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Worldwebfest Mania Returns for Year 3 in NYC

WORLD WEBFEST MANIA is excited to return for Year 3 in the greatest city in the world! After a long and challenging year we are back for a hybrid festival that includes in-person screenings, virtual online programs, episodic creators and filmmakers’ in-person and zoom Q&As August 19-21st. Join us at the Wild Project Theater in the East Village section of Manhattan on Saturday, August 21st for two great screening blocks of new Episodic Series, TV Pilots, Short Films and more…

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New Faces New Voices Celebrates 3rd Year at Alamo Drafthouse Cinemas

Katra’s sister festival, New Faces New voices, celebrated its return to in-person events at the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema last month in Downtown Brooklyn, NY, with a packed theater and jovial atmosphere including audiences, friends, family, journalists and filmmakers all excited to be back in person and inside a movie theater. Special thanks to our amazing sponsors for making the 2021 Summer Festival a success. We love you all and sincerely thank you for your support: UKW Media, JMR Rentals, BKLYN…

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NEW FACES NEW VOICES RETURNS FOR YEAR 3 – ALAMO + VIRTUAL SCREENINGS

NEW FACES NEW VOICES is excited to return for Year 3 in a hybrid format in the greatest city in the world! After a long and challenging year we are heading back to movie theaters for in-person screenings, virtual programs, Q&As, and closing night rooftop awards party… Join us virtually and in-person at Brooklyn’s famed Alamo Drafthouse Cinemas July 27-29th for diverse, multicultural and inclusive works by talented local, national and international filmmakers and episodic creators. The Alamo lineup and…

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Katra Film Series Celebrates 10 Years in New York City

WE ARE BACK!!! After a long and challenging year of COVID-19 restrictions and lockdowns, we celebrated our return to in-person events last month the only way we know how — ON THE BIGGEST SCREEN IN NEW YORK CITY! What an amazing two nights they were as filmmakers, audiences, family and friends alike gathered in the hallways of the AMC Theatre Multiplex in Times Square to embrace each other with warm hugs and kisses for the first time in over a…

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2021 Official Summer Lineup

We are proud to announce the Official Selections for the 2021 Katra Summer Series taking place at AMC Theatres in Times Square, New York and virtually online via XERB.TV. This year’s Summer Series marks our milestone 10th Year and runs June 22nd-June 26th in a hybrid format with in-person screenings and virtual events with innovative programming including filmmaker Q&As all week long. The official selections and tickets for our In-person Screenings at AMC Theatre are below. Tickets and official selections…

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Last Chance to Submit for Katra’s 10th Year

Last chance to submit for our milestone 10th year TODAY! Submit now and get 20% off using code “KATRA21” below.  Katra Film Series is proud to celebrate its 10 Year Anniversary back in movie theaters! Widely known for discovering new talent and launching careers, Katra is a recipient of the 2020 Google PowerUp grant, 2019 Prosperity Nation Award, and Rated Top 100 Best Reviewed Festival on Film Freeway for 5 years in a row — remaining true to its original…

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Celebrating Filmmakers at Socially Distance Award Night

The 9th Annual Grand Finale took place virtually February 22nd-27th via xerb.tv platform. Despite the pandemic and its myriad challenges we were able to partner with various streaming platforms to host our regular season events online and discuss the selected works with the filmmakers via Zoom. The finalists were carefully chosen by audience vote last year and our programming team and we invited the following judges to help choose the winners: Curtis John, Founder and Executive Director of The Luminal…

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9TH ANUAL KATRA FILM SERIES GRAND FINALE

Join us for the Katra Film Series’ 9th Annual Grand Finale Featuring the Top Works that screened with us in 2020 as part of our quarterly virtual fest. The top selections were carefully chosen by our programming team and audience vote last year and will be available to watch anytime and anywhere via XERB.TV running February 22nd-27th. The finalists will compete for up to $10,000 in total prizes in our best of categories including the Grand Jury Prize and Audience…

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CELEBRATING 10 YEARS, 2021 CALL FOR ENTRIES NOW OPEN!

Katra Film Series celebrates 10 years by returning to one of the largest movie theaters in New York City. With a proven track record of launching careers, Katra has made a name for itself by making it into the Top 100 Best Reviewed Festivals list for 4 consecutive years, winning the 2019 Prosperity Nation Award and Google’s 2020 PowerUp Grant to continue remaining true to its mission of discovering the next generation of filmmakers and screenwriters from around the world.…

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Bowery Film Festival Starts Next Week!

Bowery Film Festival returns in resilient spirits for its 2020 Edition in a flexible online format on the Xerb.TV streaming platform, available from December 14th through the 18th. Bowery was founded to showcase adventurous works that challenge commercial and audience expectations, and continues that mission even in a most unusual year for the arts and the world at large.  The week opens with a full block of unique quarantine shorts, many submitted via the festival’s Instagram competition earlier in the…

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