WEDNESDAY, January 4th 2006  

6:00 NEWFILMMAKERS DOCS, MOCKS & MORE 

Doc Slam! If you have a Documentary or Mockumentary and Something In Between, then submit it to us.  We will try to screen it.   For an application form write us at NewFilmmakers, Post Office Box 4956, New York, NY 10185 or download one at  www.NewFilmmakers.com/submit/submit.html.   

7:00 NEWFILMMAKERS SHORT FILM PROGRAM 

Frankie Thomas Double Negative (2005, 15 min, Video)
Louise Bylicki 240 Monroe (2004, 16 min, Video)
Brian Lonano Brobot  (2005, 30 min, Video) 

8:00 NEWFILMMAKERS FEATURE PRESENTATION

Mark Waren Dancing Lessons (2004, 80 min, Video)

DANCING LESSONS tells the fascinating story of young, Jewish dancer, Sadie Rigal, who survived the Final Solution 'hidden in the spotlight' of a famous Parisian cabaret. Called 'the best dancer in Paris' she worked with the French Resistance and rescued both Jews and others in danger from certain death. Using interviews, never-before-seen archival film and animated stills, the film tells a moving story of one passionate life in Occupied Paris.  The film has been selected for the Jewish Heritage Festival for the Brooklyn Public Library on May 11, 2006.

 

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 11th 2006 

6:00 NEWFILMMAKERS DOCS, MOCKS & MORE  

Adventures in Videoblogging.

Ryanne Hodson and Jay Dedman of Node101 : NYC, New York's first media center for teaching the personal media revolution through videoblogging, present a bi-monthly screening of videoblogs from around the world.  

7:00 NEWFILMMAKERS SPECIAL EVENT

Black Documentary Collective Reception 

8:00 NEWFILMMAKERS FEATURE PRESENTATION

The Black Documentary Collective (BDC), founded by acclaimed documentarian St. Clair Bourne, is one of America's premier organizations dedicated to documentary films and videos made by filmmakers of African descent.  The BDC provides members working in the documentary film and video field with the opportunity to network professionally; promote each others' work, exchange ideas in order to generate productions and advocate on issues impacting Black documentarians.  

Membership range from seasoned documentarians such as the 2002 MacARTHUR FELLOW Stanley Nelson and IDA Career Achievement Award recipient, William Greaves, to those embarking on their first documentary film.  Film topics span the globe as does the heritage of membership. Members' films have appeared on European, American and African broadcast networks, and have been shown at festivals around the world including Sundance, Berlin, FESPACO Festival do Rio, Toronto and IDFA.

More Information at www.bdcny.net        

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 18TH 2006  

6:00 NEWFILMMAKERS DOCS, MOCKS & MORE

Doc Slam! If you have a Documentary or Mockumentary and Something In Between, then submit it to us.  We will try to screen it.   For an application form write us at NewFilmmakers, Post Office Box 4956, New York, NY 10185 or download one at  www.NewFilmmakers.com/submit/submit.html. 

7:00 NEWFILMMAKERS SHORT FILM PROGRAM

Gayle Kirschenbaum A Dog’s Life: A Dogamentary (2004, 52 min, Video)
Cat Tyc The Night The Whole World Caught Fire (2005, 5 min, Video)

8:00 NEWFILMMAKERS FEATURE PRESENTATION

David Gray/Katie McQuerrey Never Say Die (2004, 54 Min, Video)

Meet Joe, Danny, Tom and Scott - the four hard working members of New Jersey's Sabbra Cadabra, the World's Greatest Black Sabbath Tribute Band. NEVER SAY DIE, directed by Katie McQuerrey and David Gray, tells their story with an intelligent mix of humor and compassion.

NEVER SAY DIE begins in the summer of 1999. After eight years of live shows (over 550 performances), their fair share of local triumphs, and a less than ideal line-up shift,  Sabbra Cadabra’s future is uncertain. When Joe, their singer, demands that they play out less frequently, Tom (drums) and Danny (guitar) respond by forming Black Dog, a Led Zeppelin cover band. Joe reacts with a side project of his own: Ozmossis, an Ozzy Osbourne tribute act.

Amidst this new tension, Sabbra Cababra is invited by a well connected promoter to tour Puerto Rico.  As might be expected, heightened professional demands are complicated by a bounty of temptation. The bittersweet result is a powerful reminder that inter-personal relationships, no matter how famous one may ever become, are the heart and soul of any musical endeavor.

NEVER SAY DIE (2004) has screened at the Maryland Film Festival, The Coney Island Film Festival, and the AFI Silver Spring Theater (Washington, DC).   Ann Hornaday, of the Washington Post, writes: "an engaging non-fiction account of the longest-gigging, hardest working Black Sabbath cover band in...let's just say the history of the world. The filmmakers find rock's heart and soul where you'd least expect them to."
 

WEDNESDAY, January 25th

 6:00 NEWFILMMAKERS DOCS, MOCKS & MORE

Third World Newsreel, founded in 1967, is one of the oldest alternative media arts organizations in the United States. It is committed to the creation and appreciation of independent and social issue media by and about people of color, and the peoples of developing countries around the world.  More at www.twn.org.

8:00 NEWFILMMAKERS FEATURE PRESENTATION

John Touhey September 12th (2005, 77 mins, Video)

On September 11, 2004, a man approaches and introduces himself to a family after a private ceremony for a young woman who was killed in the terrorist attacks three years earlier. Rick and Frank, two of the family members, have contrasting ideas of what kind of person Lori, the young woman killed, was.  Frank begins his dark journey that faces him with something new, something he had never considered as the new day dawns.

The film won Best Feature, Audience Award and the Jury Prize at the 2005 Long Island Film Festival.  It also screened as an Official Selection at the 2005 FAIF International Film Festival on Hollywood Blvd in Los Angeles and screened for 800 people at an international cultural convention in Italy.
 


WEDNESDAY, February 1st  

6:00 NEWFILMMAKERS DOCS, MOCKS & MORE

Doc Slam! If you have a Documentary or Mockumentary and Something In Between, then submit it to us.  We will try to screen it.   For an application form write us at NewFilmmakers, Post Office Box 4956, New York, NY 10185 or download one at  www.NewFilmmakers.com/submit/submit.html.   

7:00 NEWFILMMAKERS SPECIAL EVENT

Dave Hollander’s Wide World of Sports and Film Reception

8:00 NEWFILMMAKERS FEATURE PRESENTATION

Dave Hollander’s Wide World of Sports and Film

Dave Hollander, the man who brought you the Arlene's Grocery Picture Show -- the revolutionary festival that shocked the film world -- and author of  52 WEEKS: Interviews with Champions! -- the critically acclaimed new sports book which is sending shudders of ecstasy throughout the publishing industry -- combines his two passions to present a unique and poignant evening of multi-media entertainment.  Just days before the omnipresence of Super Bowl XL, tonight's programs offers an intensely original look at sports -- its players, its rituals, its hype -- reflected through the humor, sarcasm, disdain, reverence, befuddlement and benign indifference of special guests, dramatic readings, short films and other surprises. 
 

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 8th 

6:00 NEWFILMMAKERS DOCS, MOCKS & MORE

Adventures in Videoblogging.

Ryanne Hodson and Jay Dedman of Node101 : NYC, New York's first media center for teaching the personal media revolution through videoblogging, present a bi-monthly screening of videoblogs from around the world.

7:00 NEWFILMMAKERS SHORT FILM PROGRAM

Kimberly Wetherell Menage A Trois  (2005, 15 min, 35mm)
Patryk Rebisz Between You & Me  (2005, 6 min, Video)
Michael Stern TODAY  (2003, 30 min, Video)

8:00 NEWFILMMAKERS FEATURE PRESENTATION

Yanna Kroyt Brandt Everyone’s Depressed (2002, 100 min, Video)

A romantic journey with a 30-something woman whose life is a mess and who finds salvation in the unlikeliest place. After years of looking, Sophia has finally gotten a job, teaching tough blue-collar college kids literature. She is terrified by the prospect, terrified by the other professors who treat her with condescension, terrified by the students who mostly ignore her. In summary, she is terrified of everything in her life.

On her first day going to work, she is locked out of her apartment, involved in a car accident, late for class and humiliated by the department chairperson. A typical day. When she does find a psychiatrist who truly wants to help her, she falls madly in love with him, an ethical nightmare? To complicate matters further, one of her students becomes infatuated with her, another ethical crisis? The other students could care less about learning the greats of literature which they see as irrelevant to their lives.

With every strike in the book against her, Sophia finally triumphs, overcomes depression and becomes her own woman in both surprising and life-affirming ways.
 

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 15th

6:00 NEWFILMMAKERS DOCS, MOCKS & MORE

Doc Slam! If you have a Documentary or Mockumentary and Something In Between, then submit it to us.  We will try to screen it.   For an application form write us at NewFilmmakers, Post Office Box 4956, New York, NY 10185 or download one at  www.NewFilmmakers.com/submit/submit.html. 

7:00 NEWFILMMAKERS SHORT FILM PROGRAM

Royston Coppenger Das Kapital: The Movie, Chapter 8 (2004, 19 min, Video) J
onathan Geffner Oxford Park (2005, 15 min, Video)
Phil Allocco The Mirror (2004, 9 min, Video)

8:00 NEWFILMMAKERS FEATURE PRESENTATION

Rocky Costanzo HALLOWED (2005, 90 Minutes, Video)

A mentally disturbed man believes he has been sent from God to take the lives of innocent people. Unlike your typical man-in-a-mask psycho, Gabriel's appearance is that of a clean cut, door-to-door religious man, dressed in a white-collared shirt, black tie and dark slacks... not your average killer.  The film has played the Baja California Film Festival.

For more information, please visit: www.hallowedmovie.com
 

WEDNESDAY, February 22nd 

6:00 NEWFILMMAKERS DOCS, MOCKS & MORE

Adventures in Videoblogging

Ryanne Hodson and Jay Dedman of Node101 :: NYC, New York's first media center for teaching the personal media revolution through videoblogging, present a bi-monthly screening of videoblogs from around the world.

7:00 NEWFILMMAKERS SHORT FILM PROGRAM

Dorothea Break Music Break (2004, 45 min, Video)
Zoje Stage Best of Luck (2003, 25 min, Video) 

8:20 NEWFILMMAKERS FEATURE PRESENTATION

Zoje Stage Bewilderness (2002, 92 min, Video)

BEWILDERNESS: In her head, Alex is the bad-ass survivor in a post-apocalyptic wasteland. In her head, she is a period-costumed drop dead gorgeous musical prodigy. In reality, Alex works at a jewelry store to pay the bills, is married to a diabetic cat, and averages 89.3 rejections a year as an unpublished writer. Something needs to change. Following September 11th, Alex rebuilds her image of herself, telling her story via the three things that affect her most: her written work, her friendships, and her overactive imagination.

The screening at Anthology Film Archives will be the premiere of this film.
 


WEDNESDAY, March 1st  

6:00 NEWFILMMAKERS DOCS, MOCKS & MORE

Doc Slam! If you have a Documentary or Mockumentary and Something In Between, then submit it to us.  We will try to screen it.   For an application form write us at NewFilmmakers, Post Office Box 4956, New York, NY 10185 or download one at  www.NewFilmmakers.com/submit/submit.html. 

7:00 NEWFILMMAKERS SHORT FILM PROGRAM

Rene Albert Shapshot of Molly & Her Man (2002, 15 min, Video)
Meredith Drum Body Without Organs  (2004, 6 min, Video)
Montgomery Knott Desafinado (2005, 10 Minutes, Video)
Theo Angell Cicatrix Blastodisc (2005, 14 Minutes, Video)
Oren Shai Heavy Soul (2005, 14 min, Video)

8:00 NEWFILMMAKERS FEATURE PRESENTATION

Yasuaki Nakajima After the Apocalypse (2004, 72 min, Video)

A futuristic fable about five survivors trying to make sense of a   New World after a devastating urban catastrophe challenges all their human needs.  A bleak, post-urban landscape in the aftermath of the Third World War. It is a strangely limited environment where a single woman and four men are forced to communicate without words as a result of the destructive gasses from the war. Their pasts were erased by the war, they must recreate their lives individually and collectively.

The film won Best Feature at the New Jersey International Film Festival 2004 and Best Sci-Feature at the Shockerfest International Film Festival 2005.  

WEDNESDAY, March 8th

6:00 NEWFILMMAKERS DOCS, MOCKS & MORE

     PREMPTED 

7:00 NEWFILMMAKERS SHORT FILM PROGRAM

     PREMPTED 

8:00 NEWFILMMAKERS FEATURE PRESENTATION

     PREMPTED

 


WEDNESDAY, March 15th 

6:00 NEWFILMMAKERS DOCS, MOCKS & MORE 

Adventures in Videoblogging

Ryanne Hodson and Jay Dedman of Node101 :: NYC, New York's first media center for teaching the personal media revolution through videoblogging, present a bi-monthly screening of videoblogs from around the world.

7:00 NEWFILMMAKERS SHORT FILM PROGRAM

Tom Barnes Pork Chop (2002, 10 min, 35mm)
Jill Morley STRIPPED (2002, 77 min, Video)
 
The documentary explores the life of strippers and the reasons behind their dancing. The usual justifications--it pays incredibly well, flexible scheduling, any woman can do it--give way to insightful and heartbreaking analysis. The more she delves, the darker this world becomes. By concentrating on a small group of her co-workers, Morley examines how stripping affects their relationships, their sexuality and their identity.

STRIPPED was recently optioned to be made into a feature film and play the Santa Barbara International Film Festival.

8:30 NEWFILMMAKERS FEATURE PRESENTATION

CINEKINK SHORTS / Early Submission Party 

Hot shorts from festivals past and an early submission opportunity from CineKink NYC, "the really alternative film festival."  Scheduled for October 2006 in NYC, with a national screening tour to follow, CineKink NYC features works that celebrate and explore a range of alternative sexuality  

WEDNESDAY, March 22nd 

6:00 NEWFILMMAKERS DOCS, MOCKS & MORE

Doc Slam! If you have a Documentary or Mockumentary and Something In Between, then submit it to us.  We will try to screen it.   For an application form write us at NewFilmmakers, Post Office Box 4956, New York, NY 10185 or download one at  www.NewFilmmakers.com/submit/submit.html. 

7:00 NEWFILMMAKERS SHORT FILM PROGRAM

NALIP Reception

8:00 NEWFILMMAKERS FEATURE PRESENTATION

The National Association of Latino Independent Producers (NALIP) is a national membership organization that addresses the professional needs of Latino/Latina independent producers.

Since its founding in 1999, NALIP has held national conferences that bring its members in direct contact with the industry’s power players and gate-keepers, developed local chapters in eight cities, plus hosted many regional workshops and networking events that develop the professional skills of film, television, documentary and new media makers.

NALIP's mission is to promote the advancement, development and funding of Latino/Latina film and media arts in all genres.  NALIP is the only national organization committed to supporting both grassroots and community-based producers/media makers along with publicly funded and industry-based producers.

In 2003, NALIP launched three national initiatives: the Latino Writer's Lab, Latino Producers Academy™ and the published/on-line Latino Media Resource Guide™. NALIP also curates the ground-breaking NewLatino Filmmakers screening showcase in New York City in collaboration with the NewFilmmakers series.

More information about NEWLATINO FILMMAKERS SERIES (NALIP NY) - www.nalip.org/newyork

 

WEDNESDAY, March 29th

6:00 NEWFILMMAKERS DOCS, MOCKS & MORE

Adventures in Videoblogging

Ryanne Hodson and Jay Dedman of Node101 :: NYC, New York's first media center for teaching the personal media revolution through videoblogging, present a bi-monthly screening of videoblogs from around the world.

7:00 NEWFILMMAKERS SHORT FILM PROGRAM

Louis Grenier Various Short Films (2005, 20 mins, Video)
Rebecca Orlowicz Kisses Sweeter Than Wine (2005, 10 mins, Video)
Marie Cote Bench Warmers  (2005. 9 mins, Video)

8:00 NEWFILMMAKERS FEATURE PRESENTATION

John Gigante CUGINI (2005, 90 min, Video)

BURT YOUNG, "Paulie" of ROCKY movies fame and MOLLY PRICE, TV's THIRD WATCH, round out a fabulous ensemble cast in which newcomer JOHN GIGANTE is "Rick Cugini", A neighborhood Brooklyn guy that made good, very good and who comes back to a  world that has become for him, a distant memory. Rick, raised by his grandfather, and shaped by his love of movies, is now a successful filmmaker in his own right.  Now living in Los Angeles and disillusioned with Hollywood, heads back to Brooklyn when informed that his high school English teacher/mentor has died. Rick returns to the old neighborhood after five years to attend the memorial.

Staying back at his Grandfathers home, Rick's life is altered forever as 'POP' drops the bombshell and tells him that he has a 5-year-old son he never knew about! Locking horns with RACHEL (the boys mother), he realizes a certain 'flame' for her has not been extinguished. On top of all this, the movie theater that he grew up watching 'Mary Poppins and Rocky for chrissakes,' is now closed! Unbelievingly, he sets out to find who owns 'the joint' with an offer to buy and renovate it to its glory days. Great idea it would seem, until he finds out......it's owned by the local Mafioso......or are they??

 

Our Spring 2006 Schedule