Inwood Film Festival Returns For Second Year

INWOOD, NY — The Inwood Film Festival is returning to the neighborhood for its second consecutive year of featuring films either shot in Inwood or created by Inwood community members. The festival will be held in March and feature five types of films: short shorts, long shorts, feature films, student films and documentaries.

"The focus of the Inwood Film Festival is to celebrate and showcase the Inwood community through the moving image. It is created to be a homegrown community platform to promote and celebrate the neighborhood of Inwood and its residents," read a press release from Inwood Art Works, the organization which puts on the festival.

Selected films will be shown on March 17 and 18 at the Campbell Sports Center at Broadway and West 218th Street. There will be six viewing sessions — four screenings showing each film category and two feature film screenings.

Here is the festival screening schedule, provided by Inwood Art Works:

Feature Films

• Forbidden Cuba - Friday, March 17 at 8:05pm - 81 minutes - Plus a special post-screening conversation with the filmmakers.
• Hunting in Wartime - Saturday, March 18 at 8:05pm - 66 minutes - Plus a special post-screening conversation with the filmmaker.

Short shorts – <5 min.

• Shorts Exhibition - Friday, March 17 at 7:00pm - 40 minutes
  • Featuring: Cliff, Leaves, Road Rage, The Beekeeper’s Keeper, Impressions of an Exhibition, Un Trabajo Honesto (An Honest Job), Gone, This Burning House

Long shorts program A – <25 min.

• Shorts Exhibition – Saturday, March 18 at 5:00pm - 50 minutes
  • Featuring: BALDR, Caleb Vs. Trialagor, Mother’s House, Dime Short

Long shorts program B <25 min.

• Shorts Exhibition – Saturday, March 18 at 6:05pm - 50 minutes
  • Featuring: Trouble Getting In, The Blue Zone, Buhoneros (Street Vendors), The Tunnel

Long shorts program C <25 min.

• Shorts Exhibition – Saturday, March 18 at 7:05pm - 50 minutes
  • Featuring: Eggs and Soldiers, Safe Words, Look Up! Visions from Under the Canopy, Weequahic

Tickets to each event can be purchased for $15 or a festival pass which grants access to all programs can be purchased for $40.

Photo courtesy of Inwood Art Works