ANGAELICA

Overview

Originally founded as an annual Festival in 2008. Now, starting in 2025, we have now expanded our offerings into an 18-month Fellowship with the focused intention on providing meaningful support to our individual artists, storytellers and independent filmmakers! “Literally integrates film, art and nature with filmmakers sleeping in tents and taking a break from filmgoing to enjoy the outdoors.” - Indiewire "If a camping trip and a film festival had a baby, you'd get Festival Angaelica" - Slamdance “I was impressed with the family feeling, encouraging environment and one-on-one attention created for the artists involved” -Jay Duplass, Duplass Brothers Productions “They have created an environment that's all about stripping away the facade and stripping down to what is important: creativity and camaraderie. You've created a community at Angaelica for filmmakers to come together to bond, a place to share ideas, hopes, dreams, failures and successes. A place to learn and grow as filmmakers and people.” -Claudia Adams, Alumni Filmmaker Celebrating thousands of independent filmmakers, artists, screenwriters, actors and creative community over many years through many iterations of support. We are grateful to continue connecting visionary artists in unique settings. We host our festivals as well as pop-up events and screenings, with a history of unparalleled camping and outdoor adventures paired with fine theatre screenings, workshops, and panels, including online creator community gatherings. Always built to be in a family-friendly environment where incredible collaborations are founded. We have been so proud of our many filmmakers who have met at our events and through our workshops and gone on to make exemplary works together. We are excited to share your film, but we are even more excited to meet you and help you on your creative journey. We are a mentorship based festival and creator ommunity that is founded on the understanding that artists need a strong creative community to be able to grow and challenge their own creations. We hope to be a part of building your network and inspiring you further in your career. We hope your submission here will be just the beginning of a longstanding relationship with us, where we can empower, encourage and elevate you and your filmmaking. We are excited to get to know you and your works. ANGAELICA has a rich history. Founded initially to connect creator through mentorship based productions, we than founded our innaugural celebratory event as the Washougal International Film Festival in 2008. We then grew and stretched ourselves along the Columbia River to incorporate more of our beautiful natural surroundings and community members, celebrating works from Portland to Hood River in Oregon and Vancouver to White Salmon in Washinton . In 2016 we began our "On the Road" series and were invited to Big Bear Lake, CA where we began to call our events, Festival Angaelica, in honor of our foundation, Angaelica. And in 2019 we were invited to host a pop-up festival in Minnesota. So at present, we have hosted festivals, events, and programming in Washington, Oregon, California, Minnesota and Florida. Come adventure with us. We are not a traditional festival and more of an ever evolving creator community. Our creator community events are shaped by the artists and filmmakers involved. We are continually growing organically thanks to the incredible involvement by our alumni and participating artists. We are an international event with a community focus, the events are open to all filmmakers and artists working within the medium of film. We often combine public screenings with small forums to engage in a dialogue of social issues and cultural exchange through the powerful language of film in all genres. We showcase a variety of local, national and international films, aiming to share a broad range of projects representing current affairs and relevant topics that affect our communities. Encouraging student, independent and professional works for screening. We are here to share stories and the power and art of film. Films will be valued on the merits such as; creativity, ingenuity, story, attention to detail, and the ability to challenge us and make us feel. Our goal is to bring together a community of creative, inspiring, individual thinkers who encourage us, inspire us, generate thought, stir our laughter, bring about smiles, make us cry, enrage us, entertain us and explore our emotions, values and purpose. Sometimes offering unique outdoor screenings and live music events, we are full of surprises. We have in the past set aside days in the middle of our events for white water rafting, kayaking, paddle boarding, hiking and other incredible activities in the the great outdoors! Angaelica events take place over an extended window with screenings at a variety of venues with individual themes determined by the films accepted into our events. We also host individual screenings and pop-up events. This will vary from year to year. We welcome opportunities to bring our creators to audiences however best possible. We will honor films and filmmakers with a range of awards for outstanding achievements in their respected field. The ANGAELICA foundation offers non-profit 501 (c) (3) support and operates events and fiscal sponsorship through grants and donations from individuals and corporations, membership, private sponsorship and submission fees. An important note: We are focused on the cultivation and support of our creators. Our goals are to be a meaningful part of the creative journey by championing artists, filmmakers, screnwriters and creators work in a safe, encouraging and hopefully also challenging environment of collective creative community. We are honored to celebrate our creators work in the festival format. We are not a premiere festival or a marketplace and are in many ways agnostic to the content we show. If a creator has a project they are hoping to share, speak about, get feedback on and be engaged with other creators in that same way - we welcome you. We believe we must all listen, learn and unlearn from one another. We are intentionally focused on being a part of creatives career trajectory and hope to meet them wherever they are on that journey.

Last updated Sep 4, 2026

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