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Minnesota Film Arts Minnesota Film Arts’ is a non-profit organization dedicated to fostering an active and living appreciation of the film arts in the Twin Cities and greater Minnesota. We pursue our mission through numerous programs in the areas of presentation, production, and advocacy.

Minnesota Film Arts currently runs programs in each of its mission areas, Presentation, Production, and Advocacy.
Film Festivals:	Our festivals comprise an additional 200 film programs for a hugely diverse audience in excess of 40,000 and include the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Film Festival, the LGBT Film Festival (now in its 15th year), the Childish Film Festival and Sound Unseen (notorious for its celebrating the fusion of sound and the moving image).
Oak Street Cinema:	Year-round Oak Street programming presents to the Twin Cities film community the best in historical narrative film, current international cinema, and current independent films from the U.S.
Bell Auditorium:	Proud to be the nation’s first exclusively non-fiction theatre, the Bell Auditorium has become a pioneer for documentary screenings from the US as well as the international arena. Our programs at the theatres currently exhibit approximately 200 film programs annually for an audience in excess of 60,000.
Access Screening:	Access Screening provides opportunities for and collaborations with special interest groups that enable them to use our respective theatres at or below cost.
Collaborative Production Programs:	Collaborative Production Programs are aimed at encouraging filmmakers in the Twin Cities region, and include our annual Trailer Training program and quarterly 24-Hour Film Challenge, both of which are undertaken in collaboration with the local production organization Scene 6. In addition, we have immediate plans to launch a Screenplay Players series, and we have submitted numerous high-profile grants for an Artist-in-Residency program, to be launched as part of the 2006 M-SPIFF.
Advocacy Programs:	Our advocacy programs are also new, and to date include an interactive website serving local filmmakers, a weekly e-mail newsletter serving the local film community, and an active partnership program, putting our theatres and organization at the service of various interest groups throughout the Twin Cities.