The First Friday Film Festival is a late-night, short film festival recurring on the first Friday of every month in downtown Kansas City, Missouri showcasing some of the best work made locally, region. We are dedicated to exhibiting independent cinema that demonstrates what we define as a “unique artistic vision” and which places great importance on crafting well-developed characters and provocative storytelling. Festival programmers will give preference to films that could be classified as dramas, comedies, science fiction/fantasy or animated works, though compelling shorts in the horror/thriller, documentary and action genres will certainly be considered.