The first ever Maritime Film Festival had to be postponed due to our closure in 2020, but now that the Cinema has reopened, the festival is back - just in time for summer!

A celebration of Long Island’s coastal culture, the multi-day Maritime Film Festival will explore topics such as Long Island’s bay houses, the first all-female crew of sailors to circumnavigate the globe, and the Bungalows of Rockaway. The festival will feature a number of special guests including filmmakers, subjects of the films, and experts on Long Island history.

Cinema Arts Centre is proud to partner with Long Island Traditions and the Plaza Cinema and Media Arts Center in Patchogue on a two-month-long film festival that celebrates Long Island’s rich coastal culture through the power of cinema.

Maritime Film Festival

The Bungalows of Rockaway

Featuring a post-film Q&A with producer Elizabeth Harris

Narrated by Academy-Award winner Estelle Parsons, The Bungalows of Rockaway tells 100 years of the tragicomic story of New York City's largest summer bungalow colony, that of the Rockaways. With enticing vintage postcards, archival photography, Marx Brothers home movies, hilarious boardwalk tales, personal accounts recounted by bungalow residents and Rockawayans alike, all grounded by historians, the film brings viewers close to the highs and lows of a large, thriving, affordable, urban seaside resort. The film was directed by Jennifer Callahan and co-produced by Jennifer Callahan and Elizabeth Logan Harris.

Tuesday, June 14th at 7:30 PM

$12 Members | $17 Public

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Maritime Film Festival

A World Within a World:

Long Island's Bay Houses

Featuring a Q&A and discussion with directors Greg Blank and Barbara Weber and folklorist Nancy Solomon

A 'World Within a World' explores, the lives, history, and experiences of bay house owners in the Town of Hempstead from both a historical and contemporary perspective. Based on fieldwork by folklorist and maritime ethnographer Nancy Solomon of Long Island Traditions, local filmmakers Barbara Weber and Greg Blank capture the essence of how bay house owners have persevered and endured through severe storms and hurricanes as well as eroding marshlands all while preserving traditions that began in the early 19th century. The film profiles Long Island families who have owned bay houses for over 100 years including the Muller, McNeece, Burchianti, Warasila, Jankoski families.

Tuesday, June 21st at 7:30 PM

$12 Members | $17 Public

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Maritime Film Festival

Maiden

Featuring a post-film Q&A with Maiden Captain Tracy Edwards and sailor Dawn Riley, Director of Oakcliff Sailing School

In 1989, long dismissed and belittled as the only woman crewmember on the ships where she worked, British sailor Tracy Edwards set out to prove herself in the biggest way possible. She assembled the world's first all-female international crew and entered the Whitbread Round the World Race, a 32,000 mile global circumnavigation competition that, until then, had been the exclusive domain of male seafarers.

Tuesday, July 12th at 7:30 PM

$12 Members | $17 Public

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