Astoria Film Festival

Join us for an amazing OPENING NIGHT of the 2024 Astoria Film Festival at ARRI RENTAL STUDIOS IN LIC!

6-8pm Screenings of select festival films and Filmmaker Panel moderated by Luis Feliciano, Arri Rentals
Don't Dismiss Us
The Grievance
Voice Box
Unlucky in Love
For Those That Lived There
Kryptonite
Getting Used to Loneliness - Korea

8-10pm Step and Repeat Interviews and Networking Party

*Not recommended for children under the age of 14

4-5pm HS of Art and Design/AFF/SONY Workshop Projects

5:30-8:30pm Screenings & Panel of Selected Animated Shorts for both Youth and Main Festivals
EYES - Korea
The Spellening
Slumber Party
Meet Again - Korea
Allergy
Boundary - Korea
Bring Back
Catch The Moon
Coffee
Rally - Korea
The Conscious I - Korea
Kang's Kimbab
My Mothers Story- Korea
Bait
Lovie Dovie
Creek
Diary Booth - Korea
Slap The Deck
The Everything is OK Show
Fish Thunder
The Scramble
Swimming - Korea
Home - Korea
Ode to Onions
Unfamiliar
In The Interim

8:30pm Animation Awards Ceremony

Student Showcase 9-11am
PS 234Q, PS212Q, Q300
& WORKSHOP FILMS from OCT, NOV & MARCH WORKSHOPS

Films made by students in our workshop at 122Q in the ZUKOR THEATER
SAT JUNE 1
11:30am-12pm

Q429 Student Showcase
SAT JUNE 1
12:30-1PM at the ZUKOR

PSAs - Screening of the Winning PSAs from AFF's #STOPHATENYC PSA CONTEST, sponsored by the OPHC (Office for the Prevention of Hate Crime) and the CCHR (City Commission on Human Rights)

HS of Art and Design Film Department Student Showcase - Highlights from the Narrative Film Workshop with Astoria Film Festival

HS for Environmental Studies Student Showcase of their Doc Short STUDENT MENTAL HEALTH- Documentary Filmmaking Workshop with Astoria Film Festival

Media Production Lab Narrative Film HER (Winter 2024)

Panel of Filmmakers

*Not recommended for children under the age of 14

Sat June 1
3-4:30 pm
at the Zukor Theater, Kaufman Astoria Studios
Media Career Panel

5-6:30 pm
Film and Media Education Panel
Moderated by Kevin Lopez, Founding Principal, Motion Picture Tech HS, Queens
Roseanne Limoncelli, PhD, Senior Director Martin Scorsese Virtual Production Center, NYU
Hanan Harchol, Head of the Film Department, High School of Art and Design
Lori Greene, Media Professor, NYU and Fordham; FMR Director of Media Education for NETFLIX
Jacob Stebel, Program Director, Ghetto Film School
Adam Breier, EdD, Executive Director of CTE Education, NYC Public Schools

Astoria Film Festival YOUTH FILM FESTIVAL
SELECTED YOUTH FILMS
7-9pm Screenings
Guiding Light
Static Starvation
The Gift that Keeps Giving
Adult - Ukraine
Red
Santa Fe
Marks of Cain
Insomniac
Playtime
Neighbors
Late Night Edit

9-9:30pm Awards Ceremony
THE ZUKOR THEATER

*Not recommended for children under the age of 14

Astoria Film Festival - Main Festival
Screenings of Selected Films followed by a Filmmaker Panel with Audience Q&A
THE ZUKOR THEATER

See You On The Other Side - Korea
The Day Spring Comes - Korea
Pumping Cool
Resurrection Under the Ocean - Turkey
Ashes to Ashes
We Are All Watching - Egypt
Pizza Dreams
5/3/0 - Serbia
Presence - Iran
Unrest in Peace
Shots
Happy Anniversary
I Promise You Paradise - Egypt
Harlemwood Documentary

*Not recommended for children under the age of 14

Astoria Film Festival - Main Festival
Screenings of Selected Films followed by a Filmmaker Panel with Audience Q&A
THE ZUKOR THEATER

Feral Romance - Korea
The Muse
Do You Trust Me
In The Grey
Hot Idiot
Bus '83-Korea
Want it Again
Beyond Skin Deep
What Do You See?
I Had To
The Politiican

*Not recommended for children under the age of 14

Astoria Film Festival - Main Festival
Screenings of Selected Films followed by a Filmmaker Panel with Audience Q&A
THE ZUKOR THEATER

Holding Pattern
The Next Stop
What a Trip
Teyo
Writing You Down
Bloodlust
The Ghost in the Machine
The Grievance
Entanglement - Portugal

*Not recommended for children under the age of 14

Astoria Film Festival 2024 ONLINE EVENTS

MON JUNE 3, 8pm ET Virtual Legal Workshop
Intellectual Property and your FILM/Animation
Dauna Williams Esq (JD Harvard, BA Brown)

TUES JUNE 4, 8pm ET Virtual Career Panel
Moderated by Nina Fiore, Astoria Film Festival
Angela Morgenstern, Netflix, MTV, PBS
Irene Phan, SVP, The MBS Group
Daniela Camargo, Mktg and Communications, Mercury Filmworks
Veronica Coleman, Gameplay Engineer Owlchemy
Tommy Wu, Founder, WLAB Virtual Production Studio

THURS JUNE 6, 8pm ET - Virtual Filmmaker Panel
Festival Filmmakers/Creators

FRI JUNE 7, 8pm ET Virtual Panel with the Festival's Korean Animators (in partnership with AniSEED, Korea)

UES JUNE 4, 8pm ET Virtual Career Panel

Moderated by Nina Fiore, Astoria Film Festival

Angela Morgenstern, Netflix, MTV, PBS

Irene Phan, SVP, The MBS Group

Daniela Camargo, Film Marketing, Mercury Filmworks

Jonathan Jennings, Gameplay Engineer Owlchemy

Ruth Fernandez, IATSE Local 798 Hair and Makeup Artist

Maddy Mermelstein, Production Coordinator, Nickelodeon