{"id":205458,"date":"2026-05-29T15:57:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T15:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/205458\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T15:57:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T15:57:12","slug":"film-festival-in-lehigh-valley-to-showcase-work-from-filmmakers-around-the-world-lehigh-valley-regional-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/205458\/","title":{"rendered":"Film festival in Lehigh Valley to showcase work from filmmakers around the world | Lehigh Valley Regional News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SALISBURY TWP., Pa. &#8211; You can see the work of local and international filmmakers this week in Northampton.<\/p>\n<p>The second annual <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eleanorrosefilmfestival.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Eleanor Rose International Film Festival<\/a> is back again. And the founder, Jacob Jones, visited 69 News at Sunrise to talk about it.<\/p>\n<p>A networking event will be held Friday from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Screening dates will be Saturday from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. and Sunday from 9:30 a.m. to noon.<\/p>\n<p>The event website says the festival is dedicated to showcasing a diverse range of films from around the world. The festival&#8217;s goal is to bring artists from all walks of life together to celebrate the art of storytelling, the event website says.<\/p>\n<p>Year one impressed many filmmakers. Because of last year&#8217;s success, Jones decided to expand the event by adding a &#8220;Feature Film&#8221; category. He said one lucky filmmaker will have their feature film premiere at the festival.<\/p>\n<p>He said organizers also added a &#8220;TV Pilot&#8221; category.<\/p>\n<p>Jones said that in the future he wants the festival to become a hub for studios to come and buy films from the festival and distribute them to other events like the Toronto or Cannes film festivals.<\/p>\n<p>He said a podcast was also added, with an entertainment journalist who interviews filmmakers about their creative processes.<\/p>\n<p>Jones named the festival after his grandmother, Eleanor Rose, who passed away in 2019. Jones said she was the reason why he wanted to pursue a career in film.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SALISBURY TWP., Pa. &#8211; You can see the work of local and international filmmakers this week in Northampton.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":205459,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,157],"class_list":["post-205458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-lehigh-valley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}