The Show Must Go On as Queens World Film Fest Shifts to Streaming Platform

Details: Parent Category: Film Festivals; Category: Previews; Published on Wednesday, 18 March 2020 19:58; Written by Brad Balfour

Embraces & the Touch of the Skin, directed by Sara Koppel

The rise of the COVID-19 disease is creating a shift in nearly every aspect of life as we know it., but at the same time, life must go on. In the interest of public saftey and in not allowing the arts to die, the Queens World Film Festival is shifting to the streaming platform Discovered so that viewers can see the festival from the comfort and safety of their homes.

Running March 19 to 29, the Queens World Film Festival (QWFF) is now in its tenth year of featuring films from all over the world in different thematic blocks: Features, shorts, documentary, LGBT, animation, and short documentaries. In total, QWFF programmers selected two-hundred and twenty remarkable films from thirty-two nations.

Opening Night of the Festival will begin at 7PM/EST on Thursday, March 19th at https://discovered.tv/QWFF. The Opening Night Block is called “Tales of Connectedness” and features six short films from Iran to Brooklyn.

“From the beginning of time we have gathered together around the flickering lights in our darkened caves to share our stories. Although the flickering lights have become zeros and ones, we’ve changed the nature of our caves, but the impulse to gather endures. In these times of crisis, it is even more important that we gather around the humanity provided in film. We are grateful to DISCOVERED.TV for providing their free online platform to make our film screenings possible, and for making the 10th Annual Queens World Film Festival, the first International Film Festival to screen on their site, states Katha Cato, Executive Director, Queens World Film Festival.”

To learn more, go to: https://www.queensworldfilmfestival.com/

Queens World Film Festival
March 19 - 29, 2020
https://discovered.tv/