May 13, 2023
Inwood Art Works proudly announces the programming for its sixth annual Inwood Film Festival, to be held at Columbia University’s Campbell Sports Center in Inwood from May 25th-28th, 2023. The festival includes 27 films, including 17 world premieres, along with seminars, post-show conversations with filmmakers, and plenty of special events. Details of the screenings and all the films are listed here.
The festival includes a special Opening Night Benefit on Thursday, May 25th, at 6.30pm, featuring a special feature presentation of award winning film, The Whale, followed by an in-person interview with screenwriter Samuel D. Hunter by Inwood Art Works’ Founder and Executive Producer, Aaron Simms. Delicious food and beverages will be provided by Amores Café and Dyckman Beer Company (and beer from Inwood will be the topic of our finale feature presentation on Sunday).
Before and after the festival screenings, ticket holders can mingle in The Red-Carpet Community Room, a hip hub to connect filmmakers and audiences that is for the exclusive use of all Inwood Film Festival ticketed patrons before and after each screening. Enjoy a glass of wine or a Dyckman Beer and come to connect with neighbors before the show, stay afterward to discuss the films, meet like-minded folk, and hob-nob with local movers n’ shakers.
After the last screenings on each day there will be conversation with some of the day’s filmmakers. Following the final post-screening discussion, at approximately 5pm on Sunday, join us in the theater for the announcement of the Inwood Film Festival’s Annual Awards for Excellence in Filmmaking.
On both Friday & Saturday evenings you can join filmmakers, film aficionados, and the Inwood Art Works team to raise a glass to our Inwood community and its vibrant arts scene in the Red Carpet Community Room. And on Sunday after the awards ceremony you can join us for a Festival after party at Tubby Hook Tavern (4946 Broadway).
Once again we’ll also be hosting IFF+, a special online extension of the Film Festival running from Sunday May 28th through Sunday June 4th that will include all the Film Festival programming. Our goal for IFF+ is to provide an alternative digital platform that celebrates, showcases, and enhances accessibility to the films of our fantastic local artists.
The Inwood Film Festival is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council. Inwood Film Festival is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature. This program is funded in part by The Medical Center Neighborhood Fund.
Click here for complete 2023 IFF Program.
