Sept 18, 2013 by Andrew Shilling
The Greenpoint Film Festival is back again for the third year in North Brooklyn, and this year there were more submissions than ever before.
According to founder Rosa Valado, the response this year brought in nearly double the submissions from last year, with 200 shorts, documentaries, experimental and animated films. The first year of the festival saw just 75 submissions.
“We got more than twice the films than we did last year,” Valado said.
Judges this year included Jeremy Kipp Walker, director and producer for the New York-based Journeyman Pictures; playwright, short film maker and Greenpoint film enthusiast Keith R. Higgons; Michael Sayers, owner of Photoplay Video and DVD; Brooklyn filmmaker Rachael Guma; and artist and filmmaker Tom Jarmusch.