Brooklyn Alamo Drafthouse Hosts Film Festival Featuring Short Independent Works By Diverse Artists

FORT GREENE, BROOKLYN — The 5th annual Katra Film Series Grand Finale Event will be held at the Alamo Drafthouse on Wednesday, Jan. 25, featuring finalists from the lineup this year and picking a grand prize winner.

The top five films are competing for prizes valued at over $5,000.

The festival this year was feminist in nature, with 76 out of the films that were selected to screen during Katra's season made by a female writer, director, or producer.

Included in the finalists are films starring Amir Arison from NBC's "The Blacklist," Caitlin Fitzgerald from Showtime's "Master's of Sex," Catherine Curtin from "Orange is the New Black," Peter Mark Kendall from The Americans, and Christian Coulson.

Katra Film Series is a short film festival with featured films from around the world hosted in NYC every year since 2012. Audiences vote for the best work to advance to the final rounds and then eventually a grand prize winner.

The 2016 Grand Prize Winner will win a one-on-one meeting with producer Stephen Nemeth from The Sessions and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, as well as prizes from RED Digital Cinema Camera, Pond5 stock video library, Moviemaker Magazine, Museum of the Moving Image, CreatorUp filming online education platform, and others.

Find more information here.

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