The jam-packed week and a half of screenings and events will conclude with an Awards Ceremony on August 13 at the Jamaica Performing Arts Center in Jamaica Queens. The film festival includes a variety of world premieres and North American premieres.World premieres include Isaac Dell’s Boys At Twenty, and North American premieres include Aly Yeganeh’s Sibel’s Silence, Pelayo De Lario’s Tales of Babylon, and Cindy Drukier’s The Unseen Crisis: Vaccine Stories You Were Never Told.Īlong with its presentation of more than 100 screenings, the festival will also offer filmmaking seminars and workshops completely free and open to the public at the Queens Library in Forest Hills. It’s back at the Regal UA Midway and the Queens Library at Forest Hills with screenings, panels, discussions, and Q-and-As. In its seventh year, between August 3 and 13, the event aims to get filmmakers and their works as much exposure as possible, from a variety of genres. The daytime event is 13+ and the nighttime event with Wu-Tang is 21+.Īs one of the fastest-growing independent film festivals in New York, Festival of Cinema has made a name for itself. RSVP to the event is free, and admission will be granted on a first-come, first served basis. Throughout the afternoon, breakdancing performances, double-dutch to live, interactive broadcasts of SiriusXM Hip-Hop Nation’s Gray Rizzy and The Heat’s DJ Steel will also take place.īy evening, Wu-Tang Clan will take the stage with every member of the crew. The day kicks off with a family-friendly program, "For the Love: Community Giveback" in which local students, families, and businesses can enjoy hip-hop activities and performances to support the Boys & Girls Club of Metro Queens. The festival, hosted at the Knockdown Center in Queens on Thursday, August 10, is intended to celebrate the impact and listener love of hip-hop. "For the Love" will celebrate of the 50th anniversary of hip-hop with a day full of events and a show headlined by legendary hip-hop collective Wu-Tang Clan, which started in Staten Island in the early 1990s.
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