4th Annual Albany Film Festival to Bring Film Lovers to Campus

The 4th annual Albany Film Festival is coming to UAlbany this Saturday, with screenings and panel discussions taking place throughout the day in the Campus Center.

ALBANY, N.Y. (April 2, 2024) — The New York State Writers Institute will host the 4th annual Albany Film Festival at UAlbany this Saturday, giving film lovers a chance to see screenings by aspiring student filmmakers and acclaimed directors, as well as panel discussions with industry professionals.

The annual event is free and open to the public, and will take place from 10:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. in the Campus Center. Actors, authors, directors, producers, screenwriters and movie critics will come together for a full day of screenings and discussions exploring the intersection of writing and film. At 6 p.m., a closing ceremony will be held to announce the winners of a short film contest and the Ironweed Awards.

“There's a lot going on and we like the variety of it,” said Paul Grondahl, the Opalka Endowed Director of the NYS Writers Institute. “We like that it really sticks to our original idea, which was to find our niche and to set ourselves apart by really looking at that intersection of writing and film, whether it's screenwriting, whether it's film criticism, whether it's adapting novels into films.”