The marquee is lit for independent film.

The lights find you before the buildings do.

Las Vegas has never needed permission to put on a show, and independent film shouldn't have to ask twice either. This is a single night built around work made without a studio's backing - the kind of film that gets finished on favors, spare weekends, and a director who refused to wait for someone else's yes.

The night itself runs tight and on purpose. Doors open at 3:30, and the program starts shortly after: a curated block of shorts and features screened back to back, no padding, no filler reel while the room settles. Filmmakers in the room get introduced before their work plays, not after, so the audience knows whose decisions they're about to watch. Awards go out at the end of the block, in person, off a list decided that week - not a predetermined envelope. After that the screen goes dark and the room stays open: no hard cutoff, no second ticket required to keep talking. Directors, editors, and whoever handled sound on a film that just played end up in the same corner comparing notes, the way a real production crowd does when nobody's rushing them out.

We're screening the selected films at Corporate Las Vegas - Workspace Near The Strip, 5725 S Valley View Blvd, Las Vegas, NV, on November 21, 2026, from 3:30 to 5:30 PM. It's a working space, not a hotel ballroom - close enough to the Strip to see the glow, far enough from the casino floor to actually hear the film.

Bring the film that couldn't wait for the sequel it deserved.