by Erin Conlon Step aside, Barbenheimer. The real cinematic event of the summer is happening right here in Greenpoint. One of the neighborhood’s most reliable cultural fixtures, the Greenpoint Film Festival, is coming back for its 12th annual iteration (that’s right, not even Covid could stop it; it transitioned to a drive-in setup in 2020) on August 3-6.
This year’s festival features 38 shorts and 10 features across narrative, documentary, and animation categories (one animated short,…
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