{"id":372981,"date":"2026-10-14T15:15:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T15:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/372981\/"},"modified":"2026-10-14T15:15:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T15:15:00","slug":"new-york-greek-film-expo-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/372981\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Greek Film Expo 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.qgazette.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/2026-10-14\/12p1.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-214565\" class=\"wp-image-214565 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/12p1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Maria Miles, pres\u00adident of the Hel\u00adlenic Film Society, was the Master of Ceremonies on the opening night of the New York Greek Film Expo 2026. Photos Tony Barsamian.\" width=\"300\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-214565\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maria Miles, pres\u00adident of the Hel\u00adlenic Film Society, was the Master of Ceremonies on the opening night of the New York Greek Film Expo 2026. Photos Tony Barsamian.<\/p>\n<p>The Hellenic Film Society presented their annual New York Greek Film Expo 2026. This tradition, which spans many genres of film and has been a cul\u00adtural institution in New York for many years, al\u00adways draws large audi\u00adences to the different venues that are part of the presentation. This year, opening night was Thursday, October 8th. The Film Society will continue the showings in the film expo until October 18th. There are several locations which will be showcasing the highlighted films. The Queens Gazette had a list in last week\u2019s edition of the locations throughout the metro\u00adpolitan area. This year\u2019s launching of the 2026 film expo was emceed by the organization\u2019s president, Maria Miles. The opening film was screened after the opening night reception on 57th Street in Manhattan. The first film known as the opening night screening was \u201cHold On To Me\u201d at The Director\u2019s Guild Theater on West 57th Street in Manhattan. As is often the case when the participants are available, there was an in\u00adteractive Q&amp;A with the audience regarding the film and multiple aspects of it. On the stage with the Hel\u00adlenic Film Society\u2019s president Maria Miles, who led the question-and-answer session, was the director of the film, Myrsini Aristidou and one of the stars of the film, Christos Passalis. Also accompanying them on the stage was the honorary host of the New York Greek Film Expo 26, Katia Goulioni. For more information, see the full-page ad in the Queens Gazette or go to www.hellenicfilmsociety.org <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/12p2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-214569\" class=\"wp-image-214569 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/12p2.jpg\" alt=\"At the conclusion of the film, a ques\u00adtion and-answer session was held regarding \u201cHold On To Me,\u201d the opening night film that launched the 2026 New York Greek Film Expo presented by the Hellenic Film So\u00adciety.\" width=\"292\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-214569\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">At the conclusion of the film, a ques\u00adtion and-answer session was held regarding \u201cHold On To Me,\u201d the opening night film that launched the 2026 New York Greek Film Expo presented by the Hellenic Film So\u00adciety.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013\u2013Tony Barsamian <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Maria Miles, pres\u00adident of the Hel\u00adlenic Film Society, was the Master of Ceremonies on the opening night of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":372982,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-372981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372981","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=372981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}