{"id":256921,"date":"2026-04-08T03:58:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T03:58:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/256921\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T03:58:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T03:58:21","slug":"bright-eye-beer-co-hosts-shorts-and-stouts-film-festival-2026-in-long-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/256921\/","title":{"rendered":"Bright Eye Beer Co. hosts Shorts and Stouts Film Festival 2026 in Long Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<img width=\"1200\" height=\"799\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Image-1-Cover-Pic-Shorts-Stouts-Film-Festival-Award-Winners-Photo-by-Ed-Shin.jpg\" class=\"crop-center wp-post-image\" alt=\"Bright Eye Beer Co. hosted Shorts and Stouts Film Festival 2026\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/>\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Shorts and Stouts Film Festival award winners.<\/p>\n<p>Ed Shin<\/p>\n<p>The Shorts and Stouts Film Festival, formerly Point Lookout Film Festival, returned following a two-year hiatus, and change in both venue and town, its seventh overall season at its new home at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.longislandpress.com\/2020\/02\/22\/bright-eye-beer-co-opens-in-long-beach\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bright Eye Beer Co.<\/a> on 50 W Park Avenue in Long Beach.<\/p>\n<p>Started in 2018 by organizers of several short film festivals in the New York and New Jersey area, who are also filmmakers themselves, the Shorts and Stouts film festival thrives on being an outlet for filmmakers from the greater Long Island area, as well as surrounding areas, to show the fruits of their laborers.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-353602\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Image-2-Organizers-of-the-Shorts-Stouts-Film-Festival-Steve-Rogers-CJ-Cullen-Larry-Rosen.jpg\" alt=\"Bright Eye Beer Co. hosted Shorts and Stouts Film Festival 2026\" width=\"700\" height=\"414\"  \/>Organizers of the Shorts and Stouts Film Festival: Steve Rogers, CJ Cullen and Larry RosenEd Shin<\/p>\n<p>The festival organizers view the unique venues that the fest had called home as the perfect vehicle to give filmmakers networking opportunities, as they would be mingling with other filmmakers in a welcoming setting. Quite often at festivals, run by the same organizers, and at similar dining hospitality venues, new relationships between fellow attending filmmakers have been forged. And those relationships have led to projects that would eventually be shown in later seasons of the same festival.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-353601\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Image-3-John-Marean-Debra-Markowitz.jpg\" alt=\"Bright Eye Beer Co. hosted Shorts and Stouts Film Festival 2026\" width=\"700\" height=\"546\"  \/>John Marean and Debra MarkowitzEd Shin<\/p>\n<p>Annual awards at the festival include Best Local Short, Best Ensemble, uniquely titled certificate awards, and even awards for student films, in addition to the usual awards you would see at most festivals.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on the festival, including past films screened, award winners, interview clips with filmmakers from various seasons, and more, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/shortsandstoutfilmfestival.weebly.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">shortsandstoutfilmfestival.weebly.com<\/a> or email <a href=\"https:\/\/d.docs.live.net\/4ee79d7920b28dcb\/Desktop\/stouts%20and%20shorts\/pointlookoutfilmfestival@gmail.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">pointlookoutfilmfestival@gmail.com<\/a>, as well as like and follow the festival\u2019s pages on Facebook and Instagram.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.longislandpress.com\/2026\/04\/07\/bright-eye-shorts-and-stouts\/image-4-essence-sommers-interviewing-filmmaker-dan-gregory\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"862\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Image-4-Essence-Sommers-interviewing-filmmaker-Dan-Gregory.jpg\" class=\"crop-center attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"Bright Eye Beer Co. hosted Shorts and Stouts Film Festival 2026\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-353600\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\tEssence Sommers interviewing filmmaker Dan Gregory<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.longislandpress.com\/2026\/04\/07\/bright-eye-shorts-and-stouts\/image-5-doug-gallo-hannah-gallo-christine-gallo\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"829\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Image-5-Doug-Gallo-Hannah-Gallo-Christine-Gallo.jpg\" class=\"crop-center attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"Bright Eye Beer Co. hosted Shorts and Stouts Film Festival 2026\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-353599\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\tDoug Gallo, Hannah Gallo and Christine Gallo<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.longislandpress.com\/2026\/04\/07\/bright-eye-shorts-and-stouts\/image-6-cj-cullen-debra-markowitz-who-won-best-short-short-for-her-film-one-last-time\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"760\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Image-6-CJ-Cullen-Debra-Markowitz-who-won-Best-Short-short-for-her-film-One-Last-Time.jpg\" class=\"crop-center attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"Bright Eye Beer Co. hosted Shorts and Stouts Film Festival 2026\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-353598\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\tCJ Cullen, Debra Markowitz who won Best Short short for her film \u2018One Last Time\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.longislandpress.com\/2026\/04\/07\/bright-eye-shorts-and-stouts\/image-7-filmakers-q-a\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"638\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Image-7-Filmakers-Q-A.jpg\" class=\"crop-center attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"Bright Eye Beer Co. hosted Shorts and Stouts Film Festival 2026\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-353597\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\tFilmakers Q&amp;A<\/p>\n<p> For more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.longislandpress.com\/category\/scene-seen\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">scene &amp; seen event photos, click here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shorts and Stouts Film Festival award winners. 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