The first annual Independent Features Film Festival premiered July 27th, 2007 to a full house! Filmmakers from around the world attended the event including filmmakers from Panama, Italy, and Canada! Viewers from around the world spoke and those in attendance agreed, it was quite the show! The festival ended with an awards show followed by one final night of celebrating independent film. The night ended with hugs and handshakes as the filmmakers and the staff of Independent Features and the Tribeca Cinemas had to say goodbye after an incredible weekend. Time to gear up for 2008!

A bohemian love storyA drunk and out poet misses his girl but his slacker friends rather have him forget her. They're bringing some Puerto Rican girls over who are dying to meet him. Based on the popular 70's song by the Rolling Stones.

Love, alcapurrias, and Don Francisco. Just a typical Saturday night in The Bronx. Maria and Jose, a thirty-something Nuyorican couple, lead a normal and quiet existence. Well, as quiet and normal as The Bronx will allow. One particular Saturday night, Maria feels the urge to shake things up. She wants to dance! Jose, though, would rather stick to his usual routine: sit on the couch, eat cuchifritos (fried stuff), and watch his favorite television show “Sabado Gigante” hosted by Don Francisco.

New York FF Press Conference for : THE QUEEN Series: The 44th New York Film Festival [Sept 29 - Oct 15 2006] Director: Stephen Frears , Country: United Kingdom, Release: 2006, Runtime: 103 Opening Night There will always be an England. But the England that poured out its grief and condolence at the shocking loss of Princess Diana in the waning summer of 1997 was a nation that had become unfamiliar to the monarch who, at the time of her ex-daughter-in-law’s tragedy, had held the British throne for 45 years: Here was a people mourning its princess, awaiting royal public acknowledgment of what Elizabeth II preferred to treat as a private family affair.