Cascade Reel Festival · Boise, Idaho Buy a pass

Boise, Idaho · Passes on sale

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Screenings, filmmaker Q&As, workshops, community showcases and an awards night — the whole reel, run in Boise, Idaho.

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Frame 08 · Cascade Reel Festival

Frame 07 — What this is

A festival built on real film and the dry country it's shown in.

Cascade Reel runs light through a gate, twenty-four frames a second, in rooms full of strangers who go quiet at the same time.

It is a film festival in Boise, Idaho: screenings, filmmaker Q&As, workshops, community showcases and one awards night. Nothing staged for a camera. Just work on a screen and the people who made it, in the room.

Doors open. Lights drop. Nobody talks.

  • 01 Screenings Features, shorts and late-night reels, projected in the dark where they belong.
  • 02 Filmmaker Q&As The people who made the work, in the room, answering for it.
  • 03 Workshops Hands-on rooms for the parts of the craft you can't learn from watching.
  • 04 Community showcases Local makers, local work, on the same screen as everything else.
  • 05 Awards night The reel runs out and the room stays. One night, held.
A projectionist threads film through a projector in a dim booth
Frame 07 · Projection booth, before the first reel

Frame 06 — The schedule

The full programme. Read it like a contact sheet.

Every block, every room, every Q&A. Scan down the strip and pick your frames.

An outdoor dusk screening in the foothills with an audience in folding chairs
Frame 06 · The schedule, projected

Frame 05 — Q&As & workshops

The parts you can't learn from watching.

Filmmakers stay after their screenings and take questions until the room empties. Workshop rooms open the next morning — small groups, tools on the table, working hands.

  • 01

    Filmmaker Q&As

    Straight after the screening, in the room, with the people who made it.

  • 02

    Workshop rooms

    Hands-on, small groups, no lecture hall. You leave with something you made.

  • 03

    Community showcases

    Local work, shown on the same screen as everything else.

Hands working with film strips and a splicer on a workshop table
Frame 05 · Workshop room, mid-session

Frame 04 — Awards night

The reel runs out. The room stays.

One night at the end of the programme. The screenings are done, the questions are answered, and the festival hands out what it came to hand out.

An empty stage lit by a single spotlight with a microphone stand
Frame 04 · Awards night, before doors

Frame 03 — Passes

One pass. Every frame.

A festival pass covers the screenings, the filmmaker Q&As, the workshops, the community showcases and awards night. Buy once, sit through the whole reel.

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Audience silhouettes lit by the glow of a cinema screen
Frame 03 · House lights down