{"id":204453,"date":"2026-04-21T08:48:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T08:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/204453\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T08:48:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T08:48:14","slug":"the-sixth-borough-film-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/204453\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sixth Borough Film Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Logo image of the Sixth Borough Film Festival\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/sbff-logo.jpg\"\/> <\/p>\n<p data-end=\"380\" data-start=\"112\">Located in the Riverdale neighborhood of the Bronx, Manhattan University\u2019s picturesque campus\u2014just a short subway ride from midtown Manhattan\u2014served as the home of the Sixth Borough Film Festival (SBFF), a three-day celebration of global and Bronx-inspired filmmaking.<\/p>\n<p data-end=\"705\" data-start=\"382\">The festival featured a dynamic lineup of shorts and feature-length films across genres, including narrative, documentary, music video, and \u201cBronx Tales\u201d\u2014stories about or inspired by the Bronx. Highlights included a special horror showcase, which brought audiences together for an evening of suspense and cinematic thrills.<\/p>\n<p data-end=\"1034\" data-start=\"707\">SBFF was also a defining example of experiential learning at Manhattan University. Students played a central role in producing the festival, gaining hands-on experience in areas such as press and media relations, social media strategy, programming, filmmaker engagement, community outreach, and event operations.<\/p>\n<p>                    <a class=\"button standard\" href=\"https:\/\/content.manhattan.edu\/academics\/film-festival\/SBFF-2026-Program.pdf\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><\/p>\n<p>                            Download the Festival Program (PDF)<br \/>\n                    <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Located in the Riverdale neighborhood of the Bronx, Manhattan University\u2019s picturesque campus\u2014just a short subway ride from midtown&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":204454,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[21276,75,84,83,80891,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-204453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-film-festival","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-manhattan-university-film-festival","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204453\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}