{"id":314800,"date":"2026-08-06T00:44:17","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T00:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/314800\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T00:44:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T00:44:17","slug":"festival-of-cinema-kick-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/314800\/","title":{"rendered":"Festival Of Cinema Kick Off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the 10th Anniversary Edition, Festival of Cinema NYC is taking it back to where it all started \u2013 in Kew Gardens \/ Forest Hills!<\/p>\n<p>Join next week on Thursday August 6th for the official 2026 Kick-Off party! Now is the chance for community members and Queens locals to come out and meet filmmakers before their films screen at the Regal UA Midway in Forest Hills. Meet the film directors, the actors, and the producers, along with the Festival of Cinema NYC staff!<\/p>\n<p>Anticipate a huge turnout \u2013 so come out and don\u2019t miss the summer party that will have everyone talking!<\/p>\n<p>The celebration starts at 6pm at Cobblestones Pub &amp; Biergarten off Union Tpke on the Forest Hills \/ Kew Gardens Border. Food and drinks will be served.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-208297 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Festival-of-Cinema.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1350\"  \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For the 10th Anniversary Edition, Festival of Cinema NYC is taking it back to where it all started&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":314801,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-314800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314800","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=314800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314800\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/314801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}