Nitehawk Shorts Festival

Now in its eighth year, this stacked festival screens short documentaries, horror and animated films by a diverse group of filmmakers (many from Brooklyn), with female-directed films making up a majority of the programming this year. Within the festival, there will be six programs—Opening Nite, Music Driven, Midnite, Matinee, NoBudge, and Closing Nite—across multiple locations, including the Prospect Park location, with post-screening parties hosted in the Trees Lounge bar. Music Driven, Midnite, Matinee and NoBudge will be at the Williamsburg location. You won't want to miss the World Premiere shorts, Coney Island caper NYC Tips and Tricks from Amber Shaefer, indigenous story You and Me This Summer from Emily Berge and Spencer Thielmann, fetish comedy Big Crush from Sophia Bennett Holmes and Staten Island ferry-centric family drama Looking for Chantal from Ana Valeria Castillos. Also Look out For a Doc About the 'David Bowie Is' Exhibit at The Brooklyn Museum with Interviews from The Late Great Photographer Mick Rock, Alex Ross Perry in Person for A Screening of His Music Video 'present Tense,' as Well as A No Budge Program Curated by Founder (and Strawberry Mansion filmmaker) Kentucket Audley, who will also appear in-person.