CFF is an entirely volunteer-run non-profit film festival. Though we’ve often been billed as a genre or a horror film festival, the truth is every year; we gather a selection of films we genuinely love and share them with an audience we also LOVE. So whatever type of film your project is, don’t hesitate to send it our way. We think of CFF as our yearly movie mixtape, and any mixtape worth its salt owes it to its listener to have a good mix of all kinds of things. We also encourage weirdness: There, we said it.

We share films that are unique, challenging, significant (both critically and well, haha otherwise), and most importantly, fun. We particularly love little films that feel like big films because we like to think of Chattanooga as a small town with big ideas. Our ultimate goal is to remember, discover and cultivate cinema worthy of everyone’s love and respect and create a community of warm-hearted cinephiles around it.