About 10-15, including series at Lincoln Center and MOMA. Why do you ask?
It has been my experience that few filmmakers attend film festivals. We want our
films to be seen but we don't go see films made by people we don't know starring
actors we've never heard of.
I'm like you, I attended between 8 and 10 a year.
Monday-Wednesday I attended (July 2019) I attended The AOF Megafest in Las
Vegas. A friend had a movie showing on Wednesday so I went in early to see three
full days of movies.
What I saw was, unfortunately, typical. For the short films blocks there were usually
10 to 20 people in the theater. Once their film showed the filmmakers left. By the
end of the block I was alone on two out of five screenings. The features were more
difficult to know. Cast and crew, of course, but couldn't tell how many people who
weren't connected to the movie were there. What I did see at all the feature screening
I attended is as soon as the accompanying shorts were over the filmmakers left – they
did not stay to see the feature.
I took four days off work and spent over $500 in travel and hotel to support a friend.
But I also supported other filmmakers by seeing their movies.
Just think... if every filmmaker who has a movie in a festival just saw three other movies
there. And if every filmmaker when to one local festival a year...