The festival premiered dozens of rock-n-roll movies in theaters around Manhattan.

The festival has premiered such movies as Once Were Warriors, The Piano, Shine, Shall We Dance, Y Tu Mama Tambien and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.

Following the completion of his residency, he stayed living in Berlin, undertaking a commission from the DAAD Kunstlerprogram which lead to his twenty-four channel acousmatic piece Love and Death, premiered at the Parochialkirche, Berlin as part of the Inventionen festival [3], 2000.

The 2004 festival premiered What the Bleep Do We Know!?

The festival premiered in 2006 and focuses on an investigation of the contemporary art production, a discussion of emerging theories, a presentation of the most recent and significant research projects, and development of the relationships between art and the technology.

The festival is also premiering 12 of the 18 Greek films produced this year.

The festival premiered in 2003 and was founded by Jen Gapay of Thirsty Girl Productions along with Angie Pontani, Tara Pontani and Helen Pontani of The World Famous Pontani Sisters.

Also premiered in the Cannes film festival, IFFI and Tribeca.

As of November 2009, the festival has premiered over 200 musicals, which have featured the work of over 6,000 artists and have been attended by 170,000 theatergoers.

The festival premiered an Al Pacino-narrated version of Revolution called Revolution Revisited.