True Crime Film Fest

It is with a heavy heart that I must announce some unfortunate news. Due to circumstances beyond our control, TCFF 2023 has been cancelled. Filmmakers - keep an eye out from FilmFreeway regarding submission fee reimbursement. We hope to see you all again soon!

There’s still plenty of time for you to submit your true crime film! We accept narrative or documentary, short or feature!

Submit your true crime related film exclusively on !

Submissions are open on !

Hello! Cameron here, TCFF founder and fest director. On my way through Tennessee I stopped by to say hello to the one and only Erica Kelley, creator of , and our film festival host! We’ll both see you next year for TCFF #2!

This is just a reminder that Melvin Ortiz is innocent and continues to live behind bars for something he did not do. FREEMELVINORTIZ.ORG

Submissions are open on for the 2nd annual ! If you have made a film based on, inspired by or documenting a true crime or case, we want to see it! Professional, home made, shot on your phone… doesn’t matter! Submit today!

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If you are tagged in this post, CONGRATULATIONS! You are the winners of a free pair of film festival passes for our 2nd annual event on January 21st, 2023 in Marietta, GA! Cameron, the fest director, will be sending you a DM. Looking forward to seeing you next year!

Share the truth. Calling all doc and narrative filmmakers - if your project is based on or about a true crime, we want to see it! Submit on

is an incredible individual and it was an honor to sit with him and talk . Please check out Murder Was the Case for behind the scenes chats with myself and several of the filmmakers.

Vegas was wild and wonderful. Being sick for a week after returning to Atlanta was not. Stay tuned! I’ll be posting festival pass winners from the sign up sheets later this week!

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It was pretty cool seeing us on the marquee lighting up the sidewalk.

Featured on the left is Best Director winner (Big Trouble in Little Quartzsite) during a post screening Q&A with festival director Cameron Munson. 📸:

It’s official y’all! True Crime Film Fest is here to stay!

Erica Kelley conducts a Q&A after the shorts block with “Mountain Time” director Scott Hess and Team Ortiz, the group behind “Needle in a Haystack: The Melvin Ortiz Story” (freemelvinortiz.com) in our beautiful venue

2023 CALL FOR ENTRIES: Submit your film - whether it be doc or narrative, professional or homemade. If it’s based on a true crime story, we want to see it! Check out the link to our page in our bio.

The incomparable Erica Kelley, creator of is pictured here doing a live reading of her episode covering The Alabama Ace Murderess case. Erica is a true gem and we are pleased to have her back at the 2023 festival! 📸:

And we’re back! It’s no April fool, is returning for a 2nd year in January 2023 with host Erica Kelley of ! Stay tuned for fun photos, videos and highlights from the 2022 fest as we prepare for our trip to !

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True Crime Film Fest 2022 is upon us!

Doors will open for the first ever True Crime Film Fest at 11:30am today! Can’t wait to see you there!

Located in the lively Marietta Square in Marietta, GA - just outside Atlanta, is a classic, timeless theatre, gorgeously renovated. We couldn’t be happier to host our event here. See y’all tomorrow!

From allegations of widespread police corruption, a targeted campaign of political harassment and millions in town hall embezzlement, to a murder-for-hire plot hatched between the town's first two mayors, the tiny, desert borough of Quartzsite, Arizona, has seen conflict reserved for cities 100 times its size. Now, amid an unprecedented flurry of national headlines depicting police brutality and the overuse of authority, the citizens are fighting back -- and winning. “BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE QUARTZSITE” directed by Cyle O’Donnell is our closing film, screening at 8pm after a special presentation of Southern Fried True Crime.