The 2025 REELpoetry International Poetry Film Festival is right around the corner. Join us from March 31 - April 9th ONLINE. Tickets for the entire online festival are $20 and can be purchased here (All-access passes which include both virtual and in-person are $35): https://publicpoetry.ticketspice.com/reelpoetryhoustontx2025
More info including schedules and curators can be found here: https://www.publicpoetry.org/reelpoetry
We’re excited to announce a new festival format, expanding our online programs that will highlight all national and international screenings. You’ll be seeing juried submissions from across America plus thirteen countries around the world. The online line-up will also include invited curators and festival directors from Austria, Ireland, Mexico, England and America presenting special, themed programs. And, for the very first time, we also have some wonderfully imaginative poetry videos submitted by young creatives 18 and under.
For all you lovers of shorts and foreign films, this festival is both! Our films and videos are all less than six minutes in length, but pack a powerful punch. These are shorts that have poetry in their words as well as beautiful, poetic imagery. We also offer cutting edge work that deals with life in the raw, or that experiments with the footage as being its own art form. Foreign entries include work from Belgium, Canada, England, France, Germany, India, Ireland, Japan, Latvia, Mexico, Portugal, Romania, Spain, and all have translations. Many of these juried entries are U.S. and world premieres!
With new, expanded programming comes an expanded REELcafe, hosted by festival director, Fran Sanders. This is where filmmakers, poets, videographers, viewers, curators, creative submission judges, old friends and new get together in real time to meet, talk and network, every day. We’ll talk about what you’ve just seen, about what you’re doing now, ideas, questions, thoughts, whatever is on your mind. It will be great to see you there!
Saturday, April 12, we’ll be live and in-person in Houston, featuring poets and filmmakers from Houston and Texas in attendance, including the current Texas Poet Laureate among others. These programs include original collaborations, readings, interviews and performances by over twenty artists!