title: Palm Springs Festival of Festivals
text: # Palm Springs Festival of Festivals
  
  Palm Springs Festival of Festivals used to take place in October/November Palm Springs, California.
  
  It was established in 2001 by Craig Prater, Executive Director, as a showcase of short and feature films as a challenge to the longer-standing Palm Springs International Film Festival, of which Prater had previously been director.
  
  The festival aimed to attract all ages of the community, with the inclusion of a four-day International Children's Film Festival complete with a youth panel of jurors and awards created by elementary age children to acknowledge participants. All profits from the Children's Festival were donated to the Children's Museum of the Desert.
  
  The Palm Springs chapter of Women in Film sponsored the award ceremony. Awards included Best Female Director, Best New Director, The Hadassah Award, The Passion Latino Award, Best Jewish Film, The Diversity Awareness Award, Audience Awards and the Vision Award, given to the best digital film.
  
  