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Rehoboth Beach Independent Film Festival expands offerings

Event celebrates 26th year with more movies and experiences for attendees
The Rehoboth Beach Independent Film Festival took place Nov. 4-10. In addition to the films, the event featured a VIP cocktail party at the Cambria Hotel Rehoboth Beach. Shown is photographer Chris Delaney taking the picture of Joan Barder and Norm Golden on the red carpet. CHRIS FLOOD PHOTOS
Chris Flood
November 15, 2024

Story Location:
Cambria Hotel Rehoboth Beach
17222 Hood Road
Rehoboth Beach, DE 19971
United States

The Rehoboth Beach Independent Film Festival celebrated its 26th anniversary by expanding the number of movies offered and by using the recently opened Cambria Hotel Rehoboth Beach as the event’s entertainment hub.

For the past couple of years, the festival featured roughly two dozen movies. This year’s festival, which ran Nov. 4-10, showcased more than 70 films from 12 countries. Genres included documentary, LBGTQ+, Black voices, drama, comedy, film shorts, international and Blue Hen, which represents films from Delmarva or eastern Pennsylvania.

The Cambria Hotel Rehoboth Beach hosted a VIP cocktail party on Wednesday and an awards brunch on Sunday. Movies were shown at the Cinema Art Theater and the Unitarian Universalists of Southern Delaware.

For more information, go to rehobothfilm.com.

Pictured on the red carpet are (l-r) RBFS Officer Manager Cheryl Hickey, festival Chair Lisa Black, festival Director Gordon DelGiorno, RBFS Marketing Director Kim Wilkins and RBFS Executive Director George Farrah.
There were a number of artists with work on display, including Cindy L. Beyer.
Film festival volunteers Marie Mancari, left, and Carol Oesterbo were selling raffle tickets.
A stack of film festival programs.
Festival Director Gordon DelGiorno chats with Cambria Hotel Rehoboth Beach owner Tauhid Islam and his wife Julie Islam.
The Cambria Hotel served as the special event hub for the event.
Pianist Lisa Miller entertains the crowd.
The festival featured 70 films from 12 countries this year.

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Chris Flood has been working for the Cape Gazette since early 2014. He currently covers Rehoboth Beach and Henlopen Acres, but has also covered Dewey Beach and the state government. He covers environmental stories, business stories and random stories on subjects he finds interesting, and he also writes a column called Choppin’ Wood that runs every other week. Additionally, Flood moonlights as the company’s circulation manager, which primarily means fixing boxes that are jammed with coins during daylight hours, but sometimes means delivering papers in the middle of the night. He’s a graduate of the University of Maine and the Landing School of Boat Building & Design.

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