indiefilmpage.com and Coney Island USA Present: The 23rd Annual Coney Island Film Festival, May 5-7, 2023 at Sideshows by the Seashore and The Coney Island Museum, in the historic Brooklyn neighborhood, Coney Island, New York. 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 closed! All submitters will be notified via FilmFreeway’s Email system on or around March 28th. Thanks to all who submitted. Good luck! That's a wrap on another great festival! Thanks to our filmmakers, attendees, sponsors, staff, performers, board of directors and volunteers for your support! See you in 2023! Follow our Social Media for images and more! 2022 Best in Category Animation - Our America Comedy Short - I'm Phil Documentary Feature - Nightclubbing: The Birth of Punk Rock in NYC Documentary Short - Bacon 'N' Laces Drama Short - Glasgow Experimental - Howl Feature - Discontinued Horror - RINGWORMS Made in Coney Island - Did you ever Wonder Music Video - Follicles  Sci-Fi - The Malfunction Mobile Friendly site here 2022 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) FRI. SEPTEMBER 16, 2022     Fri. 7:30pm - CI Museum   Opening Night Screening - $8 Back to the Drive-In Fri. 9:30pm - Sideshow Opening Night Party - $25 at the Coney Island USA Freak Bar and Sideshows By The Seashore! Hosted by Adam Realman. Live Sideshow, Beer and Wine Open Bar (Beer from Coney Island Brewery) Food   SAT. SEPTEMBER 17, 2022         Sat. 1pm - CI Museum   Program 1 - $8 - Doc Shorts Keys to the City Piled Up Timber- A Sappy Holiday Story! Bacon 'N' Laces Emily's Do Rearranging Skin: A Love Letter to the World Small Hours Covid Crusader: The Carla Brown Story Sat. 2pm - Sideshow Program 2 - $8 - Comedy Shorts Curtains Down: The Last Rod I'm Phil We Should Get Dinner! I'm Not Nice Queer Fish in God's Waiting Room Unessential Camp Greenwood   Sat. 3pm - CI Museum   Program 3 - $8 - Shorts Limpia Congratulations Frankie Getting There At The Sea How To Open A Clam Sat. 4pm - Sideshow Program 4 - $8 - Shorts Mold of Malachi What's the Mark? Mama Duke Glasgow Amadi Comes Home Desmond's Not Here Anymore   Sat. 5pm CI Museum   Program 5 - $8 - Shorts Knightman Prologue The Late Set Care NORTH STAR Sat. 6pm- Sideshow Program 6 - $8 - Sci-Fi Chatsworth Checkpoint User Zero The Malfunction Death Valley Amber A Lone Star Love   Sat. 7pm - Museum Program 7 - $8 - Music Videos, Experimental Films Steve Conte - Flying Dirty Work Follicles Summa Bumma Shimmy Doll Music Video Sweatshop Boogie Zero Trust: "Clouds" BRONX IS BURNING! New York Conversations Dead Man Rides Subway Eidolon Beatings of the Devil Howl Secrets of the Galleries Light as Paper MARGINALITIES (How We Live Together) Sat. 8pm - Sideshow Program 8 - $8 - Horror Siren When You're Gone Cameo RINGWORMS FINGER There's Something in the Silence White Eyes Buzzkill Sat. 9pm - CI Museum   Program 9 - $8 - Feature The Rest of Your Life Sat. 10:30pm - Sideshow Program 10 - $12 The Warriors         SUN. SEPTEMBER 18, 2022     Sun 1:00pm - CI Museum Program 11 - $8- Animation The Sea Train The Dance Wishmaker Don't Be Scared Cherry On Top Kerplunky! Demi's Panic Lipstick of the Brave Our America TIME The Tenement Losing It In the Mountains Memento Mori Sun. 2:00pm - Sideshow Program 12 - $8 - Shorts Disaster Chasers THE LITTLE DRUMMER BOY Fish Story PAPER GEESE Make Your Soul Grow   Sun. 3pm - CI Museum   Program 13 - $8 - Feature Sold Out! Discontinued Sun. 4pm - Sideshow     Program 14 - $8 - Shorts Riley Let Me Go (The Right Way) How They Met Themselves Heir to the Throne Occupational Hazard   Sun. 5:00pm - CI Museum   Program 15 -$8- Doc Feature Nightclubbing: The Birth of Punk Rock in NYC Sun. 6pm - Sideshow Program 16 - $8 - Coney Island Films I Grew Up Near the Sea Cinema Garcon Coney Island Adventures Prince of Luna Park THE DEMISE OF CONEY ISLAND Did you ever Wonder   Sun. 8pm Awards Ceremony: Eldorado Bumper Cars.     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