Necessity the Mother of NYC Drone Film Festival

This weekend at the DGA Theater: Flights, drone, action!

This weekend, Manhattan will play host to what sounds, on paper, like a guaranteed “fly” event: the city’s first-ever Drone Film Festival.

Per NPR/WBUR’s Here and Now, the genesis of the event was rooted in practicality:

The inspiration for the festival came from Randy Scott Slavin, who is the founder and the festival director.

“I bought this thing called a DJI Phantom. It’s the iPhone of drones,” he says. “I had hours and hours and hours of footage around New York, and I finally decided to edit it.”

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