The Blue-fronted Blue Flycatcher is presented as endemic to Sulawesi in a local guide to Sigi Regency. The guide records it at Gimpu, Lindu, Kamarora, Rorekatimbu, Napu and Besoa, and describes it as a forest bird.
Adult males have a dark blue crown and glossy blue eyebrow and breast, olive-brown upperparts, and deep orange underparts.
The Sigi guide describes it as a bird of forested areas.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.