EASY STREET - USA, Drama, 23:30 Sunday February 24, 2013 1:00pm Block 1 A young, Southe...
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Read more →FLIPPING - China, Drama, 67 minutes World Lens Saturday March 2, 2013 3:58pm Block 2 X...
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Read more →WITHOUT A NET - USA, Documentary, 60 minutes Sunday March 3, 2013 4:15pm Block 2 Djef...
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Read more →SHUFFLE - USA, Drama, 17 minutes Saturday February 23, 2013 3:00pm Block 1 'Sins of t...
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Read more →MONDAYS AT RACINE - USA, Documentary, 39 minutes Sunday February 24, 2013 3:39pm Block 2 ...
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Read more →BETWEEN TWO RIVERS - UK, Documentary, 95 minutes World Lens Sunday February 24, 2013 1:2...
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Read more →QUIRK OF FATE - Germany, Drama, 45 minutes World Lens Saturday February 23, 2013 9:39pm ...
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Read more →MORE 4 ME - Australia, Documentary, 87 minutes World Lens Saturday February 23, 2013 10:1...
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Read more →40 WEST - USA, Drama, 120 minutes Saturday March 2, 2013 7:20pm Block 4 Through a serie...
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Read more →INTO THE WAKE - USA, Drama, 75 minutes Sunday February 24, 2013 6:04 Block 3 INTO THE W...
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Read more →DISSENT - Italy, Surreal, 35 minutes World Lens Friday March 1, 2013 5:09 Block 2 Weigh...
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Read more →KIYUMI'S POETRY AND SAYURU'S EMBROIDERY - Japan, 30 minutes World Lens Friday March 1, 201...
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Read more →THE DUCK HUNTER - Italy, Drama, 90 minutes World Lens Friday March 1, 2013 5:44 Block 2 ...
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Read more →FIGHT SCENE - USA 4:34 Saturday February 23, 2013 3:17pm Block 1 Professional stu...
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Read more →BENJAMIN - USA, 86 minutes Saturday March 2, 2013 5:44pm Block 3 Benjamin Haad is a 30-...
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Read more →MASQUE - USA, Drama 39:55 Sunday February 24, 2013 5:24pm Block 3 Colorado McBride ha...
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Read more →THE HIT - USA, Comedy, 7 minutes Saturday February 23, 2013 3:22pm Block 1 Tony Bascili...
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Read more →THE DAY THAT LASTED 21 YEARS - , Brazil, Historical Documentary, 75 minutes World Lens Sun...
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Read more →CAUGHT - USA, 19:32 Sunday March 3, 2013 3:28 Block 2 “Caught” is a short film that...
CAUGHT - USA, 19:32 Sunday March 3, 2013 3:28 Block 2 “Caught” is a short film that explores the dysfunctional relationship one woman, Hannah, has with her mother and her brother, Robbie. It is...
Read more →SILVER CASE - USA, Crime Comedy, 87 minutes Saturday February 23, 2013 3:29 Block 1 Big...
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Read more →THUGS, THE MUSICAL - USA, Comedy 26 minutes Sunday March 3, 2013 5:25pm Block 3 'Thug...
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Read more →DAVE'S WORLD - USA, Drama/Comedy, 40 minutes Saturday February 23, 2013 7:16pm Block 3 ...
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Read more →DELIVERY BOY - USA, Comedy, 9 minutes Saturday March 2, 2013 3:25pm Block 2 Tommy is to...
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Read more →LOVE IS BLIND - Turkey, Comedy, 11 minutes World Lens Friday March 1, 2013 3:00pm Block 1 ...
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Read more →SERENA AND THE RATTS - USA, Thriller, 120 minutes Saturday February 23, 2013 5:06pm Block ...
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Read more →RARE - USA, Documentary, 56 minutes Sunday February 24, 2013 4:18pm Block 2 RARE, a new...
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Read more →MONDAY MORNING - USA, Drama, 108 minutes Friday March 1, 2013 3:11pm Block 1 Thomas Bac...
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Read more →LEFT FOR DEAD - USA, Drama, Student, 28:23 Tracey, a runaway, was left for dead in the ...
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Read more →STACKED - USA, Documentary, 15 minutes When the Quiksilver Pro surf competition makes a...
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Read more →ALL DRESSED UP - USA, Drama, 9 minutes It’s been a rough day, at the end of a brutal ...
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Read more →THE FOURTH WORLD - USA, Documentary, 54:20 Produced in association with Dordt College T...
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Read more →LEAK - Israel, Drama/Thriller, 29:26 World Lens 7 year old Hadar is behaving strangely....
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Read more →GOOSE FAMILY - USA, Drama, 29:57 Jinsoo, the father works in Seoul, South Korea to supp...
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Read more →MEHERJAAN - Bangladesh, Drama, 119 minutes World Lens In 1971, the state of Pakistan ra...
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Read more →RABBIT FOOD - Canada, Comedy, 14 minutes World Lens A simple addiction to rabbit food p...
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Read more →GOOD MEN - USA, Drama, 11:30 This short drama is about two elderly men (Ed Asner and Ma...
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Read more →TRAILER PARK JESUS - USA, Comedy, 79 minutes Inspired by a true misadventure, Jessie de...
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Read more →INVASION FROM PLANET SCHRUMP, Germany, Comedy, 29 minutes World Lens Since Romy`s littl...
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Read more →Christopher Cooke, the Founding Director of the Long Island Film Festival passed away on April 27, 2013 after a long illness. Cooke started the Long Island Film Festival in 1983, the first festival on Long Island, while he was Suffolk County Film Bureau Chief.
The festival was the first of its kind and since its debut, the LIFF has showcased thousands of independently produced feature length and short films from both America and abroad.
Before working as Director of the Suffolk Film Commission and Office of Cultural Affairs, Cooke appeared as an actor in100 stage productions Off-Broadway in NYC and in Regional Theatres such as the Asolo State Theatre, Commonwealth Stage Company and the Hyde Park Playhouse.
In television he has appeared in Dreamwork’s television production SPIN CITYwith Michael J. Fox, SARDINESS with Peter Boyle and soap operas ALL MY CHILDREN and AS THE WORLD TURNS.
Mr.Cooke appeared in over a dozen films including Hal Hartley’s features THE UNBELIEVABLE TRUTH, TRUST and SIMPLE MEN, Mathew Harrison’s SPARE ME and Sundance winner RHYTHM THIEF, Scott Saunder’s THE HEADHUNTER'S SISTER, Fred Carpenter’s HBO film SMALL KILL and the international award winning Dutch film EXIT produced and directed by Paul and Menno de Nooijer.
Mr. Cooke also acted as producer and “on-camera” host for PBS affiliate Channel 21’s production of OFF-HOLLYWOOD with Jeffrey Lyons, and CINEMA a Cablevision production produced by Larry Davidson.
There will be a memorial service at the Seatuck Estate on his birthday, September 23, 2013. To attend please contact this festival.




