It seems to have worked, with FLIFF 2022 welcoming more actors, filmmakers and producers than ever before, he says. He then made an “aggressive push” to get the films that he wanted. We’ve done parties in New York, but never one that is right in the heart of Manhattan,” Von Hausch says. At New York’s Tribeca Film Festival in June, FLIFF and its video were set up at the Hard Rock Hotel in New York’s Theater District for a parade of filmmakers, writers, actors and distributors.
