The Orlando-based Florida Film Festival showcases the best American independent and foreign films. Produced by Enzian Theater, the Festival has become one of the most respected regional film events in the country. Orlando is Spanish for Roland. More specifically it can be: Geographically a city in Florida; a town in Oklahoma; a township in South Africa; In fiction and arts (and/or as borderline fictional character) a character in Renaissance and Baroque literature and music. ...

Past guests include Oliver Stone, Gabriel Byrne, Famke Janssen, Jason Lee, Christopher Walken, Dennis Hopper, Leelee Sobieski, Steve Buscemi, Campbell Scott, and William H. Macy.

Festival seminars have included such film industry notables as Mike Medavoy, Bingham Ray, Allison Anders, Oliver Stone, Victor Nunez, Tom Prassis, Richard Shamban, Bob Berney, and Blair Witch creators Dan Myrick and Ed Sanchez; cinematographers Haskell Wexler and Bill Butler; animators Bill Plympton and Corky Quakenbush; screenwriters Shane Black and Ed Neumeier; and producers Gale Anne Hurd and Roger Corman.

The Festival includes narrative and documentary features and shorts, animation, midnight movies, and a full array of educational forums, glamorous parties, and other special events.

The Florida Film festival is considered on of the "Big 15" in the United States.