15th Annual St. Augustine Film Festival

The 2025 annual St. Augustine Film Festival will be held from Thursday, January 9, through Sunday, January 12, 2025. Three locations will hold film screenings: Lewis Auditorium, Gamache-Koger Theatre, and the Alcazar Room in City Hall by the Courtyard. The festival will show 40 films over four days, created by international, local, and regional producers and directors.

The 2025 Film Festival

Independent and foreign films can be viewed at three locations throughout historic downtown St. Augustine: Lewis Auditorium, Gamache-Koger Theater at Flagler College, and the Alcazar Room at St. Augustine City Hall.

The St. Augustine Film Festival, now in its 15th year, will include dramas, comedies, and documentaries and will feature U.S. independent films and foreign films.

As of November 2024, we know four of the feature films for the 2025 festival:

• Queen of the Ring, directed by Ash Avildesen, is a true story about a woman wrestler in the 1930s. Mildred Burke, played by Emily Bett Richards, became the first woman athlete to earn a million dollars. The movie shows the sexism and misogyny she had to endure along the way. 
• Bob Mackie: Naked Illusion, directed by Matthew Miele, is an unfiltered study of the award-winning costume designer. 
• The Shape of Things: The Dick Brewer Story, relates the story of innovative and legendary surfboard designer, Dick Brewer. This film was directed by Bob Campi, who has won the Emmy for cinematography three times.
• Here's Yianni!, a film about the owners of a family diner on the New Jersey shore. Plousia, played by Julia Ormond, must deal with Yianni, her husband of 40 years, who begins to experience cognitive issues. Yianni, portrayed by Joe Cortese believes he is a late-night talk-show host. Other actors in the film are Kevin Pollak, Rosanna Arquette, Eric Roberts, and Sofia Vassilieva. Christina Eliopoulos wrote and directed Here's Yianni!

Passes go on sale on November 22, 2024, and the multi-day passes can be purchased here. At some point, the website will also have a film guide with film descriptions, actors, film trailers, run times, and the festival schedule. 

Admission: Passes can be purchased online. There are several ways to enjoy the film festival:

• All Access Pass - Includes entry to all films and access to all four parties: $275.00.
• All Film Pass - Allows entry into all of the films, at all venues during the January film festival: $110.00.
• All Lewis Pass - Allows entry into all films played at Lewis Auditorium during the January festival: $75.00.
• Individual film tickets. Go here to purchase single tickets.

When: In 2025, from Thursday, January 9 through Sunday, January 12. Films will be shown at various times and locations throughout the weekend. In addition to the films, there will be an Opening Night Dinner on Thursday at Asado Life, a Friday night party at Casa de Vino 57, a Saturday party at a location to be named later, and a Wrap Party at the Markland House on Sunday.

Where: In 2025, the main theater is Lewis Auditorium, 14 Granada Street, St. Augustine. Films will also be shown at Gamache-Koger Theater, 50 Sevilla Street, on the ground floor of the Ringhaver Student Center; and in the Alcazar Room at St. Augustine City Hall, 75 King Street. The entrance to the Alcazar Room is via the Courtyard.