66 THE QUEENS COURIER • BUZZ • FEBRUARY 20, 2014 FOR BREAKING NEWS VISIT www.queenscourier.com Photo courtesy of Queens World Film Festival ACTION! ONSITE DOCTORS • EYE EXAMS • CONTACTS • 1 HOUR SERVICE • VISION PLANS ACCEPTED • SUNGLASSES • LOWEST PRICES 2 PAIR OF EYEGLASSES QC QC QC $99 Includes: EYE EXAM, Frames & Lenses Select frames with clear plastic, single vision lenses+/- 4 sph., 2 cyl. Not valid with any other offers, sales, vision plans or packages. Must present prior to purchase. Offer valid at this location only. Offer ends: 3/22/14 NO-LINE BIFOCAL EYEGLASSES $99 Includes: EYE EXAM, No-Line Bifocal Lenses & Frame Select frame with select clear plastic no-line bifocal lenses +/- 4 sph., 2 cyl up to 2.50 add. Not valid with any other offers, sales, vision plans or packages. Must present prior to purchase. Offer valid at this location only. Offer ends: 3/22/14 BAY TERRACE SHOPPING CENTER 211-51 26 AVENUE • BAYSIDE, NY 11360 718.631.3699 *FREE with the purchase of glasses. Contact Lens Exam and EYE EXAM tting add’l. *See store for details. QC FLEX SPENDING Use it or lose it! AMAZING WINTER SAVINGS DISPOSABLE CONTACTS $99 Includes: •EYE EXAM •2 Boxes of Lenses Contact Lens Fitting additional. Clear Soft contacts brand clear spherical lenses.Not Valid with any other offers, sales, vision plans or packages. Must present prior to purchase. Offer ends: 3/22/14 DESIGNER SUNGLASSES QC STARTING AT $99.OO Some Restrictions Apply. See Store For Details. In Stock Items Only. Not Valid with any other offers, sales, vision plans or packages. Must present prior to purchase. Offer expires: 3/22/14 buzz Curtain set to rise on 4th Annual Queens World Film Festival BY ANGY ALTAMIRANO aaltamirano@queenscourier.com/ @aaltamirano28 The 4th Annual Queens World Film Festival is ready to hit the stage strong and put Queens on the map. The Queens World Film Festival, which brings together local and international fi lmmakers, will take place from March 4 through March 10 and feature 127 fi lms, with 16 works from Queens. The fi lms include short and feature narratives, documentaries, LGBT pieces and animation. “We’re going to remind the world that Queens is the birthplace of the fi lm industry in America,” said festival director Katha Cato, who arranged the event along with her husband, Don. In the year since the last festival, Katha was diagnosed with three types of cancer and has had to undergo various surgeries and chemotherapy. However, she continued to work on the festival, which brought in over 300 submissions this year. “We’re very excited; we’re in very good shape,” said Katha. “It’s the love of my life, next to Donald. It’s a very fulfi lling and challenging job. It’s sustained me as I imagined standing at the podium many times when things weren’t quite pleasant.” The six-day festival begins at 8 p.m. at the Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria, with a block of four fi lms. The evening will also honor the museum’s Executive Director, Carl Goodman, and maverick fi lmmaker Hal Hartley as “Spirit of Queens” honorees. Opening night, which is already sold out, features fi lms from one fi lmmaker from Kosovo, a directorial debut from a Southern Illinois University student and two New York fi lmmakers. “The borough is going to look beautiful on opening night,” said Katha. The celebration of independent fi lms will continue as the works are divided into different blocks based on subject and shown at venues such as The Secret Theatre and The Nesva Hotel in Long Island City, and P.S. 69 in Jackson Heights. The “big excitement” for this year’s festival is the world premiere of the 159-minute director’s cut of the Oscar-nominated documentary “The Act of Killing.” The fi lm will be shown at P.S. 69 at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, March 6. Awards will be given to fi lms on the fi nal night of the festival. “To be able to reach out to so many people is a really pretty amazing opportunity- we are certainly not doing it for the money,” said Don, who, together with a screening committee, choose the festival’s award winners. “We just keep it going because we started this thing and we’re trying to build something.” Tickets for the festival are $10 for regular admission and $6 for students and seniors and can be purchased online at www.queensworldfi lmfestival.com.
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