2025 Lake Placid Film Festival
This popular four-day event, held on Oct 30 – Nov. 2, screens a variety of cutting-edge films, while also hosting roundtable discussions, parties and events in the beautiful Adirondack Mountains.
The Lake Placid Film Festival
Adirondack Film is celebrating its 24th year as the Lake Placid Film Festival returns to the beautiful Adirondacks. This year’s festival features award-winning international films, shorts, and TV pilot competitions and panels featuring esteemed filmmakers. Those behind the screen will share lively discussions about the various aspects of filmmaking, from the birth of an idea to the distribution of a completed film. Enjoy talks from NYWIFT, ACW Catalyst Story Institute and Stockade Works as well as the 2025 Artists in Residence Elegance Bratton and Chester Algernal Gordon.
View a full schedule of screenings and panels here.
The festival will kick off with an Opening Night Party at the High Peaks Resort from 5:30 to 7pm. After that, from 7 to 9pm, engage in an exclusive Q & A with Director Elegance Bratton and Producer Chester Agernal Gordon about their film, Move Ya Body: The Birth of House.
To end the festival, on Sunday, November 2, there will be a free family screening of Jumanji for its 30th anniversary!
History of the Lake Placid Film Festival
The Lake Placid Film Festival began with a raging blizzard in 1997 when more than 300 people braved the bad weather to come to the Palace Theatre in Lake Placid for a screening of Atom Egoyan’s new film The Sweet Hereafter. The Adirondack Film Society was born two years later.The mission was broad and included an independent film festival, year-round screenings of independent films, classic films, silent films, and films of local filmmakers.
Over the years, what is now called the Lake Placid Film Festival, has hosted numerous film luminaries, including directors, screenwriters, actors, educators, film critics and others devoted to independent film and diverse and cutting-edge film projects
Guests have included Milos Forman, Paul Schrader, Jay Craven, Cliff Robertson, Buck Henry, Willem Dafoe, Raoul Peck, John Cameron Mitchell, Norman Jewison, John Sayles, Mira Nair, Campbell Scott, Frank McCourt, George Romero, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Stephen Trask, Martin Scorsese, Jon Favreau, Guillermo del Toro, Ray Harryhausen, Peter Riegert, Mathew Modine, Steve Buscemi, Jimmy Tolkan, Kyra Sedgwick, Parker Posey, Sarah Polley, Jonathan Demme, Elvis Mitchell, Debra Winger, Michael Barker, Hal Holbrook, and many others.
Attending the 2025 Lake Placid Film Festival
Annual Pass: Producer Pass plus all Adirondack Film events through the year including See Something That Means Something
$ 350.00 Get Tickets Here
Producer Pass: Festival Pass plus Red Carpet Cocktail
$ 200.00 Get Tickets Here
Festival Pass: Screenings, Panels, Parties, Mixers, etc.
$ 100.00 Get Tickets Here
Student Festival Pass
$ 50.00 Get Tickets Here
Friday or Sunday Pass: Screenings, Panels, Parties, Mixers, etc.
$ 25.00 Get Tickets Here
Saturday Pass: Screenings, Panels, Parties, Mixers, etc.
$ 65.00
Take Amtrak to the Lake Placid Film Festival
Experience the Lake Placid Film Festival via Amtrak to the Westport Station (WSP) in Westport, NY or to the Plattsburgh Station (PLB) in Plattsburgh, NY. Don’t forget to use the Amtrak See New York and Save 15% discount!
Rent a car with Enterprise! Click here to reserve your car or call the Plattsburgh office today at: 518-566-0248.