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2010 Poster Design by Toni-Lee Sangastiano
2010 Poster 11x17 only $10 shipped within the U.S. Outside of the U.S. please email us for shipping rate. Visit our online store for previous years posters.


The 2009 Coney Island Film Festival was covered by MovieMaker Magazine.

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The 2008 Coney Island Film Festival was covered by MovieMaker Magazine.

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The 2007 Coney Island Film Festival was covered by MovieMaker Magazine.

Click here to read the article.

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2009 Poster Design by Toni-Lee Sangastiano

2009 Poster 11x17 only $10 shipped within the U.S. Outside of the U.S. please email us for shipping rate. Visit our online store for previous years posters.

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12th Annual Coney Island Film Festival
September 21-23, 2012
At the legendary Sideshows By The Seashore and the

Coney Island Museum in the historic Brooklyn neighborhood Coney Island, New York!

Call for entries now open!
EARLY BIRD DEADLINE February 24, 2012 (postmarked by)
REGULAR DEADLINE April 27, 2012 (postmarked by)
LATE DEADLINE June 28, 2012 (postmarked by)
EXTENDED LATE DEADLINE July 12, 2012 (postmarked by)

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Quotes from the 2011 filmmakers about our festival

2011 Photo Gallery

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2011 Award Winners!
Best Feature - Somebody's Hero - Darin Beckstead
Best Documentary Feature - The Last Immortal - Charles Denson
Best Short - Impostor - Marc Masciandaro
Best Documentary Short - Two's a Crowd - Tom Isler, Jim Isler
Best Horror Film - An Evening With My Comatose Mother - Jonathan Martin
Best Experimental - Dame Factory - Melanie Abramov
Best Music Video - Suck It! - John DesRoches
Best Animation - Devil Town - Victoria Cook
Best Silent Film - Fallen - Ashley Zahorian
Best "Made in Coney Island" - A Day In The Life Of Coney Island - Daniel Turkewitz

2011 FESTIVAL SCHEDULE ARCHIVE

CLICK HERE TO VIEW FILMS LISTED ALPHABETICALLY BY TITLE

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. SEPTEMBER 23, 2011    
Fri. 7:30pm - CI Museum

 

Opening Night Screening: $6
The Last Immortal

Fri. 9:30pm - Sideshow

Opening Night Party - $25
at the Coney Island USA Freak Bar and Sideshows By The Seashore! Hosted by Adam The First Real Man. Live Sideshow
Featuring: Insectavora, Kryssy Kocktail, Burlesque Featuring Lefty Lucy, Creamy Stevens, Sizzle Dizzle, Variety Act: Lady Scoutington, Go Go:
Stella Chu, Dangrrr Doll. 2 hour Open Bar and Finger Food!

 


SAT. SEPTEMBER 24, 2011    
 


 

Sat. 1pm - CI Museum

 

Program 1 - SOLD OUT!

Skate
Somebody's Hero

Sat. 2pm - Sideshow

Program 2 - Sold Out!

Floyd The Android
Guard Dog Global Jam
Place Stamp Here
Delilah, Before
Daydreamed
Perspective
Three Things
Last Words of the Holy Ghost
Aurora Borealis

 

Sat. 3pm - CI Museum

 

Program 3 - $6

Nefertitty
Love is Hard: A Burlesque Fairytale

Sat. 4pm - Sideshow

Program 4 - $6

Goodbye Winter
Posthumous Proposal
After – School Special
The Virgin Forest
The Robber Barons of Wall Street
Impostor

 

Sat. 5pm CI Museum
Saturday 5:30pm NY Aquarium

Special Screening at the NY Aquarium's 4D Theater, 602 Surf Ave., 5:30pm, Free (First Come First Served) Atlantic Crossing: A Robot's Daring Mission

Program 5 - $6

The Super

Sat. 6pm- Sideshow

Program 6 - $6
Devil Town
Hesta Prynn
Climb
Radio Girl Underground Melody
Carny
Holes for Eyes
A Fable about Beauty
Good Taste
The Dinner Meeting
15:2
What Remains

 

Sat. 7pm
Party NY Aquarium
Program 7 Museum

New York Aquarium Film Fest Party, 7pm-11pm, 602 Surf Avenue, $15
Featuring two bands Moto Wrays and Spanking Charlene. Burlesque by Little Brooklyn, Fem Appeal, Amelia Bareparts. Sideshow by Princess Pat and Lady Hourglass. Go Go by La Maia, Justina Flash, Dottie Dynamo. Cash Bar.

Program 7 - $6
They Call Me Pubefinger
Vacuum Attraction
Blame Cupid Stupid
Mondo Claymo
Neal
The Open City
How (Not) To Borrow a Car
Terrestrial Violence
Hey Rube

Sat. 8pm - Sideshow

Program 8 - The Horror - $6

Martian Precursor
Waffle
Incubator

Nice Guys Finish Last
Sophie Gets Ahead
Ad Noctum
Cabine of The Dead
Eat Me
An Evening with My Comatose Mother

 

Sat. 9pm - CI Museum

 

Program 9 - $6
Ode to Charlie
Boys from Coney Island
The Craving

Sat. 10:30pm - Sideshow

Program 10 Special Screening
THE WARRIORS SOLD OUT!


 

 

 

 
SUN. SEPTEMBER 25, 2011    

Sun 1:00pm - CI Museum


Program 11 - $6

Oh luv
Us
December 15th
Fish
A Finger Two Dots, Then Me
Atlantis
Ma In Her Kerchief
Tom and Sabrina
Divorce

Sun. 2:00pm - Sideshow

Program 12 - $6

The Hidden Sister
Dame Factory
First Kiss
Bathing and the Single Girl
Heart Break
Street Pillow or the Sidewalk Sleep
Flagpole

Suck It

 

Sun. 3pm - CI Museum

 

Program 13 - $6
Airhead
He Shoots He Scores
The Fabulous Jalopy
Two’s a Crowd
Doctor Kong
I Rub NY
Desert of the Real
New New York
Feedback
Who I Am

Sun. 4pm - Sideshow

 

Program 14 - SOLD OUT!

The Hush
Surfer’s Way

Rumbleseat

Just Noodlin

Frustrated
Mercury in Tuna

The Day That We Got Married

Ronan and Alyssa are about to break up
Fallen
Tommy’s Pumpkin

Hansel and Gretel
Death of a Popstar

 

Sun. 5:00pm - CI Museum

 

Program 15 - $6
Greatest Disaster
Long Island Uncovered
Heavy Metal Picnic


Sun. 6pm - Sideshow

Program 16 - Sold Out!
Take Me There
Neptune Jam
The Blue Umbrella
Save Coney Island
I Dream of Genie
Shoot The Freak
Ic Waters
A Cornucopia Of Characters:The Queens Polar Bears
A Day in the Life of Coney Island
The Great Coney Island Egg Toss
John Dorman The Candy Man

 

 

 

 

Awards Ceremomy, Sunday, September 25th, 8pm, Ruby's Bar & Grill on the boardwalk. Free Admission.

CIFF named one of the 25 Festivals worth the entry fee and 25 Coolest Film Festivals by Moviemaker Magazine! Included in Filmmaker Magazine's Blog "My 10 Favorite Film Festivals of 2010!"


2010 Honoree Darren Aronofsky
!

2010 Photo Gallery!

Coney Island Film Festival named one of the
"25 Coolest Film Festivals" by MovieMaker Magazine!
Click here to read the article.



FEATURED IN FILMMAKER MAGAZINE'S BLOG "MY 10 FAVORITE FESTIVALS OF 2010"!


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