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ITOWNY’s Inclusive Films Participating the Buffalo 48 Hour Film Project!

Our new film premieres THIS SATURDAY (8/17)!! #buffalo48film#inclusivefilms You do not want to miss it! So don’t! Ticket info is below! #buffalo48hour

Do you need some EXCITEMENT? Check out the 48 Hour Film Project Premiere Screenings!

Local teams competed in a wild 48 hour filmmaking challenge and YOU can join in the excitement as we screen these films for the first time.

The winners will compete internationally for a chance to screen at the Cannes Film Festival!

You can help by voting for the audience favorite! Support your local filmmakers at the 48 Hour Film Project Screenings.

Come early to get a good seat! *wink*

The screenings start at 11:30AM SHARP. The doors open at 10:40am. COME EARLY TO GET A GOOD SEAT!
Make sure you select the correct screening day.

Screening A is August 17th:
https://bit.ly/3WIHCy1

Screening B is August 28th:
https://bit.ly/4chTBbL

More information at LemurStudios.com

If you buy tickets, share it on social media that you’ll be attending! The more the merrier!

Film Poster

Film Trailer

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ITOWNY Featured “Let’s Go!” WNED PBS Episode Nominated for a NY EMMY!

We thrilled to share the news that our ITOWNY Episode of Let’s Go! (A WNED PBS Production) is a NEW YORK EMMY NOMINEE!🎉.🏆 “Let’s Go!” – Nominated in the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion category.

Congratulations to the producers, writers, editors and all of the those that touched this production!🎥

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ITOWNY Presents: Girl Power! Plays by WNY Female Writers for the Buffalo Infringement Festival

Join us for readings of four AMAZING plays by Bella Poynton, Reumann, Madison Sedlor, and Winifred Storms! This event is FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. Location is accessible!

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ITOWNY’s Festival of Shorts – Final Show Today (4/21) at 2pm!

Only ONE more performance of #itownys festival of shorts! Show starts at 2PM today (4/21) St Mary’s High School, Lancaster. Tickets $15/general; $10/senior, students.

Tickets available at the door! Come see 9 extraordinary plays with performances by extraordinary actors! You do NOT want to miss this show (and we’d be sad if you did, so there’s that)!

See you there! #inclusivetheaterofwny#inclusionrevolution☺️👏🏼#festivalofshorts

Artwork by Alan Deacon

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Inclusive Theater of WNY Participates in the 2024 Easterseals Disability Film Challenge!

DISABILITY REPRESENTATION – EDFC2024

Disability representation in the media is more important than ever. This year marks the 11th annual Easterseals @disabilityfilmchallenge! Check out these #buddycomedy shorts submitted and show your support! https://www.youtube.com/c/TheDisabilityFilmChallenge. #EDFC2024

Like and view our video and help us win the Social Media Awareness campaign! And be sure to share the video with your networks! ❤

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ITOWNY’s 2024 Festival of Shorts – Meet the Playwrights – Bella Poynton

Bella Poynton (she/her) (On Rooftops and Rowboats) is a playwright, director, actor, and theater scholar. Her creative work has been published with Samuel French at Concord Theatricals and can be seen in The Best Ten-Minute Plays of 2019, The Best American Short Plays 2018-2019, The Weirdest Plays of 2020, WE-US: Monologues for Gender Minority Characters, and Clockhouse. Her scholarly work has been published in Comparative Drama, Theatre/Practice, Texas Theatre Journal, Global Performance Studies, and Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism. Her plays have been produced and developed at Alleyway Theatre, The Great Plains Theatre Festival, Road Less Traveled Productions, 3rd Act Theatre Company, Oklahoma City University, Antaeus Theatre Company, Otherworld Theatre, MadLab Theatre, Theatre Viscera, and the Pittsburgh New Works Festival, and Post-Industrial Productions, among many others. Poynton is a co-chair of the Playwriting Symposium at the Mid America Theatre Conference, and the director of the Playwrights Wing at First Look Buffalo Theatre Company. Upcoming projects: The AI at Delphi (First Look Buffalo), Prelude to a Kiss (Director, Bellissima), Mergers & Integrations at Buffalo Quickies (Alleyway), and 20,000 Leagues (Otherworld Theatre), MFA, Iowa Playwrights Workshop; PhD, SUNY Buffalo.