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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
26 Orlando Film Festival 98k 46.5 37.1% Film festival
27 Palm Springs International Festival of Short Films 97k 40.0 43.8% Film festival
28 Edinburgh International Film Festival 94k 41.9 54.3% Film festival
29 Sarasota Film Festival 87k 45.7 39.3% Film festival
30 Sitges Film Festival 86k 43.2 47.5% Film festival
31 Toronto International Film Festival 86k 37.2 54.6% Film festival
32 Dallas International Film Festival 84k 44.8 36.6% Film festival
33 Philadelphia Film Festival 83k 42.6 31.1% Film festival
34 Maryland Film Festival 79k 46.3 36.4% Film festival
35 San Diego Film Festival 75k 45.8 34.6% Film festival
36 Wisconsin Film Festival 74k 47.3 34.7% Film festival
37 Metro Manila Film Festival 73k 47.2 63.4% Film festival
38 Guadalajara International Film Festival 68k 38.7 23.9% Film festival
39 American Film Festival 65k 44.6 55.3% Film festival
40 Indiana Comic Con 61k 35.8 44.2% Film festival
41 Montclair Film Festival 53k Film festival
42 48 Hour Film Project 39k 34.2 52.4% Film festival
43 American Black Film Festival 37k 39.7 70.7% Film festival
44 Denver Film Festival 36k 42.4 56.7% Film festival
45 Cinelatino 33k 41.6 43.3% Film festival
46 Rome Film Festival 33k 31.5 48.5% Film festival
47 Vancouver International Film Festival 28k 30.4 48.1% Film festival
48 Woodstock Film Festival 24k Film festival
49 ReelAbilities 24k 33.8 39.0% Film festival
50 Virginia Film Festival 20k 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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