The Western Film Festival

01/01/2026

Happy New Year from The Western Film Festival! Don’t forget submissions are open so submit your film projects today!

12/25/2025

From everyone at The Western we’d like to take this moment to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! Don’t forget to submit your films for consideration and maybe we’ll see you in April! Merry Christmas to all!!

11/27/2025

Happy Thanksgiving from The Western Film Festival! Drop a comment and tell us what you’re thankful for! We’ll go first, we’re thankful for all the support we’ve received the last five years!

11/11/2025

Thank you to all the veterans who have served our great country! We salute you! As our way of saying thank you we are going to offer 15% off entry fees for one week with the discount code SALUTE15!

11/09/2025

Big Announcement coming soon! Until then make sure you submit your films and plan to attend April 16-18, 2026 for the 5th annual The Western Film Festival!

11/03/2025

Who’s ready for The Western 2025! Super Early Bird Submissions open now!

11/01/2025

Submissions for the 2026 The Western Film Festival will open tomorrow. Don’t forget to mark your calendar for April 17 - 18, 2026 for the 5th and biggest year yet! Follow our social media pages for some big announcements this year and don’t forget to submit your films!

10/24/2025

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07/04/2025

06/02/2025

This past Saturday our friend J William Boothman II hosted his first annual Rootin’ Tootin’ Music and Film Festival at Horus Hall! Great venue, great people, great music, and great fun! In addition to the music videos and one film from the 2025 The Western Film Festival was shown with many of the film makers in attendance then Cowtown Movie Classics ended the night with two films! We made some amazing friends and know that each year will get better and better. If you didn’t attend this year make sure you plan to attend next year because it’s only going to get better!

On top of all that fun it was also J William Boothman II birthday! For those that don’t know we first met each other at the inaugural season of The Western Film Festival when he entered his awesome film “Ghost Trippers” and he came to Coleman to promote it! He ended up leaving with the first ever Fan Favorite Award from The Western and quickly became not just a friend but a trusted confidant and huge support and aid to The Western and has been a massive help to our success. This previous year we spoiled the surprise when we jumped the gun and presented him with his very own custom belt buckle making him the fourth member of our team to receive one! It was our honor to gift him one and even more of our honor to attend his birthday party and music and film festival. We can’t wait for the next one and look forward to all the great things he has in store. We’re sorry we had to leave early but enjoyed every minute we were there! Tell your mother hello for us and we will see yall next time around! Happy birthday once again and congratulations my friend!

~John Langley

05/29/2025

Another added event for the library.
Local Author Danny Allen has published his second book and will be here at the library June 13th, 2025, 2:00 p.m. Light refreshments will be served.