“The Long Beach International Film Festival is one that keeps raising the bar, doing bigger and better things each year,” said Alan Ginsberg, a Long Island director and producer. “No other film festival involves the community like this.”

Ginsberg attended the festival for the first time this year with his feature length film, “Trouble With Women,” which he said was filmed entirely on Long Island. Ginsberg and Scott Schwartz, the film’s writers, won best screenplay at the festival’s awards ceremony on Aug. 4, while Brian Boswell won best supporting actor.

The festival also included an informational round table discussion at Grumman Movie Studios in Bethpage about movie and television production in New York. The opening night ceremony at Molloy College, VIP filmmakers tent on Friday night, and the closing night awards ceremony at Molloy College, gave participating filmmakers the opportunity to network and get to know each other.

“It’s not that they put together a day of screenings, but they build a whole environment around it where you can learn, you can interact with other filmmakers, and you can take away something,” Ginsberg said. “You don’t just play your film one night and leave. It’s a whole community. It’s about enriching yourself as a filmmaker.”

The closing night awards ceremony is currently streaming on longbeachlive.com, including a performance of “Long Beach State of Mind,” a Long Beach version of Billy Joel’s “New York State of Mind,” played by Broadway pianist Wade Preston and performed by comedian Joey Kola, who also hosted the ceremony.

Dodd said that she hopes the Long Beach Movie Theater, which is currently undergoing renovations after Hurricane Sandy, will reopen to accommodate next year’s festival. Still, after such a successful awards ceremony this year, Dodd said that the Madison Theatre will be involved in next year’s event.