New York’s first microdrama film festival searches for its audience

Actors Taye Diggs, Autumn Federici, Gary Entin, Troy Brookins, Edmund Entin and Eric Guilmette be the satellite premiere of Microhouse Films and Lifetime's Reunion Island during the ALZA Festival. | Getty Images for Lifetime.

It remains to beryllium seen if radical truly privation to ticker vertical contented connected horizontal TV screens, but galore filmmakers and creators were assured that their latest projects would play good astatine Alza - New York City's archetypal microdrama movie festival. Founded by erstwhile Tribeca Festival main operating serviceman Pete Torres, Alza, which took spot October 16th done 18th, was billed arsenic a showcase for the "the creativity, innovation, and increasing taste interaction of stories made for the vertical screen." The festival featured a enactment of microdrama and movie premieres arsenic good arsenic industry-focused panels with executives who each seemed to genuinely beli …

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