The award-winning third annual Ogden Film Festival returns November 8-9, 2019 to present quality films selected from Utah around the world. We've received submissions from acclaimed features to short films where filmmakers will showcase their talents in the historic Peery’s Egyptian Theater. Awards will be presented in various categories, including the coveted Audience Choice Award, and filmmaker Q&A’s held with some of the directors or creatives responsible for the participating official selections. The event is open to all ages (while some material may be inappropriate for those under 5). Please check ogdenfilmfestival.org for updates and announcements. OUR STORY When Paramount Pictures founder William Hodkinson first sketched the mountain peak logo that has since become one of Hollywood’s most recognizable emblems, he said it was in “memory of his childhood home in Utah.” Hodkinson grew up in Ogden and eventually opened the first movie theater in the city. Within a few years, the Ogdenite changed the way movies were produced, distributed, exhibited and has been called “The Man Who Invented Hollywood.” The inaugural Ogden Film Festival celebrates the best in local film and talent. From acclaimed features to amateur short films, the Ogden Film Festival is a place for filmmakers to showcase their talent to audiences in a historic cinema venue — Peery's Egyptian Theater. The Ogden mountains that inspired Hodkinson to reshape Hollywood are proof that talent and inspiration can be found in the most unlikely of places, that artists are only bound by their determination.