The Sixth Borough Film Festival

Join us for the inaugural three-day Sixth Borough Film Festival (SBFF) to be held on the campus of Manhattan University in New York City.

Located in the Riverdale neighborhood of the Bronx, Manhattan University has a picturesque campus just a 25-minute subway ride away from the heart of midtown Manhattan.

Festival film screenings include shorts and features, narratives, documentaries, music videos, and Bronx Tales: movies about or inspired by the Bronx. A special horror showcase will be held on Friday evening, April 10, and is guaranteed to make you spill your popcorn.

Manhattan University students enrolled in this experiential learning course are taught how to plan and produce on a film festival by running SBFF. Students are overseeing festival operations, including press, social media, awards, merchandise, programming, filmmaker relations, community outreach, and more.

Daphne Rubin-Vega

Inaugural Manhattan University Sixth Borough Film Festival Vanguard Award Winner for Visionary Contributions to Film, Theatre, Television and Music

All the world’s a stage, and the stage has always meant the world for Daphne Rubin-Vega, the multi-Tony Award-nominated actor, producer and Broadway legend who blazed trails in the mid-‘90s by originating the role of free-spirited doomed lover Mimi Marquez in the groundbreaking, Tony-winning, New York City-centric show, Rent.

Rubin-Vega’s showstopping performance fittingly earned the Panama-born, NYC-raised actress/singer not only a Theatre World Award for Broadway breakout star, but her first Tony nomination, for Best Leading Actress in a Musical, subsequently opening the doors to a highly acclaimed career spanning stage to screen.