Queens Indie Film Fest Opens Tonight at 7 PM
9th Queens World Film Festival Opens Tonight With Focus on Worldly Vision Theme
Choose from among 200 films to be screened March 21-31 at MoMI & Kaufman Studios
Independent filmmakers from New York City, around America and many foreign countries are planning to attend the Opening Night Celebration for the 2019 Queens World Film Festival (QWFF). QWFF’s Katha and Don Cato, respectively the artistic and executive directors, are evening’s hosts, and they will welcome filmmakers and hundreds of guests beginning at 7 p.m. at Museum of the Moving Image (MoMI).
Journalists seeking news media passes to the opening night may contact Ms. Cato at kathacato@gmail.com.
Opening Night is sponsored by a generous grant from Investors Bank. The evening honorees each of the filmmakers who will have their films screened during the festival that runs between March 21 and 31. The opening night program includes comments by filmmakers, a live performance and viewing of seven indie films in MoMI’s at Redstone Screening Room.
The films are from the QWFF’s Worldly Vision thematic block, and each explores concepts from the profane to the sublime. Here is the opening night sampling of short narrative features: Sluggish Life by Mohsen Mehri Deravi (Iran); Marguerite, by Marianne Farley (an Oscar nominee from Canada); Deeply Absurd Lucidity by Sammy Sayed (Egypt); Tsar Bomba by Oskar Rosetti (Switzerland); Spacefarer by Aaron Lehmann (USA); Awakening by L. E. Salsa (USA); and Shit Head Fuck Face by Eliot Cowan (USA). A letter from filmmaker Sammy Sayed will be read before his film is shown.
Tickets to the QWFF’s Opening Night event and the entire festival can be purchased online from Brown Paper Tickets (visit www.brownpapertickets.com for more details).
For more details about the 2019 Queens World Film Festival, visit: http://www.queensworldfilmfestival.com.
WHO: Indie filmmakers from Queens, N.Y.C., across the USA and 31 nations will join filmgoers to watch a range of innovative films
WHAT: The Opening Night Program for the 2019 Queens World Film Festival
WHERE: Museum of the Moving Image, 36-01 35th Avenue, Astoria, New York
WHEN: Thursday, March 21, Doors Open at MoMI at 7 p.m. and the Program starts at 7:30 p.m.
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