Short Film Enthusiasts and Moviegoers ~

Mark your calendars…the Manhattan Short Film Festival will be screened on Saturday, September 28, 2024 starting at 7pm. The venue is the Orange Bank and Trust Company Great Room 101 in Kaplan Hall at SUNY Orange. Admission is $5. SUNY Orange students enter free. Doors open at 6:15pm.

Be an active participant by voting for Best Film and Best Actor in this worldwide event -- the 27th annual Manhattan Short Film Festival.Let your inner feelings out and cast you ballots, which you will receive upon entry. At the conclusion of the screening, you will have the opportunity to vote.

All the venues worldwide count their ballots and submit the results to Manhattan Short Film Festival headquarters. Additionally, results of the SUNY Orange moviegoers’ voting as well as the worldwide voting are released via a Cultural Affairs e-blast on October 7.

The MSFF offers families and friends, 15 years old and over, viewing of innovative, creative, and thought-provoking films. The films become Oscar-Qualified, thereby making them automatically eligible for Academy Award nomination.

Here are the films: 

The Talent (UK), I'm Not a Robot (The Netherlands), Mother (Ukraine), Dovecote (Italy), Pathological (USA), Alarms (France), Favourites (Australia), The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent (Croatia), Room Taken (Ireland), Jane Austen's Period Drama (USA).

Free, secure parking is available in Kaplan Hall parking garage entered at 73 First St, Newburgh. Questions may be directed to cultural@sunyorange.edu and checkout website www.sunyorange.edu/culturalaffairs