We invite you to see the world’s best and newest Independent, art and foreign films as we embark on our 15th year of taking you to the movies at Stony Brook University’s Staller Center for the Arts.

Whether you enjoy foreign language films, American Independents or shorts from around the globe, you’ll be enchanted, challenged and amazed by the movies my staff and I have assembled for the 2010 festival. You’ll enjoy Studio Spotlight Premiere screenings of films that are slated for late summer/early fall theatrical releases in U.S. theatres, as well as World, U.S. and East Coast premieres of films seeking distribution…and your votes for these films in competition can help play a role in their success as they vie for Stony Brook Film Festival awards given out on Closing Night. You’ll also hear from filmmakers and actors who will be representing their films at many Festival screenings.

I am quite sure Stony Brook has a U.S. Festival first this year as we open with two Dutch films (the U.S. Premiere of THE STORM and the East Coast Premiere of BRIDE FLIGHT), both by the same director, Ben Sombogaart. Both films use an important historical event in The Netherlands as the starting point of their stories, The Great North Sea Flood of 1953. Many other films this summer are also based on historical events or true stories and we are honored to have these high profile new films to present to our audiences before they are shown anywhere else.

We have once again kept our FILM PASS price at an incredibly low $75, the absolute best way to attend the festival.

• A Film Pass guarantees seating at all screenings with no box-office lines to wait on

• Puts you in the exclusive Passholder line in the lobby for best seats

• Saves you money with discounted Opening and Closing Night party tickets

• Provides you with Passholder discounts at restaurant/hospitality sponsors

$9 general admission; $7 students/ senior citizens (subject to availability).

Don’t miss out on Long Island’s premier annual summer arts event. The 15th Annual Stony Brook Film Festival from July 22-31 will be ten film-packed days to remember!

See you at the movies!

Alan Inkles, Festival Director