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2009 Press Release

2009 Poster Design by Toni-Lee Sangastiano

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The 2008 Coney Island Film Festival was covered by MovieMaker Magazine.

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The 2007 Coney Island Film Festival was covered by MovieMaker Magazine.

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10th Annual Coney Island Film Festival

September 24-26, 2010

at Sideshows By The Seashore and The Coney Island Museum in the historic Brooklyn neighborhood Coney Island, New York!

Call for entries now open!

EARLY BIRD DEADLINE February 25, 2010 (postmarked)
Regular Deadline April 23, 2010 (postmarked)
Late Deadline June 25, 2010 (postmarked)
Extended Late Deadline July 2, 2010 (postmarked)




or click here for our Paper Entry Form

Quotes from the 2009 filmmakers about our festival

Coney Island Film Festival named one of the
"25 Coolest Film Festivals" by MovieMaker Magazine!
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2009 Award Winners

Best Feature - Sea Legs - Craig Butta
Best Short - Basket Bronx - Martin Rosete
Best Documentary Feature - The Prince Of Mermaid Avenue - Charles Denson
Best Documentary Short - Young at Heart - Brian Paccione
Best Experimental - Who Shot Coney Island? - Howie Alex
Best Silent Film - The Institute of Séance - Kevin Corcoran
Best Animation - The Terrible Thing of Alpha-9! - Jake Armstrong
Best Music Video - "Blue Sky" KaiserCartel - Grizlet
Best "Made in Coney Island" - The Poor Man's Follies - Micropunta


2009 Photo Gallery


2009 FESTIVAL SCHEDULE ARCHIVE

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DAY & TIME

SIDESHOWS BY THE SEASHORE
1208 Surf Ave. Ground Floor

CONEY ISLAND MUSEUM
1208 Surf Ave. 2nd Floor
(please note: this venue is not wheelchair accessible)

FRI. OCTOBER 2, 2009    
Fri. 7:30pm

 

Opening Night Screening:
Step Right Up & The Prince of Mermaid Avenue

Fri. 9:30pm

Opening Night Party at the Coney Island USA Freak Bar and Sideshows By The Seashore! Hosted by The Great Fredini. Live performances by Legs Malone, Nasty Canasta, Miss Cherry Delight, Cherry Pits, Billy The Id, Gary Ray, Donny Vomit, Scott Baker, Alejandro. Live Music from Fisherman and Jeff the Skilletlicker. Open Bar!

 


SAT. OCTOBER 3, 2009    
 


 

Sat. 1pm

 

Program 1

Flying Pumpkins: The Legend of Punkin Chunkin

Sat. 2pm

Program 2

Somewhere Between Here and There
The Double
What Is She To You?
I Don't Sleep I Dream
Damaged
The Beneficiary
There's No Justice, It's Just Us

 

Sat. 3pm

 

Program 3

Brooklyn Force
Small Time
Silent Treatment
Around the Block
The Vaudevillian
Draw
Got A Mind

Sat. 4pm

Program 4 Coney Island Films

Koolkidz Music Video: Positive
The Tin Soldier
Who Shot Coney Island?
I Had a Dream I Went to Coney Island
The Heart of Coney Island
Woman on a Train
The Mermaid Parade 2008
Presque Isle
Jigsaw Soul - 'Cockroach Hotel'
It's All Here, It's All Real, It's All Alive!!!
Frank Sidebottom Saves Coney Island
Palmflower - Buried Under
Coney Island 2057

 

Sat. 5pm

 

Program 5

Friends (with benefits)

Sat. 6pm

Program 6 - SOLD OUT!

Horn Dog
Art Film
Turf
Circus
Attackazoids, Deploy!!
Silent Film Star vs The Undead
Las Historias Mas Sexy Del Mundo! No.2 aka The Sexiest Stories on Earth!
Blood
Rising Up: The Story of the Zombie Rights Movement
Piece of Meat

 

Sat. 7pm

 

Program 7
The Release of Jan
Sea Legs

Sat. 8pm

Program 8 The Horror

X-Mess Detritus
The Institute of Seance
The Babysitter
Wilted
The Fairy Princess
Dead Sucks
Death In Charge
Dealbreaker
Survivors
Self-Inflicted
Paper Dolls Live in Glass Houses
Ice Cream Sunday

 

Sat. 9pm

 

Program 9
Bad Day at Red Hook
Red Hook

 

 

 

Sat. 10:30pm

Program 10 Special Screening
THE WARRIORS

SOLD OUT!

 
SUN. OCTOBER 4, 2009    

Sun 1:00pm


Program 11

Fight Day
Are You Happy?
Finding Meeky: A Fragmentary History
Bay Rizz "Rescue"
Outside the Last Game at Yankee Stadium
The Retired Chef
No Strings Attached

Sun. 2:00pm

Program 12 Coney Island Films

'Blue Sky' KaiserCartel
End of the Line
Against The Tide
Young At Heart
The Poor Man's Follies

 

Sun. 3pm

 

Program 13
Here's Herbie
8 Days Later
Real Gone
Far From Home
Mermaids of New York: Bambi the Mermaid
The Dishwashers "Sweetcheeks"
Ed Hamell Rant & Roll

Sun. 4pm

 

Program 14

The Terrible Thing of Alpha-9!
Slim and Lena
True Beauty This Night
Shoebox Redhead
Pirates of the Broadway: Part Deux
Good Old Days
Cesar Salad
Intervention
Test Music Video

 

Sun. 5:00pm

 

Program 15
Strongman


Sun. 6pm

Program 16
Mother

Medicine Man
Basket Bronx
Misunderstood
Father's Day
Maharishi
Mugs
F... That
Sensations of the Season

 

 

 

 

Awards Presentation: El Dorado Auto Skooters, 1216 Surf Ave. Sunday, October 4th, 8:15pm