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Katra Film Series Celebrates 10 Years in New York City this Fall!

October 13, 2021

KATRA Film Series is excited to return this Fall as we continue to celebrate our milestone 10th year in a hybrid format with in-person and virtual screenings. Join us October 18th-22nd at AMC Theaters Times Square New York and virtually via XERB.TV for an amazing week of film screenings, alumni spotlight event featuring some of our top filmmakers from the past ten years who are now producing and directing for NETFLIX, HBO, HULU, CNN, PARAMOUNT+ and more, including filmmaker Q&As,…

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Katra Film Series Celebrates 10 Years in New York City

July 13, 2021

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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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9TH ANUAL KATRA FILM SERIES GRAND FINALE

February 10, 2021

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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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2020 CALL FOR ENTRIES NOW OPEN

December 9, 2019

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Now in its 9th Year, the Katra Film Series is an internationally recognized film festival and screenwriting competition dedicated to supporting the next generation of filmmakers at the world famous Alamo Drafthouse Theater. Hailed by Tribeca Films for its “honorable mission to spotlight new and emerging cinematic talents…where some of their top alums have since gone on to great things in the indie world and beyond” while the New York Times agrees “From the bottom up an amazing and excellent…

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2019 KATRA FILM SERIES SEASON FINALE

September 7, 2019

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We are proud to announce the 2019 Katra Film Series Fall Edition taking place from September 25-26th at the Alamo Drafthouse Theater in Brooklyn! In partnership with HiO, ScreenBlade, Final Draft, 3636 Studios, and International Screenwriters’ Association, the audience will choose the best work of the evening each night and the winners will takes home over $7,000 in prizes and advance to our 8th Annual Grand Finale in January 2020 where they will be considered for top prizes including a…

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2018 SUMMER SERIES – AUGUST 4TH, 2018

July 8, 2018

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It is sizzling out there and that only means one thing… SUMMER IS BACK! Join us for NYC’s Summer Event of the Year – The 2018 Summer Series on Saturday August 4, 2018 in the capital of the world! To cool you down and get you in the mood for some riveting new films, music videos and web series all guests receive a complimentary beer courtesy of the Lagunitas Brewing Company. Free beer, quality cinema, and delicious…

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Industry Holiday Party

November 16, 2017

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You are cordially invited to attend our 6th Annual Industry Holiday Party at Le Souk Restaurant/Lounge in NOHO. Every year we host a FREE holiday party for our supporters, sponsors, filmmaking community, and industry friends. The venue is generously providing complimentary champagne for all our guests! Event partners include Canon, Pond5, EFFNY, Latino Film Market, Lighthouse International Film Festival,Big Apple Film Festival, New York No Limits Film Series, Artists & Beers, Towels.life and more. Be sure to join us for…

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2018 CALL FOR ENTRIES – REGULAR DEADLINE APPROACHING

October 21, 2017

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The 2018 Season is right around the corner which only means one thing…. … Time To Submit is NOW! At Katra, we pride ourselves on hosting world-class screening events and highlighting the works of our selected filmmakers with press coverage from top media outlets and offering them unparalleled career opportunities with industry professional meetings and state-of-the-art prizes from our generous sponsors. SUBMIT HERE

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2017 SEAON FINALE FALL SERIES

August 28, 2017

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FALL LINEUP – 2017 SEASON FINALE (lineup order subject to change): The Still Life (12:12) – Directed by Yun Xie Chris, a photographer, desperately seeking inspiration, finds himself in the right place at the wrong time. He soon realizes that in order to capture his subject’s, he’s going to have to put down his camera. Microscopia (4:32) – Directed by Nikolaus Jantsch The content of this work is about code, the code that surrounds us, that builds the chains…

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2017 CALL FOR ENTRIES OPEN!

February 19, 2017

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NYC’s Premier Film Festival dedicated to the exhibition and promotion of quality cinema from around the world is seeking bold and original Feature Films, Short Films, Web Series, Documentaries, Animation, Music Video, and experimental works. The New York Times, NY Daily News, Time Out Magazine, Broadway World, New Machine Magazine, Downtown Brooklyn, BKLYNER, Brooklyn Paper, Women and Hollywood and more have recently covered us and unanimously agree – KATRA Film Series is a mainstay festival in NYC that you don’t…

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