Inwood Film Festival

 

Inwood Art Works presents

2024

INWOOD FILM FESTIVAL

May 23-26, 2024

Campbell Sports Center

505 W 218th Street

New York, NY 10034

 

$15 Single Tickets / $50 Festival Pass

$85 Benefit Ticket / $125 Benefit Ticket & Festival Pass

IFF+ Online Festival: $3 Single Tickets / $20 Festival Pass (on sale May 26)

*$10 Single ticket/$40 Festival Pass discount for local students.  Email info@inwoodartworks for promo code and attach proof of valid ID.

Click here to read all about the Official Selections playing!

Thursday, May 23

Opening Night Benefit

Thursday, May 23 – 6:30-10:00pm

Special feature presentation of acclaimed documentary film, The Boys from Kingsbridge, post screening interview with post screening conversation with filmmaker Thom MacNamara, and Brendan Carroll, Danny McNally, and Mike Hussey with Inwood Art Works’ Founder and Executive Producer, Aaron Simms.

Five friends from the same neighborhood in the NW Bronx grow up and go separate ways. Amazingly, four of them come to be at the same place at the time on that fateful day in September 2001. Written, Produced and Directed by Thom MacNamara, the “5th unseen friend,” The Boys of Kingsbridge is a compelling, gritty and honest story of survival, community, and what selfless people do in a time of crisis.

Plus, experience delicious food, refreshing beer from Dyckman Beer Company, and delectable desserts in celebration of our incredible filmmaking community!

$85 pre-purchase.  $125 day-of, and at the door, if space allows. Tickets can be purchased at www.inwoodartworks.nyc

Friday, May 24

Seminar: SAG-AFTRA Contracts for the Indie Creator

Saturday, May 24 at 4:00pm – 45 minutes – Pay-what-you-will. Appropriate for beginners and professionals.

Learn the contracts available to you through SAG-AFTRA to empower you to make your film. Members of the SAG-AFTRA New York Local, including Actor/Writer/Producer, Sarah Seeds and Lief Larson (SAG AFTRA NY Board Member & TV Academy Member) offer their expertise in everything including contracts, budgeting, and creation. Q&A to follow.

Get to Eleven

Feature Exhibition – Friday, May 24 at 7:00pm – 60 minutes – Plus special post-screening conversation with filmmakers Padraic Lillis and David Quay.

Long Shorts: IFF Filmmaker Fund Shorts

<25 min. Shorts Exhibition – Friday, May 24 at 8:35pm – 77 minutes – post-screening filmmaker conversation and reception featuring Inwood Filmmaker Fund grantees immediately following.

Featuring Inwood Film Festival Filmmaker Fund Films:  This is Jane. See Jane…, Alternate Side Parking, Condos, Nana, Puerto Rican Jew.

Saturday, May 25

Seminar: Budgeting, or Telling Story of your Film through Numbers

Saturday, May 25 at 12:05pm – Pay-what-you-will. Appropriate for beginners and professionals.

Before you make your movie, you need to make a budget!  Do you know how to tell the story of your film through numbers?  Join Founder and Executive Producer of Inwood Art Works, Aaron Simms, as he shares the essential financial considerations all filmmakers need to account for before they shoot their first frame.

Long Shorts: Dancing Beyond the Boundaries of Realty

Saturday, May 25 at 1:35pm – 45 minutes – Plus special post-screening filmmaker conversation immediately following.

Featuring:  Resurrection, Opening Ceremony, The Gorgon Cycles, Stay With

Seminar: Screenwriting with Samuel D. Hunter

Saturday, May 25 at 5:30pm – 45 minutes – Pay-what-you-will. Appropriate for beginners and professionals.

Learn about the ins and outs of screenwriting with acclaimed playwright and screenwriter, Samuel D. Hunter.  Q&A to follow.

Short Shorts

<5 min. Shorts Exhibition – Saturday, May 25 at 7:00pm – 46 minutes – post-screening filmmaker conversation immediately following.

Featuring: Check Please, Self Love, The Pillow Case, Hairpiece, Bald, The Late Set, Josh and Lyla go to Dinner, This is Inwood, Solitude, The Duplicate.

Long Shorts: Finding, Bonding, and Belonging

<25 min. Shorts Exhibition – Saturday, May 25 at 8:35pm – 67 minutes – post-screening filmmaker conversation immediately following.

Featuring:  City of Dreamz, Fundamental Shapes, Un Bizcocho Para Mi, Suspicious Minds, Dummy

Sunday, May 26

Long Shorts: Uptown – Criminal Intent

<25 min. Shorts Exhibition – Sunday, May 26 at 1:35pm – 60 minutes – Plus special post-screening conversation with filmmakers.

Featuring:  Honest Work, On Point, Mangu Aqui 2

Robin Hood (Student Film from Pied Piper Children’s Theater)

Feature Exhibition – Sunday, May 26 at 3:35pm – 60 minutes – Plus special post-screening conversation with filmmakers, Joe and Leslie Burby.

2024 Awards for Excellence in Filmmaking

Sunday, May 28 at 5:00pm – FREE, all are welcome!

Join us in the Theater following the final screening on Sunday, June 5 for the announcement of the Inwood Film Festival’s Awards for Excellence in Filmmaking!

IFF+

Online only Festival Programming – On demand Sunday, May 26 through Sunday, June 16. Tickets on sale beginning May 1 at www.inwoodartworks.nyc

Inwood Art Works is thrilled to launch IFF+ as the online extension of the Inwood Film Festival.  If there is one positive thing that we’ve learned from the Covid-19 pandemic, it is that our community exists beyond geographical boarders.  Our goal for IFF+ is to provide an alternative digital platform that celebrates, showcases, and enhances accessibility to the films of our fantastic local artists.  Our hope is that these online festival screenings attract large and enthusiastic new audiences for local independent filmmakers.

Friday, May 23 to Sunday, June 12, IFF+ Exclusive Online only Screening of One for the Ages.

Sunday, May 26 to Sunday, June 12 – IFF+ all Inwood Film Festival film programming available.

2023 IFF Opening Night Benefit

TheOpening Night Benefit for the 2023 Inwood Film Festival includes a special feature presentation of the award winning film, The Whale, with post screening conversation with Inwood-based screenwriter Samuel D. Hunter by Inwood Art Works’ Founder and Executive Producer, Aaron Simms.

From Darren Aronofsky comes The Whale, the story of a reclusive English teacher who attempts to reconnect with his estranged teenage daughter. Starring Brendan Fraser in an Academy Award winnng performance, and based on the acclaimed play by Samuel D. Hunter.

Plus, experience delicious food from Amores Café, unlimited wine and refreshing beer from Dyckman Beer Company, and delectable desserts in celebration of our incredible filmmaking community! Advance tickets are $85 increasing to $125 at the door, so book early!

New York City Quarantine Film Festival

Presented by Inwood Art Works, producer of the acclaimed Inwood Film Festival and Film Works Alfresco programs in NYC. The purpose of the New York Quarantine Film Festival is to encourage New Yorkers to express their creativity, celebrate their city, exercise their resilience, and have some fun while staying safe in quarantine during the COVID-19 pandemic.  

The Winners

After two weeks of voting, here are the 10 most “liked” films from the 100+ entries that were submitted, in order of popularity (the “Best” film for each of the nine borough and genre categories wins $250):

Best Bronx Film: Alone With My Demons by Juan Ramirez, Jr.
Best Horror: Captor by Regan Alejo
Best Manhattan Film: Out of Joint by Chang Wen
Best Comedy Film: When Filming A TikTok Goes Wrong by Teaa Taylor
Best Brooklyn Film: 19 Times by Mariana Meraz
Top Ten Honorable Mention: Day 63 – A Dancer In Quarantine by Julia Bengtsson
Top Ten Honorable Mention: Quarantine Day 237 by Andrew Sanford
Best Dramatic Film: A Sunday in May by Carlos Matias
Top Ten Honorable Mention: Pane Pals by Mary Albert, Omar Camps-Kamrin
Top Ten Honorable Mention: NYC Life in Quarantine by Marija Parente

And rounding out the awards:

Best Queens Film: Dead or Alive by Polly Solomon
Best Staten Island Film: The Tale of Propsey by Eduardo Guzman
Best Kids Film: Big Brother by Dylan Lopez

Congratulations to all the winners, whose film will be shows at our Alfresco screenings later this summer, and thanks to everyone who submitted a short film. We hope they made everyone’s quarantine that little bit more tolerable and creative.

And don’t forget — you can still see all the short films that were submitted to the New York Quarantine Film Festival (over 100 of them) on our YouTube page

Stay safe!

The Original Guidelines:
  • Films must be shot, while practicing safety and social distancing, in your quarantined area located within the five boroughs of NYC.
  • Films can be no longer than 3 minutes in length.
  • Films must be shot with your phone.
  • Films should be submitted in the following genres: Comedy, Drama, Horror, Kids (made by Kids 12 & under).

Submissions open May 18, 2020 and close May 29, 2020 on FilmFreeway –- no Submission Fee, suggested donation of $3 to Inwood Art Works. SUBMIT YOUR FILM

Submissions closed on May 29, but all entries that followed the guidelines have been officially selected as part of the NYCQFF and posted to Inwood Art Works YouTube channel as a NYCQFF Playlist.  The films with the most likes by the general public at the end of the voting period from June 1- 13, 2020 receive awards.

Awards:

Filmmakers will be awarded $250 each for the “most liked” films for the following awards voted on by the general public:

Five “Best in Borough Awards” for the most liked film submitted from Manhattan, Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens, and Staten Island.

Best Comedy Film – for the most liked comedy film.

Best Dramatic Film – for the most liked dramatic film.

Best Horror Film – for the most liked horror film.

Best Kids Film – for the most liked film made by a kid, 12 and under.

Special Bonus: The “Top 10” liked films, along with the awarded films, will get a public presentation (post-quarantine) in NYC Parks in 2021 as part of Inwood Art Works’ Film Works Alfresco outdoor cinema series.