IFS - First Online Film Festival

Please Join Us at the Movies From Anywhere on Any Device

Please join us on the weekend of the film festival. Also, please invite your friends as well. The more people you invite, the better! Admission to the film festival is FREE and open to all. 

Also, watch the films as many times as you wish.

You and your friends can use any device you wish to view the films and any reasonably fast broadband connection. We do recommend that you use the fastest possible broadband network that is available to you. Faster networks will allow us to serve a higher quality version of each film to your device.

To view each film at the highest possible quality that we offer (1080p, which is 1920 x 1080 x 24 frames per second) your broadband connection should be able to sustain video payload of about 8,692-kilobits per second. However, through our Adaptive Streaming platform, we are also presenting each film in ten lesser speeds. Our media platform will automatically throttle up or down to serve the highest quality video stream that your broadband connection will allow.

The slowest speed presented will be as low as 264-kilobits per second, typical of a slow third-generation wireless network. Whatever connection speed you have, our platform will automatically adjust to accommodate you.

Watch from your smartphone, computer, or Chromecast the festival's films to your 1080p high-definition television screen.

Each film is about 15 minutes in length, and all five films at the festival take about an hour to view. We also have plenty of background material to read and about two hours of bonus features.

The Festival Films Will Be Coming March 6th

The films that we will be showing in our online film festival will be made available beginning at 2 p.m. Central Time on Friday, March 6, 2015.

Until then, this section of our website (the festival's mini-site) is stocked with background information about our festival and its films. See the buttons in the sidebar on the right-hand side of the page. From time to time, we will be adding new pages and additional information, so please return.

When the film festival opens at  2 p.m. Central Time on Friday, March 6, 2015, the sidebar will be modified to include buttons that will link to each film that will be shown.

Please Join Us at the Movies!

Please join us on the weekend of the film festival. Also, please invite your friends as well. The more people you invite, the better! Admission to the film festival is FREE and open to all.

Also, watch the films as many times as you wish.

You and your friends can use any device you wish to view the films and any reasonably fast broadband connection. We do recommend that you use the fastest possible broadband network that is available to you. Faster networks will allow us to serve a higher quality version of each film to your device.

To view each film at the highest possible quality that we offer, your broadband connection should be able to sustain video payload of about 8,692-kilobits per second. A broadband connection of this speed will net a 1080p high definition video with a spatial frame size of 1920-pixels x 1080-pixels at 24 frames per second.

However, we will also support connection speeds as low as 256-kilobits per second, typical of a slow third-generation wireless network.

Watch from your smartphone, computer, or Chromecast the festival's films to your 1080p high-definition television screen.

Each film is about 15 minutes in length, and all five films at the festival take about an hour to view.