The 2025 Digi60 Festival smashed records with its largest lineup of films and wall-to-wall sold-out shows.
- Ottawa Festival Network
- 24 hours ago
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OFN is thrilled to share the following recap of the 2025 Digi60 Festival from its organizing team. Congratulations to all involved!
The Festival this past weekend was a great success! With a record number of filmmakers participating this year and completely sold out shows, we are filled with gratitude for such an amazing community that is as supportive and passionate about local filmmaking as us.
The filmmakers for the 60-Day Challenge all had creative interpretations to the theme BLOOM. We know it’s not an easy undertaking to make a film in 60 days and we are in awe of the amazing films that the filmmakers were able to produce this year. We appreciated all the unique ways they told their stories through the theme, including a surprise live musical moment! Thank you to the filmmakers for sharing your creativity and stories with us.
The workshops and panels continue to be a great success and resource for the community. From the Speed Mentorship Lunch to the LIve Pitch Panel we appreciate all the mentors and lovely participants for their time and care.
We want to thank all the board members and volunteers for their help this past weekend. Digi60 is a volunteer-run organization so the event would not run without their support. All the volunteers were such lovely and caring folks who were happy to help throughout the whole weekend with no complaints and great attitudes. We are so appreciative of you all! The event would not have run as smoothly without them.
We want to thank our funders, sponsors and community partners. The festival would not be able to exist without their contributions. We treasure their partnership and their support of the arts.
We look forward to doing it all again next year, so mark your calendars for December 18th-20th 2026!
BTS Playlist
In case you missed them, Digi60’s wonderful practicum student Gracie Henneberry produced three mini-documentaries following the behind-the-scenes action for some of this year’s 60-Day-Challenge films. They screened after each film at the festival, but they’re also available on our YouTube channel.
2025 Released Films
Alongside our shiny new BTS docs, we’re also building our annual Digi60 YouTube playlist! As filmmakers start posting their projects publicly on YouTube, we’ll add them to the mix.
We’ll keep updating the playlist as more films appear online, so check back anytime to revisit this year’s incredible submissions. Enjoy the binge!
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