‘Art of Brooklyn Film Festival’ returns for its 16th season
May 29, 2026
Art of Brooklyn Film Festival returns for its 16th season with 55 independent films screening across venues in Brooklyn from June 1–10.
Art of Brooklyn Film Festival returns for its 16th season with 55 independent films screening across venues in Brooklyn from June 1–10.
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THE 29TH ANNUAL Brooklyn Film Festival begins screenings on May 29, with 130 films lined up for the week-long festival at BRIC.
20 films and shorts highlighting Africa and its diasporas will screen at BAM Rose Cinemas with the theme “As the Stars Sow the Earth.”
Steve Schirripa signed copies of his new children’s book in Bay Ridge, celebrating food, travel and his Brooklyn roots.
The opening night party will take place Friday, May 1, at 9:30 p.m. at Coney Island USA’s headquarters on Surf Avenue.
The neighborhood-wide scavenger hunt, currently running through Friday, May 1, highlights and supports local businesses across CB9.
Brooklyn native William DeMeo wraps filming on a star-studded romantic comedy and teases a new season of his mob drama series.
The Billie Holiday Theater opened in 1972 amid the Black Arts Movement and received the National Medal of the Arts in 2023.
A Brooklyn event featured women cartoonists discussing art, representation and creative process while screening a documentary on humor.
Alongside the two new categories, the festival will add juries dedicated to animation and audio storytelling formats to judge.
Participating Brooklyn venues include Alamo Drafthouse Brooklyn, the Brooklyn Academy of Music and Cobble Hill Cinemas, among others.
Daniel D’Addario, Brooklyn-based Variety journalist, draws on Hollywood experience in his novel “The Talent,” now out in paperback.
Greenpoint Pictures signed with New York representation firm Champion to handle East Coast brand partnerships
U.S. Rep. Nicole Malliotakis met with critically acclaimed actor Jon Voight in Washington DC to discuss film and television production.
For one day, a Bay Ridge woman got a taste of Hollywood: Mariann Tepedino scored a role in the critically acclaimed film “Marty Supreme.”
NETFLIX PRODUCTIONS will be filming exterior scenes for its upcoming romance “Don’t Ever Wonder” in DUMBO and Brooklyn Heights.
Nonprofit arts organization Coney Island USA announced the launch of its first film school, with classes beginning Jan. 25.
Driver, 41, can come off as stoic but his passion for movies and, in particular, the filmmakers who make them, runs deep.
Brooklyn-based actor, writer and filmmaker Lillian Thakuria was in her 30s, single and working at HBO when she decided to pursue IVF
For the fifth consecutive year, The Hollywood Reporter has recognized Brooklyn College’s Feirstein Graduate School of Cinema.
Feirstein Grad School of Cinema at Brooklyn College named top U.S. film program by The Hollywood Reporter for 5th year in a row.
A heartfelt tribute to Richard Moses—beloved Brooklyn Heights resident, filmmaker, photographer, and local character—who passed at 94.
he Brooklyn Film Festival this year unveiled a new visual identity, “Welcome to Good Screen Time,” designed by Otherway.
Law & Order filmed on the Brooklyn Heights Promenade on Tuesday, April 8, 2025. A photo essay by Beth Eisgrau-Heller.
Jake Ehrenreich is an acclaimed comedian, writer and performer, who was born and raised in Brooklyn by Holocaust survivors.
Brooklyn Heights native Alec Moore crossed his interest in science with his passion for filmmaking in his latest project, a rom-com.
Tom Robinson, Bob Greco and Dan Hureira’s “Lens and Lead,” opened in the Brooklyn Film Camera gallery Friday, and will be on view for July.
GREEN-WOOD CEMETERY — The filmmaker Jane Schoenbrun is walking down a path in Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, looking for the pond they sat beside while working on the script to
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