The Cannes Independent Film Festival showcases the best of indie filmmaking, bringing together the year's most exciting indie filmmakers for a celebration of low-budget filmmaking during the annual Festival de Cannes.

Nashville Film Festival (NaFF) is hosted at the Regal Green Hills Stadium 16 in Nashville, Tennessee. Since 2004, the festival has doubled attendance to 23,000 - screening more than 250 films from 48 nations around the globe. 2010 will mark the 41st year for the Nashville Film Festival.

The 17-day New York Film Festival highlights the best in world cinema, featuring top films from celebrated filmmakers as well as fresh new talent.

Annual music, film, and interactive conference and festival held in Austin. SXSW Film has become one of the world's premier film festivals,[citation needed] focusing on new directing talent.

The official website for the Sundance Film Festival, the premier showcase for independent film held each January in Park City, Utah.

Now in its ninth year, Silverdocs is the most talked about documentary festival in the United States, called “Non-Fiction Nirvana” by Variety, the “Pre-eminent documentary Festival in the US” by Screen International and the “premiere showcase for documentary film” by Hollywood Reporter.

Silverdocs encompasses a seven-day international film festival and five-day concurrent conference that promotes documentary film as a leading art form, supports the work of independent filmmakers and fosters an atmosphere for public dialogue and civic engagement around the issues and ideas explored in the films.

The Toronto International Film Festival has become the launching pad for the best of international, Hollywood and Canadian cinema, and is recognized as the most important film festival after Cannes.

The Tribeca Film Festival was founded in 2002 by Jane Rosenthal, Robert De Niro and Craig Hatkoff in a response to the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and the consequent loss of vitality in the TriBeCa neighborhood in Manhattan.

San Francisco International Film Festival (SFIFF54, April 21–May 5, 2011), recognized throughout the world as an extraordinary showcase of cinematic discovery and innovation in the country’s most beautiful city.

WorldFest was founded 50 years ago as Cinema Arts, an International Film Society in August, 1961. WorldFest became the third competitive international film festival in North America, following San Francisco and New York. WorldFest is the oldest Independent Film & Video Festival in the World.