The following six values guide the Utah Film Center’s organizational culture and programming.
Quality Education: Our programs offer learning opportunities for Utahns of all ages about media literacy, filmmaking, art appreciation, and the world around us.
Community Engagement: We have partnerships with communities around the state to expand access to arts and cultural programming that inspires imagination and fosters connection.
Belonging: Our programs highlight underrepresented stories and storytellers, encouraging kinship and connection for all.
Arts Appreciation and Cultural Enrichment: We value independent filmmaking as a fine art. We encourage audiences to appreciate the craft of cinematic storytelling and the impacts it has on how we feel, think, understand ourselves, and relate to one another.
Valuing the Artist: We believe in paying artists for their work. We value filmmaking as a career and design our artist support programs to promote growth and professional opportunity. We believe wholeheartedly in keeping filmmakers in Utah to nurture and create a vibrant, creative, and sustainable filmmaking community.
Excellence of Craft: The Utah Film Center values thoughtfully curated, world-class filmmaking and film-viewing experiences, and we dedicate ourselves to bringing those experiences to Utah audiences.
We provide unparalleled opportunities for audiences to engage with filmmakers and local luminaries. We offer educators and students opportunities to learn directly from professional artists in the classroom. We connect Utah-based independent filmmakers to filmmaking resources and provide them with the skills and tools to do the work they love.
Anti-Discrimination Statement
The Utah Film Center believes that film is a window to other experiences and worlds, illuminating the diversity and solidarity inherent to the shared human experience.
We believe that film raises questions, fosters dialogue, creates critical thought, amplifies voices, and educates people of all backgrounds and demographics.
The Utah Film Center aims to utilize film as a means to bring people together across boundaries, creating a robust and diverse artistic and cultural community throughout Utah, based on empathy, inclusion, and belonging.
The Utah Film Center strives to:
- Create spaces where anyone, regardless of race, ethnicity, income, gender, sexual and/or romantic orientation, ability, and age, can watch, discuss, and create film safely and imaginatively.
- Uplift the creation of film and media arts by people of all ages from underrepresented demographics.
- Share with Utah audiences a variety of stories that highlight a diversity of voices and experience, for free or low cost, whenever possible.
- Ensure accessibility for all patrons at our events & screenings.
- Hire employees based on non-discriminatory philosophies and foster an inclusive, expressive, and safe workplace environment for all staff and volunteers.
