Big Dam Film Festival
big dam film festival annual event organized young professional quincy area nonprofit networking community development organization quincy illinois festival feature independent film around world showcase format usually held saturday evening spring proceeds event used organize support event endeavor throughout community quincy illinois big dam film festival established clinton begley christopher mackenzie native quincy illinois member young professional quincy board festival named lock dam mississippi river icon local quincy source revenue city inaugural event occurred february featuring film selected total film submitted selection short video introduction ed begley jr began event since inception event sold well advance subject rave review praise clinton begley christopher mackenzie actively participated planning coordination event throughout transitional year subcommittee young professional quincy took majority planning begley mackenzie since divested planning future festival festival direction newly formed committee saw change direction format instead single evening short film two separate evening featurelength film shown locally produced hampshire screened thursday may mchugh theater campus quincy university friday night hosted locally produced short night woodlawn critically acclaimed education feature presentation twonight format retained featurelength documentary beer war screened friday night original short festival preserved saturday night state room big dam film festival official site young professional quincy official site