Thematic Design, Creative Expression and the Elements of Production are part of the magical process of realizing a film and seeing it come together. Today’s technology makes filmmaking far more accessible than it has ever been.


Each January following the previous July’s Coyote Awards Gala Event we will showcase for a second time all the films that were selected as semi-finalists. The Cave Creek Film and Arts Festival merrymakers decided that following our summer festival your clever, thoughtful and well-executed entries deserve to be seen at least once more … on the Big Screen … “in season.”


So place yourself at the

mercy of inspiration!

Come on Arizona,

share your story with us!

You never know who

might be in the audience …



Suzanne Johnson

Chair, Film Youth & Adult

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1st Prize     $1,000 Adult

                        $   500  Youth

2nd Prize    $   500  Adult

                        $   250  Youth

3rd Prize    $   250  Adult

                        $  100  Youth

Film

Labeled by the New Times as “the granddaddy of Phoenix microcinema”, No Festival Required has since 2002 featured truly independent film screenings by local, national and international filmmakers.


The Executive Director of NFR, Steve Weiss, is a Phoenix native and award-winning photographer and filmmaker. Fine art commissions have included the clients Del Webb Corporation and the law film of Gallagher and Kennedy, and he received in 1976 the Louis B. Mayer Film Grant while studying with George Kuchar at San Francisco Art Institute. Weiss received his B.F.A. in photography from Arizona State University in 1979.


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steve@nofestivalrequired.com


Juror Steve Weiss

Juror Patrick Schweiss

The Executive Director/President of the Sedona International Film Festival is a position he has held for the past six years.  He is responsible for expanding the festival from  3-days to a week-long celebration of the best independent films from around the world. He also initiated the Tuesday Cinema Series in Sedona which started in September 2004 as a once-a-month event and has now expanded to more than 40 Cinema Series events annually. In addition, he is the founder and chair of “An Evening at the Academy Awards” and “Reelin’ at the Ranch”, the two main fundraising events for the festival. An avid film lover, he has also been a movie critic for Larson Newspapers as well as a speaker at various film and journalism conventions around the world.

Paul Espinosa is a Filmmaker and a Professor in the Department of Transborder Chicana/o and Latina/o Studies at Arizona State University which he joined in 2004.  Through his company, Espinosa Productions, he has been involved with producing award-winning films for nearly 30 years, specializing in documentary and dramatic films focused on the U.S.-Mexico border region.  Among his films for PBS are: California and the American Dream, The Border, The U.S.-Mexican War: 1846-1848, ...and the earth did not swallow him, In the Shadow of the Law, and The Lemon Grove Incident.  (Visit www.EspinosaProductions.com for more information.)  Espinosa's films have been screened at festivals around the country and the world and have won many awards including eight Emmys.  Espinosa received his B.A. degree from Brown University and his Ph.D. from Stanford University.

Juror Paul Espinosa