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Top 100 Film festivals in United States

This curated ranking covers the 100 largest film festivals in United States, ordered by estimated audience size from Rascasse's anonymized search-behavior signals. Out of 187 film festivals tracked in United States, the 100 ranked here account for the largest measured audience reach. Sundance Film Festival, Tribeca Film Festival and New York Film Festival lead the list with a combined estimated audience of 13M people. Across all 100 entries the average audience size is 205k, and the largest, Sundance Film Festival, reaches around 8.2M people in United States. Audience size is the estimated number of unique people in United States who actively engage with each film festival, derived from search demand signals. Rankings reflect search-behavior signals collected across United States and are refreshed weekly.

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Rank

Position in the Top 100, sorted by audience size from largest to smallest. Updated weekly.

Audience size

Estimated number of unique people in United States who actively engage with this audience, derived from anonymized search-behavior signals.

Country share

Share of the global audience that is active in United States. A higher value means the audience is more locally concentrated here.

Avg age

Average age in years across the people who engage with this audience in United States, derived from anonymized search-behavior signals. A dash means demographic data is not yet available.

Female share

Share of women among the people who engage with this audience in United States. 50% is gender-balanced; values above mean female-skewed, below mean male-skewed.

Ranking

Rank Audience Audience size Avg age Female share Subtype
1 Sundance Film Festival 8.2M 38.9 55.2% Film festival
2 Tribeca Film Festival 4M 40.2 53.7% Film festival
3 New York Film Festival 822k 46.7 51.0% Film festival
4 Venice Biennale 752k 35.7 52.9% Film festival
5 Telluride Film Festival 529k 46.9 46.0% Film festival
6 Overland Expo 527k 35.6 18.6% Film festival
7 Atlanta Film Festival 329k 50.2 44.7% Film festival
8 Chicago International Film Festival 320k 46.9 60.2% Film festival
9 Palm Springs International Film Festival 286k 42.6 47.8% Film festival
10 Austin Film Festival 230k 48.8 62.8% Film festival
11 Cannes Film Festival 216k 36.7 53.0% Film festival
12 New Orleans Film Festival 215k 41.0 48.7% Film festival
13 Busan International Film Festival 215k 44.1 57.0% Film festival
14 San Francisco International Film Festival 213k 44.4 53.8% Film festival
15 Nashville Film Festival 196k 45.1 52.9% Film festival
16 Fantastic Fest 193k 44.3 39.9% Film festival
17 Mill Valley Film Festival 193k 43.1 49.8% Film festival
18 Raindance Film Festival 191k 47.1 54.7% Film festival
19 International Film Festival Rotterdam 185k 41.1 50.8% Film festival
20 Full Frame Documentary Film Festival 167k 46.2 32.5% Film festival
21 Venice Film Festival 133k 36.5 53.2% Film festival
22 Banff Mountain Film Festival 125k 36.1 63.4% Film festival
23 Camden International Film Festival 123k 45.0 38.5% Film festival
24 Sonoma International Film Festival 109k 47.1 40.6% Film festival
25 Berlin International Film Festival 104k 36.5 51.9% Film festival

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Frequently asked questions

How is this Top 100 list compiled?

Rascasse aggregates anonymized search-behavior signals across United States and ranks each film festival by its estimated audience size. Only entries with at least 5 measured entities are listed.

How often is the list updated?

The ranking is refreshed weekly from the latest search-behavior data and re-published as a static page.

What is the largest film festival in United States?

Sundance Film Festival currently leads with an estimated audience of 8.2M people in United States.

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