18th annual 2026 Ashfield Filmfest

This year’s FilmFest will take place on Friday, September 18th and Saturday the 19th at Ashfield’s Town Hall. It always fun-filled and fabulously filmic!

Friday’s Program - TBD

Check back soon!

Saturday’s Short Film Competition

On Saturday, September 19th, the community will again pack into Ashfield’s historic town hall for the short film competition. The exciting screening will showcase a juried collection of community-created films on the big screen followed by a gala awards ceremony.

Please Consider Submitting a film for This year’s FilmFest

Find details on our submissions page.

The following review was anonymously submitted to FilmFreeway from one of the 2023 contributing filmmakers.

This was roughly my 20th festival in 2 years. Since Ashfield is such a little rural town and the films are supposed to have some sort of local connection, I was expecting it to be small and campy compared to the international fests that we'd just come from. I imagined it would be like attending an elementary school talent show. WOW was I surprised. 

The event was packed with enthusiastic energy of all ages. The films were extremely creative and diverse. Even after sitting for hours, I was just "more more more!". I mean, even the kids' projects were captivating.

The antics of the hosts and the overall experience of being there was just... big city level. They're too humble to flaunt it, but there is some big name Hollywood cred hidden in ranks. This is high art masquerading as a community pageant. Or perhaps community pageants are the new high art in this technological age. 

Everyone leaves in a good mood. Perhaps I'm reviewing the community as a whole, but after my second year attending, this is something I'm scheduling my calendar around from now on.