{"id":373912,"date":"2026-10-15T14:28:56","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T14:28:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/373912\/"},"modified":"2026-10-15T14:28:56","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T14:28:56","slug":"new-annual-film-festival-queens-gazette","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/373912\/","title":{"rendered":"New Annual Film Festival – Queens Gazette"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Greek Cultural Center will expand their original film programming with a new annual festival, which plans to\u00a0showcase\u00a0Greek, Greek American, and international films. The\u00a0Hell Gate Film Society Shorts Showcase\u00a0will take place October 17,\u00a02026,\u00a0at the Greek Cultural Center\u00a0at\u00a026-80 30th Street\u00a0in Astoria\u00a0(close to Newtown Avenue).\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re\u00a0incredibly excited about this batch of films from Greece, Cyprus, Iran, Brazil,\u00a0Spain\u00a0and Germany\u2014as well as a few American films peppered in there. We had many incredible\u00a0submissions, and\u00a0found some of the best international short films making the festival circuit this year. We focused on stories of immigrant experience, relationship to homeland and self-definition. I\u00a0can\u2019t\u00a0wait to share these films with an audience,\u201d says festival curator, Jack Dryden.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Hosted at the Greek Cultural\u00a0Center, and\u00a0featuring a panel of experienced filmmakers and top Greek American cinematic voices, the festival aims to create a welcoming space where filmmakers and audiences can gather to celebrate the wonderful art of short films. In its first iteration, the festival will take place over the course of one day, October 17th, and will feature two blocks about 70 minutes long.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Single block and all day\u00a0passes\u00a0available\u00a0at\u00a0www.hellgatefilmsociety.eventbrite.com<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n

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The Hell Gate Film Society Shorts Showcase will take place October 17, 2026, at the Greek Cultural Center at 26-80 30th Street in Astoria.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Greek Cultural Center will expand their original film programming with a new annual festival, which plans to\u00a0showcase\u00a0Greek,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":373913,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-373912","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\/373912","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=373912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373912\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/373913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}