The Downtown Los Angeles Film Festival (DTLAFF) is an annual film festival based in Downtown Los Angeles.
The festival was founded in 2008 and the venue used is the Regal Cinemas at L.A. Live. The Grammy Museum helped sponsor the festival in 2009. As of 2018, the festival is the largest film and television event in the downtown area. Some of the feature films that screened that year previously debuted at Tribeca Festival, South by Southwest and Sundance Film Festival. The festival was previously known as Downtown Film Festival Los Angeles (DFFLA).
Since 2019, Greg Ptaceck has managed the festival which showcased over 100 films that year, most of which were directed by women. Recipients of the Independent Film Pioneer Award include Laura Dern, Kathy Griffin, John Hawkes, William H. Macy, Virginia Madsen, John C. Reilly, Julie Delpy and Mark Ruffalo.