Avondale Film Festival

« All Events Brian Culbertson Jazz Concert Holloman Center for Social Justice Starting at $10 Attend the Avondale Film Festival on October 24 at the Holloman Center for Social Justice! The Avondale Film Festival is a nationwide competition of original short films for cash prizes. The mission of this film festival is to provide a platform for filmmakers to express visual stories that reflects their perspective on the world. This film festival brings together emerging talent from across the US while also spotlighting local talent from the Black community of Avondale and Cincinnati. By bringing together talented filmmakers from across the United States, we celebrate diverse voices and stories from all backgrounds! But tickets Cash awards will be granted from the following categories: Narrative Short Documentary Short Student Short Narrative 2026 Finalists Happy Sorrows (Cam Marshall) In therapy with his distant wife, a man fights to hold their relationship together, but as he wrestles with hidden wounds and flickers of forgotten joy, he begins to open up a deeper truth threatening to unravel everything. Unalive (Kwanza Nicole Gooden) Xoe is a rising Hollywood star who finally gets her big break after ten years of continuous hustle and trying rejection. Her workaholism has left her without any real connections so she has no one to share her big debut with except her distant Jamaican-American family, who are all too caught up in their own antics and dysfunction