Accidental Genius

The Long Island International Film Expo (LIIFE) is the premiere filmmaker community on Long Island, and one of the most respected festivals of its kind in the world; showing almost 200 short and feature-length films in many different genres each year. Sponsored by the Long Island Film-TV Foundation (LIFTF), the County of Nassau, the Nassau County Industrial Development Agency and Gold Coast Studios, this year the 23rd Annual installment will be held from September 30th - October 8th 2020 and will include two nights of drive-in movies on Friday October 2nd and Saturday October 3rd at 7 PM and 10 PM the at Samanea Mall, 1504 Old Country Rd, Westbury NY. This year, LIIFE’s films will also be shown virtually and will feature films from around the globe. The Long Island International Film Expo will also be honoring Port Jefferson’s own Maurice DuBois, the Emmy award winning news anchor for WCBS-TV in NY, who will be awarded the LIIFE “Excellence in Newscasting” Award. Actress Katherine N...

Playwright Joe Beck's newest production "Our Lady of Queens" will be premiered Sunday, January 19, 2020 at Cinema Arts Center in Huntington and will be followed by a Q and A session. He has introduced us to middle-class Irish catholic family, enmeshed in complex and heart-wrenching problems. The deeper the audience gets in the play, the less they'll be able to forget this seemingly ordinary group. Becks exquisite dialogue creates a narrative that few plays possess anymore: humor, pathos and relevance. He intermingles these characteristics with wit and intelligence, the wreckage of the family dynamic and the hopes of correcting it is truly inspiring, it is evocative of John Van Druten "I Remember Mama". The trick in finding a solution is that, sometimes, we surprise ourselves and discover just what is really important we are all inexorably tied to each other and the cycle of life. WHAT: Premiere of Our Lady of Queens, a new production by accom...