• 2025 QWFF Filmmakers with Queens Borough President Donovan Richards Jr.,
    QWFF Founders, Preston & Katha Cato and Spirit of Queens recipient Warrington Hudlin.

  • QWFF 2024 filmmakers with founders Preston and Katha Cato, and MoMI Executive Director Aziz Isham

  • 12th Annual Queens World Film Festival filmmakers and honorees at the Museum of the Moving Image. Photo credit: Ken Brown

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Welcome to Queens World!

For over 15 years, Queens World Film Festival, a 501(c)(3) international film festival in Queens, NYC, has served as a welcoming platform for bold storytelling, thoughtful conversation, and community connection. To date, Queens World has proudly screened 2,109 films from 98 nations, including more than 300 films by Queens-based filmmakers and 36 by Queens public school students. We are known for giving voice to films that speak out, speak up, and break the rules. 

Founded in 2010, Queens World Film Festival passionately supports local and international filmmakers at every stage of their careers. We have created a week-long screening event for filmmakers and film-lovers alike to move through a multi-day, multi-venue festival of work from all over the world. This hub of film fury has in turn created year-round programs that include mentoring, professional development, school-based immersion programs, The Documentary Bootcamp and The Pop Up Film School. Through the implementation of these educational programs, we provide opportunities for individuals to share ideas and develop analog, digital, visual, and performing arts projects.

Queens World advances public participation in screenings by utilizing traditional as well as alternative locations and venues to screen independent cinema. We are dedicated to getting these films seen by not only friends and family, but the broader community including industry professionals.

WE’LL SEE YOU IN QUEENS!

Queens World: Who We Are

The Queens World Mission

Queens World Film Festival became a 501(c)(3) nonprofit in 2014 and advances public participation in film screenings by utilizing traditional and alternative screening locations and venues to screen independent cinema. Through the implementation of educational programs, we provide opportunities for individuals to share ideas and develop analog, digital, visual, and performing arts projects.