Coney Island Film Festival Voted "One of MovieMaker Magazine's Coolest Film Festivals in the World" and "25 Festivals Worth the Entry Fee." Call for entries is now open! Festival Dates are May 3-5, 2024   Earlybird Deadline - September 8, 2023 Regular Deadline - November 10, 2023 Late Deadline - January 12, 2024 Extended Deadline - February 9, 2024 Mobile Friendly site here 2023 Archive Below Best in Category Animation - Deep Field Comedy Short - It's a Dog Documentary Feature - Circus of the Scars Documentary Short - Astor Place, The American Dream Drama Short - Aaron With 2 A's Experimental - THE LAST REBEL OF HISTORY Feature - eVil Sublet Horror - Split Second Made in Coney Island - Coney Island Baby Music Video - Ghost Funk Orchestra - Scatter Sci-Fi - Villain 2023 FESTIVAL SCHEDULE   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) FRIDAY, MAY 5, 2023     Fri. 7:30pm - CI Museum   Opening Night Screening - $10 Circus of the Scars - The Insider Odyssey of the Jim Rose Circus Sideshow Fri. 9:30pm - Sideshow Opening Night Party - $25 at the Coney Island USA Freak Bar and Shooting Gallery Arts Annex! Hosted by Adam Realman.   SATURDAY, MAY 6, 2023         Sat. 1pm - CI Museum   Program 1 - $10 - Doc Shorts Los Jibaros De Nueva York The Sixth Borough The Duck of New York Who's Calling Me at 2am? Astor Place, The American Dream Evan Ever After Sat. 2pm - Sideshow Sold Out! Program 2 - $10 - Comedy Shorts Snail Mail It's a Dog The Karens Ellen Waits Wicked Image Olivia! Puppet Seizure the hardest button to button Auto Body Let My Grandpa into Heaven   Sat. 3pm - CI Museum   Program 3 - $10 - Feature The Dancing Monkey Sat. 4pm - Sideshow Sold Out! Program 4 - $10 - Shorts Blame The Greenwood Twins Aaron With 2 A's Love's Baby Soft Rookie Card Baseball with Dad   Sat. 5pm CI Museum   Sold Out! Program 5 - $10 - Sci-Fi Villain Polybius Crossing Acheron Zero Method Higher Grounds Sat. 6pm- Sideshow Sold Out! Program 6 - $10 - Shorts Sand Mama Where the Light Enters Stay With Me A Little While A Lot of You Are Asking Driving Force Skin Kligman Rains Drive   Sat. 7pm - Museum Sold Out! Program 7 - $10 - Music Videos, Experimental Films Goth Beach Life Twice All The Boys Want To Be My Girl Mess Charming Disaster - "Disembodied Head" ANIMA Works presents "She Said" by John DeNicola Thirsty for Blood - Kat Redlus Ghost Funk Orchestra – Scatter BODY BLOW - Donny McCaslin The Villains Code Sally Formerly Known as D Permission to land Keys to the City Silver Light Leak The Bride of Chickenstein THE LAST REBEL OF HISTORY Sat. 8pm - Sideshow Program 8 - $10 - Horror Caregiver THE UNQUIET DEAD Split Second Shallow Water The Businessman PART-TIME The Door CONTENT: The Lo-Fi Man Sat. 9pm - CI Museum   Sold Out! Program 9 - $10 - Feature eVil Sublet Sat. 10:00pm - Sideshow Program 10 - $12 The Warriors         SUNDAY, MAY 7, 2023     Sun 1:00pm - CI Museum Program 11 - $10 - Animation Buildings Trapped The Grudge: Ghoul Edition The Beatles Vs The Stones Powers of 10 Love Letters for the Subway ASK AGAIN LATER Frontier Deep Field Loup Garou Little Hurts My Dear Mr. Whitman There's a Bison on The Prairie, Chihuahua Drama Misophonia Sun. 2:00pm - Sideshow Program 12 - $10 - Shorts Under Thy Wings Hawawshi Good Lok Two Wrongs 5 Feet Away Hoar Recoba   Sun. 3pm - CI Museum   Program 13 - $10 - Doc Short, Doc Feature Joey Skaggs: Celebrity Sperm Bank The Book of Harth Sun. 4pm - Sideshow     Program 14 - $10 - Shorts Bushwick Jodi Young Mom Hidden Escape From Canal Street Sugar   Sun. 5:00pm - CI Museum   Program 15 -$10- Feature Buzzill Sun. 6pm - Sideshow Program 16 - $10 - Coney Island Films Halle Mone' - What It Is (Official Music Video) Looka Looka Dry Beach Parental Orbit MORPHEUS OF CONEY ISLAND Heptapus Wonder Wheel Joey & Sarah Go to Coney Island Coney Island Baby   Sun. 8pm Awards Ceremony: Location TBA     Coney Island Film Festival has been "Voted One of MovieMaker Magazine's Coolest Film Festivals in the World". 2010 Honoree Darren Aronofsky! 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"! Shop Our Store for Posters and DVD'S