WEDNESDAY, October 6
NewFilmmakers and Le Rwa
Entertainment Presents films by seven
new post-NYU NYC independent filmmakers.
6:00 NEWFILMMAKERS FILM PRESENTATION
Miller Koepenick THE DINNER PARTY (2004, 10 Minutes) - A
homeless man's perspective changes forever when he finds a pocket organizer in a
local restaurant. Starring Rob
Morgan of American Theatre of Harlem and nationally renowned August Wilson actor
Cortez Nance.
Miller Koepenick LA CABRA (2004, 16 minutes) - Rafael
is tempted to take money from gang members in order to buy his mother a birthday
present; if he does, so he and his little sister both risk being stolen into The
Shadow by the La Cabra (The Goatman). Set
in Spanish Harlem, features original art from 103 St. mural artist James de la
Vega, co-stars old school Nuyorican poet Luis Chaluisan, and features music by
Nuyorican bassist Joe Falcon.
Ryan Wong SOMETIME ON MONDAY (2004, 15 Minutes) - Old World
nostalgia is awakened through the anxieties of a modern Japanese relationship
and the color red-- in Japanese with subtitles. Official selection of the Luis Vuitton Film Festival in
Hawaii, 2003.
Alex Rossing AXON (2004, 18 Minutes) - Apocalyptic
horror film about man's destruction by sound and image and the dependence on
technology for sense of being. Won
an NYU Wasserman Award for Excellence in Experimental Filmmaking.
Jake Stacey-Schreier NAKED
PICTURES (2004. 17 Minutes) - A young photographer is seduced into a getaway
romance by a teenage pornography model. Won
an award for Best Editing at the NYU First Run Film Festival.
Jake has found distribution with Apollo Cinema, and his work has shown on
IFC, at the Oklahoma Museum of Modern Art, and Delta Airlines
George Moise & Brian Russo
COOKIES (2004, 11 Minutes) - George Moise and Brian Russo explore the art of
making Oreo ™ cookies, and ruining friendships in the Big Apple, wa wa you
lose! (There’s gotta be something
to break up all this drama) Didn’t
win any awards yet, but check out holycrapfilms.com for some original,
well-executed humor.
John Gutierrez WHEN
WE COME TOGETHER (2004, 20 Minutes) -
Documentary on the controversial Last Poets of the Civil Rights era and the
search for real poetry in today’s world of impermanence—features interviews
with The Last Poets, Common Sense, Erykah Badu, Chuck D, and more.
WEDNESDAY, October 13NewFilmmakers Presents The Static Age Program.
6:00 NEWFILMMAKERS FILM PROGRAM
Music and video are now inexorably joined.
See the best new music videos and films and meet the filmmakers and
musician behind them
Curated by Mark Cuevas.
WEDNESDAY, October 20
NewFilmmakers Presents A Corrosive Evening.
6:00 NEWFILMMAKERS DOCS MOCKS & MORE PROGRAM
A new series at NewFilmmakers that explores the real and
imaginable world.
Jeremy Mack READY, SET, MOW! (2004,
55 minutes, video)
Deep in the heart of Texas, gearheads soup up and drag race riding lawnmowers
that go zero to sixty in three seconds. Yardwork will never be the same..."
7:00 NEWFILMMAKERS SHORT FILM PROGRAM
Phelps Harmon DARK ROASTED DEATH (2004, 4 minutes, 35mm)
Dominic Traverzo LAST GUN STORY (2003, 7 minutes, video)
Shane Ryan THE COLD HEAT (2004, 16 minutes, video)
Neel Scott THE MOON BY NIGHT (2003, 16 minutes, video)
Aleksandar Kostic ROOM (2003, 9 minutes, 16mm)
Crista Giuliani VALENTINE’S DAY (2003, 21 minutes, video)
Rob Santana BIG SHOT DOWN (2002, 10 minutes, video)
8:30 NEWFILMMAKERS FEATURE PRESENTATION
Mitch McCabe THIS CORROSION (2003, 75 minutes, video)
It is December 21... the Winter
Solstice and the longest night of the year.
Farrah Klement was
released from the sanitarium three days ago for her thirtieth birthday. She
wakes with smeared eyeliner, a blistering hangover and the sickening realization
that her life is going nowhere. She decides to celebrate it all by going off her
meds. Still grieving a death in the
family and shaking from withdrawal, Farrah makes the annual drive upstate to
celebrate her birthday the same way she has every year-- with her small circle
of velvet-caped friends and a Winter Solstice moon overhead. But this birthday
will be different
Produced by Gil Holland and Joan Wooters-Reisin and written and directed by
Student Academy Award-winning filmmaker Mitch McCabe, This Corrosion follows the
mental unraveling of a young woman haunted by her past and her impossible future
as it examines life and its choices at their most brutally simple and
deafeningly tragic heights. Told through a boldly abstract framework of jarring
flashbacks, impressionistic motifs and tense, telling confrontations, This
Corrosion draws on the filmmaker’s recent abstract work (September 5:10 PM) to
make a haunting, rhythmic ensemble film.
WEDNESDAY, October 27
NewFilmmakers Comes Clean.
6:00 NEWFILMMAKERS DOCS MOCKS & MORE PROGRAM
A new series at NewFilmmakers that explores the real and
imaginable world.
Sree Nallamothu PATRIOT ACTS (2004, 58 minutes, video)
Patriot Act explores the human cost of Bush
administration's controversial National Security Entry-Exit Registration system.
7:00 NEWFILMMAKERS SHORT FILM PROGRAM
Mimi George Kent STARLET (2003, 12 minutes, video)
John Yost JOHNNY (2004, 21 minutes, 16mm)
RealFilm Studio FLIGHT PATH (2004, 22 minutes, video)
8:00 NEWFILMMAKERS FEATURE PRESENTATION
Nyle Cavazos Garcia CLEAN (105
min/Color/Stereo/S-16mm/1.85:1 Aspect Ratio/Mastered to DVCAM & DVD)
He may be the driver but he's
not in control.
Maynard Yates is trying to clean up his life when
chance gives him a job as a limousine driver. He is soon chauffeuring the
Hollywood elite and finds himself submerged in the dark, seedy underbelly of
celebrity: sex, addiction, money, fame, greed, lies, power and betrayal. When
his own bad habits return, Maynard is unwillingly led into a downward spiral and
slowly realizes that he may be the
driver but he's not in control.
NYLE CAVAZOS GARCIA (BIO):
Director/Editor/Co-Producer/Co-Writer
Nyle has produced and directed three short films, one of which, HUMIDITY, was
selected for the 2000 Brooklyn International Film Festival and the
NewFilmmaker's Series at the Anthology Film Archives in New York City. Nyle has
worked in production on feature films for Lion's Gate, Good Machine and the
Shooting Gallery. CLEAN is Nyle's feature film directorial debut and he has
already won Best Director at the 2004 Rhode Island International Film Festival
and the 2004 Visionfest New York Film Festival.
JANE GAFFNEY (BIO): Producer/Writer
Jane was born in Scotland, raised in Hong Kong and educated in England. After
graduating from Boston University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Film Studies,
Jane worked in production in New York for the Shooting Gallery and Greene Street
Films. In 2000, Jane wrote, directed and starred in her debut feature film,
COWBOY, for Small Town Pictures. Since relocating to Los Angeles, Jane has
completed two feature screenplays.
WEDNESDAY, November 3
NewFilmmakers and the National Association for Latino
Independent Producers celebrate Puerto Rican Heritage.
The mission of the National Association for Latino
Independent Producers (NALIP) has a mission to promote the advancement,
development and funding of Latino/Latina film and media arts in all genres.
NALIP will offer some of its latest selections of new
works.
7:00 NEWFILMMAKERS / NALIP RECEPTION
8:00 NEWFILMMAKERS / NALIP FILM PROGRAM
WEDNESDAY, November 10
NewFilmmakers Goes Local.
6:00 NEWFILMMAKERS DOCS MOCKS & MORE PROGRAM
A new series at NewFilmmakers that explores the real and
imaginable world.
Muriel Magenta TIMES SQUARE (2004, 4 minutes, video)
Gabe Ciccone & Joe Amorando RACE (2004, 45 minutes,
video)
Bert Shapiro NODDLE MAN (2004, 10 minutes, video)
7:00 NEWFILMMAKERS SHORT FILM PROGRAM
Tomas Hinojal A BULLET FOR NIKKI (2004, 10 minutes, video)
Valerie Weiss I LOVE YOU (2004, 10 minutes, video)
Alexander Livingston ISLAND (2004, 11 minutes, 35mm)
Scott Rice MAD MATT (2004, 27 minutes, video)
8:00 NEWFILMMAKERS FEATURE PRESENTATION
Anthony Ferraro Everything
Unspoken (2004,
90 minutes, video)
In the spirit of Godard, Cassavetes, and Jarmusch,
Everything Unspoken follows a couple as they struggle to face up to their own
and each other's limitations and aspirations. Clayton Price and his live in
girlfriend are unemployed and frustrated. In their early thirties, they've seen
the initial promises of youth begin to fade. When it seems their passion for
each other has begun to fade, too, they struggle with how to move on.
Set against the backdrop of New York City, the film follows
them in their separate struggles to find meaning and purpose in their lives.
Everything Unspoken presents a world where everything is familiar, yet strange.
Where the older generation in the form of each character's mentor: an older
writer and a family friend reveals that the struggles of the present are not so
different from the struggles of the past. The outward trappings may appear
different: sexual and emotional dysfunction, disease, an increasing sense of
gloom about the value and nature of true love, and the separation of the haves
from the have nots. But the essential struggle is the same. We must go on. We
can't go on. We'll go on.
Everything Unspoken is at once a paean to New York City,
and a stark representation of our modern lives. It is a study of the value and
nature of love, and a vivisection of the need to live in a future that is always
promised, but never guaranteed. It is a visceral, emotional experience that
reveals the one life secret we all know, but struggle so hard to accept: life
may not work out the way you planned, but what is important is the willingness
to go on.
WEDNESDAY, November 17
NewFilmmakers Gets Burnt.
6:00 NEWFILMMAKERS DOCS MOCKS & MORE PROGRAM
A new
series at NewFilmmakers that explores the real and imaginable world.
Randal Wilcox VEIL (2004, 3 minutes, 8mm & video)
Penny Lane WE ARE THE LITTLETONS (2004, 11 minutes, video)
Jordan Cooper TIM WARNER: A LIFE IN THE CLOUDS (2004, 37
minutes, video)
7:00 NEWFILMMAKERS SHORT FILM PROGRAM
Arielle Javitch NO ONE ( 2004, 15 minutes, video)
Amira Lopez THE MAN WHO FELL IN LOVE (2004, 13 minutes,
video)
Naomi Greenfield WHEN GIVEN LEMONS (2004, 9 minutes, video)
Christian Blaze SPANK (2003, 19 minutes, video)
8:00 NEWFILMMAKERS FEATURE PRESENTATION
Randolph
Mack BURNING ANNIE (2004, 90 minutes, 35mm)
The
East Hampton papers called Burning Annie the gem of the recent Hampton Film
Festival. In it Gary Lundy plays Max, a college nerd who has trouble relating to
women, but not his muse, Annie Hall, the character from the Woody Allen movie of
the same name. The film asks the question "Is a 20-year-old movie about
failed relationships causing a 20 year old's relationships to fail?"
Max
and his buddies alternately stumble, bumble, and occasional score in the
slice-of-dormitory life. It's at once touching and funny, but never cloying or
cute. Credit the deft writing touch of Ordynans and the relaxed yet crystal
clear camera work of Stephen Schultze. Brian Klugman, as Max's best friend, Sara
Downing as Julie, the blonde Max yearns for ("I got over her. The
restraining order helped."), and Kim Murphy Zandell as Beth, all exhibit a
presence that suggests each will be seen again on the big screen soon. Throw in
an excellent score and this little film comes up big-- Burning Annie was the
papers pick to win the Starfish.
WEDNESDAY, November 24
NewFilmmakers is closed for the Holiday.
WEDNESDAY, December 1
NewFilmmakers Lives The High Life.
6:00 NEWFILMMAKERS DOCS MOCKS & MORE PROGRAM
A new series at NewFilmmakers that explores the real and
imaginable world.
Edward Eichel CAT (Coital Alignment Technique) (2004, 60
minutes, video)
With upcoming office holiday parties and all the good
cheer, let Dr. Eichel teach you the correct Coital Alignment Technique and the
key to Simultaneous Orgasm. Film,
Live Talk and Demo. What more do
you want for five bucks.
7:00 NEWFILMMAKERS SHORT FILM PROGRAM
Ben Zimmerman SOPHROLOGY 1 (2004, 10
minutes, video)|
Steven Unger THE PAPER CASTLE (2003, 24 minutes, video)
Eric Patrick ROOTHOLD (2003, 12 minutes, video)
David Tames DESTINY (2004, 4 minutes, video)
8:00 NEWFILMMAKERS FEATURE PRESENTATION
Lila Yomtoob HIGH LIFE (2004, 75 minutes, video)
Sy,
a Brooklyn artist in his late 20’s, is easily distracted by his 20 year old
brother Satchel, who freely barges into his loft with his pack of rowdy friends
to hang out. The tightly knit group has unwittingly begun questioning their
relationships with each other, with sexuality, and with the world around them.
An ordinary day goes awry, and each character walks away with a different
understanding of themselves and the people they care about.
HIGH
LIFE examines marginalized stories that are easily forgotten yet crucial
in the development of personal history, while capturing the emotional
underbelly of coming of age, and the pains of accepting adult
responsibility.
Filmed
in verite style, HIGH LIFE stars an ensemble cast of downtown
theatre's
finest, including Michael Wiener, Sam Marks, Priscilla Holbrook and James Ford.
Lila Yomtoob (producer/director/editor) is a graduate of the NYU film
department. This is her first feature length film. For more information, please
visit www.highlifemovie.com
WEDNESDAY, December 8
NewFilmmakers Smokes.
6:00 NEWFILMMAKERS DOCS MOCKS & MORE PROGRAM
A new series at NewFilmmakers that explores the real and
imaginable world.
Eric Eskenazi FETISH MODE (2004, 67 minutes, video)
Grover Fuchs spends his days writing in a bath tub when his
college buddy, Euclid Mirage, opens up the world of underground sex clubs to
him. Meet many interesting
characters including homoerotic doppelganger Frisky LaDouche and Jewish punk
rock manager Naomi.
7:10 NEWFILMMAKERS SHORT FILM PROGRAM
Gary Lynch SINS (2004, 15 minutes, video)
Colin Mowbray WELL HUNG (2004, 4 minutes, video)
Geoff Ross SINGULARITY (2004, 10 minutes, video)
James Mirarchi CAVE PEOPLE (2004, 22 minutes, video)
8:10 NEWFILMMAKERS FEATURE PRESENTATION
Till Schauder (a.k.a. Terror) STRONG SHIT
a road movie ..from the country side to
the techno bunker
This feature length kidnapping drama,
the debut by New York based director Till Terror, was shown at international
film festivals in Tel Aviv, Cairo, Saarbruecken, and broadcasted on TV.
Join the hostages on a nerve ripping trip through the city of Berlin of the
early 90ies -it's pleasant country side, it's grim suburbs and it's glaring
nightli
WEDNESDAY, December 15
NewFilmmakers Bends Gender.
6:00 NEWFILMMAKERS DOCS MOCKS & MORE PROGRAM
A new series at NewFilmmakers that explores the real and
imaginable world.
Milo Henry Meltz ICE CREAM (2004, 52 minutes, video)
In the America of the future everything is also reversed.
7:00 NEWFILMMAKERS SHORT FILM PROGRAM
John Yost NORMAN (2004, 27 minutes, video)
Peter Carter LOCAL TIME (2004, 12 minutes, video)
Sung Kwang Kim MILK (2004, 16 minutes, video)
8:00 NEWFILMMAKERS FEATURE PRESENTATION
Vladimir Vitkin X, Y (2004, 93 minutes, video)
Jonathan Hickman in Entertainment Insider wrote in his
review of X, Y that “Gender
is more than physical attributes; you have to believe it too.
“One day Frankie is a
topless dancer and the next she is a man, at least, she thinks so; the problem
is her boyfriend isn't so sure. "X,Y" is the odd story of what might
really happen if one loses one's sexual identity. It succeeds early on and
concludes smartly. It is the kind of gender bender that bravely explores the
dark side of a "Freaky Friday" adult style.
“Frankie (Melissa
Murphy) is a stripper in a sleazy club. She is a smooth attraction and pretty
confident shaking what Mother Nature has given her on stage. One night she is
startled by a loud siren and collapses while doing a show. She is taken home by
her trusting boyfriend, Terry (Jamie Harrold), who believes she has had too much
to drink. At the same time Frankie collapses a male audience member falls
unconscious as well. Unknown to Terry and club management, this occurrence is
not an isolated coincidence.
“"X,Y" is
not a film for everyone. In fact, a word of caution should be issued to viewers:
this is a film that tells a very dark
story about identity and dominion with blood, sex, and piercings.
The body-switching genre made its resurgence last year with a wholesome remake
of "Freaky Friday." As far as 1980s acting divas go, I still have
great affection from afar for the shapely acting talents of Jamie Lee Curtis and
the "Friday" remake was very nice. "X,Y," however, is the
kind of body switch film that this current tattooed, pierced generation could
really warm to. “
WEDNESDAY, December 22
NewFilmmakers Tells The Truth.
6:00 NEWFILMMAKERS DOCS MOCKS & MORE PROGRAM
A new series at NewFilmmakers that explores the real and
imaginable world.
Allen Gunnison BUSHWHACKED (2003, 20 minutes, video)
The Time is 2024 and Jenna Bush is President, a million
people have died in Iraq. Don’t
say we didn’t warn you.
Michelangelo ALCHEMIST (2004, 25 minutes, video)
The Time is Today and things aren’t that not that much
better.
7:00 NEWFILMMAKERS SHORT FILM PROGRAM
Gabriele Zampanini XXI CENTURY (2003, 56 minutes, video)
A
real independent documentary film by Gabriele Zamparini & Lorenzo Meccoli
featuring: Noam Chomsky, Gore Vidal, Howard Zinn, Arno Mayer, Amnesty
International, Human Rights Watch, Scott Ritter, Susan Sarandon, September
Eleventh Families for Peaceful Tomorrows, Nelson Mandela, Jesse Jackson, Desmond
Tutu, The Nation, Ramsey Clark, Danny Glover, Angela Davis, Jessica Lange, Greg
Palast, Ossie Davis, American Civil Liberties Union, Indymedia, Al Sharpton,
Pete Seeger, Harry Belafonte, Democracy Now!, Veterans for Peace, United for
Peace and Justice, FAIR, Pacifica Foundation, International Physicians for the
Prevention of Nuclear War, MediaChannel, Not in Our Name, International ANSWER
and many other voices of dissent.
There
are years when nothing happens and then days that change the course of History.
From September 2002 to May 2003 we met with intellectuals, journalists,
university professors, writers, historians, political analysts, international
observers, human rights organizations, civil rights fighters, religious leaders,
peace and anti war activists, asking questions to understand these years in
which we are living and try to put together the many pieces of a complicated
puzzle. The picture that comes alive is – to paraphrase James Baldwin –
“longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything
anyone has ever said about it”.
2000
Presidential Elections and September 11, 2001. Afghanistan, Iraq, terrorism and
weapons of mass destruction. The first Gulf War and the UN sanctions against
Iraq. Saddam Hussein and the inspections. The axis of evil, the coalition of the
willing and collateral damages. News, media, concentrations of power and
censorship. The Middle East and the old and new colonialism. The Constitution,
the Bill of Rights, civil liberties and human rights. United Nations,
International Criminal Court and the Old Europe. War, peace and patriotism. The
anti war movement, oil, blood and the voices of dissent. Is it possible to find
interconnecting links?
8:00 NEWFILMMAKERS FEATURE PRESENTATION
Gary Null FATAL FALLOUT
(2003, 90 minutes, video)
Fatal Fallout" is
a documentary feature film that examines the potentially catastrophic
consequences of a meltdown from a mechanical failure or terrorist attack at
nuclear power plants located near major cities - such as New York, Los Angeles
and Boston. Experts have stated that a meltdown or major radioactive release at
such plants could result in chronic radiation sickness, cancer, or death for
tens if not hundreds of thousands of the regions' citizens, and render much of
these metropolitan areas permanently uninhabitable.
Equally compelling, the
film brings to light the dangers that low-level radiation emissions from the
currently 103 operating nuclear power plants across the country pose to the
health of people every day, given that populations living near nuclear reactors
exhibit higher rates of breast and thyroid cancers, childhood leukemia, lower
birth weights and higher infant mortality. Additionally, the documentary offers
a hopeful vision for the future in its overview of safe energy alternatives,
such as solar and wind, making "Fatal Fallout" not just a film, but a
public health project.
“The Fatal Fallout
Project" is a program that is screening in theaters in New York and
Boston--two cities located within fifty miles of nuclear power plants. Following
the screening, there will be a question and answer with the filmmaker.
Communication is the purpose, the film exhibition program the vehicle, for
raising public awareness of this vital public health issue.
WEDNESDAY, December 29
NewFilmmakers is closed for the Holiday.