Staten Island Film Festival
The third (I guess you can say annual) Staten Island Film Festival will take place from June 5 to 7, with an awards ceremony on June 8. They are actually changing the name to SINY Film Festival, because “SINY” is being used in other Staten Island promotions.
I didn’t get to attend last year’s (I was in Spain) but I did see about 5 or 6 films in 2006 and about half were really excellent, 2 were just OK and only one was dreadful.
About 75 films will be shown this year in only 3 venues: College of Staten Island, JCC in Seaview, (both deep in the heart of Staten Island) and the Richmond County Bank Ballpark in St. George (right next to the Staten Island Ferry Terminal). The last two years they had 8 venues, but this year apparently they want to make it easier for filmgoers to see more films without having to run all over Staten Island. The 75 films are in 25 categories, from Best International Feature, to Best Dramatic Short, to Best Cinematography, to Best Staten Island Local Film.
I’ll be there this year! I think it is a great event–I dragged along two friends in ‘06 who aren’t really film buffs, but they enjoyed it, too.
Links below are story from Staten Island Advance announcing the festival and the other is a link to the festival’s home page.
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