Heartland Film Festival 2026 · Indianapolis
Presented in partnership with 24K Artisan Agency

Meet. Create. Build.

Beyond Entertainment and 24K Artisan Agency are attending Heartland together to meet filmmakers, artists, production professionals, educators, organizations, and partners who want to create meaningful work and strengthen Indiana's creative ecosystem.

Heartland 2026 Creative Partnership

Two brands. One shared festival mission.

Beyond Entertainment and 24K Artisan Agency are partnering for the 2026 Heartland Film Festival and plan to collaborate at future events as well. At Heartland, we will attend together, conduct interviews together, discover multidisciplinary talent, and develop relationships that can continue well beyond the festival.

Beyond Entertainment

Brings film, media, live performance, creative production, education, artist development, events, and the developing Film & Media Academy into one multidisciplinary ecosystem.

24K Artisan Agency

An artist-focused agency and professional network created for multidisciplinary creatives, with an emphasis on quality opportunities, representation, relationships, and professional growth.

Why We Want to Interview You

We want the story behind the story.

Our interviews are not designed simply to collect promotional sound bites. We want to understand why a story mattered enough to make, how the creative team brought it to life, what challenges shaped the process, what emerging creatives can learn from the experience, and what comes next. Together, Beyond Entertainment and 24K Artisan Agency want to give directors, writers, actors, producers, crew members, and other artists room to speak about their work in their own words—and to create relationships that may lead to future features, collaborations, workshops, artist opportunities, productions, and events.

Choose your path

How do you want to connect?

Every introduction at Heartland should lead somewhere useful. Choose the path that best describes what you'd like to explore with Beyond Entertainment.

01

Create With Us

Directors, actors, writers, cinematographers, editors, composers, producers and crew looking for future collaborations.

Start a conversation →
02

Be Featured

Filmmakers and artists interested in interviews, profiles, podcast conversations, festival coverage or future content.

Request a feature →
03

Teach / Mentor

Working professionals who can teach a masterclass, workshop, demonstration or mentor emerging creatives.

Explore the Academy →
04

Partner

Arts organizations, schools, production companies, venues, media organizations and community partners.

Explore a partnership →
05

Sponsor

Brands, foundations and businesses interested in supporting creative education, productions, events and artist development.

Discuss sponsorship →
Beyond Entertainment

A multidisciplinary creative ecosystem.

We're building connections across film, media, live entertainment, artist development, education, content production and creative events—so good ideas and good people have more ways to become real projects.

Film & Media Production

Creative development, production relationships, interviews, original content, short-form media and future narrative/documentary projects.

Film & Media Academy

Practical education built around working professionals, workshops, masterclasses, mentorship and real production experience.

Artists & Performers

Cross-disciplinary opportunities for musicians, actors, visual artists, spoken-word artists, filmmakers and other creatives.

Creative Partnerships

Programming, sponsorship, content, events and organizational collaborations that can grow beyond one festival conversation.

Film & Media Academy

Working in the industry? Your experience can become someone's education.

We're especially interested in directors, DPs, producers, writers, editors, sound professionals, composers, actors, production designers and other practitioners who would consider a focused masterclass, workshop, demonstration, guest talk or mentorship experience.

I'm Interested in Teaching
Heartland 2026 Connection Form

Let's continue the conversation.

Use this form after we meet at Heartland—or even if we haven't met yet. Tell us what you're creating and where you see a potential connection.

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