Glimpses of lives in transition, these shorts travel across the open road. As the world rushes by, they idle in the inbetween. A collection of films about trying to get from one place to the next.
THE PEDESTRIAN by Claire Read + Nora Rose DeLigter. 2023, 19 min.
THEY GOT ME GOIN’ IN ON MY DAY OFF by Luis Figueroa. 2023, 5 min.
RUNON by Daniel Newell Kaufman. 2020, 12 min.
REST STOP by Crystal Kayiza. 2022, 12 min.
CIVIC by Dwayne LeBlanc. 2022, 20 min.
*free shuttle bus to the Arverne Cinema will be available following screening.
Rockaway Film Festival would like to thank VBX™~Vernam Basin Terminal for generously hosting us at the Arverne Cinema in addition to BBX™~Barbadoes Basin Terminal for contributing to such.
RFF is proud to be sponsored by Blundstone®, Istic Illic Pictures, and NYC Ferry. Rockaway Film Festival made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, and by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council. Rockaway Film Festival is funded in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Art, and by the Howard Gilman Foundation administered by Flushing Town Hall. RFF receives additional support from Queens Borough President Donovan Richards.