These Are The 25 Movies That Made It Into Inwood's Film Festival

INWOOD, NY — Tickets are officially on sale for the fifth year of the Inwood Film Festival, which revealed which 25 submissions will be featured this week.

The festival, led by nonprofit Inwood Art Works, will be held March 13 through 15 at the Campbell Sports Center, where it has been held since 2017, organizers announced this week.

Organizers unveiled on Monday the two dozen winning films chosen from their months-long submissions process.

This year's picks will add to the 128 films already shown by the festival in its five years in the neighborhood, including 80 films by women and minority filmmakers, 44 world premieres, 38 screenings and 12 student films, organizers said.

"These numbers not only reflect Inwood Art Works and the IFF’s commitment to diversity and inclusion, launching new talent, providing resources and fostering young talent, creating a true communal space in the neighborhood; but capture the spirit of Uptown NYC, an area of the city where community and the arts are a big part of the fabric," they said in a release.

Each film submitted to the festival must be made in the neighborhood or by past and present residents of Uptown New York city neighborhoods.

Here's the film's that made the cut this year:

• A La Mode (student film), Director: Charlie Gomez

• ANYA, Director: Carylanna Taylor and Jacob Akira Okada

• Con Dios (student film), Director: Anthony Rojas

• Cultivate (student film), Director: Alex Baglio

• Dancy Nancy, Director: Miguel Mercado

• Desert Shadows (student film), Director: Robin Zerbe

• Don’t Blink Twice, Director: Steven Burneson and Kristen Macomber

• Fran Gil, Notario/P.I., Director: Victor Yanik

• Kimchi Taco (student film), Director: Serán Kim

• Layers of a Baker, Director: Carla Franchesca

• Little Italy, Los Angeles: Un Taglio all’Italiana, Director: Adriano Valentini

• Maria Torres: Neighborhood Artist, Director: Davis Hall

• Murmur, Director: Sabrina Seidner

• Nevertheless, Director: KarynRose Bruyning

• Not So Hilarious Anymore, Director: Adam Karsten

• Nourishing Japan, Director: Alexis Agliano Sanborn

• Roaming the Ruins (student film), Director: Vivien McNab

• Sometimes Why, Director: Dileepan Ganesan

• The First Time I Saw You, Director: Dylan Scott Tuccillo

• The Meditater, Director: Justin Giegerich

• The Replacement, Director: Michael Pizzano

• Tubby Hook, Director: Nelson Estevez and Nell Teare

• Tumbling Towards Home, Director: Imelda O’Reilly

• Without a Scratch (student film), Director: Samantha Farinella

• Ydanisville, Director: Cristobal Vivar

The festival weekend will also include red-carpet events before the screenings, conversations with filmmakers after select screenings, and three seminars, "Sound Design for Documentary Filmmaking," "Filmmaking A to Z" and "Digital Animation for Kids."

The opening night will also include a benefit featuring the "past, present and future" of the festival, a screening of award-winning shorts from previous years and a preview of the rest of the weekend.

Tickets for the opening night benefit, festival passes, single tickets and seminar tickets are now available online. A special discount promo code for local students is available with proof of current, valid student ID emailed to info@inwoodartworks.nyc.