"The films at this year's Festival represent a wide array of voices, regions, storytelling, and style. In our increasingly divided world, film is a medium that can close some of those gaps, and help us understand the universality of humanity."
"It's a real New York movie, paced like a New York movie, loud like a New York movie, with characters who look like they're New Yorkers," according to ABC News Contributor Chris Connelly about "Marty Supreme." Fandango Managing Editor Erik Davis adds that the film represents New York values: "we walk fast, we talk fast. It's get out of my way. If you can make it here, you can make it anywhere."
'Ridgewood is a movie desert,' said Cosmo Bjorkenheim, co-owner of Low Cinema, emphasizing the area's lack of movie theaters and the community's need for this new venue.