About F3

F3: Queen City Film Festival, Film Curation, & Film Awards started out as the F3: Frankly Film Fest an annual all genre festival established in 2005 to showcase independent films. In 2016, F3 combined with a local convention, The Un-Con. In 2020 because of the Covid19 pandemic, the festival and convention went virtual and remained virtual until 2022 when the convention disbanded. In 2023, F3 became a hybrid festival - incorporating both online and in-person screenings. In 2024, we changed the name and added an audience award component to the film competition.

We have monthly competitions along with quarterly audience choice awards. Each year we have four in-person screenings, three featuring our Audience Choice Screenings and one featuring the winners for the entire year. Occasionally, we will have pop-up in person screenings in the Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky area.