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“In the over-saturated, highly cosmopolitan, perpetually tired, jaded, and wired New York City film landscape [Rockaway Film Festival] managed to carve out a niche for itself, not by going bigger or better, but by remaining firmly rooted.”
“But it’s also a community of 150,000 people who don’t have a movie theater they can call their own. Rockaway Film Festival [...] seeks to ameliorate that fact with a long weekend of exciting film programming.”
Rockaway Film Festival 2025
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Rockaway Film Festival returns with bold films and beachside energy
PIX11
Current: Rockaway 2025
Criterion
Summer Rep Report with Devika Girish
Film Comment Podcast
If You Build It
Film Comment
Movies with Sand Under Your Feet
Filmmaker Magazine
Rockaway Film Festival 2024
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Preview: Rockaway Film Festival
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A guide to the 2023 Rockaway Film Festival
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Arverne Cinema, A New Home For Rockaway Film Festival
The Wave
A Film Festival a Stone’s Throw Away From the Beach
Hyperallergic
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