(Long Island, NY) There might be over 5,000 film festivals to choose from and in today’s market, careful planning for the festival life of your film is crucial. Queens World Film Festival Co-Directors Don and Katha Cato will share great tips on how to choose the festival that best suits your work.
The conversation will cover what festival directors are looking for, how to maximize your festival attending experience, and what to do if you don’t get into the festival you really wanted to get into! Attendees will have the chance to ask Katha questions specific to their film projects.
Katha Cato. Photo Credit: Queens Council on the Arts.
Wednesday, June 17, 2015 6:30-8:00pm
Queens Council on the Arts
37-11 35th Ave, Entrance on 37th Street
Astoria, NY 11101
Admission $10.
Katha Cato is the Executive Director of the Queens World Film Festival and Director of After-School and Camp Services for Henry Street Settlement. She moved to New York with her theatre company Forplay Improvised Theatre and pioneered the Improvisational Herold format – the long form – into the mainstream New York comedy scene. She won a MAC Award (Manhattan Association of Cabarets) for Best Comedy, a Backstage Magazine Bistro Award for Best Director and another Bistro for Best Comedy and the NY Post’s Bill Ervolino named her the year’s Most Exciting Female Improviser. Katha is a graduate of the Columbia University Graduate School of Business Executive Education Program, earned a BA from California Polytechnic University in Pomona, and an MFA in Improvisational Theatre from the University of Oregon.
3rd Space at the Queens Council on the Arts is a series of monthly programs that invites local artists to host events to build strong and vibrant artist networks and to creatively lead the continuing transformation of the borough’s cultural economy.
The mission of the Queens Council on Arts is to foster, and develop the arts in Queens County and to support individual artists and arts organizations in presenting their cultural diversity for the benefit of the community. For more information visit: www.queenscouncilarts.org.
