EXCLUSIVE: The Naples Film Festival – considered one of the top regional festivals in the U.S. – announced the lineup today for its 17 th edition, running October 23-26 in the town on Florida’s Gulf coast.

The event, a program of Artis-Naples, a multidisciplinary arts organization, offers a slate of 60 international fiction and nonfiction films chosen from among 1,000 submissions. Five world premieres and one U.S. premiere are on the program. More than $15,000 in prize money will be awarded to juried and audience prize winners across a range of categories.

On a String , selected for Narrative Competition, marks the directorial debut of actress-filmmaker Isabel Hagen. Logline: “A Juilliard-trained violist still living at home with her parents in New York City makes money playing gigs

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