New York City’s newest festival brought out the cool kids of music and film

thefader.com:

This October in New York City saw the arrival of The Downtown Festival, a new music, film, and arts festival that brought out the who’s who of the city’s bustling film and music scenes from Jeremy O.

Harris and Chloë Sevigny, to rising musical acts Liam Benzvi and Malice K. In NYC, festivals are a dime a dozen but none are doing it quite like the newest kid on the block which is focused on “championing new voices and bold, experimental work [that’s] sadly not often found in today’s festival landscape,” says founder and filmmaker Rebekah Sherman-Myntti in a press release.

Over the course of three weekends, the festival’s inaugural event will showcase a bevy of hand-selected shorts, films, and music videos from up-and-coming filmmakers, alongside performances from some of NYC’s most exciting, rising musicians.

Taking over the historic Roxy Cinema, the festival’s kickoff weekend on Oct. 4-6 saw the premieres of thriller Pet Shop Days by Olmo Schnabel, Or Something by Jeffrey Scotti Schroeder (starring Subway Takes’ Kareem Rahma and Mary Neely), and more, as well as panels with Sevigny and the award-winning playwright Harris.