Arts & Entertainment
Lighthouse International Film Festival To Host a Sneak Peek At This Year's Movie Selections
Saturday night's event will also feature food and wine tasting, door prizes and movie trivia.
Area residents wishing to celebrate international and independent film again with the Lighthouse International Film Festival this year, can sample movies along with food and wine this Saturday.
The Long Beach Island-based organization are inviting the community to "celebrate the spirit of independent film" on May 5, 6:30 to 9 p.m., at the Bayberry Inn, 13th Street and Long Beach Island Boulevard in Ship Bottom.
The Festival's big event -- the biggest of the year is the festival itself, a three-day-long showcase of 55 cutting-edge award-winning independent movies from all around the world that this year will take place June 1 - 3.
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The festival features a mix of documentaries, short films, student films, feature films and children's films that have made a splash at Sundance, Cannes, Sundown by Southwest and other prominent film festivals nationally and around the world.
"These are the kinds of films that are usually shown on Independent Film Channel, although many of the films we have shown in the past have shown up on Showtime, On-demand, on Oprah Winfrey Network," says Christine Rooney, managing director of the Lighthouse Film Festival, a nonprofit organization based in Beach Haven. "We do have films that show
up [in these outlets] later, you get to see them first.”
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The wine-tasting fundraiser, however, is meant as a preview to June's grand movie-showing. Movie buffs will get the chance to watch trailers and sneak peeks into the chosen movies, while enjoying food and socializing, the organizers say.
"It's a great opportunity to meet film festival organizers," says Rooney. "And it's a chance to meet other film enthusiasts."
Tickets cost $45 per person and are available from the Southern Ocean County Chamber of Commerce, a store Things-A-Drift in Ship Bottom and online. Proceeds from the fundraiser will benefit Lighthouse International Film Festival, the mission of which is "to make Long Beach Island a film mecca," Rooney says.
