to provide a venue for Iowa filmmakers to show their work and for the general public to view the best of the state's filmmaking industry. It is held the first full non-Easter weekend in April, at the Collins Road Theatres in Marion, Iowa, a town adjacent to Cedar Rapids. The Cedar Rapids Independent Film Festival is open to independent filmmakers who wish to showcase their productions and network with others. Festival screenings are open to the public. In addition to screenings and awards, the festival also includes seminars, guest speakers and other activities for filmmakers and attendees. This festival is open to all genres and there is no date-of-completion stipulation. Films are accepted from around the country, Unique to this event, all films must meet the criteria of having an Iowa Connection - requiring that an entry has an association with Iowa such as a key crew member or actor born, lived, educated or worked in Iowa; a story set in Iowa or about and Iowa topic; or part or all of the film produced in Iowa.The Cedar Rapids Independent Film Festival has frequently screened works from mystery writer and director Max Allan Collins.Producers from the movie The Final Season have appeared at the Festival twice. The movie's trailer premiered at the 2006 event.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article Cedar Rapids Independent Film Festival (License: CC BY-SA 3.0, Authors).

Cedar Rapids Independent Film Festival
Twixt Town Road Northeast, Marion

Geographical coordinates (GPS) Address Phone number Website Nearby Places
placeShow on map

Wikipedia: Cedar Rapids Independent Film FestivalContinue reading on Wikipedia

Geographical coordinates (GPS)

Latitude Longitude
N 42.029086111111 ° E -91.623336111111 °
placeShow on map

Address

Catherines

Twixt Town Road Northeast 1440
52302 Marion
Iowa, United States
mapOpen on Google Maps

Phone number

call+13195313429

Website
catherines.com

linkVisit website

Share experience

Nearby Places

Marion Commercial Historic District
Marion Commercial Historic District

The Marion Commercial Historic District is a nationally recognized historic district located in Marion, Iowa, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009. At the time of its nomination it consisted of 41 resources, which included 29 contributing buildings, one contributing site, one contributing structure, two contributing objects, and eight non-contributing buildings. The historic district covers the city's central business district. The development of this area largely occurred when Marion was the county seat of Linn County (1838-1919). There are no county government buildings extant from this era. The city was also a division point for the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The period of significance is from 1855, when the oldest building in the district was built, to 1957 when the area had reached the culmination of its development. Fires in 1894 and 1895 destroyed a number of buildings, and they were replaced by more stylish commercial buildings. Commercial blocks in styles popular in Late Victorian era are dominant here. Most of the buildings in the district housed commercial operations, but it also includes three houses and two churches. Also located here is the former Marion Carnegie Public Library (1905), which is individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places. City Square Park is the contributing site. It was established in 1839, and the county courthouse was located across Sixth Avenue where the public library is now located. The Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument (1914) and the Cannon Monument, both located in the park, are the contributing objects. Tenth Street between Fifth and Seventh Avenues was paved with bricks in the late nineteenth century, and it is the contributing structure. Remnants of the historic train station that was torn down in 1988 were used to create a shelter house in City Square Park. It is one of the non-contributing buildings.