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Panther City Film Festival

The Panther City Film Festival is an independent film festival and screenwriting contest from the Fort Worth area, held at the City of Hurst Conference Center. Its organizers describe it as a festival by and for filmmakers, built around networking, panels and showing new and established filmmakers' work side by side, including experimental and offbeat films. Judges award best feature and short in three groups (made in Texas, made elsewhere in the U.S., and international), best feature and short screenplay, genre awards and an audience choice prize. The 2026 edition ran June 18–20. Dates for 2027 had not been posted on FilmFreeway as of October 2026.

Festival · Hurst · Active

Next
Usually June
City of Hurst Conference Center
Panther City Film Festival (producer Bill Hass, director Sean Furey)
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Categories
Texas Feature
Texas Short
Non-Texas Feature
Non-Texas Short
International Feature
International Short
Feature Screenplay
Short Screenplay
Prizes
Juried awards for Texas, non-Texas and international features and shorts and for feature and short screenplays; genre "best of" awards (drama, comedy, horror/thriller, science fiction, music video, web series) and an audience choice award.

Notable

2026 edition held June 18–20; listed as running 11 years with 100+ reviews and a Best Reviewed badge on FilmFreeway ↗︎
No fee waivers; films are not streamed during the festival ↗︎
Sources
  1. Panther City Film Festival FilmFreeway

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