Sponsorship & Advertising
Be seen where cinema happens
From opening night to the closing credits, the festival offers businesses a stage: sponsorship packages, advertising placements, and product placement inside the story of festival week.
The Stage
A passionate audience, gathered in one place
Festival week concentrates the audience your brand wants to meet: independent filmmakers, industry professionals, press, and the New Yorkers who fill the seats night after night. Every sponsorship, ad, and placement puts your business inside that room — not beside it.
There is no published rate card. Every partnership is shaped with you — built around your goals, your budget, and the moments of the festival where your brand belongs.
Ways to Be Seen
Three ways to share the spotlight
Sponsorship
Attach your name to the festival itself: title sponsorships, screening presentations, awards, and signature events — with recognition across festival channels.
Advertising
Place your brand in the festival program, on screening slides before every film, and across the festival's digital presence throughout the season.
Product placement
Put your product in the rooms where the festival happens — lounges, green rooms, after-parties, and gift experiences filmmakers take home.
Who You Reach
The room your brand has been looking for
Sponsors reach a concentrated, engaged audience: hundreds of visiting filmmakers with premieres to promote and budgets to spend, industry scouts and press, and a local audience of committed filmgoers. These are creators and early adopters — the people who try what's new first and tell everyone about it.
And unlike a billboard, a festival sponsorship is remembered as a story: the brand that fed the filmmakers, hosted the after-party, or appeared on screen before the premiere.
Sponsorship inquiry
No commitment — tell us what you're imagining and we'll shape a proposal.
How Partnerships Come Together
A conversation, not a rate card
- 01
Start the conversation
Send an inquiry describing your business and what you'd like to achieve — visibility, foot traffic, product seeding, or something else entirely.
- 02
We shape the package
The partnerships team builds a proposal around your goals and the festival's calendar, from a single screening to season-long presence.
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Your brand takes the stage
Once agreed, your sponsorship, advertising, or placement goes live with festival support — on screen, in the venue, and in the program.
Start the Conversation
Tell us what you'd like your brand to be part of
Share a few details about your business and your goals. The partnerships team will come back with a proposal shaped around you — no commitment until we've talked.