FALL 2008
* NewFilmmaker Alumni
NewFilmmakers Starts Its Fall Season With A Night Of Celebrity Comedy.
6:00PM NEWFILMMAKERS EARLY SHORT PROGRAM
Andrew Wall THE LONG WOODEN TOBOGGANIST (2008, 4 Minutes, 16MM)
Patrick McCabe* SWAMP LOVE (2008, 9 Minutes, Video)
Robbie Barclay THE BEASY WITHIN (2008, 19 Minutes, 16MM)
Ron Lehmann JAKOB AND THE ANGELS (2007, 13 Minutes, 16MM)
F. S. Frushtick PATH (2008, 18 Minutes Video)
7:15PM NEWFILMMAKERS SHORT FILM PROGRAM
Adrian Carter SIR FRANCIS DRAKE, THE QUEEN’S PIRATE (2008, 7 Minutes, Video)
Andrew Hunt THE ACCIDENTAL ACTIVIST (2006, 15 Minutes, Video)
John Liang THE SCHEDULE (2007, 16 Minutes, 16MM)
Matt Maisano EN ROUTE (2008, 20 Minutes, Video)
Sharon Mooney AUTOMATIC (2008, 30 Minutes, Video)
9:00PM NEWFILMMAKERS FEATURE PRESENTATION
Jon Jorgensen JIMMY & THE DOUBLE BARREL (2008, 23 Minutes, Video)
John DeBellis THE LAST REQUEST (2006, 90 Minutes, Video)
The Lord moves in mysterious ways. Jeff has problems: his father is dying and wants either Jeff or Jeff's playboy brother Tom to sire a child before death's triumph; Jeff's mother constantly puts him down; he has strange dreams; and, he's a shy seminarian whose vocation is shaky. When it becomes impossible for Tom to fulfill dad's last request, Jeff leaves the seminary, gets a job as a drama coach at a home for aged actors, and sets about to please his father. He goes to bars to pick up women, seeks the help of an unconventional therapist, places an ad in the personals - and makes no progress. Meanwhile, he jokes around with a sweet co-worker named Cathy. Stars T.R. Knight, Danny Aiello, Mario Cantone, Frank Vincent, Sabrina Lloyd, Joe Piscopo, Vincent Pastore, Tony Lo Bianco, Barbara Feldon, Mary Birdsong and Gilbert
Gottfried.
NewFilmmakers Celebrates Coming Of Age And Thanks God That It’s Over.
6:00PM NEWFILMMAKERS COMING OF AGE SHORT PROGRAM
Greg Stees SAM & BEN: A LOVE STORY (2007, 5 Minutes, Video)
Adam Budd THE WHOLE DAY THROUGH (2007, 10 Minutes, 35MM)
Jonathan Weirich* YOU OR ME (2008, 10 Minutes, Video)
Brent Willis THE PHYSICS OF FATHERS (2007, 15 Minutes, 16MM)
J. R. Dziengel* THE SPECIAL #2 (2008, 15 Minutes, Video)
Peter Matsoukas TRIANGLE (2008, 16 Minutes, Video)
7:20PM NEWFILMMAKERS CRIME SHORT FILM PROGRAM
Ashton Reese Trujillo CRIME (2008, 7 Minutes, Video)
Claire Tam PETTY THEFT (2008, 14 Minutes, Video)
Joseph Christiana* THE KNEE (2008, 29 Minutes, Video)
Chandler Simms PAGING DR SMITH (2008, 8 Minutes, Video)
8:30PM NEWFILMMAKERS FEATURE PRESENTATION
Deco Dawson THE LAST MOMENT (2007, 29 Minutes, Video)
THE LAST MOMENT chronicles the final moments of a man's life as told through five styles of film history, Film Noir, Dogme 95, late-era Hitchcock, New American Indie, and New Wave.
Phil Bertelsen ROCK THE PAINT (2005, 90 Minutes, Video)
A coming-of-age story ignites when teenager Josh Sendler has to pack up his hoop dreams and move from the lush cornfields of Indiana to the harsh inner-city playgrounds of Newark, N. J.. He meets and befriends basketball phenom, Antwon Jackson, on the local court and together they make a run for the high school state championship. Their friendship is tested along the way and ultimately must prove itself when faced with the real world.
NewFilmmakers Celebrates New York.
6:00PM NEWFILMMAKERS EARLY SHORT FILM PROGRAM
Ryan Sartor AN ACCIDENT 2007, 6 Minutes, 16MM)
Kyle Griffith, Louis Lazaris & Marilea Isernia WHEREVER YOU GO, THAT’S WHERE YOU’LL BE (2008, 10 Minutes, 16MM)
Kosuke Furukawa GETAP! (2007, 15 Minutes, Video)
Mensher Brothers* HE’S MY DAD (2008, 30 Minutes, Video)
7:15PM NEWFILMMAKERS SHORT FILM PROGRAM
Jeremy Berger THE VAN (2008, 6 Minutes, Video)
J. P. Lange SOMETHING LEFT (2008, 19 Minutes, Video)
Sebastian Pardo OCTOBER 19, 2007 - OCTOBER 22, 2007 (2007, 17 Minutes,
16MM)
Douglas Hosdale WALKING SHADOW (2007, 20 Minutes, 16MM)
8:30PM NEWFILMMAKERS FEATURE PRESENTATION
Max Sturm & Joseph Alessi DOCTOR ERICH KASTNER’S LYRICAL MEDICINE CHEST (2008, 16 Minutes, Video)
Three Stories reflecting on love and loss are connected through an autobus traveling from city to country.
David Spaltro AROUND (2008, 104 Minutes, Video)
“…AROUND" is a film about “finding home”
and a real love-letter to the city of New York. Doyle Simms (Robert W.
Evans) grows up across the Hudson from NYC and flees his toxic family
to attend a film program there. After a bumpy first year he returns
more determined than ever to become a storyteller and figure out his
place. Financial setbacks force Doyle to find creative
“rent-controlled living” and begin a dual life living out of Penn
Station while going to school. We follow Doyle over his college years
as he begins to build relationships with several colorful characters
such as Saul, a homeless book dealer who shows him the ropes and his
own brand of street philosophy, and Allyson, a beautiful, struggling
actress he carefully begins to pursue and fall for. Doyle begins to
find a weird balance and begin to build a home, but the pressure of
maintaining his worlds begins to crack the façade and he’s
forced to confront his past family demons and reconcile the person he
wants to be with the person he is.
NewFilmmakers Screens New Films By Our Celebrated Alumni Roee Rosen And Adrian
Belic.
6:00PM NEWFILMMAKERS DOCUMENTARY PROGRAM
Peter Sanders THE DISAPPEARED (2007, 88 Minutes, Video)
THE DISAPPEARED discusses the military dictatorship that ruled Argentina between 1976 and 1983. From the perspective of a young man kidnapped in his infancy by a member of the armed forces, the conflict between social justice and political repression takes on a deeply human shape.
7:40PM NEWFILMMAKERS SPECIAL PROGRAM
Roee Rosen* THE CONFESSIONS OF ROEE ROSEN (2008, 60 Minutes, Video)
In his 60 minutes long video, Roee Rosen declares that now, that he is about to die, he disavows a career replete with lies, scandals, and fake identities, and confess, thus joining the tradition that leads from St. Augustine to American TV.
9:00PM NEWFILMMAKERS FEATURE PRESENTATION
Adrian Belic* BEYOND THE CALL (2006, 82 Minutes, Video)
Ed, Jim and Walt are not your average weekend warriors. Ordinary, inconspicuous Americans with wives, careers and hobbies, these three friends realize their deepest passion in life through self-financed humanitarian missions to war zones around the globe. In
Beyond the Call, documentary filmmaker Adrian Belic (Academy Award nominated Genghis Blues, 1999) tracks these self-styled knights in shining armor—the trio met as members of the self-styled service organization Knights of Malta—from Afghanistan and Tajikistan to Burma and the Philippines as they risk life and death to hand over cash, food, clothing and medical supplies to desperate refugees. Indifferent to politics or religion and frustrated with bureaucracies that more often than not obstruct the flow of international aid, these intrepid do-gooders embark on their privately funded missions simply because they can.
On the home front, the organization of three known as Knightsbridge International
receives up to 500 emails a day requesting help. Ed, a former mortgage banker, Walt, a rural electrical contractor, and Jim, a cardiologist, each brings his own area of expertise to the group, pooling its resources to collect donated goods and hand-deliver them overseas. Whether installing a solar-powered oven at a girls' school in Afghanistan or delivering a million dollars worth of medicine to a refugee camp in Manila the far southern Philippines, the winsome subjects of Beyond the Call demonstrate time and again how altruism makes the world go round.
Screened at over 100 film festivals on five continents, Winner of 38 Awards including Grand Jury Prizes and Audience Awards.
curated by
Matthew Broomfield
NewFilmmakers Celebrates Halloween in big way. Alive! Undead! On the screen and in the audience, death defying sideshow stunts, scary clowns, zombies and black magicians.
The Grotesque, the strange, odd and Macabre! See needles skewered through a man's flesh, amazing stunts and feats of strength with swords, nails and spikes.
The Undead are among you! Or at least more than at our usual screenings,
6:00PM NEWFILMMAKERS EARLY SHOW
Patrick Kalyn ESCAMOTAGE (2008, 30 Minutes, Video)
On a beautiful South Pacific island, crime washed the innocence from this once tranquil gem. A forgotten tourist destination, no one is safe on this lawless rock. One man, buried deep in its criminal underworld sees the light through the woman of his dreams. In a bid to leave the island together and start a new life, they secretly meet to plan their future. Those dreams are quickly shattered when the cities' Kingpin is informed of his daughter’s escapades. Now a marked man, he must put their escape plan into action and make it out in one piece. A must-see crime film.
Joshua von Brown ALTAMONT NOW (2008, 80 Minutes, Video)
Welcome to the Indie Rockalypse. In the middle of the California desert… From deep inside an abandoned nuclear missile silo… On the 30th anniversary of the Rolling Stones’ disastrous concert at Altamont… Indie rock legend Richard Havoc puts out The Call to the youth of America. But when his headquarters
is infiltrated by a mysteriously square journalist, Havoc subjects the interloper to an endless parade of “Alternative Nation” posturing – all while trapped 15 stories underground. Self-indulgent pirate TV broadcasts, painfully lame interpersonal arguments, and angsty whining about “The Man” all lead to a completely unnecessary use of firearms.
Music by Enduro, Ex Models, The Crack Pipes, Awesome Color, X27,
Finally Punk, Big Bear and more.
8:15PMNEWFILMMAKERS LIVE SHOW AND SCREENING
Matthew Broomfield UNHOLY SIDESHOW (2008, 70 Minutes, Video)
A family of Serial Killer black magician sideshow freaks known as The Unholy Sideshow, are called upon by The Order of Mystery, a secret society of Wizards, Sideshow Masters and Vampires, to prevent the coming of the dead.
Unholy Sideshow (the movie) is a modern epic of the apocalypse. The beginning of a series. The Unholy Sideshow must perform a ritual sacrifice to appease the Ancient Ones and earn their right to join the
ranks of The Masters of Mystery. If the ritual is not set in motion, if This family of magical killers is not up to the task the gates of the abyss will cover the earth in darkness.
NewFilmmakers Presents Women Filmmakers’ Night.
6:00PM NEWFILMMAKERS WOMEN BEHIND THE LENS
Curated by Victoria Kereszi
Emily DeGruchy FRENCH LADIES (2006, 1 Minute, Video)
Abigail Feldman THE YEAR OF THE CORRESPONDENT (2004, 10 Minutes,
Video)
Vanessa Wood & Sarah Friedland BREATH ON THE MIRROR (2008, 1 Minute, Video)
Oriana Fox OUR BODIES, OURSELVES (2003, 2 Minutes, Video)
Victoria Kereszi FADED GLAMOUR (2008, 5 Minutes, Video)
Lili Whit* PROVIDING NOURISHMENT (1996, 3 Minutes, Video)
Vanessa White FIVE CENTS A PEEK (2007, 7 Minutes, Video)
Caroline Koebel HOLE OR SPACE (2006, 3 Minutes, Video)
Sophie Peer TURNED ON (2006, 6 Minutes, Video)
Oriana Fox TALE OF NARCISSUS (2003, 5 Minutes, Video)
Penny Lane & Jessica Bardsley THE WREN (2008, 4 Minutes, Video)
Hilda Daniel NATURE NATURE (2005, 2 Minutes, Video)
7:00PM NEWFILMMAKERS DOCUMENTARY FILM PROGRAM
Ami Z. Cuneo KING OF THE ROAD (2007, 95 Minutes, Video)
Eager to show America the reality of truckers’ lives, the owner of a long-haul trucking company forces five of his drivers to star in a home-grown reality TV show. But as the truckers compete to win the $200,000 grand prize big-rig, their unscripted, surprising personalities get in the way, threatening to unravel the owner’s neat perception of truckers, and ultimately, questioning the role of reality television in America.
8:45PM NEWFILMMAKERS FEATURE PRESENTATION
Helena Maria Amorosa THE AMERICAN WAY (2008, 82 Minutes, Video
An amazing fresh ghetto movie, shot in New York City, that will rock your world... with original independent hip -hop music... a contradiction, between the war on the N.Y streets and the war in the Middle East
NewFilmmakers Celebrates the Siberia Bar And The People Who Drank There.
6:00PM NEWFILMMAKERS EARLY SHORT PROGRAM
Jouri Smit THE BROTHERS KOWALSKI (2008, 8 Minutes, Video)
Eric Siegelstein LOWENSTEIN’S A TERRORIST (2008, 15 Minutes, Video)
Dennis Genovese ZIGGY ON THE RUN (2008, 30 Minutes, Video)
7:10PM NEWFILMMAKERS SHORT FILM PROGRAM
David Humphreys BROKEN NIGHT (2008, 10 Minutes, 16MM)
Dorian Stone A SUBWAY ODYSSEY (2007, 13 Minutes, 8MM / Video)
Andrew Gori THE ESCAPISTS (2008, 33 Minutes, Video)
8:30PM NEWFILMMAKERS FEATURE PRESENTATION
Thurston Smith SALVATION FOR SIBERIA (2001, 10 Minutes, Video)
Jack Bryan LIFE AFTER DARK: THE STORY OF SIBERIA BAR (2008, 84 Minutes, Video)
In its prime, the Hell’s Kitchen bar Siberia acted as the last stronghold of classic New York Bohemia. It was home to a myriad of characters from players in the media to hipsters, gangsters, and society darlings. From it’s inception to closing, the bar, its owner, and its patrons fought for the bar’s survival in an increasingly gentrified New York. This is their story. The documentary follows Siberia from its start, originating in a subway station on Fiftieth Street. The owner Tracy Westmoreland, as much a character as the bar itself, leads his cohorts of misfits through a series of long shot scams and wild parties, to one of the wildest and eventually most criminal experiences in New York nightlife history.
NewFilmmakers Celebrates Black Filmmakers and Actors.
6:00PM NEWFILMMAKERS DOCUMENTARY SERIES
Sarah Frank IN BED WITH A MOSQUITO (2008, 18 Minutes, Video)
a portrait of aging and activism in New York
Danny Mendoza DARFUR (2008, 78 Minutes, Video)
In an effort to provide relevant, clear information on the devastating
situation in Darfur and empower concerned individuals to act
effectively to end the on-going genocide, twenty-year-old feature film
director Danny Mendoza has assembled a team of volunteers to launch
and run a multi-faceted campaign for activism and social justice. The
independently financed documentary, "Familiar Voices" is at
the heart of a multi-media campaign that aims to empower its audience
so that they may engage in effective social and political action.
This galvanizing film is built on the contributions of activists,
experts, and concerned citizens from a wide variety of backgrounds,
including: actress and UNICEF ambassador Mia Farrow; professor and
Sudan activist Eric Reeves; Nobel Peace Prize winners Jody Williams
and Elie Wiesel; Senator Romeo Dallaire of Canada; RFK Humanitarian
Award recipient Dr. Mohammad Ahmed Abdallah; Congressman Jim McGovern;
interfaith activist Ruth Messinger; and a variety of individuals whose
first-hand experience offer a clear and moving portrait of the crisis.
8:00PM FIRST NEWFILMMAKERS FEATURE PRESENTATION
James Richards, Stacey Holman, Cinque Northern, Ed DuRanté, Rod Gailes, Caran Hartsfield 6 THINGS I NEVER TOLD YOU (2008, 98 Minutes, Video)
6 Black Filmmakers, 6 Challenges 6 Stories about Intimacy, 6 Couples at very different stages in their lives, 6 Secrets yet to be
revealed, and one baby shoe. 6 THINGS I NEVER TOLD YOU is 6 snapshots in the contemporary lives of African America. Each story reveals an angle on relationships, and as these stories combine they showcase a sexy, surprising and sometimes saddening medley of our lives, of our fantasies and of our realities. But at the end, what is often unsaid gets spoken, and all must deal with the result.
10:00PM SECOND NEWFILMMAKERS FEATURE PRESENTATION
Cindy Birch REDEEMED (2008, 7 Minutes, Video)
Heather Murphy SIRI OKO FO (2008, 11 Minutes, 35MM)
Damele Elliott Collier HIDDEN (2008, 30 Minutes, Video
Lisa Ebersole BROTHER (2007, 71 Minutes, Video)
At 4AM in Brooklyn, Jamie celebrates her birthday with her estranged
sister Margeaux and a handsome black stranger, Carl. When her
husband, Kevin, arrives home without warning, the party spirals out of
control.
NewFilmmakers Presents Its Annual Thanksgiving Program (For People Who
Hate The Holiday).
6:00PM NEWFILMMAKERS JEWISH DOCUMENTARY SERIES
Tova Beck-Friedman DON’T ASK (2008, 3 Minutes, Video)
An experimental documentary on language and identity.
Zsuzsanna Geller-Varga SYNAGOGUE FOR SALE (2007, 48 Minutes, Video)
The documentary Synagogue For Sale shines a critical light on Hungary’s recent history through the fate of a 150-year old building.
Dmitriy Khavin ODESSA MOTIVES (2008, 26 Minutes, Video)
An exploration of unique city of Odessa, Ukraine through encounters with its current residents. A butcher from the famous Privoz marketplace, a historian, librarians, holocaust survivors, an art collector, a poet, a musician and school kids
talk about their life in this city.
7:30PM NEWFILMMAKERS SHORT FILM PROGRAM
Matt Black SOFT SKELETON (2008, 6 Minutes, Video)
Jeremy Moss OUT OF THE HOLES OF THE ROCKS (2008, 11 Minutes, Video)
Eric Maryea COUNTING WAVES (2007, 13 Minutes, Video)
Lucio Castro HONEY WE SHOULDN’T BE HERE (2008, 12 Minutes, Video)
Lev Gorn / Gabe Fazio JOE MOVER (2008, 15 Minutes, Video)
8:45PM NEWFILMMAKERS FEATURE PRESENTATION
Leigh Rathner REGULAR GUY (2008, 35 Minutes, Video)
A dark comedy about a lonely New York bachelor who begrudgingly visits a proctologist, whose bedside manner is less than compassionate. Rather than use the doctor's visit to wake himself to reality, Bill launches into a frenzy of escapist behavior.
Tate Taylor PRETTY UGLY PEOPLE (2008, 99 Minutes, 35MM)
After getting gastric-bypass surgery and losing all her excess weight, Lucy (Missi Pyle) tricks her college friends into gathering together again, so she can finally 'feel like one of them.' However she soon learns that life isn't always greener on the other side of obesity.
NewFilmmakers Presents Its Annual Thanksgiving Program (For People Who
Love The Holiday).
6:00PM NEWFILMMAKERS ANIMATION FESTIVAL
Klaus Fromherz WASTE YOUR YOUTH (2005, 3 Minutes, 35MM)
Miryam Welbourne THE THINGS SHE WOULD TELL ME (2008, 2 Minutes, Video)
JiHyun Ahn & Adel Kerpely FEAST (2008. 3 Minutes, Video)
Rebecca Whipple STEVE MARTIN ON THE LOOSE (2008, 4 Minutes, Video)
Ashley Gerst THE CUPCAKE PRINCE (2007, 3 Minutes, Video)
Michael Ramsey THE CAVE (2007, 3 Minutes, Video)
Andrew Marshel GALLERY GIRL (2008, 5 Minutes, Video)
Paul Dalio HEARTLESS (2008, 8 Minutes, Video)
Katie Jones THE LIGHTHOUSE KEEPERS (2008, 6 Minutes, Video)
Anthony Rhoads WITHOUT YOUR PERMISSION (2008, 9 Minutes, Video)
Adam Brown STARSEARCHER (2008, 10 Minutes, Video)
7:15PM NEWFILMMAKERS SHORT FILM PROGRAM
Justin Owensby THE VAULT (2007, 4 Minutes, 16MM)
Michael Okum* FEATHERS (2007, 6 Minutes, Video)
Joseph Pettinati GRAW (2007, 10 Minutes, 16MM)
Christopher Toppino SELLING A White Dress (2007, 10 Minutes, 16MM)
Eli Hershko SHINER (2007, 20 Minutes, Video)
Jason Hall CALENDAR GIRL (2007, 20 Minutes, Video)
8:30PM NEWFILMMAKERS FEATURE PRESENTATION
Keith Ray Putman* DOUBLE (2008, 17 Minutes, Video)
Evan Meszaros WINDCROFT (2007, 98 Minutes)
On a remote farm in the sweeping hills of Pennsylvania, three lives are torn apart by love, abandonment, deception and murder. After the death of his father, John and his new wife, Diane, claim the estate. But, his father bequeathed to him more than just the family farm, and as John’s past catches up with him, he is forced to face a heritage of madness and violence. With John’s attention becoming increasingly distant and more focused on the farm, Diane finds friendship with his childhood sweetheart,
Mindy. Soon old feelings are rekindled, family ties are tightened to a noose, and Mindy’s own secrets crack the very foundation of house and home.
NewFilmmakers Celebrates Creative People.
6:00PM NEWFILMMAKERS SPECIAL PROGRAM
Digital Film Academy, a leading digital film school
in New York City, is pleased to announce the screening of several short
student films:
Miguel Coias THE OTHER ONE (2008, 13 Minutes,
Video)
Mari Kawade VANISHING POINT (2008, 12 Minutes, Video)
John Martonik THE UNKNOWN (2008, 10 Minutes, Video)
Marc
Resnick THE THREE AND A HALF YEAR ITCH (2008, 11 Minutes, Video
7:00PM NEWFILMMAKERS SHORT FILM PROGRAM
About Artists
Jose Casado SUSPENDED ANIMATION (2007, 6 Minutes, Video)
Rainer Judd REMEMBER BACK, REMEMBER WHEN (2008, 10 Minutes, 16MM)
Pragadeesh Ram DEFEATING THE ODDS (2008, 9 Minutes, 35MM)
Trevor Cunnion THE ARTIST (2008, 9 Minutes, Video)
Ben Grayson THE ADMISSION (2008, 11 Minutes, Video)
Byron Karabatsos STILL BIRTH CHICKEN (2007, 12 Minutes, 16MM)
8:15PM NEWFILMMAKERS SHORT FILM PROGRAM
About Television & Film
Sean Grant LES FRAMBOISES (2007, 4 Minutes, Video)
Ryan Gielen DELETED SCENES (2007, 23 Minutes, Video)
Paul Briganti THE EDITOR (2007, 14 Minutes, Video)
Todd Goings* THE RED STICKES (2008,12 Minutes, Video)
Tyler Savage THE THING IS (2008, 29 Minutes, Video)
9:45PM NEWFILMMAKERS FEATURE PRESENTATION
About Actors
Jace Mclean SONS OF LIBERTY (2008, 84 Minutes, Video)
After his fiancee of four years leaves, Brogan, a struggling actor, moves in with his stoner best friend, Tristan. Along with Linus, a nebbish office drone, in love with the wife of a Marine stationed in Afghanistan. When the Marine returns, these three somewhat clueless 20-somethings, are sent stumbling towards a second-coming of-age.
NewFilmmakers Celebrates The American Family And The Psychic Damage It Causes.
6:00PM NEWFILMMAKERS STUDENT FILM SERIES
Jerome Williams YOUR LOGO (2007, 2 Minutes, Video)
Eli Shapiro THE DEALER (2007, 46 Minutes, Video)
Fernando Cordero HUSH (2008, 17 Minutes, Video)
7:15PM NEWFILMMAKERS SHORT FILM PROGRAM
About Old People
Jules Hulburd A LONELY AID (2007, 6 Minutes, 16MM)
John Lynn REALLY CLOSE GOODBYE FOREVER (2005, 19 Minutes, Video)
Stephen Jobes A MATCH IN THE RAIN (2008, 12 Minutes, Video)
Aaron Naar FADES WITH AGE (2008, 23 Minutes, Video)
8:30PM NEWFILMMAKERS SHORT FILM PROGRAM
About Young People
Francesca Staasch MONOCHROME (2007, 11 Minutes, 35MM)
Swati Kapila THE UNDERTAKER (2007, 15 Minutes, 16MM)
Anastacia Junqueira TIDE POOL (2008, 5 Minutes, 16MM)
9:15PM NEWFILMMAKERS FEATURE PRESENTATION
Davide Luciano MILK (2007, 7 Minutes, Video)
Ray Soltani THE CAPITALIST (2007, 85 Minutes, Video)
James Stein works for The International Advisory
Board; a conglomerate put together by The United Nations and The World
Bank in order to investigate corrupt contracts in Iraq. With his love
life taking a turn for the worst and angry CEOs breathing down his
neck, James Stein turns to an unlikely source to alleviate his stress,
but when James compromises his ethics, he finds the line that
separates him from the people he was hired to expose has evaporated.
NewFilmmakers Welcomes The Third World
Newreel.
6:00PM NEWFILMMAKERS THIRD WORLD NEWSREEL
Third World Newsreel (TWN) is an alternative media arts organization that fosters the creation, appreciation and dissemination of independent film and video by and about people of color and social justice issues. It supports the innovative work of diverse forms and genres made by artists who are intimately connected to their subjects through common bonds of ethnic/cultural heritage, class position, gender, sexual orientation and political identification. TWN promotes the self-representation of traditionally marginalized groups as well as the negotiated representation of those groups by artists who work in solidarity with them. For more information, please visit
www.twn.org.
DocuClub
and Third World Newsreel (TWN) are pleased to present three
work-in-progress documentaries directed by the 2008 class of TWN's
Film and Video Production Workshop. Please join us on Tuesday,
December 16, 6PM at Anthology Film Archives for a screening of:
Lottie
Porch and Vanara Taing BEYOND
THE MUSIC (8 min)
Explores the joy and sense of community within the Inspirational Choir at
Riverside Church in New York City. Rather than concentrating on the choir's
repertoire of contemporary gospel, traditional spirituals and African
folk music, the film explores the philosophy of sharing and the pure fun
that its director, Nedra Olds-Neal has shared with her choir members
for the past 20 years. An uplifting look at people who love to sing and
care deeply about each other.
Jennifer Fasulo
and Manauvaskar Kublall PRIMETIME:
Fighting Back Against Foreclosure (22 min)
This timely film takes the viewer behind the foreclosure statistics and
into the homes and hearts of two NYC women who have been pummeled by the
foreclosure tsunami. It breaks down the complex issues
of the sub-prime mortgage industry into easy to understand language and
reveals the systematic culpability of the financial institutions. As the
US government continues to bail out the financial industry, PRIMETIME is
an urgent reminder of the on-the-ground struggles of people fighting to
keep their homes.
Nuala Cabral,
Jasial Noor and Thanushka Yakupitiyage Glitter
in the Hood: Gentrification in Brooklyn (12 min)
Brooklyn
residents, business owners and activists share diverse perspectives and
common fears about community development.
8:00PM NEWFILMMAKERS SHORT FILM PROGRAM
Jeremiah Dickey IDEATION (2007, 2 Minutes, Video)
Stephen Valand ARTHUR AND ESTHER (2007, 11 Minutes, 16MM)
Vivian Tse* PREAMBLE (2007, 11 Minutes, Video)
Jay Gammill AUGUST (2007, 16 Minutes, 35MM)
Paula Eiselt PRISCILLA (2008, 11 Minutes, 16MM)
Ron White HUMBLE PAGES (2008, 15 Minutes, Video)
9:15PM NEWFILMMAKERS FEATURE PRESENTATION
James Vasquez READY? OK! (2008, 91 Minutes, Video)
In this poignant comedy, a single Mom struggles to understand her young son's obsession with dresses, dolls and girls' cheerleading. With the recent death of her absent father, her wayward brother returns home, compelling them all to face themselves and what it truly means to be a
'family.'
One of the stars of the film, Michael Emerson, received an Emmy
nomination for Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series for his role as
Ben Linus on ABC's Lost. And Michael and writer/director James Vasquez
were interviewed by celebrity reporter George Pennacchio on ABC Los
Angeles. READY? OK! was the only Outfest film that was profiled.
Carrie Preston is a series regular on Alan Ball's new HBO show True
Blood premiering in September. And the little boy from the film, Lurie
Poston, is featured in the new Will Ferrell/John C. Riley movie STEP
BROTHERS.
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