Mimesis Documentary Festival

The Mimesis Documentary Festival in Boulder, Colorado, is an immersive theatrical and virtual experience featuring in-person and at-home screenings, workshops, and conversations with documentary artists, scholars, and producers from across the world. They are artist-focused, community oriented, and committed to providing a platform for the infinite potential of documentary media.

The annual competitive Mimesis Documentary Festival is an artist-focused event celebrating short, feature, and expanded documentary ranging from traditional, experimental, ethnographic, and regional projects. We focus on personal, underrepresented, and culturally specific subjects that offer the most profound experiences of art made from life. Mimesis is a not-for-profit initiative of the University of Colorado Boulder’s Center for Documentary and Ethnographic Media (CDEM) to create and foster a local, regional, and international network of artists and scholars.

Ever since the first edition in 2020, Root Films supports Mimesis Documentary Festival in a variety of ways - from curation to facilitation, promotion, advising and outreach within the documentary art world and academia. Luiza Parvu is a Senior Programmer; and Toma Peiu is a founding Advisory Board member at the CDEM.

The Call for Entries is currently open on Film Freeway.

The upcoming edition will run August 5-10, 2025 in person in Boulder, Colorado.