Founded: 1987 | Annual
About this festival
The Rocky Mountain Women’s Film Festival is the longest-running women’s film festival in North America, founded in 1987 by two women on the drive home from the Telluride Film Festival and held each October in Colorado Springs. It honors films and filmmakers that present the world as women experience it — documentary, narrative, shorts, and animated work that’s thought-provoking, enriching, and encourages both global awareness and personal growth. The festival is the cornerstone of a broader year-round organization that also runs Pop Up Cinema, a monthly Film Club, Shorts Night, and free community screenings, sustained by its long-standing Circle of Support membership program. Each fall the three-day festival is followed by a virtual encore, extending access statewide.