When those are held on different dates, weвЂ™ve said so. But weвЂ™re thrilled to see that so many festivals have evolved to provide both virtual and in-person editions. Plans for in-person festivals can change fast.

WeвЂ™d rather tell you about festivals you may not know.ДЄlso, the last two years have taught us to take nothing for granted. Just as we leave New York and Los Angeles off our annual list of the Best Places to Live and Work as a Moviemaker, because of course theyвЂ™re Hall of Famers, we donвЂ™t bother with this list to include the awards-circuit fests that can obviously make or break your career, like Cannes, Venice, Sundance, SXSW, TIFF, and Telluride. Of course we have a practical side as well, so weвЂ™ve factored in whether the festivals cover travel costs and accommodations, whether theyвЂ™re Academy Award-qualifying (such fests have an вЂњAвЂќ after their dates), and, of course, how much we think theyвЂ™ll help your film career. WeвЂ™ve all got two years of pent-up wanderlust, and canвЂ™t wait (with all the familiar pandemic caveats) to go fall in love with new places.

In this latest edition of our 50 Film Festivals Worth the Entry Fee, we added occasional extra points for festivals located in magnificent places you might never see if not for a film festival. Morales, whose вЂ90s high school comedy Generation Wrecks is coming soon, tweeted something recently that we strongly agree with: вЂњI will not judge anyone submitting a film to a festival simply because they want to visit the place the festival is located.вЂќ

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