The Covey Film Festival is not just an opportunity to sit down and eat popcorn while watching the big screen. It acknowledges that film is now recognized as a major cultural visual art form in the same league as dance, theatre, and fine art. Thomasville is unique in the film industry due to its involvement in film production as well as the number of people with ties to the area currently active in the film world. The Festival itself is a vehicle to entertain, educate and engage audiences through the screening of over twenty acclaimed films—in addidtion to special events and pop-ups—during Covey’s seventh season in October.

The Festival is also the signature fundraising event for the Thomasville Community Resource Center which for twenty years has provided services to children, their families, and the community. All net proceeds return to TCRC for services (like the STEAM—science, technology, engineering, arts, math—program) for 500 children and their parents in ten sites in Thomas, Mitchell, and Grady Counties. To learn more about TCRC, click the logo below.

Schedule of Events

6:00pm: Devouring Beauties/Young Fires/Path Of The Panther At  Tall Timbers

Kick off the Covey Film Festival with an evening of films about nature and the efforts to protect it.

Devouring Beauties follows a team of botanists and conservationists as they rescue and relocate imperiled pitcherplants - all while guarding them from greedy poachers. Young Fires is a short award-winning trailer about the future of fire lighting. Path of the Panther works to inspire the conservation of the land the Florida panther needs to survive - the Florida Wildlife Corridor - which serves both humans and wildlife. Join us to learn more about the efforts to expand wildlife corridors throughout northern Florida.

Kick off the Covey Film Festival with an evening of films about nature and the efforts to protect it.

Devouring Beauties follows a team of botanists and conservationists as they rescue and relocate imperiled pitcherplants — all while guarding them from greedy poachers. Young Fires is a short award-winning trailer about the future of fire lighting. Path of the Panther works to inspire the conservation of the land the Florida panther needs to survive – the Florida Wildlife Corridor – which serves both humans and wildlife. Join us to learn more about the efforts to expand wildlife corridors throughout northern Florida.

Admission is $10.00