Coney Island Film Festival

2023 Archive

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

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

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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.

2021 Best in Category

Animation - Hey Poopy Podcast Cartoons
Comedy Short - How to be a Super Driver
Documentary Feature - Vinyl Nation
Documentary Short - MUDLARKER
Drama Short - xxVISIBLE
Experimental - Planet M in Outer Space
Feature - The Andy Baker Tape
Horror - HOUSEHOLD DEMONS
Made in Coney Island - Coney Island Locked Down
Music Video - Waiting Tables
Sci-Fi - Standing Woman

2021 ARCHIVE 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)
SAT. SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

Sat. 1pm - CI Museum		Program 1 - $8 - Doc Shorts Scary Times Quarantine Crasher House of Yes ALIVE BY ACCIDENT: THE STORY OF MAYDAY HARDWARE I Want Everything By Way Of Canarsie MUDLARKER
Sat. 2pm - Sideshow	Program 2 - $8 - Comedy Shorts BioPetz 180 Seconds Clark! The Dogfriend Sophie's Choices ILLGIVING Eggbert Finds Love Buzz Kill The Robbery Worm
Sat. 3pm - CI Museum		Program 3 - $8 - Short and Narrative Feature The Killer Across the Street The Andy Baker Tape
Sat. 4pm - Sideshow	Program 4 - $8 - Shorts I AM A MAN Last Summer on Bainbridge Street grist How Much We Feel xxVISIBLE The Main Event Floundering Superstar
Sat. 5pm CI Museum		Program 5 - $8 - Shorts Fever Dream THE BLIND SEER OF CONEY ISLAND
Sat. 6pm- Sideshow	Program 6 - $8 - Sci-Fi Shorts Fenestra PROJECT-19 Standing Woman Jasmine Dearly Beloved Donut Shop Body of the Mined BLUE FiRE
Sat. 7pm - Museum		Program 7 - $8 - Music Videos, Experimental Films Play Date "Surf's Up" Music Video Snake Oil Waiting Tables Kalbells - Purplepink Nation of One AM Gold Wilsen: Ruiner 95Bulls - Young Love QUEEN V -- "STRONG" HARDER THAN A HURRICANE Free Time Star Spangled Brighton Beach Ordinary Lost in Dust Planet M in Outer Space
Sat. 8pm - Sideshow	Program 8 - $8 - Horror Shorts HOUSEHOLD DEMONS What's in the Woods? Briar Party Doll Daytrip Massacre In the Bowels of the Building Hide or Seek
Sat. 9pm - CI Museum		Program 9 - $8 - Doc Feature Vinyl Nation
Sat. 10pm - Sideshow	Program 10 - $8 - Horror Shorts 2 Posted No Hunting Exit 66 SUNDOWN TOWN Bloodshed Ipecac Call for Me Make A Wish Koreatown Ghost Story

SUN. SEPTEMBER 19, 2021
Sun 1:00pm - CI Museum		Program 11 - $8- Animation Don't Touch Your Face Barking Orders First Class Ticket Concoction Z.O.I. Inferno HYBRID Mad Alice Bobby Pinwheel The Mares Of Reckless Abandon Our Bed Is Green The Adventures of Theo’s Star Katz of NY Hey Poopy Podcast Cartoons
Sun. 2:00pm - Sideshow	Program 12 - $8 - Shorts On the Sidewalk, at Night Old Hen My Name is Pip 16 WORDS OR LESS The Love Spell Cirqueros Ordinary World
Sun. 3pm - CI Museum		Program 13 - $8 - Doc Feature The History of Metal and Horror
Sun. 4pm - Sideshow	Program 14 - $8 - Shorts Max is Bleeding Girls Are Strong Here Monsters and Muses Fear of Open Spaces Running Interference
Sun. 5:00pm - CI Museum		Program 15 -$8 - Short and Narrative Feature SOLD OUT! THANK YOU! How to be a Super Driver Generation Wrecks
Sun. 6pm - Sideshow	Program 16 - $8 - Coney Island Films COMING SOON, CONEY ISLAND CRAB RIDE Kapustochka Gender Clown "Cancer Moon Blues" Summer is for Sandcastles Coney Island Locked Down The Reopening of Coney Island JUST ANOTHER BEACH DAY Wata Gun & Funne Fatale Coney Island Sunset "Shark Show, CI" Environmental Racism and the Coney Island Ferry

2020 Best in Category

Animation - Low Down Larry Conquers The Moon Men
Experimental - American Quartet
Music Video - Ruby Bones "Don't Lose Your Head"
Sci-Fi - Moonwalk With Me
Horror - The Smiler
Comedy Short - Better Half
Drama Short - The Liberty
Documentary Short - COVID Nurses
Documentary Feature - Beer Boom
Feature - Middletown
Made in Coney Island - CYCLONE

2020 Archive Below

2020 VIRTUAL FESTIVAL SCHEDULE
ONLINE AT XERB.TV - SEPTEMBER 22 - OCTOBER 2


		Program 1 - Comedy Shorts - $7 StartlePlex Cinemas People Are Only Interesting When You Get To Know Them GOING BOTH WAYS - The Doctor Visit OMAKASE Weezy Goes Outside The Stunods Waimea Better Half
	Program 2 - Comedy Shorts - $7 A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Interview Pete's Valve Wendy/Gigi Tuesday Night Fever The Truth Box Barrel Full of Magic: The Beethoven Story Unnatural
		Program 3 - Drama Shorts - $7 Moonwalk With Me The Liberty Telephone Fratello Doesn't Fall Far Go Ahead, Grab Time by the Throat
	Program 4- Drama Shorts - $7 Real American Chicken EXIT PACKAGE Family Bond ROSA The Hour After Westerly
		Program 5 - Drama Shorts - $7 Broken Bird Driver Home Room Cotton Candy Black Blight The Fix
	Program 6 - Feature Film - $7 Middletown
		Program 7 - Feature Film - $7 Making Monsters
	Program 8 - Horror Shorts $7 The Loop It Can Walk! Momma, Don't Go Perfect Like Me Deadly Meat Lovers Distant Routine Shut Eye The Smiler The Witches of Bushwick
		Program 9 - Coney Island Films - $7 Coney Island From Above Artwork for the Aquarium Dreamland SOME OTHER BAY Snowfall Polar Plunge Tortuga Crawl Summer Song Mermaid Parade 2020 Mermaid Parade Beach Ceremony
	Program 10 - Coney Island Films - $7 No Soy De Aqui Rare Vibe Cock Lock It LET’S DO DRUGS CYCLONE PAPA LEGBA OF CONEY ISLAND
		Program 11 - Doc Shorts & Doc Feature - $7 Rhythm’s Gonna Get Ya PIANO CRAFTMAN Welcome to the Sewer Den Beer Boom
	Program 12 Doc Shorts & Doc Feature $7 Geronimo: Circus Trash Monster From Page To Stage ... Michele Carlo and Fish Out Of Agua Miss You Fill The Frame
		Program 13 - Animation, Experimental & Music Video Social Distance: Maybe It's a Good Idea Take Off Your Skin Low Down Larry Conquers The Moon Men The Rocky Roads in Just Enough Lentils Izzy's Demons SUCCOR Night at the Museum American Quartet Unborn Rivers of Sky Mx Saturn Rebirth Ritual Stairwell My Love Hunting Ground Sick Of It All - "Self Important Shithead" Everything Breaks The Space Merchants - City Lights Ruby Bones: Don't Lose Your Head The Chosen People I Wanna Quarantine With You
	Program 14 - Shorts - Pandemic Times - $7 In These Times COVID NURSES Frontliners \| The Impact of COVID-19 on Healthcare Professionals More Than Essential - Behind the Frontline: New York City A Week In June This Matters One Day In June

2019 Best in Category:
Animation - Brooklyn Breeze
Comedy Short - Bygones
Documentary Feature - Going Attractions: The Definitive Story of the Movie Palace
Documentary Short - The Magnitudinous Illuminous
Drama Short - Drown the Clown
Experimental - Subway Inferno
Feature - The Incoherents
Horror -Krampusnacht
“Made in Coney Island” - BARON SATURDAY OF CONEY ISLAND
Music Video - Don't Say Goodnight
Sci-Fi - JUNIPER

2019 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 13, 2019
Fri. 7:30pm - CI Museum		Opening Night Screening - $8 Going Attractions: The Definitive Story of the Movie Palace
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 and Burlesque 2 hour Beer and Wine Open Bar (Beer from Coney Island Brewery) and Food, catered by Gargiulo's!
SAT. SEPTEMBER 14, 2019

Sat. 1pm - CI Museum		Program 1 - $8 - Doc Shorts The Company You Keep The Magnitudinous Illuminous Still Plays with Trains sideshow on the mainstage Signature Tomorrow's Fish Home Street Home
Sat. 2pm - Sideshow	Program 2 - $8 - Comedy Shorts Nuclear Knack Knacks Joe Returns a Video Drip Crab Special Best Wishes Bygones This Bra Is Killing Me Bobo Touch Helpline - The Kisser Donny and Clive What's the 311?
Sat. 3pm - CI Museum		Program 3 - $8 - Feature Treasure Trouble
Sat. 4pm - Sideshow	Program 4 - $8 - Shorts Sun Shine LP Zoe In Review GYRL Marisol Know Me So Well Champions
Sat. 5pm CI Museum		Program 5 - $8 - Sci-Fi Into the Dark JUNIPER Regulation Canada The Replacement The $500 Dress Caronte
Sat. 6pm- Sideshow	Program 6 - $8 - Coney Island Films Don't Lie Big Bad Wolves Brighton Le Meow Mort Shakas Miss Coney Island Noa The Daydream Fun!
Sat. 7pm - Museum		Program 7 - $8 - Music Videos, Experimental Films Brooklyn The Day the L Train Died (American Pie Parody) Taco Night Material Love's Not Enough So Far No Luck Zebra Value Line & the Letting Go Day Drinking / Beer Pressure ONE MORE TIME Subway Inferno Emergency Alert Dull Hope BROKEN MANTRA Good Queen Sunday's Girl Marvin & Matilda Are Soap Bottles
Sat. 8pm - Sideshow	Program 8 - $8 - Horror Shorts Zebra THE DESECRATED Too Late Krampusnacht The Chrysalis The Dam REAL WITCH HOURS Matryoshka TILLIE
Sat. 9pm - CI Museum		Program 9 - $8 - Feature The Incoherents
Sat. 10:30pm - Sideshow	Program 10 Special Screening The Warriors

SUN. SEPTEMBER 15, 2019
Sun 1:00pm - CI Museum		Program 11 - $8- Animation Fun More HAPPY BULLET Break the Fire Brooklyn Breeze Alone In America - an immigrant story "Charles Darwin, Family Man" Bristled One Pill at a Time The Happy Go Gang Pine High Skate Joan Of The Park Ride Miles Away The Spirit Seam
Sun. 2:00pm - Sideshow	Program 12 - $8 - Shorts Drown the Clown Skin the Wire Murder... At The CIRCUS! High Ground Blue Reverie
Sun. 3pm - CI Museum		Program 13 - $8 - Doc Feature Last Stop Coney Island: The Life and Photography of Harold Feinstein
Sun. 4pm - Sideshow	Program 14 - $8 - Shorts The Lost Weekend What Tomorrow Brings The Housesitters Let Mercy Come Benim
Sun. 5:00pm - CI Museum		Program 15 -$8- Burlesque and Sideshow Stars Bloodbath of Terror DLB Stag Stripped Around the World with The Squidling Brothers
Sun. 6pm - Sideshow	Program 16 - $8 - Coney Island Films Don't Say Goodnight A CONEY FILM NOIR BARON SATURDAY OF CONEY ISLAND How the Trumps Brought Death & Destruction to Coney Island Insectavora Bears In Love Majors, We Don't Want to Say Goodbye
Sun. 8pm	Awards Ceremony: Eldorado Bumper Cars.

2018 Best in Category:
Feature - Staring at the Sun
Documentary Feature - Ape Girl
Short (Tie) - Man with Beard, The Boy in the High Window
Documentary Short - Deporting Myself
Horror - The Son, the Father...
Experimental - No Man's Land
Music Video - Closer
Animation - DEATH VAN
"Made in Coney Island" (Tie) - BK Stories: Keeping Coney Island Freaky with Dick Zigun,
The Infamous Mermaid Uprising of 2017

2018 FESTIVAL SCHEDULE ARCHIVE

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 14, 2018
Fri. 7:30pm - CI Museum		Opening Night Screening - $8 Tigger! Obscene Beauty
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 and Burlesque 2 hour Beer and Wine Open Bar (Beer from Coney Island Brewery) and Food, catered by Gargiulo's!
SAT. SEPTEMBER 15, 2018

Sat. 1pm - CI Museum		Program 1 - $8 - Doc Shorts Egg Cream A Train to Rockaway Sweet Soul in Exile Deporting Myself Houdini Girl Super 8 Daze Once Around is Never Enough
Sat. 2pm - Sideshow	Program 2 - $8 - Comedy Shorts Susanne and the Man Man with Beard High Tide Sac de Merde Brown Fish Waste BFF Girls
Sat. 3pm - CI Museum		Program 3 - $8 - Feature Dean Darling
Sat. 4pm - Sideshow	Program 4 - $8 - Shorts Jabari Keating Fade: Freedom Against Dark Enemies White Man's Curse Fevah Civic Mind IN THE FIELD The Final Mission
Sat. 5pm CI Museum		Program 5 - $8 - Sci-Fi AFTERMATH:THE SEEDS OF ARMAGEDDON PROGRAM Kill Al One Day the Sun Turned Black Toll Switch: In Development Presents "Blood Red White and Blue" THE CLASS ANALYSIS Stevie's Aliens
Sat. 6pm- Sideshow	Program 6 - $8 - Coney Island Films Julia and the Island Queens of Coney Island The Blurry World of Marcello Casagrande The Sword Swallower Crazy Night Run Until You're Out Normal
Sat. 7pm - Museum		Program 7 - $8 - Music Videos, Experimental Films Don't You Spit On My Pussy The Emoji Song Oso Oso - Reindeer Games Key Largo ODE TO THE SINGING BUTLER DUMB DUMB ALEX - Youth (ft. Rachel McAlpine) Official Video Closer "Irritation" Music Video Gods of Fire - Werewolf of Brooklyn Collapsing No Man's Land Imagine The Strapless Brain Say No to Drift Walking Allen Anders - Live at the Comedy Castle (Circa 1987)
Sat. 8pm - Sideshow	Program 8 - $8 - Horror Shorts MIDNIGHT DELIVERY Goodbye Old Friend Venus Driver Midnight Broadcast The Son, the Father... The Music Lesson Teaser Unexpected Company
Sat. 9pm - CI Museum		Program 9 - $8 - Feature Staring at the Sun
Sat. 10:30pm - Sideshow	Program 10 Special Screening The Warriors

SUN. SEPTEMBER 16, 2018
Sun 1:00pm - CI Museum		Program 11 - $8- Animation Next Stop Not Everyone Wants to Be Your Friend Dr. Mantis The Velvet Underground Played at My High School DEATH VAN Oh my dog! Blind Mice The Rocky Roads Return! Bright Lights, Bad City What's That in the Ground? SIGNAL Carnival Entropic Scraps Tidal Wave
Sun. 2:00pm - Sideshow	Program 12 - $8 - Shorts Entanglement Old Habits Mania Blue Threshold Ascension
Sun. 3pm - CI Museum		Program 13 - $8 - Amusement Docs Ape Girl East Coast Thrills 2!
Sun. 4pm - Sideshow	Program 14 - $8 - Shorts Runaway Earn The Season A Thursday In December Roaming The Boy in the High Window
Sun. 5:30pm - CI Museum		Program 15 -$8- Doc Feature Standing Up
Sun. 6pm - Sideshow	Program 16 - $8 - Coney Island Films NIGHT LIGHTS Straighten Up and Fly Right CONEY ISLAND SUNRISE ZONE 1 CONEY ISLAND BK Stories: Keeping Coney Island Freaky with Dick Zigun Pandemonium - Mermaid Parade The Infamous Mermaid Uprising of 2017 Winter Wonder Wheel Coney Island Loves 2007 – 2009
Sun. 8pm	Awards Ceremony: Eldorado Bumper Cars.

2017 Best in Category:
Feature - What Children Do - Dean Peterson
Documentary Feature - Cassette: A Documentary Mixtape - Zack Taylor
Short - Fry Day - Laura Moss
Documentary Short - A GARBAGE STORY - Olivier Bernier
Horror - A Peculiar Thud - Ross Morin
Experimental - Live Your Light - Jendra Jarnagin
Music Video - Dog in the Night - Fletcher Wolfe
Animation - IDIOT KING - Steven Lapcevic
"Made in Coney Island" - Cyclone: 90 Years of History on Wheels - Frank Posillico

2017 Photo Gallery

2017 FESTIVAL SCHEDULE
Click here to find all films alphabetized by title and program number
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 8, 2017
Fri. 7:30pm - CI Museum		Opening Night Screening - $8 What Children Do
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 and Burlesque 2 hour Beer and Wine Open Bar (Beer from Coney Island Brewery) and Food, catered by Gargiulo's!
SAT. SEPTEMBER 9, 2017

Sat. 1pm - CI Museum		Program 1 - $8 - Doc Shorts Life & Sand Tav Falco: Make Me Know You're Mine In Love and Death Earn Your Salt A GARBAGE STORY The Tables $15 Kicks
Sat. 2pm - Sideshow	Program 2 - $8 - Comedy Shorts Adults Only! Hardly Waiting Le Creuset Cake Bun in the Oven Be Sexy Stowaway Sexual Healing Pee Sitting Down
Sat. 3pm - CI Museum		Program 3 - $8 -Docs Dead Man's Carnival: A Conversation With Pinkerton Xyloma P.T. Barnum The Lost Legend
Sat. 4pm - Sideshow	Program 4 - $8 - Shorts See You Yesterday Brooklyn Bred Brooklyn In July White Face Brian Mickler Jake Night Rider
Sat. 5pm CI Museum		Program 5 - $8 - Doc Feature Cassette: A Documentary Mixtape
Sat. 6pm- Sideshow	Program 6 - $8 - Coney Films Fly By Wire Coney Island BUBBLES BY THE SEA Looking Up The Blazes and The Brooklyn Yeti Avocado CONEY ISLAND SIREN Shell Game The Mystery Gang
Sat. 7pm - Museum		Program 7 - $8 - Animation Music Videos Pittari Birthday Boy The Magical Mystery of Musigny New York City Sketchbook Dating Apocalypse IDIOT KING Evocation of a Nightmare The Rocky Roads Dog in the Night Amazon Reviews: THE MUSICAL Big Bliss - High Ideal Burn the River Down The Jazz Passengers: What A Crowd #Taplife - Eyes
Sat. 8pm - Sideshow	Program 8 - $8 - Horror Films WE TOGETHER Mockside 2.0 (Episode 1) Fluffernutter Brown Evil The Call of Charlie Holiday Fear The Jeweled Heart Murders A Peculiar Thud BURN
Sat. 9pm - CI Museum		Program 9 - $8 - Experimental Films SOULFINGER vs GOLDFINGER Live Your Light Aquacade Troubled Waters Breathe in, Breathe Out The Five Boroughs In the Sky NYC Flow Winter Meditations Chrysalis Two One Million Years 140 Characters Fetishes A Sweet Lorraine Christmas Mechanical Circle
Sat. 10:30pm - Sideshow	Program 10 Special Screening The Warriors

SUN. SEPTEMBER 10, 2017
Sun 1:00pm - CI Museum		Program 11 - $8- Feature From Hollywood to Rose
Sun. 2:00pm - Sideshow	Program 12 - $8 - Comedy Shorts Shy Guys The Finger Prerequisite WILLY Gym Class Stories The Tramcar Girl Toll Switch: Make-Up Terry: The Serious Actor
Sun. 3pm - CI Museum		Program 13 - $8 - Adults Only Unattended Baggage Character
Sun. 4pm - Sideshow	Program 14 - $8 - Shorts Fry Day The Other Side Of Love The Last Hundred Feet Jack and Jill Deadbeat The Johns Bar
Sun. 5:00pm - CI Museum		Program 15 -$8- Shorts Pickup Eight of Spades God's Country Hotel Room Don't Think About It
Sun. 6pm - Sideshow	Program 16 - $8 - Coney Island Films Gideon's Army "Roll On" - Official Music Video Christina Rubino - Down to the Sea Origami Bacon, Egg, and Love Runaways Coney Island Trash Bear Life Cyclone: 90 Years of History on Wheels Hot Diggity Dog of 1916 Polar Bears Baby, Happy New Year 2009
	Awards Ceremony: Deno's Wonder Wheel Park Bumper Cars.

2016 Best in Category:
Feature - Flatbush Luck - Casper Andreas
Documentary Feature - PlayMe Burlesque - Malgorzata Saniewska
Short - PORGIES & BASS - Thomas Barnes
Documentary Short - Dunk Tank Clowns - Daniel McGuire
Horror - The Fisherman's Wife - Ben Leonberg
Experimental - BITS and PIECES - Howie Alex
Music Video - I Ain't Lazy, I'm Just Dreamin' - Bill Poznanski
Animation - Our Crappy Town - Andy London
"Made in Coney Island" - Coney Island Dreaming - Vagabond Beaumont

2016 FESTIVAL SCHEDULE ARCHIVE

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, 2016
Fri. 7:30pm - CI Museum		Opening Night Screening - $8 Flatbush Luck Sold Out, Thank You!
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 and Burlesque 2 hour Beer and Wine Open Bar (Beer from Coney Island Brewery) and Food, catered by Gargiulo's!
SAT. SEPTEMBER 17, 2016

Sat. 1pm - CI Museum		Program 1 - $8 - Doc Shorts Robot Soliloquies: Tima Single Asian Female Online Tommy and David Dunk Tank Clowns Magic Man Legacy Booklyn home slice One Man's Trash
Sat. 2pm - Sideshow	Program 2 - $8 - Comedy Shorts Flight Fright Killing the Coat Sucklepump Sleep On It The Last Deli in Brooklyn #Anatomy of the Romantic Comedy Honk! Honk! Love, New York Jef Needs Ice Cream
Sat. 3pm - CI Museum		Program 3 - $8 - Shorts I Ain't Lazy, I'm Just Dreamin' You by Pearl and The Beard Vulva Face (Parody of "Poker Face" by Lady Gaga) Glamour & Glitz! Mostly Merril The Catcallers A David Lynch Movie Superboob
Sat. 4pm - Sideshow	Program 4 - $8 - Shorts Regulars Be Good New Year's Eve @ Sunny's Strangers Hello Caitlin Among the Beasts
Sat. 5pm CI Museum		Program 5 - $8 - Doc Feature PlayMe Burlesque
Sat. 6pm- Sideshow	Program 6 - $8 - Coney Films Coney Island Dreaming Birth Day Soledad A Night With a Stranger Wade A large sky without people carries the birds in its balloon Brothers In Arms The Blue Balloon Chasing A Mermaid Tale Nazimova's Dream (Within A Dream)
Sat. 7pm - Museum		Program 7 - $8 - Music Videos- Experimental Films Creature at The Bates Motel L'Assassins: Fire Of Love Arms "Stellary" Conditions Wild Night Moves "Denise, Don't Want To See You Cry" OWEL: Every Good Boy Does Fine Music Video Stiff Arm The Force - Only Human Flesh of the Fresh, Blood of the Dove Take the High Line HOUDINI...talks Houdini Scratchorama (Cameraless Cinerama) PLANE STRIKE half still Life Mère d'Inri
Sat. 8pm - Sideshow 8pm - Party at the Shooting Gallery/Arts Annex!	Program 8 - $8 - Horror Shorts Gwilliam Hunter’s Moon The Fisherman's Wife When the Night Falls Selfie Consommé PLAYBACK DON'T DO LAUNDRY IN THE BASEMENT WHEN YOU LIVE IN A HAUNTED HOUSE AND SATAN IS YOUR LANDLORD Ventriloquism Vengeance in Coney Burnt Popcorn I Want You Inside Me	Saturday Night Party at the Eldorado Arcade, 1215 Bowery Street. Free Admission! 8pm - 10pm, Live Show! Hosted by Adam Realman!
Sat. 9pm - CI Museum		Program 9 - $8 - Doc Feature Brooklyn Basketball
Sat. 10:30pm - Sideshow	Program 10 Special Screening The Warriors

SUN. SEPTEMBER 18, 2016
Sun 1:00pm - CI Museum		Program 11 - $8- Animation Garlic on Trial Light Drifter The Surreal Sideshow Where R U From A Subway Story Under the City the Blue Bag Dropped Personal Effects Player Two DRONE Ring Around the Mulberry Bush There's Too Many Of These Crows Our Crappy Town
Sun. 2:00pm - Sideshow	Program 12 - $8 - Shorts Daria the Great PORGIES & BASS Grow'n Walden Pink Squeeze
Sun. 3pm - CI Museum		Program 13 - $8 - Feature Sweet Lorraine
Sun. 4pm - Sideshow	Program 14 - $8 - Shorts The Treatment Man with a Gun In for Business Chambers If We Must Die By Blood
Sun. 5:00pm - CI Museum		Program 15 -$8- Shorts Almost One In The Deep Last Stop Coney Island Under The Heavens
Sun. 6pm - Sideshow	Program 16 - $8 - Coney Island Films A Day at Coney Island BITS and PIECES Just in Love For the Summer Coney The Dress Bread Board BLUE Sarah Beetson's Coney Island Painted Polaroids The Sideshow You Didn't Know The Great Coney Island Egg Toss II The Wonder Wheel Gets Ready for Season 2008
	Awards Ceremony: Eldorado Auto Skooter 1216 Surf Ave., 8:00pm

2015 Best in Category:
Feature - The Cruel Tale of the Medicine Man - James Habacker
Documentary Feature - Us, Naked: Trixie & Monkey Kirsten D'Andrea Hollander
Short - Spit - Mtume Gant
Documentary Short - This Side of Dreamland - Patrick Reagan, Joshua Glick
Horror - Larry Gone Demon - Matthew John Lawrence
Experimental - Licht - Charly Wenzel
Music Video - No One Here But Us Bones - Allan Piper
Animation - My Kingdom - Debra Solomon
"Made in Coney Island" - The Longest Friday of the Year - Jim McDonnell

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2015 FESTIVAL SCHEDULE ARCHIVE
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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. SEPTEMBER 18, 2015
Fri. 7:30pm - CI Museum		Opening Night Screening - $8 Birthday Us, Naked: Trixie & Monkey
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 and Burlesque 2 hour Open Bar (Beer from Coney Island Brewery and Wine from The Red Hook Winery) and Food, catered by Gargiulo's!
SAT. SEPTEMBER 19, 2015

Sat. 1pm - CI Museum		Program 1 - $8 -Comedy Glory Days What to Expect... The Ramens Moving On Miss Mystery "Rock N Roll Ghost Town" Cubed The Propmaster Train Approaching Perry Strong Comedian. Music video My Boyfriend is a Blimp
Sat. 2pm - Sideshow	Program 2 - $8 - Shorts The First Pitch Alexandros The Great The Plight Of Cecil Spidora Sold Out Off-Road: The Continuing Adventures of Dorothy & Toto Last Call at Ruby's WHEN. For Better and Worse
Sat. 3pm - CI Museum		Program 3 - $8 - Feature Altered Minds
Sat. 4pm - Sideshow	Program 4 - $8 - Shorts The Bravest, the Boldest TOUGH The Devil Goes Down Standing8 Spit The Trade
Sat. 5pm CI Museum		Program 5 - $8 - Doc Shorts Bryan Zanisnik Keeps it in the Family It Moves The Greatest The Boats of Jamaica Bay "Old Days" Sideshow Of The Absurd Eric, Winter to Spring
Sat. 6pm- Sideshow	Program 6 - $8 - Feature Vamp Bikers Dos
Sat. 7pm - Museum		Program 7 - $8 - Music Videos- Experimental Films GALAXY NYC No One Here But Us Bones Licht Big Lazy - Avenue X Pas de Feu Talkin' To A Pretty Blonde Girl Race Up Race Down The Naked Heroes - Blue Medusa Your Direction "Hillside" by Lost Children BLOOD by Sidewalks and Skeletons Asesinos Music Video Double-Blind No.1 NEW AMSTERDAM The Ocean C-SHELLS C-SHORE
Sat. 8pm - Sideshow 8pm - Party at the Shooting Gallery/Arts Annex!	Program 8 - The Horror $8 CROW HAND!!! Knock, Knock... Fresh Meat Postpartum The Minions Chateau Sauvignon: terroir Night of the Slasher Snap Larry Gone Demon And Heav'n and Nature SCREAM!	Saturday Night Party At Coney Island USA's Shooting Gallery/Arts Annex, 1214 Surf Avenue, Free Admission! 8pm - 10pm, Live Show! Hosted by Adam Realman!
Sat. 9pm - CI Museum		Program 9 - $8 - Doc Feature Diary of a Deadbeat: The Story of Jim Vanbebber
Sat. 10:30pm - Sideshow	Program 10 Special Screening The Warriors

SUN. SEPTEMBER 20, 2015
Sun 1:00pm - CI Museum		Program 11 - $8- Animation Late An Ape Walk Into a Bar: A True Story In the Moog The Ballad of Holland Island House Give Luci The Alphabetical Adventures of Zelda Zingaro Beatniks I have to Poop My Kingdom Jim Vagabond No. 7: Stuff Your Eyes Beauty Sacrifice Fish Cake Zombie Sex LOWBROW UTENSILS
Sun. 2:00pm - Sideshow	Program 12 - $8 - Shorts Bloody Mary Finger Painting OkStupid Some Guys Are Bigger Than Others Barry's Hand Love & A Lug Wrench The Last Taxi Driver
Sun. 3pm - CI Museum		Program 13 - $8 - Shorts Obituaries Father Like Son Dennis Is Dead The Cycle Harry & Judy Mug
Sun. 4pm - Sideshow	Program 14 - $8 - Shorts Sin Matador Pepper and the Salt Sea Dead Water NO MILK Zerogon Iris Fiji Mermaid
Sun. 5:00pm - CI Museum		Program 15 -$8- Short & Feature Nefertitty in Space The Cruel Tale of the Medicine Man
Sun. 6pm - Sideshow	Program 16, Coney Films, SOLD OUT! THANK YOU! I'm a City Coney Island Deno's 2007, A Kaleidoscope View Heart Strings Greetings from Coney Island This Side of Dreamland The Longest Friday of the Year
	Awards Ceremony: Eldorado Auto Skooter 1216 Surf Ave., 8:00pm

2007 FESTIVAL SCHEDULE This is an archive of the 2007 Festival.
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DAY & TIME	SIDESHOWS BY THE SEASHORE 3006 W. 12th St.	CONEY ISLAND MUSEUM 1208 Surf Ave. (please note: this venue is not wheelchair accessible)
FRI. SEPT. 28
Fri. 7:30pm	Opening Night Screening: AMERICAN SCARY
Fri. 9:30pm		Opening Night Party Hosted by The Great Fredini. Live performances by New York Burlesque Stars and performers from The Coney Island Circus Sideshow. Open Bar!
SAT. SEPT. 29
Sat. 12pm	Program 1 - Kid Friendly Sideshow A Triplet Affair End of the Sawdust Trail The Little Gorilla Dear Lemon Lima, Brooklyn Boy One Little Step
Sat. 1pm		Program 2 Charge For That “Indian Larry” Memorial Field
Sat. 2pm	Program 3 Dirty Whirl The Toll Nature of The Beast Anniversary Present Face Value Off Hour No Destination 151617
Sat. 3pm		Program 4 King Of Sorrow
Sat. 4pm	Program 5 Coffee Time Slice Club Soda Security The Unknown Coppola Ode to Fredo
Sat. 5pm		Program 6 Two Tickets To Paradise
Sat. 6pm	Program 7 - Coney Island Films Jollyship the Whiz-Bang Coney Island of The Mind Coney Island, USA Freak Dream Eternal Flame Coney Island Keep it Clean
Sat. 7pm		Program 8 - Let's Go Mets! Mathematically Alive: A Story of Fandom - SOLD OUT! By popular demand, new screening added 7:30pm Sunday.
Sat. 8pm	Program 9 - Horror and more... The Sandman Broken Clocks The Insane Night of the Living Gay Heading Home The Apartment The Day All Women Loved Me A Yellow Brick Road
Sat. 9pm		Program 10 Henry The Otter Celluloid #1
Sat. 10pm
Sat. 10:30pm	Special Screening THE WARRIORS
SUN. SEPT. 30
Sun. 1pm		Program 11 Art’s Desire Mirror Madness Blue Dreams Downtown As A Cloud Crazy Lovin’ George Messenger Open Wide
Sun. 2:00pm	Program 12 - SOLD OUT! Adventures on a Tzitza String Little Pink Medicine Circus Amok Bally Master Coney Island Cyclone The History Of Vaudeville Shadows in Narrioch
Sun. 3pm		Program 13 - Underground Teat Beat of Sex Licked Llik Your Idols
Sun. 4pm	Program 14 Shuteye Hotel Take Out Joseph Henry Pop Foul Sunset Park Sangam The Intruder
Sun. 5:00pm		Program 15 - The Horror The Eyes of Edward James Pretty Blood, Boobs & Beast Deleted Scenes
Sun. 6pm	Program 16 - Hip Hop plus The Space Burger A Man in The Attic Stomping Grounds And She Don’t Stop Rhyme Animal Clam Heads
Sun. 7:30pm		Program 17 - Let's Go Mets! Mathematically Alive: A Story of Fandom

FESTIVAL SCHEDULE This is an archive of our 2006 Festival.
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DAY & TIME	SIDESHOWS BY THE SEASHORE 3006 W. 12th St.	CONEY ISLAND MUSEUM 1208 Surf Ave. (please note: this venue is not wheelchair accesible)
FRI. OCT. 6
Fri. 7:30pm	Opening Night Screening: AMERICAN CARNY: True Tales of the Circus Sideshow
Fri. 9:30pm		Opening Night Party Hosted by The Great Fredini. Live performances by Insectavora, Serpentina, Roc Roc It, Little Brooklyn, Dottie Lux, Lady Satan, Balloonhedz with Mini Malicious, Bambi the Mermaid and Bunny Love!
SAT. OCT. 7
Sat. 12pm	Program 1 Itsy Bitsy The Guide Still Standing Midsummer Dream Passion to the Max Open Air Sofa King
Sat. 1pm		Program 2 MY LIFE AS AN UNDERDOG Some Dreams Come True The Story of Bubbleboy
Sat. 2pm	Program 3 CONEY ISLAND FILMS Twistin' Gorilla The Green Flash Astella Development I Wonder Avenue X Curse Of Coney Island The Mirmaids Red Meat I Live in Brooklyn
Sat. 3pm		Kill Your Darlings: A Panel Discussion on Editing FREE ADMISSION
Sat. 4pm	Program 4 Walk Pitch Guide Dog Messenger The Tourist Lyra Lezama
Sat. 5pm		Program 5 AMERICAN STAG Available Men Shuffle Mode
Sat. 6pm	Program 6 The Clean Machine 130 Seconds Smile Misfortune Cookie Pride and Passion The Falcons are 3 Home Delivery Sideshow Attraction Surf Gang
Sat. 7pm		Program 7 PISSER
Sat. 8pm	Program 8 Public Bath Day Of The Grackle Little Brooklyn Girlfriend in a Kimono Dawn Of The Flies Team Queen Heaven Tales Of Times Square Perfidia Chingaso The Clown
Sat. 9pm		Program 9 PERVERT! The Threat From Behind
Sat. 10pm
Sat. 10:30pm	Special Screening THE WARRIORS
SUN. OCT. 8
Sun. 1pm		Program 10 Crooked Mick Winged Victory Conjuring Elf, Que Payasos! License To Play Audition
Sun. 1:30pm	Special Screening BOARDWALK q&a with director Stephen Verona
Sun. 3pm		Program 11 CREATING KARMA
Sun. 4pm	Program 12 Orange Boy Sammy and Marry Kali Ma Beatgirl Yellow Belly Zombie-American World's Worst Job, Danny and the Ocean Disconnected Images Tulips for Daisy New York	Special Event WALKING TOUR Famous Coney Island film locations. Departs from the street level entrance of the Coney Island Museum at 4pm sharp! Free with a ticket stub from any of our festival programs.
Sun. 5:30pm		Program 13 HOLES IN MY SHOES
Sun. 6pm	Program 14 Moving Picture Makers Dentist Happy Trails The Tutu Fairy Hold Linger On Copperhead Road Half-Hearted Escape Six-Minute Shootout Secondhand Smoke Intro
Sun. 7:30pm		Awards Presentation FREE ADMISSION

2006 Award Winners

Best Feature: Pervert! - Jonathan Yudis

Best Short: The Day of the Grackle - Michael Berry

Best Documentary Feature: Holes In My Shoes - David Wachs

Best Documentary Short: Messenger - Gary Beeber

Best Experimental: I Live In Brooklyn - Bombonia

Best Animation: Guide Dog - Bill Plympton

Best "Made In Coney Island": I Wonder - Chris DePierro & Amanda Jencsik

The Coney Island Film Festival thanks you for making this our most successful festival ever!

Quotes from the 2006 filmmakers about our festival

2006 Photo Gallery

Coney Island Film Festival 2005 Photo Gallery!

2005 Award Winners

Best Feature: Hot Lunch - Rory Kindersley

Best Short: Who Makes Movies? - Christopher Luccy

Best Documentary Feature: A Flash Of Light - Will Kelty

Best Documentary Short: City Of Mermaids - Leah Wolchok

Best Experimental: Tin Town - Rachel Smith

Best Animation: Somethin's Fishy In Coney Island - Bob Mataranglo

Best "Made In Coney Island": Under The Roller Coaster - Lila Place