2026 Festival Schedule Coming Soon!
2025’s program below:
Save The Farm, Save The Future
USA • ENGLISH • 60 mins
Director: Chad Webber Producer: Free Range Film Location: Longmont, CO
Farms are disappearing. Solar energy is rising. Could combining the two help save farmers and the planet? Introducing agrivoltaics.
Save the Farm, Save the Future follows Colorado farmers and ranchers as they explore agrivoltaics, a promising new approach that combines solar power and agriculture on the same land.
THE THIRD FLATIRON DAY
Pocket Doc
USA • ENGLISH • 6 mins
Director: Breann Bassler Climbers: Brandon, Hayley, Ana, Caleb, David, Fern, Jeremy, Juan Location: Boulder, CO
A group of local highliners spend a beautiful day out in the Flatirons rigging a line on the 3rd.
East Of Wall
USA • ENGLISH • 97 mins
Director: Kate Beecroft Writer: Kate Beecroft Starring: Tabatha Zamiga
After the death of her husband, Tabatha- a young, tattooed, rebellious horse trainer- wrestles with financial insecurity and unresolved grief while providing refuge for a group of wayward teenagers on her broken-down ranch in the Badlands.
Tinā
NEW ZEALAND • ENGLISH & SAMOAN • 124 mins
Director: Miki Magasiva Writer: Miki Magasiva | Mario Gaoa Starring: Anapela Polataivao | Antonia Robinson | Buehla Koa
A woman, grieving her daughter's death in the Christchurch quakes, becomes a substitute teacher at an elite school. Unexpectedly, she discovers students lacking guidance and care, prompting her to provide inspiration and support.
Pocket Docs
Make a micro-documentary from your microcosm.
Tell us a short story from your community — big or small, heartfelt or hilarious. No filmmaking experience necessary! Low stakes creation, it doesn't need to be perfect, it just needs to be done.
Keep it short: 3–7 minutes
Does not need to be professional grade, film it on the camera in your pocket (your phone!)
Due by 12pm on September 1st, 2026
Adult language acceptable, however try to keep themes within the PG-13 range
All accepted films will screen in the Pocket Doc Block of the Yellow Barn Film Festival
What counts as a “Pocket Doc”? Pretty much anything:
Who’s the person behind that quirky diner that’s been around forever? Go meet them.
Ever wondered about the mural everyone drives by but nobody really knows about? Find out.
Curious about your Grandpa’s Christmas tree business in the 1950s? Ask.
Who keeps stealing shopping carts from the grocery store parking lot? Investigate.
Or go full mockumentary: make a serious portrait of your cat’s double life as a vigilante… or trace the secret society behind your neighbor’s garden gnomes.
Be serious, heartfelt, absurd, or all three. Just keep it short and uncover a story hiding in plain sight!
If your film is accepted we would love for the filmmaker to join us for a Q&A after the showing.
Dinner • Food Truck
Farm Fresh Food Offerings
The Schlop Stop is a ruby-red food truck serving fresh, fast, and seasonal dishes made with ingredients from its own Sun Burns Farm. Founded by friends Shaun Burns, Jake Downy, and Michael Myrbeck, the crew brings farm-to-table to the street with simple, flavorful food grown and cooked by hand.
HOW TO FEST
BEFORE YOU ARRIVE
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There are no physical tickets, all ticketing is done online. Please present the QR code (emailed to you after purchase) at the door upon entry for the screening.
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Make sure you have your phone with you to present your ticket! If you do not have a smart phone, please print out your ticket to be scanned at the door.
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If you wear yellow socks to the event, tell a ticket taker upon entry, pass the vibe check and receive a YBF sticker - you rockstar.
WHEN YOU ARRIVE
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There is FREE (yay) PARKING along the main road when you enter the property.
Handicap parking is located near the barn box. Map below.
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You may purchase tickets when you arrive, just look for the QR codes or come back to this page and navigate to "tickets." All ticketing is online.
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All the screenings are accessible for wheelchairs, though please take note that the roads are dirt once you enter the property. Accessible restrooms are also available at YBF.
AFTER YOU ARRIVE
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If the screening is sold out, fear not! There will be a stanby line. Once all the ticket/pass holders have entered, we will count the number of people in standby and do our best to add seats in order to get everyone in, however we will have to cap entry once we hit the barn’s capacity of 150.
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Dinner will be available for purchase.
There will be concessions stand and popcorn!
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As the sun goes down, we’ll have a crackling fire pit and all the sweet fixings that are sure to leave you wanting s’more.
The Yellow Barn Farm
