JUSTICE FILM FESTIVAL Coming to NYC, Announces 2016 Dates

The fourth annual Justice Film Festival is headed to New York City and will take place September 30 - October 1, 2016 at the Sheen Center for Thought & Culture. All events will take place in the Sheen Center's newly restored 274-seat Loreto Theater on the lower east side of Manhattan. 

Feature films and short films are now being accepted, with official selections to be announced in the coming weeks. The Festival will also host "Behind the Lens" talkback sessions with filmmakers after each screening.

Festival passes and individual screening tickets will be available for purchase starting September 1 at www.sheencenter.org. 

"We are thrilled to host the Justice Film Festival this year," said David DiCerto, Director of Film, Television, and Mission Outreach for the Sheen Center. "We are confident it will be a fantastic slate of films and believe the festival's mission aligns perfectly with that of the Sheen Center to highlight the true, the good, and the beautiful."

"There isn't a better venue in New York City that we could partner with for this year's Festival," said Andy Peterson, Justice Film Festival director. "The Sheen Center has an outstanding reputation of programming important, conversation-starting artistic experiences. With the rich culture of film and social justice awareness in the city, we hope for a great turnout."

The Justice Film Festival has taken place in Philadelphia, Los Angeles, and, most recently, Chicago. Past feature length selections include Poverty, Inc., (Dis)Honesty, The Drop Box, Landfill Harmonic, and A Place at the Table among many others. Short films include Aullido, Code Oakland, and Among the Discarded. 

For more info about the festival and submissions, please visit www.justicefilmfest.com. 

ABOUT THE JUSTICE FILM FESTIVAL The Justice Film Festival inspires justice seekers by presenting films of unexpected courage and redemption that are diverse in their issues and geography. After stops in Philadelphia, Los Angeles, and Chicago the fourth annual Justice Film Festival will travel to its new home at the Sheen Center for Thought & Culture in New York City September 30-October 1, 2016. This year's event will include feature films, documentaries, and shorts from both well-known and emerging filmmakers that shine a light on justice.
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ABOUT THE SHEEN CENTER The Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen Center for Thought & Culture, a project of the Archdiocese of New York, is a forum to highlight the true, the good, and the beautiful as they have been expressed throughout the ages. Cognizant of our creation in the image and likeness of God, the Sheen Center aspires to present the heights and depths of human expression in thought and culture, featuring humankind as fully alive. At the Sheen Center, we proclaim that life is worth living, especially when we seek to deepen, explore, challenge, and stimulate ourselves, Catholic and non-Catholic alike, intellectually, artistically, and spiritually.

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