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 a fun night of networking, dancing, and all around good times… TIS’ the season to be jolly!!!

Gentlemen, make sure to wear your ugliest holiday sweater to enter a raffle giveaway contest. Ladies, bring your hottest outfit and we’ll have something special for ya’ll. Don’t forget to bring your business cards.

Follow us on Social Media for more updates: @katrafilmseries

The fun begins on Friday, December 1, 2017
Le Souk Restaurant
510 LaGuardia Pl
New York, NY 10012
7p-8p – Complimentary Champagne

RSVP BY CLICKING THE FLYER ABOVE

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… 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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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 of life, the code that is the source of all living and non-living structure. Is there a relation between the macro and the micro world? Has a bug a similar surface as the moon?

Conversations Centered Around Black Bodies: Black Lives Matter (9:35) – Directed by Christopher Conti

Two strangers intersect at a park bench and initiate an intimate conversation about the Black Lives Matter movement.

Cake (9:22) – Directed by Anne Hu

Eliza, a bisexual woman, tries to explore her sexuality within her marriage with her husband, Thomas, by surprise ordering a seemingly human female sex robot. But the sex robot is not the cure-all she had hoped for. Be careful what you wish for.

Trailer: https://vimeo.com/198495346

Troll: A Southern Tale (11:30) – Directed by Marinah Janello

An eccentric artist navigates self-expression through his experiences living and growing up in the South.

 I Love New York (10:54) – Directed by Christian Vogeler

After an NYC first-timer befriends a savvy street girl on the train, she takes him on a fantastical ride through all the city’s pitfalls. But nothing’s free in this town, so tighten up your hustle or you might just get hustled yourself.

Trailer: https://vimeo.com/191375968

Happy Hour (13:55) – Directed by Gretl Claggett

When a woman meets her boyfriend for a romantic night out, a martini triggers childhood memories that threaten her ability to trust and love.

Trailer: https://vimeo.com/72761339

Evil Woman (13:37) – Directed by Danny Turkiewicz

The night Brandon plans on proposing to his girlfriend of seven years, he finds out the dark and hilarious truth about her past.

John Brothers Gym (5:52) – Directed by Lydia Folckomer

Two brothers, Jerry and Manu, own and operate a gym, and life is great. But everyday family business is interrupted when Manu realizes Jerry operated the yoga studio like a total sham. He decides to hire Elisa, a professional yoga instructor. Manu thinks Elisa is fantastic, Jerry hates Elisa, and Elisa loves everyone. It’s your normal family business.

Toute La Vie (9:30) – Directed by Ella Mische

Toute La Vie is a romantic comedy with an eerie twist set in the Art Deco-Jazz style. We meet to lovers who stumble upon an abandoned apartment later to realize they are ghosts, stuck in a dream-like state, reliving the first night they met.

Pitter Patter Goes My Heart (21:30) – Directed by Christoph Rainer

The hopelessly romantic Lisa takes desperate measures to win her former lover back. But the fact that he already has a new girl at his side and that Lisa needs to bring along her alcoholic father does not particularly help. Tragedy takes its course.

 Silent Cries: The Prelude (15:30) – Directed by Shauntay Cherry

An underemployed construction worker begins to buckle under the pressures of fatherhood as his son’s 7^th birthday approaches.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5ia4MDCgNw

Something Happened (19:09) – Directed by Nikhil Melnechuk

A young man has one weekend to fix his life. A young woman has one weekend to escape hers.

The Run-In (10:11) – Directed by Peter Talamo

On her way home from a late night party, Hannah experiences an unnerving encounter with a stranger who leaves her mentally paralyzed.

2017 Katra Film Series – September 16, 2017 – 5pm-1030pm
217 Bowery btw. Rivington and Prince St. 
New York, NY 10002
$20 General Admission
$30 cash door only
(All tickets include Screenings, Q&A, Open 5p-6pm FREE Narranggaset Beer, Afterparty)

Do you have a Feature, Short, Web Series, Documentary, Student Film, Animation, Music Video you’d like to submit? Earlybird Deadline for the 2018 Season now open!

SUBMIT HERE: https://filmfreeway.com/festival/KatraFilmSeries

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Join us Wednesday, December 3rd for the 3rd & Final Round of the 2014 Katra Film Series. A panel of judges will select 2 shorts to move on to the Grand Finale in January and the Audience will vote for one film to move on as well. A $500+ prize courtesy of our generous sponsors PULP NYC, Filmmaker Magazine, Pond5, Katra, CM4A will be shared amongst the 3 winners.

A portion of the proceeds will be donated to Dare2B, an organization focused on educating and empowering homeless children through out NYC. To find out more visit their website at dare2b.org.

Launched in the Summer of 2012, Katra Film Series screens a selection of quality short films by emerging and award-winning filmmakers in NYC and provides a great networking platform for industry professionals. In partnership with Everyone Matters and Rhino Films the 2014 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 Vegas.

2014 Katra Film Series Saturday, December 3rd, 2014 6pm–12:00am KATRA – 217 Bowery St. Btw. Rivington & Prince St. New York, NY 10002 Official Website: http://www.katrafilmseries.com/ Follow Us: Facebook/Twitter/Instagram: @KatraFilmSeries

Film Lineup (lineup subject to change):

The Desk – directed by George Gaffney

Schlock Fish – Esteban Uribe

Lily in the Grinder – directed by Michael Morgenstern

SIX – directed by Frank Jerky

The Audition – directed by Christopher Williams

To Be Strong – directed by Ken Spooner

Iko – directed by Joanna Cabello

One Past – directed by Juli Kobayashi

Meet Mario – directed by David Joseph

Barrio Boy – directed by Dennis Shinners

Destroying Angels – directed by Hannah Reimann

Pots&Lids – directed by Giulio Piodomani

House of the Rising Sun – directed by Inga Moren

Burning Up – directed by Mark Philip Lichtenstein

Bless Me – directed by Christian LaMorte

Tears of a Phoenix – directed by Mo Brown

Long Island Divas – directed by Katie Maguire Edri & Catherine Callahan

KATRA Film Series
217 Bowery St. between Rivington & Prince St. New York, NY 10002 – 2 for 1 house drink specials from 6p-8p $20 advance online ticket sales (includes screenings, Q&A, after party) $25 cash only door price (includes screenings, Q&A, after party) Full dinner & hookah menu available.

Do you have a short film, web series, short doc, music video you’d like to submit? We’re looking for quality short content of any genre/form no longer than 45 minutes in length for the 2015 season. From NO BUDGET to BIG BUDGET. JUST WOW US! Visual art, experimental, animations are welcome! Submit via Film Freeway https://filmfreeway.com/festival/KatraFilmSeries

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