The Crown Heights Film Festival was created by artists Erin Gleason and Pedro Marti, who ran the festival from 2009 to 2013. It was then taken over by FiveMyles until 2024. Screenings took place in FiveMyles’ main gallery space every fall. In October of 2022 the festival was held in the Brooklyn Central Library’s Dweck auditorium.
The festival showed short films (20 minutes max) by international, national and local film makers, and provided a social forum for viewers and filmmakers. Each year, it gathered a local crowd of neighbors and film lovers for a much-anticipated series of screenings.
