The Greenpoint Film Festival Returns This August With 100+ Film Screenings Movie buffs unite–the 13th annual Greenpoint Film Festival is making its way back to Brooklyn beginning Wednesday, August 7th! Started in 2011, the Greenpoint Film Festival was intended for one purpose: to create a focal point in critically-acclaimed, thought-provoking, and upcoming filmmakers. For over ten years they’ve […]
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Greenpoint Film Festival Set to Return in August 2024 Submissions Open on November 1st Greenpoint, Brooklyn — (October 23, 2023) — The Greenpoint Film Festival is thrilled to announce the return of its 13th annual edition, scheduled to take place from August 8 to 11, 2024. As a celebration of independent cinema and the vibrant […]
Greenpoint Film Festival named Top 10 Festival in NYC by The GWW The GWW named GFF the 8th best Festival in NYC and had the following to say about the festival: Writer Victor Hugo once said, “No army can stop an idea whose time has come.” The organizers of the Greenpoint Film Festival know that […]
GREENPOINT THIS WEEK: FILM FESTIVAL, NATIONAL GRID PUBLIC HEARINGS, AND MORE Good afternoon, Greenpointers. Greenpoint is an incredibly quiet neighborhood, so whenever you hear a never-ending plethora of honking and outside commotion, something big must be taking place. That something big was this Sunday’s Tommy Hilfiger show, which brought a lot of celebrities to our neck of […]
The Greenpoint Film Festival Is Returning For Their 11th Year With 40+ Film Screenings Movie buffs unite–the 11th annual Greenpoint Film Festival is making its way back to Brooklyn starting this Thursday, September 15! Started in 2011, the Greenpoint Film Festival had to shift their screenings to a drive-in model during the pandemic, and this year they’ve […]
GREENPOINT FILM FESTIVAL RETURNS FOR ITS 11TH YEAR If your New York Fashion Week invite, like ours, was lost in the mail, don’t miss an equally curated and far more accessible event in our own backyard: the 11th annual Greenpoint Film Festival at 211 Meserole Ave. Starting this Thursday, September 15, the Greenpoint Film Festival returns for another iteration […]
11th Annual Greenpoint Film Festival | September 15 – 18 Film buffs – mark your calendars for the 11th Annual Greenpoint Film Festival that will take place from September 15 through 18. There will be Drive-in and Walk-in screenings at our lot on 211 Meserole Avenue in Brooklyn, with more than 40 films across Narrative, Documentary, and […]
5 Drive-In Film Festivals You Don’t Want To Miss It’s been almost 90 years since the first drive-in movie theater opened in New Jersey in 1933, and thanks to the coronavirus, they are making a trendy comeback. During this time, festivals have had to find creative ways to showcase films, many opting for virtual cinemas and […]
Annual Indie Film Festival Switches to Drive-in Screenings for First Time The annual Greenpoint Film Festival will be taking place next month and the organizers will be holding it outdoors for the first time at venues in Brooklyn and Long Island City. The festival, which is in its ninth year, is adopting a drive-in concept. […]
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GREENPOINT FILM FESTIVAL: BROOKLYN
Drive-in movie theater going has become a renewed staple during the coronavirus pandemic and the Greenpoint Film Festival has worked tirelessly to keep the film festival experience alive and bring together the community in a safe and controlled environment. The 8-day event will showcase 8 feature films and 27 short films, each in competition, Special […]
Indie film-lovers needn’t panic; the Greenpoint Film Festival will return for its 9th year, and will run from August 1st to 9th. The festival is divided into two parts: the first will take place in the parking lot at Meserole and Jewel Avenues in Greenpoint, and the second will take place at Long Island City event space The […]
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9th annual Greenpoint Film Festival
Greenpoint Film Festival is set to return for its 9th annual event with a drive-in edition, running through August 1-9, 2020 at the parking lot on Meserole Ave. and Jewel, hosted by Broadway Stages, and The Foundry LIC. Drive-in movie theater going has become a renewed staple during the coronavirus pandemic and the Greenpoint Film […]
When theaters went dark in March, film festivals quickly adapted by curating content online, but let’s face it, summer has come and you’re not about to watch a movie on your laptop, with a desk fan blasting torrents of sweat off your face. Luckily the organizers of the city’s great seasonal film festivals– including Tribeca Films, […]
Greenpoint Film Festival is set to return for its 9th annual event with a drive-in edition, running through August 1-9, 2020 at the parking lot on Meserole Ave. and Jewel, hosted by Broadway Stages, and The Foundry LIC. Drive-in movie theater going has become a renewed staple during the coronavirus pandemic and the Greenpoint Film Festival has […]
The folks at the Greenpoint Film Festival are not letting a pandemic stop them from sharing what is good in the film world. The Fest is set to return for its 9th annual event with a drive-in edition, running through August 1-9, 2020 at the parking lot on Meserole Ave. and Jewel, hosted by Broadway […]
This release comes to us from the Greenpoint Film Festival July 9, 2020, New York City, NY – Greenpoint Film Festival is set to return for its 9th annual event with a drive-in edition, running through August 1-9, 2020 at the parking lot on Meserole Ave. and Jewel, hosted by Broadway Stages, and The Foundry […]
Greenpoint Film Festival is set to return for its 9th annual event with a drive-in edition, running through August 1-9, at the parking lot on Meserole Avenue and Jewel Street. The 8-day event will showcase 8 feature films and 27 short films, special guest speakers and socially distanced gatherings. The festival’s organizers are using the […]
Greenpoint Film Festival is set to return for its 9th annual event with a drive-in edition, running through August 1-9, 2020 at the parking lot on Meserole Ave. and Jewel, hosted by Broadway Stages, and The Foundry LIC. Drive-in movie theater-going has become a renewed staple during the coronavirus pandemic and the Greenpoint Film Festival […]
The Greenpoint Film Festival must go on dispute COVID hence they will operate via a drive-in this year. It has just been officially announced that the 9th annual Greenpoint Film Festival will be a drive-in event with 35 wonderful films on the line-up. The 8-day festival will run August 1st — 9th in Greenpoint and […]
New York, N.Y. (July 9, 2020) – Greenpoint Film Festival is set to return for its 9th annual event with a drive-in edition, running through August 1-9, 2020 at the parking lot on Meserole Ave. and Jewel, hosted by Broadway Stages, and The Foundry LIC. Drive-in movie theater going has become a renewed staple during the […]
The coronavirus has forced festivals of all types to find new ways to deliver the festival experience to their audiences. The most popular way has been to go virtual in some fashion. Obviously, there are pros and cons to going this direction, but it seems to be the best idea based on today’s technology. For film […]
Summer movies in city parks seem like a distant memory, but several new drive-in theaters have made communal viewing possible in the wake of COVID-19. Now, Greenpoint Film Festival is latching onto the drive-in trend for the 9th annual Greenpoint Film Festival, which will screen 35 films between August 1st – 9th. Films well be shown […]
Greenpoint Film Festival is set to return for its 9th annual event with a drive-in edition, running through August 1-9, 2020 at the parking lot on Meserole Ave. and Jewel, hosted by Broadway Stages, and The Foundry LIC. Drive-in movie theater going has become a renewed staple during the coronavirus pandemic and the Greenpoint Film […]
A press release dated July 9th, reveals the plans of the Greenpoint Film Festival. “Greenpoint Film Festival is set to return for its 9th annual event with a drive-in edition, running through August 1-9, 2020 at the parking lot on Meserole Ave. and Jewel, hosted by Broadway Stages, and The Foundry LIC. Drive-in movie theater […]
The Greenpoint Film Festival is back this week for its 8th edition with four days of film screenings — spanning topics from environmentalism to displacement and gentrification — and panel discussion with directors and local experts. Tickets are available here, along with the festival schedule which runs May 2nd – May 5th. This year the festival kicks off on Thursday […]
8th Annual Greenpoint Film Festival greenpointfilmfestival@gmail.com www.greenpointfilmfestival.org 347-278-1524 Announcing the 8th Annual 2019 Greenpoint Film Festival, from May 2nd through May 5th, with four days of competitive submissions and curated programs. Screenings will be held at the Wythe Hotel Screening Room, 80 Wythe Ave, and Film Noir, 122 Meserole Ave. For its 8th year, the […]
Nowy Dziennik May 12, 2018 By Wojtek Maślanka Dokument o polskich imigrantach został laureatem 7. edycji Greenpoint Film Festival. “Stany przeszłe” w reżyserii Olgi Blumczyńskiej otrzymały pierwszą nagrodę w kategorii krótki film dokumentalny. Bohaterami filmu jest trzech polskich imigrantów reprezentujących różne pokolenia, które wyjechały z kraju wiele lat temu. Wszyscy obecnie mieszkają na Greenpoincie, w miejscu, […]
Nowy DziennikMay 3, 2018 W sali kinowej Wythe Hotel o godz. 7 wiecz. odbędzie się amerykańska premiera filmu “Stany przeszłe” w reżyserii Olgi Blumczyńskiej. Dokument wyprodukowany przez Muzeum Emigracji w Gdyni zostanie zaprezentowany w ramach 7. edycji Greenpoint Film Festival, gdzie zwyciężył w kategorii Documentary Short. “Stany przeszłe” to opowieść o trzech pokoleniach Polaków mieszkających […]
Bedford + Bowery May 2, 2018 By Libby Torres The Tribeca Film Festival may be over, but another homegrown flicks fest is just beginning. The 7th Annual Greenpoint Film Festival will take over North Brooklyn this weekend, with four days of films and panel discussions. Produced by Brooklyn non-profit arts organization Woven Spaces, the festival kicks off with a slew of screenings on Thursday, […]
The Patch May 2, 2017 The sixth annual Greenpoint Film Festival will kick off Thursday at the Wythe Hotel screening room and run through the weekend. GREENPOINT, BROOKLYN — A four-day movie binge-watch is coming to Brooklyn this weekend with the sixth annual Greenpoint Film Festival. The festival will screen documentaries, experimental shorts, a narrative […]
Greenpointers Mary 3, 2017 Greenpoint is a hub for filmmaking, boasting countless production companies and film facilities, in addition to the oft-maligned and very frequent film shoots that tend to clog our slender sidewalks and historical streets. We would argue that Greenpoint’s been culturally interesting and relevant for many years, but some have said that Girls being filmed here […]
Brooklyn Reporter May 2, 2017 Pass the popcorn. The sixth annual Greenpoint Film Festival will hit the borough this weekend, featuring four days of competitive submissions and curated programs — all right here in Brooklyn. The screenings of both shorts and feature-length films – to be held at the Wythe Hotel Screening Room, 80 […]
Bedford + Bowery May 1, 2017 Tribeca Film Festival just ended, but Greenpoint Film Festival is returning for its sixth year, from May 4 to 7. Just like Tribeca, GFF features documentaries, narrative features, experimental and animated shorts, but it also boasts a category that’s unique to the neighborhood. Among the six environmental films are […]
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2017 GFF Press Release
Contact; Rvalado@gmail.com Website: greenpointfilmfestival.org Woven Spaces, Inc. Presents the Sixth Annual Greenpoint Film Festival May 4-7, 2017 Greenpoint, Brooklyn Announcing the 6th Annual 2017 Greenpoint Film Festival, from May 4th through May 7th in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, with four days of competitive submissions and curated programs. Screenings willbe held at the Wythe Hotel Screening Room, at […]
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‘Once Hamoun’ for New York Festival
Financial Tribune First English Iranian Economic Daily April 18, 2017 The short environmental documentary film ‘Once Hamoun,’ directed by filmmaker Mohammad Ehsani, 44, will be screened at the 6th Greenpoint Film Festival in New York. The festival is slated for May 4-7 and the 35-minute film on the endangered marshlands of Hamoun, will be shown […]
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Notes from the field
We’ve had a great time working with Philip on this short term internship. We asked him to give us a brief synopsis of his stay in New York and life goals. Here is what he said: I’m here from Sweden, living in Greenpoint for a few months, and just celebrated my 21st birthday. I took […]
We welcome Michelle Macau back to GFF – now on her fourth year. Michelle has worked with us on event management, ticketing, submissions, film selections and panels. She has had a very busy year with acting gigs, and teaching. We asked Michelle to send us some notes for our blog: As a member of The […]
Steve Swartz, one of our judges from last year’s GFF final selection talked to us recently about the benefit of film festival, in particular small film festivals. Here is what he had to say: I would say that the film festivals – and especially the small ones – are the cinematic equivalent of the Irish […]
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Notes from the field
We talked to Bruno Barros to ask him what he’s been up to since last March’s GFF16. He tells us that he has been fully immersed in the film industry after quitting his very lucrative IT job and that he is very happy. Here in his own words: I work in the Locations department on […]
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About Greenpoint 2016
Filmmaker Coleen Fitzgibbon and Artist Peter Fend, being asked to think of what’s going on in Greenpoint, took a boat ride in February on one of the most polluted bodies of water in the US. This is Newtown Creek, on the border of Greenpoint and Queens—and a Superfund site. Two boats were used, one paddled […]
Greenpointers.com Recommended Screenings for the Greenpoint Film Festival (3/17 – 3/20) Posted by Peter Y. | March 16, 2016 The Greenpoint Film Festivalstarts tomorrow, and here is our shortlist of recommended movies for you. The promise of a park in Bushwick Inlet has intrigued Greenpoint residents for a long time. So it is appropriate that festivities begin on Thursday (3/17) at […]
I am an experimental and documentary filmmaker/artist since 1972 and often work in collaboration with other artists. I have been interested in the urban environment since the early seventies, and worked with artist Gorden Matta-Clark on his 1974 (unfinished) film on New York’s water systems and also my film LES on urban ghetto conditions. Recently […]
Nutmeg March 10, 2016 Congrats to Sound Designer/Mixer Steve Perski and Graphics and VFX Director Stephen C. Walsh for their contributions to “The Cycle,” winner for Best Narrative Short in the Greenpoint Film Festival. Directed by Michael Marantz, the 11-minute dramatic short explores the gut-wrenching ramifications of gun violence and the bottomless emotional abyss between sense and […]
DNAinfo March 7, 2016 By Gwynne Hogan | March 7, 2016 4:36pm @gwynnefitz GREENPOINT — Coming up next week, the fifth annual Greenpoint Film Festival will tackle pollution in local waterways and community activism, alongside international works. Narrative, documentary, environmental and experimental shorts and features will screen at the Wythe Hotel from March 17 to 20 along with panel discussions. Local activists with Friends of Bushwick […]
Brooklyn Paper March 7, 2016 BY ALLEGRA HOBBS Lights, camera, activism! A group of Greenpoint protesters who have been badgering the city to build a waterfront park it promised a decade ago will screen the greatest hits of their open-space activism at a local film festival — and the activists believe the creative display is […]
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Newtown Creek Revival
By Peter Fend for the program Art & Activism Part II by Coleen Fitzgibbon and Peter Fend Probably the name was De Nieuwe Tuin Kreek, in Dutch. The region was De Nieuwe Tuin, meaning “the new garden.” The rather wide stream was called “Kreek,” with its many “Kills,” or smaller streams. This stream was not […]
Sep 16, 2014 by Andrew Shilling The Greenpoint Film Festival is back with a whole new lineup of local and international films, ranging from experimental and avant-garde to environmentally focused documentaries, as well as animated films and shorts. Opening night is Thursday, September 18, from 7:30 to 10 p.m. at the Wythe Hotel, 80 Wythe […]
Sep 10, 2014 by Tanay Warerkar The Wythe Hotel will once again play host to the Greenpoint Film Festival, which this year highlights the best-in themes of renewal and reclamation and how to creatively address the needs of a neighborhood considered one of the most polluted in the country. For four days next week, the […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: SEPTEMBER 8, 2014 Woven Spaces, Inc. Presents the Fourth Annual Greenpoint Film Festival Sept. 18th-21st, 2014 Greenpoint, Brooklyn Announcing the 2014 Greenpoint Film Festival, from September 18 through 21 in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, with four days of curated and competitive programs. Most screenings will be held at the Wythe Hotel Screening Room, at […]
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