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Queens World Film Festival
Queens World Film Festival features
some amazing local talent
BY JENNA BAGCAL
jbagcal@qns.com
@jenna_bagcal
Th e ninth annual Queens World Film
Festival has no shortage of local talent
from the borough.
Starting this week, the Museum of the
Moving Image (MoMI) in Astoria hosts
the two-week fi lm extravaganza, which
will screen several fi lms featuring a number
of Queens-based actors, directors
and producers. On March 18, fi lmmakers
gathered at MoMI to preview the fi lms
that would be shown at the festival.
From March 21 to 31, viewers can
choose from a cinematic smorgasbord
of over 200 fi lms, including fi lms from
31 countries and four New York City
boroughs. According to the festival’s
artistic director Don Cato, the festival
will also feature 79 fi lms by women, 15
fi lms by Asian fi lmmakers, 14 LGBTQthemed
fi lms and six fi lms “by kids, for
kids.”
Here’s a sneak peek at some of the
fi lms showing at the Queens World Film
Festival starting this Th ursday.
The Secret Nobody Knows
(8 minutes) – Sunday,
March 31 | 6:45 p.m. |
MoMI Redstone Theater
Astoria resident Nick Ronan and Rego
Park native Erica Camarano are among
the Queens talent to have a fi lm at this
year’s festival. Th e pair star in a short narrative
fi lm entitled “Th e Secret Nobody
Knows,” written and directed by Ronan.
Caramarano also serves as one of the
fi lm’s producers.
Inspired by the e.e. cummings poem
called i carry your heart with me(i carry
it in, the fi lm is set in 1952 during the
Korean War and follows Kate and Tom’s,
last day together before Tom departs
overseas. Before he leaves, Kate gives
Tom a secret message hidden in the cummings
poem which “gives a glimpse into
their uncertain future.”
“I had heard that poem in 2016, oddly
enough, in a German commercial for
Parkinson’s and it’s so beautifully shot
and powerful in a minute and a half. I fell
in love with it and I was like, ‘I don’t know
what I want to do with this but I’m gonna
do something with it,’” Ronan said.
He got the “OK” from cummings’ estate
to use the poem and fi lming offi cially
started in January 2017. Th ey transformed
Ronan’s bedroom to include a
1950s bedframe and vanity and even used
mascara and clothing from the era to help
them get into their roles.
“All those little details really fed us as
actors because it just really transported
both of us to that time period,” said
Camarano.
AndLife (10 minutes) – Sunday,
March 24 | 7:30 p.m | MoMI
Bartos Screening Room
On March 24, fi lmgoers can check out
“AndLife”, a climate-change fi lm directed
by New Yorker Jean Goto, who also stars
in the fi lm alongside Elmhurst/Jackson
Heights native and producer Adam Lim.
Th e short fi lm is set in the “near future”
aft er climate changes have caused society
to crumble.
“And Life is a short about death and
climate change and trying to envision a
world in the future where maybe we haven’t
made the changes that we need to
make and inspire people to talk about
climate change and think about climate
change in our daily lives,” Goto told QNS.
Th e fi lm’s message is one that is import
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