Astoria LIC International Film Festival's blog

The Astoria/LIC Int'l. Film Festival strives to promote an open and nurturing environment for artists, writers, actors, filmmakers and fans, and focuses on offering great networking opportunities for its participants. This annual film festival supports a great tradition of promoting new and emerging voices in film, spoken word and art similar to the Tribeca and NYC Downtown Film Festivals. The Astoria/LIC area has been dubbed "The United Nations of New York City"; according to newspapers, with people from 120 different countries living and working in these diverse and eccentric New York neighborhoods. Astoria/LIC is a terrific host for this tradition, on par with such established art locales as the Village, SoHo or Williamsburg. Having successfully completed our inaugural/2010 festival, we have every intention of making the festival successful and memorable for years to come.