Welcome to the NYC Downtown Short Film Festival Audience Choice screenings. For the past three years our Festival has been a sold out event. In response to the number of New Yorkers who have expressed an interest in attending these screenings but were not able to get in, we are instituting the Audience Choice screenings.
Throughout the year, we'll host screenings where audience members, along with our Film Festival committee, will be given comment cards and asked to rate each film. The NYCDSFF will tally the results and the highest rated films from each screening will then be invited to participate in the next NYC Downtown Short Film Festival, taking place in May, 2008.You usually spend 2 hours and over ten dollars to see a single movie. We give you an evening of well crafted films for ten dollars. Our screening room is an intimate turn of the century theater with movie house seating and wide aisles for viewing comfort. Each evening's programming consists of 4-5 shorts and will last approximately 1 hour and 15 minutes We will be featuring some of the best short films being produced internationally as well as the work of established actors and directors.
The NYCDSFF has showcased the work of established actors and directors such as, Jesse L. Martin (Law & Order; Rent) Neil Flynn (Scrubs) G. Gordon Liddy, Blanche Baker, Eddie Murphy (Shrek, Dream Girls), Dan Butler (Frasier), Robert Guthrie (Expiration Day),David Lawrence, Emily Deschanel, Melissa Joan Hart, Gary Marshall, Tony Tanner, Jerry Manthey, John Savage, Nick Tate, Lucky Vanous, Sandra Santiago and Kevin Conway, among many other talented young actors working in industry today.
We believe these changes will better serve the needs of short film makers and the NYC audiences who want to see these new, innovative, challenging and exciting films made by the freshest talent working in film today.So join us in being part of the process. You determine which films will be screened at the Festival and which film will be voted Best of Festival.
