Foxtail Film Festival

Foxtail Film Festival A yearly film festival organized by Illinois State University students, who are closely involved in every aspect of festival curation and management.

06/04/2026

🎥 Calling all filmmakers ❕❕❕ The Big Muddy Film Festival Submissions are now open for our 49th festival. Submit now❕❕❕

The festival will take place March 18-20th, 2027 at the Varsity.
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04/09/2026

The 2026 Foxtail Film Festival is TWO WEEKS AWAY! April 23 - April 25 (schedule on way soon)

We are so excited to share these students’ short films with our community.

Check out this epic short developed by our Technical Committee.



02/26/2026

So proud of the students in the Film Festival Management and Curation class, who made this video for !

All contributions go directly to supporting our student team and the festival’s success to develop promotional materials, plan filmmaker panels and student-centered workshops, and host community satellite events.

https://birdsgiveback.illinoisstate.edu/campaigns/foxtail-film-festival

Birds Give Back is NOW! Support your local student-led film festival! https://birdsgiveback.illinoisstate.edu/campaigns/...
02/26/2026

Birds Give Back is NOW! Support your local student-led film festival!

https://birdsgiveback.illinoisstate.edu/campaigns/foxtail-film-festival

“Festivals focus, discuss, and change global film culture, they embody the idea of film as a field of knowledge, past present and future.”
-quote selected by social media management team from our class textbook by Cindy Wong, Film Festivals : Culture, People, and Power on the Global Screen. (Thank you Milner Library - Illinois State University for the ebook access!)

Illinois State University School of Communication at Illinois State University

12/30/2025

Hardy winter foxtails in uptown Normal on extremely windy day. And hard to capture the beauty of the wind howling through the parking garages.

10/25/2025

See links in bio or go to filmfreeway.com and search for us

10/05/2025

Entry deadlines feel a long time away. Not so long? Register for COM/THE 334 and manage the film festival

film festival in the heart of Illinois open to all high school and college student filmmakers. 🏁 film freeway site is op...
09/22/2025

film festival in the heart of Illinois open to all high school and college student filmmakers. 🏁 film freeway site is open for submissions. link in bio

09/22/2025

competition open to all high school and college filmmakers 🏁 submissions are open - link in bio

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61761, 61790

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