After two long years away, the Point Lookout Film Festival returned to its home at Point Lookout’s J.A. Heneghan’s Tavern on April 20.
Started in 2018 by organizers of several short film festivals in the New York and New Jersey area, who are also filmmakers themselves, the festival thrives on being an outlet for filmmakers from the local area, as well as surrounding areas, to show the fruits of their labors. The festival organizers view the unique venue of the fest as the perfect vehicle to provide networking opportunity for filmmakers, as they will be mingling with other filmmakers in a welcoming setting.
Due to pandemic related restrictions, the 2020 (pushed to November of 2020) and the 2021 (held in March of last year), had to be run virtually. But with restrictions lifted, the festival is back, both in the same venue and time of year of its first two seasons.
While the format was very much the same as the first two seasons, three sets, leading to an award ceremony to wrap up the day, there is a wrinkle that is a holdover from the two online seasons. On the same evening, a virtual High School student set was done live onBingewave.com and can still be viewed on demand until the Sunday the 24th.
For more information on the festival, including past films screened, award winners, and interview clips with filmmakers from various seasons visit http://pointlookoutfilmfestival.com/or email to pointlookoutfilmfestival@gmail.com, as well as their pages on Facebook and Instagram.
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