9th Annual Coney Island Film Festival
October 2-4, 2009
at Sideshows By The Seashore and The Coney Island Museum in the historic Brooklyn neighborhood Coney Island, New York!
Call for Entries Now Open!
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Click here for our paper entry form
Late Deadline - July 3, 2009
Extended Late Deadline - July 10, 2009
Quotes from the 2008 filmmakers about our festival
2008 Photo Gallery
Photo: Norman Blake
2008 Award Winners
Best Feature: Lucky Days - Angelica Torn, Tony Torn
Best Short: The Heart Is A Hidden Camera -
Gabriel Judet-Weinshel
Best Documentary Feature: Airplay -
Carolyn Travis, Chris Fox Gilson
Best Documentary Short: Save Coney Island - Peter LiPera
Best Experimental: Carlos Catani -
Marcos Meconi
Best Animation: Luna Park -
Yuliya Vinokur
Best Music Video: Temporarily In Love - Randy Scott Slavin
Best Silent Film: The Visitor - Paul Andersen
Best "Made In Coney Island": Coney Island Saved Me! - Amanda Jencsik
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2008 FESTIVAL SCHEDULE
This is an archive of our 2008 Festival |
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DAY & TIME |
SIDESHOWS BY THE SEASHORE
1208 Surf Ave. Ground Floor |
CONEY ISLAND MUSEUM
1208 Surf Ave. 2nd Floor (please note: this venue is not wheelchair accessible) |
| FRI. SEPT. 26 |
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| Fri. 7:30pm |
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Opening Night Screening:
Down The Hatch & Sideshow Still Alive |
Fri. 9:30pm |
Opening Night Party at the Newly Renovated and Expanded Freak Bar and Sideshows By The Seashore!
Hosted by The Great Fredini. Live performances by The Coney Island Circus Sideshow and Burlesque stars Bambi The Mermaid, Little Brooklyn and Legs Malone! Open Bar! |
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| SAT. SEPT. 27 |
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| Sat. 12pm |
Program 1 - Family Friendly
The Ferris Wheel Song
Unexplained Incidents
Transit
Hopeful Home
Against The Wind
First Bass
Coney Island: Remnants
Walking Shadow
Frank Sidebottom: Frank's World
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Sat. 1pm |
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Program 2
Luna Park
Bird Strikes
Brooklyn Baseball
Mermaids of New York: The Brooklyn Babydoll
Carlos Catani
Virgins of New York
Carny Girl
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Sat. 2pm |
Program 3
Okay: KaiserCartel
Pretty Lisa
Billboard Girl
Submerged
The Heart is a Hidden Camera
The Red Room
Treasure of Riverside Park
Gangster's Crib
The Last Freak Show
The Velocet: Concertina
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Sat. 3pm |
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Program 4
Lucky Days |
Sat. 4pm |
Program 5
Serialist Art
Horsefingers 3: Starfucker
The Visitor
Euology For Jack
Sovereignty
Pumpkin Hell
Dream On Cupid |
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Sat. 5pm |
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Program 6
Around The World in 90 Seconds
Age Old Story
Three Minute Culture
One Little Step
Watching The Sun, 1 Wish
The Long Goodbye
Counting Waves
Detachment
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Sat. 6pm |
Program 7
The Upper Hand
Dead Boyfriends
Sexy Clown Bitch
Teat Beat of Sex - 8,9,10,11
Belvedere & Me - A Love Story
Swing Vote - what side are you on?
Butterfly Witch
Temporarily in Love |
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Sat. 7pm |
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Program 8
Watch Out
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Sat. 8pm |
Program 9 The Horror
Zombie Gets a Date
Little Snaps of Horror
Even
Family Affair
Happy Birthday
Security & Fee
The Walking Corpse
Zombie Jesus!
Abracadaver!
Apathy Breeds Contempt
The Pod
Eat Me
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Sat. 9pm |
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Program 10
Probed
Dishwashers
Apex Predator
I Love You I Love You I love You
Getting Out
Mishka
Harvest
GothKill
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Sat. 10pm |
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Sat. 10:30pm |
Special Screening
THE WARRIORS
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| SUN. SEPT. 28 |
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Sun. 12pm - Sideshow
Sun 12:30pm
- Museum |
Program 11 - 12pm
Brooklyn is Everything
Project Jenny, Project Jan's "Brooklyn"
Paint The Walls Red: Haunted
MC Extra Cheese: Very Lazy
One Word
Buskers
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Program 12 - 12:30pm
Light Switch
Rock N Roll King of the Southwest: The Bobby Fuller Story
Airplay: The Rise and Fall of Rock & Roll Radio
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Sun. 2:00pm |
Program 13
The Brooklyn Way
North Brother
Where The Sky Meets The Sea
The Brother's In Trouble
Huey
The Note
I'm No Stud
Pickup And Return
English Language (With English Subtitles)
Vacation
Long Night Drone
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Sun. 3pm |
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Program 14
Dawn Landes, Bodyguard
Hot Dog
The Maiden Voyage of Jimmy Swash
Erin
Come From Heaven
New Uke City
The Salvation Blues
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Sun. 4pm
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Program 15 - Coney Island Films Sold Out! Second Show added 6:15pm - Museum
January First
Coney Island's For The Birds
Coney
Wonder
Coney Island Saved Me!
Save Coney Island
Coney Island
Made in Coney Island
A Mermaid Cycle |
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Sun. 5:00pm |
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Program 16
Attackazoids!
Trek 183
Shore Thing
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Sun. 6pm |
Program 17
Hell Bent On It
Outside Agitator
Hot Stains
anybody
The Trouble With Summer
just one of the gynos
Denim
Dress Code
Out of Necessity
Helen's First Date in Two Years
Sodom By The Sea |
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Sun. 6:15pm |
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Program 18 - Coney Island Films - Second Show Added!
January First
Coney Island's For The Birds
Coney
Wonder
Coney Island Saved Me!
Save Coney Island
Coney Island
Made in Coney Island
A Mermaid Cycle |
Awards Presentation: El Dorado Auto Skooters, 1216 Surf Ave. Sunday, September 28th, 8:00pm
2008 Press Release
2007 Photo Gallery
2007 Award Winners
Best Feature: Two Tickets To Paradise - D.B. Sweeney
Best Short: Nature of the Beast- Nate Pommer
Best Documentary Feature: Blood, Boobs & Beast - John Kinhart
Best Documentary Short: Bally Master - Gary Beeber
Best Experimental: Blue Dreams Downtown - Raiya Corsiglia
Best Animation: Teat Beat Of Sex - Signe Baumane
Best Music Video: Jollyship the Whiz-Bang: Cleaning Up Coney Island - Noah Todd
Best "Made In Coney Island": Coney Island - Ramen Cromwell
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