The Syracuse International Film Festival continues its 2010 season of year-round programming with its first prescreening evening. The event will take place Thursday, March 18th at 7pm at the Auburn Public Theater at 108 Genesee Street, Auburn NY. A team of local writers, actors, producers and film critics will make up a professional prescreening team who will watch a handful of the hundreds of entries received by the festival organizers. The general public is also invited to join the prescreening sessions and give their impressions of the films. The sessions are free, but space is limited, so please call to reserve a spot – 315.443.8826.

Other prescreening events are already scheduled for Onondaga Community College (4pm March 23rd) and the Hamilton Theater, Hamilton (7pm March 30th).

When all prescreening sessions are complete, the final films will be shown during the festival competition.

The Syracuse International Film Festival will be celebrating its 7th year with SYRFILMFEST'10 from October 13th through 17th. The festival will play host to filmmakers from around the world featuring over 125 films from 30 countries. The festival will pay homage to the films of Alfred Hitchcock with screenings of The Lodger, Rope, 39 Steps and The Birds, as well as international competition screenings, special events and free seminars with visiting filmmakers. The SYRFILMFEST'10 is open to the general public. For more information, call 315-443-8826 or email:kc@syrfilm.com.