CONGRATS TO ALL THE WINNERS BELOW:

Best Narrative Feature: Cape Carl – directed by Graham Winfrey
Best Feature Documentary: Undiagnosed – directed by Dr. Katia Moritz & Nicholas Miller
Best Short Film: Victim No. 6 directed by – Nancy Menagh
Honorable Mention — Best Short Film: June 22nd – directed by Michael T.
Best Short Documentary: Lap Around The World In 14 Days – directed by Justin Escalona
Honorable Mention — Best Short Documentary: Where The Light Enters – directed by Neha Gautam
Outstanding Female Filmmaker: Kang Blue – directed by Kyung-Ja Lee
Best Episodic/TV Series: Dose – directed by Peter Clark
Honorable Mention — Best Episodic/TV Series: & The Bathroom directed by Alex Saltiel & Nathaniel Jameson
Best Microshort: Send Me a Color – directed by Molly Tomecek
Best Short Screenplay: Wake Me Up written by Karen Wang
Best Short Screenplay Runner Up: Deadweight – written by Mat Sheldon
Best Feature Screenplay: Elektra written by Roxy Mitchell
Best Feature Screenplay — Runner Up: Amy and Angel written by Julia Verdin & Deedee Benkovich

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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 festival that has made it in New York!”

Since 2012, Katra alums have landed theatrical distribution and have gone on to write, produce and direct feature films and TV shows for HBO, FOX, Netflix, Showtime, ESPN, Vice Media including festival stops at Sundance, Tribeca, Berlin and Cannes Film Festival.

Additionally, we have been featured in the Wall Street Journal, CNN, The Huffington Post, Daily News, NY1, NBC, Women & Hollywood, Metro NY, The New Machine, Bklyner, and many other local and national publications.

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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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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 want to miss! A film festival like no other providing invaluable opportunities for emerging and professional filmmakers from around the world.

KATRA Film Series is sponsored by Digital Ocean, Red Digital Cinema, Pond5, Backstage, International Screenwriters’ Association, Museum of the Moving Image, The Yard, The Craftsman, and more! Every season we curate a diverse selection of quality cinema from around the world. Voted by top audience count, one short advances to the semi-final rounds. Regardless of who wins each quarter all official selections will be considered for the Grand Finale Event which takes place in January 2018 at the ALAMO Drafthouse Theater with total prizes valued over $10,000. The Grand Jury Prize winner is awarded a one-on-one meeting with acclaimed Hollywood Producer Stephen Nemeth.

2017 Call For Entries Now Open! Submit your work below and receive 20% off using code: “KFS2017” 

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In this time of great uncertainty and social upheaval, look to your family members, close friends, neighbors and all the loved ones that have stood by you this year while you endured all the ups and downs in your life and thank them for being there for you. Give them a big round hug. Show them how much you care about them, tell them how much you love them deeply and how you will be there when they need you most. That’s what we need now. More LOVE. More RESPECT. More KINDNESS. We’re all in this together and if we want our planet earth to survive we must act together.

As we gear up for our milestone 5^th Annual Grand Finale Series on January 25, 2017 at the new Alamo Drafthouse Cinema, we are proud to bring you exciting new features in 2017 such as live interviews, educational resources, movie reviews, crowdfunding strategies, original news stories and more. We are especially proud to be launching a blog dedicated to covering the diverse art scene in NYC. Sadly, we’ve been hearing through the grapevine that major news outlets are gutting their arts coverage and we simply can’t stand idly by as the art world takes a shellacking. Now more than ever we need the arts! So please continue to follow us in the New Year, share any art happenings in your neck of the woods, and let us know what you want us to cover. We are here for you!

We truly wish you all a prosperous, healthy, and successful New Year!

All the best,
Geoffrey Guerrero

Founder & Executive Director

Katra Film Series

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As we continue to work hard to discover the best new talent out there, we are proud to announce the 5th Annual Grand Finale Series will take place at the newly minted Alamo Drafthouse Theater in Downtown Brooklyn on January 25, 2017, with industry leaders Red Digital Cinema, Pond5, Museum of Moving Image, MovieMaker Magazine, CreatorUp sponsoring prizes for our top filmmakers.

There will only be a limited amount of tickets available for our milestone event. To receive a private email when they go on sale, email us at katrafilmseries2016@gmail.com with the subject line “Grand Finale Advance Tickets.”

Happy Holidays and we wish you all a prosperous and healthy new year!

Katra Film Series Team

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