New York City Films & Movie Festivals

Present - To Come in 2008 - Past

Present - To Come in 2007 - Past

coming in October
Here it's back once again for the 5th year! That's right. This Film Festival featuring not only classics but as well some of the best of its genre to the Tribeca Area. So there's still time to get your tickets and hop aboard for all the spooky fun!
Learn more at New Yorkled's Horror Film Fest Page as well as the official site.

coming on Mondays in Summer of 2007
Oh yes! This is an item which so many thousands of folks have enjoyed over and over again every year. A chance to truly enjoy classic films in the outdoors smack in the middle of Manhattan!

Present - To Come in 2007 - Past

June 20-29, 2003
Asia Society and Museum 725 Park Avenue @ 70th St. New York City
'and the official website

June 19 - July 3
Since 1982, the Israel Film Festival has been dedicated to promoting Israeli culture, teaching tolerance and gaining an understanding between all people worldwide through the powerful medium of film.
Official website

June 27 - July 10, 2003
The Film Society of Lincoln Center’s Walter Reade Theater
Visit this page to see the schedule and to learn more

Military History Cinema Night at the Harbor Defense Museum (Free)

Thursday, July 24th - 7:00pm
The Harbor Defense Museum of Fort Hamilton presents a monthly discussion series focusing on History through film. The featured movie will be "The Beast" (1988) -- a story about a Russian tank crew's fight for survival in Afghanistan during the Soviet occupation. The program begins at 7:00 pm inside the museum's lecture room located at Fort Hamilton (101st Street and Fort Hamilton Parkway). Admission is free. For reservations, please call (718) 630-4349.
How to Get Here: Fort Hamilton is located on the southwestern tip of Brooklyn, New York, at the base of the Verrazano Narrows Bridge. Visit the official website.

Thursday nights in July (July 10, 17, 24, and 31)
Park Jam: 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Feature Film: 8:45 PM - 10:30 PM
Crotona Park by Indian Lake
(Charlotte Street & Crotona Park East)
The "Boogie Down" Bronx
Visit the Park & Recreation site for additional information as well as the Free/Cheap Concerts Page Listing for directions

August 5th in New York at Pianos
John Gallagher to Host the Home Film Festival
A Showcase of Indie Filmmakers
August 5th in New York at Pianos, 158 Ludlow Street at 7:00 p.m
Visit this page to see the schedule and to learn more

Through August 7
Taking place within Prospect Park as part of the Celebrate Brooklyn! schedule of events.
Visit this page to see the schedule and to learn more

Thursday, August 28th--7:00 pm
"Paths of Glory" (1957) --Stanley Kubrick's grim depiction of French Army politics during World War I.
Harbor Defense Museum lecture room
Fort Hamilton--101st Street and Fort Hamilton Parkway
Admission is Free
For reservations, please call (718) 630-4349

2003: August 29th - August 31st
BAAF consists of an entire weekend of films, anime and manga, live events, creator panels, business meetings, academic symposia, fan contests and lots of fantastic vendors. Both the trade and the public are welcome. Tickets are available in different levels and denominations. The smallest is the 1/2 Day Pass for $15 (Adult) & $10 (Children)
Visit their site for additional information

Wednesday, September 3 to Sunday, September 7, 8:00 pm
Rumsey Playfield
East 72nd Street off Fifth Avenue
Presented by Bloomberg
Curated by the American Museum of the Moving Image
The Central Park Film Festival, celebrating the 150th Anniversary of Central Park and the 15th Anniversary of the American Museum of the Moving Image, will present five movies in which Central Park plays a major role. On each of the five evenings, a producer/director or celebrity associated with the film will speak prior to the screening
Visit this page for additional information on the Film Listings

September 11: A Day of Remembrance
Enjoy free admission to the museum all day. View special films pertaining to the attacks on New York. Visit the 911 Events Page for more info regarding these short films.

Friday, September 19th at Riverside Park South
8pm
70th Street Pier Plaza, Riverside Park South, Manhattan
This evening's program, entitled Old Man River, pays tribute to some of the country's rivers. The program will feature several short documentary films.
Riverside Park. Call (212) 408-0219 for more information

WAITING FOR EUGENE
September 18 2003 8pm
327 Bowery, between 2nd and 3rd Streets
Waiting For Eugene
Written by Robert Segarra
Starring Nicholas M Garofolo & Melany Ziglar
Directed by Gold
Music by Syndicate
approx run time 15min.
Eugene and Dolores are being torn apart. He has been offered a promotion that will require that he relocate to Chicago. Dolores, meanwhile, has no intention of leaving New York City. The two begin trying to convince the other that their decision is the best one for the two of them.
http://www.geocities.com/waitingforeugene

The Con Man
Written by DaveGold
Starring Nicholas M Garofolo & Tracy Calev
Directed by Gold
Music by Syndicate
approx run time 15min.
http://www.geocities.com/con_man_film/
MANHATTAN SKYLINE FILMS
888.915.7020
http://www.geocities.com/manhattan_skyline2000/

indiefilmpage.com and Coney Island USA present the 3rd annual CONEY ISLAND SHORT FILM FESTIVAL, Sat. Sept. 27th & Sun. Sept. 28th 2003 at the legendary Sideshows by the Seashore in Coney Island, Brooklyn. Visit this site for details

Information regarding the next Comedy Film Fest to come

October 8 - 14, 2003
A week-long celebration of Films, Art, and Music.
Tickets are $6 per series. Visit the official site for more info.

October 17, 2003 - 8:00 pm
LUNAFEST, a national festival of films by, for or about women, will return to screens nationwide for the third year beginning in October 2003. In addition to providing national exposure for emerging women filmmakers, LUNAFEST also supports one of the most important causes for women today by donating proceeds from the festival to The Breast Cancer Fund (TBCF). Visit the official site for more information.

October 17 - 23
HBO and The Association of Independent Video and Filmmakers present the sixth annual Frame By Frame HBO Documentary Film Series in New York. $5 tickets at the Screening Room, 54 Varick Street. Visit the official site for more information.

October 25 from 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Machinima, short for Machine Animation, is the practice of making animated movies using video games, specifically the video-game engines found within certain first-person shooter games. Machinima fuses aspects of animation, puppetry, video games, and live performance within a software-driven context. The second annual Machinima Film Festival will take place at the Museum this Saturday, October 25 from 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Throughout the day, the festival will present screenings, panel discussions, artist presentations, and demonstrations. For further information and a full program, please visit www.movingimage.us/machinima. Admission to the Machinima Festival 2003 is free. Tickets for individual programs are available with event registration, which begins at 11 a.m. in the Museum's lobby. Seating is limited.
Visit this page for details on the schedule and show listings.

3rd Annual BIFF Best of the Fest
Friday, November 14 - 8pm FREE!
Brooklyn International Film Festival presents a collection of short experimental and animated films from around the world including Day 26 (Germany, 2002), Call Baker (France, 2003) and Butterfly (Ireland, 2002). All this and fresh popcorn! Visit the BRIC Studio Events Page for more from this wonderful cultural NYC Institution.

If you missed the festival, this is an opportunity to catch the best short features. Join us on Sunday, December 14th for the one and only reprise of BUFF 2003.

6:30pm, Sunday 12/14/03
in the BUFF screening room at THE NEST
(88 Front Street at Washington, DUMBO, BKLYN)
Visit their site for more info

March 5 - March 27
Click for info on obtaining tickets

NYIIFVF runs April 22 - May 2 and offers a diverse range of shorts, features, documentaries and animations from all around the world. In addition to the screenings, the festival hosts special events including industry panels and after-parties for participating artists, delegates, members of the press and the viewing public.

Village East Cinemas, 181 2nd Avenue (at 12th Street) in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village. Tickets are $10, available at www.ticketweb.com or at the theater.

BIFF is scheduled for June 4-13, 2004 and will be held at the Brooklyn Museum of Art (BMA).
www.brooklynfilmfestival.org

June 3-13
Founded in 1988, The New Festival, Inc. is a non-profit media arts organization that annually presents NewFest: The New York Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, & Transgender Film Festival, one of the most comprehensive forums of international LGBT film/video in the world, as well as NewFest@BAM, a bimonthly LGBT programming series at the landmark Brooklyn Academy of Music's Rose Cinemas.
Box Office: Loews Cineplex Entertainment 34th Street Theater
312 W 34th St (at 8th Ave)
Phone: 917.328.3914 Visit the official site for details

Presented by Asian CineVision in association with the Asia Society

July 16th - July 24th
Asia Society, 725 Park Avenue, New York

Asian CineVision in association with the Asia Society presents the nation’s longest running festival devoted to the works of filmmakers of Asian descent with over 120 features, documentaries, shorts and videos, many of them New York premieres. Highlights also include animation screenings, panel discussions, workshops, screenplay reading, parties and more! To pre-purchase tickets until July 15th please visit www.AsianCineVision.org or phone 212-327-9341.

That's right! The show will go on once again this year. Those great outdoor films put forth by the Hudson River Trust featuring great movies in the outdoors and free popcorn will be quite the feature this year. From Flicks for Adults to movies for the kiddies, we'll get to experience such films as Scream, The Ring, Sleepy Hollow and even Goonies, Harry Potter and much more. Visit this special page on New Yorkled regarding this very special events.

August 5, 12, 19, & 26, 2004 (Every Thursday)
8:00 p.m.
Free & Open to the Public
All features to be preceded by local short films!

Visit this page on New Yorkled to learn much more about this special upcoming Film Series

Wednesday Evenings
July 21 - September 1, 2004
(Rain dates August 18 & 25)
Pre-screening performances begin at 7:00 pm
Films begin at sunset
Visit this page on New Yorkled for the complete Summer 2004 Listing

Beginning May 22, 2004
at the Coney Island Museum, 1208 Surf Ave.
$5 with Free Popcorn
Films begin at 8:30pm on Saturdays

The annual Gen Art Film Festival will span from:
April 6th to April 12th and will be a week full of "exciting and provocative North American independent films by today's most talented emerging directors. 7 exhilarating premieres followed by 7 soon-to-be legendary parties..."
To learn more visit the official site

April 22 - 27, 2005
The Lower West Side Film Festival opens with a special screening of the never released Pickup's Tricks and an opening party at M1-5! We're going to give you what Hollywoodn't! Lots of art, performances and parties with an edge.

You can get tickets online at theatermania.com and 1/2 hour before each screening at:
Collective: Unconscious
279 Church St. @ White St.
Take any train to Canal St. or the 1/9 to Franklin St.

Details for everything at http://www.lwsff.org.

Taking place from April 15 - April 21, 2005
This festival will showcase award-winning films and highlights from Havana’s Festival Internacional del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano, as well as new independent films from and about Latin America. The Festival opens at the Quad Cinema (34 W. 13th Street between 5th & 6th Avenues) on April 15th with 3 films from the Tribute to Pastor Vega beginning at 1 PM and the Opening Ceremony and screening at 7 pm with the NY premiere of Love by Mistake (Perfecto amor equivocado) by Cuban filmmaker Gerado Chijona (Adorables mentiras). Set in Havana, this romantic comedy tells the sweetly ironic story of a middle-aged writer, at the height of his career. A mid-life crisis throws him into professional and personal turmoil further complicated by the women surrounding him. Love by Mistake was shown at the Sundance Film Festival in 2004 as part of the World Cinema program and won the Audience Award at the 2004 Comedy Film Festival, Peñíscola, Spain.
To learn more visit the official website for this venue

April 19 - May 1, 2005

Taking place in our very own Tribeca area in lower Manhattan will be the fourth (4th) annual Tribeca Film Festival which was first launched in 2002. This annual event brings in hundreds of thousands of visits and such to the area...and ideal which is part of its initial aim: To revitalize and encourage the growth and recovery of the downtown area of NYC.

To learn more about this set of cinemagraphic events and to purchase tickets visit their official website at: http://www.tribecafilmfestival.org

Taking place from late April into May.
The Brooklyn Arts Council (BAC) is pleased to announce the BAC 39th International Film and Video Festival, the longest running film festival in Brooklyn. Featuring films and videos by independent, college student, and youth (K-12) filmmakers from New York and around the world, all works were selected by a panel of New York film and video professionals.

Admission to all screenings is free (except where noted). Many of the filmmakers will be available for questions during their respective screenings.

Visit this special page put forth on New Yorkled Magazine regarding the Brooklyn Arts Council Film and Video Festival

Friday, May 20 through Sunday, May 22, 2005
Over 20 Pioneering Films, Hula, Chanting and LomiLomi Workshops, Live Polynesian Music, Dance & Theater bring the true Pacific Island experience to New York City In collaboration with NYU Tisch School of the Arts Graduate Department of Film and Television, the Hawai`i Cultural Foundation (HCF), will present the 3rd Annual Pacifika: New York Hawaiian Film Festival 2005. Films will be screened on all three days at the Cantor Film Center (36 East 8th Street) and the NYU Tisch Film & Television Theaters )721 Broadway, between 3rd & 4th Streets)
Visit the official site for more details: www.hawaiiculturalfoundation.org

kidsfilmfest, a new initiative of the Brooklyn International Film
June 5, 1pm - 5pm

The Brooklyn International Film Festival is proud to announce the first annual kidsfilmfest. We are planning a day of fun and festivities for children of all ages.

The kidsfilmfest will offer a variety of activities including an outdoor carnival at the Brooklyn Museum’s Sculpture Garden and a program of original children’s films in the museum theater from 2pm-5pm.

For more information, please visit their
website: http://www.kidsfilmfest.org or call 718.388.4306

• Saturday, July 8 - 7:00 PM
  Music and Film
• Saturday, July 9 - 7:00 PM
  Music and Film

Visit the SummerStage official site as well for other relevant details

• July 6 - 8:30pm
  Buena Vista Social Club
• July 13 - 8:30pm
  The Last Waltz

Learn more at the official Washington Square Park Council website