Queens World Film Festival Presents "Sizzle Reel" Preview for Journalists
QWFF filmmaking mentors, teachers, students and the principal from PS 69 School after screening thier films for parents and classmates.
Queens World Film Festival is previewing for journalists on February 14 at MoMI some of the 135 movies by independent filmmakers in the U.S.A. and 50 countries.
Our Festival truly represents the diversity, cultures, people and arts of the melting pot that is Queens,which is the World's Borough.”
NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, February 13, 2017 /EINPresswire.com/ -- INVITATION TO A MEDIA BRIEFING — Katha Cato, Executive Director and Co-Founder of QWFF
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Professional journalists are invited to attend a news media briefing on Tuesday, February 14 at 9:30 AM to preview some of the 135 films that will be screened during the Annual Queens World Film Festival (QWFF). You can also speak with directors, producers and cinematographers who created the feature films, short narratives, documentaries and animated productions that will be presented by the QWFF from March 14 -19 in the World’s Borough.
Where: The Museum of the Moving Image, 36-01 35th Avenue, Astoria, NY (Near R/M Subway Lines, Steinway St. stop or N/W Subway Lines to 36th Ave).
Schedule of Events:
9:30 am – Doors Open - Media Mixer in Café
9:55 am - Transition into Bartos Room
10:00 am –Welcome by MoMI Executive Director Carl Goodman
10:05 am − Special Guests who are expected: Borough President Melinda Katz, N.Y.C. Council Member Daniel Dromm, Staff from the Mayor’s Office of Media & Entertainment, and Investors Bank Sr. V.P. and Queens Borough Regional Manager Michael Billia
10:15 am− QWFF Executive Director Don Cato - QWFF “Sizzle Reel” (3 to 5 minutes) and Festival Highlights
10:25 am −Sandra Schulberg: Discusses Spirit of Queens Honoree Julie Dash, the acclaimed independent filmmaker who was born in Long Island City.
10:35 am−Katha Cato, QWFF Executive Director and Co-Founder, Closing and Transition into Media Mixer
10:40 am − Q and A with directors, producers and cinematographers
10:50 am − Transition to Media Mixer with Filmmakers in the Café
11:30 am − Media Mixer concludes
ABOUT THE QWFF
The QWFF is honoring both national and international productions and includes an annual multi day/multi venue event, youth-oriented educational initiatives, and year-round screening opportunities for QWFF filmmakers, past and present.
The festival is programmed in thematic blocks with evocative titles, and each program is followed by a post-screening dialogue to engage audiences from the demographically diverse communities that comprise the borough of Queens.
Each year the festival enjoys a very robust submission register, with films being entered from all over the world. This year’s screenings include eighty to a hundred productions from fifty-four countries. Films will be screened by filmmakers from: Australia, Brazil, Canada, Egypt, England, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Iran, Japan, Mexico, Nepal, Norway, Philippines, South Africa, Turkey and more nations.
The 7th Annual Queens World Film Festival (QWFF) returns to the Museum of the Moving Image, and for the first time to the Kaufman Astoria Studios’ Zukor Theater from March 14-19, 2017.
The QWFF is sponsored in part by Investors Bank, which has nine branches serving the banking needs of the Queens community.
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Katha Cato
Queens World Film Festival
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