The Maui Film Festival is an annual film festival held in June. Maui Film Festival welcomes filmmakers, industry luminaries and a diverse audience of movie lovers from around the world to share in the festival's mission of compassionate and transformative storytelling. Since its inception in 2000, the festival has developed a reputation as one of the most exciting of Maui events, drawing a large crowd of attendees many of whom call "The Valley Isle" their home and others who think of it as their home away from home.