From February 15th to 22nd, New York hosts the first edition of the New York Comedy Film Festival, a review entirely dedicated to comedy cinema debuting at the Asylum NYC and the Baruch College Performing Arts Center. It will be a real dress of television comedy, with projections, meetings and moments of confrontation in a single winter calendar.
The inaugural programming counts over 75 titles and alternates feature films, short films, documentaries and episode series, alongside themed panels and special appointments. There are Sentimental Value, Leave Them Wanting Less, Magic Hour and Before We Get Started. On the TV side, the festival offers episodic programs such as Matched, Noble Homes and Livvie Grace’s Bad Bitch Bucket List, confirming the attention to different formats and languages, not only cinematographically in the strict sense.
A significant part of the billboard is dedicated to documentaries and so-called “mocs: among others, there are Andre Is an Idiot, Townie and Oh Yeah!. Among the most anticipated events there is, then, Before We Get Started, a documentary that tells the work of warm-up comedian in American television programs, with contributions from Amy Schumer, John Oliver, Howie Mandel, Nikki Glaser and Seth Meyers. “From Breakdown to Breakthrough: The Power of Casting in New York Film & Television” and a preview dedicated to the documentary project on Mitch Hedberg.
According to Steve Eliau, Chief Business Officer of the festival, the first edition aims to show “the breadth and creative force of comic narrative”, in dialogue authors, interpreters and audiences. Tickets start at $33 and can be purchased through the official website of the event, which also hosts the full program and schedule of the screenings.
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