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TICKETS ARE SOLD OUT! EMAIL US AT 12PM FOR STANDBY TICKETS INFO@KATRAFILMSERIES.COM Join Us for Our  Milestone 5th Annual Grand Finale Event at the new Alamo Drafthouse Cinemas in Downtown Brooklyn! The Top 14 Finalists of the year compete for over 5K in prizes. In partnership with Everyone Matters and Rhino Films, the 2016 Grand Prize Winner will be awarded a one-on-one meeting with acclaimed Producer Stephen Nemeth from the Academy-Award nominated The Sessions and Fear and Loathing in Las…

  Katra Film Series invites you to celebrate the holiday season with us! Join industry leaders, special guests, influencers, tastemakers, filmmakers, producers and more for a night to remember. Proudly featuring our amazing friends and partners Big Apple Film Festival, 30under30 Film Festival, Ocktober Film Festival, New York No Limits Film Series, EFFNY, The Luminal Theater, Universal Love Tribe and more! Ecstatic to welcome back the always dynamic DJ Mark Salner returning on the 1’s and 2’s spinning some magical and vibrant beats like no other! LE SOUK Lounge 510 Laguardia Place…

Woman With Violin – dir. Mariam Bakashvili An immigrant woman rushes to a violin audition confident that she will pass it. Artaud’s Descendants – dir. Tom Escovar Hank and Sid, a self-proclaimed writing and directing dream team, set out to push the boundaries of theatre if they can only figure out what they’re doing. How I Disappeared – dir. Yannick Mosimann I feel I’m going blind and mute. My body goes numb and starts to scale off. The familiar reality…

Join Us For The Penultimate Edition of The 2016 Katra Film Series! On Saturday, October 15th in the Lower East Side, 13 riveting shorts will compete for $800 in total prizes chosen by audience vote. Watch quality independent cinema, network with talented filmmakers while enjoying delicious cocktails, participate in the Q&A, and vote for your favorite short film or web series! Lineup (not exact order): Waiting for Daybreak – directed by Aviv Kosloff Even when tearing through dark, gothic landscapes…

Join us for the 2016 Katra Film Series – Fall Season Premiere! Featuring a cross-section of experimental, narrative and documentary shorts, highlighting immigration, war crimes and genocide, including an ambitious video art piece from Russia – using mathematical principles and prime numbers, daring the audience to decode it’s journey. We also have a mindbending program of sci-fi films from Argentina and the USA, as well as comedic web series about love, family, and artistic pursuits. 2016 Katra Film Series –…

JOIN US FOR THE 2016 KATRA FILM SERIES – 2ND ROUND! Pond5, Goze Zone, MovieMaker Magazine, CreatorUp and SR Socially Relevant Film Festival New York will be awarding $2000 in total prizes to our winners. Two chosen by our judges and one by audience vote. As a bonus to our audience, City Headshots will also be handing out $250 headshot session prize to one lucky audience member. Join us on Saturday, July 16th, 2016 for our top audience picks since…

Join us for the 2016 KATRA FILM SERIES JUNE EDITION – featuring a varied selection of short films, web series, animation, and documentary. The 6th Edition marks our midway point of the year and final series before the 2nd round event in July. LINEUP (not in order): Echoes – directed by Amy Leland A young married couple, deeply in love, walk through New York City on a gray morning wrestling with personal tragedy as they face a heart-wrenching decision just…

Join us Saturday, May 14th, for the 2016 May Edition featuring powerful documentaries shot in Liberia and Cuba; a selection of shorts in honor of Asian-Pacific American Heritage month; and a unique program of Brooklyn-based films, starring Armen Garo from HBO’s hit TV show “Vinyl,” Caitlin Fitzgerald from Showtime’s “Masters of Sex,” Catherine Curtin from “Orange is The New Black,” Peter Mark Kendall from “The Americans” and more. Lineup (not exactly order): Notes from Liberia – directed by Ryo Murakami…