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NewFilmmakers New York • Spring 2015
Spring Fest 2015
Wednesday / April 1st
NewFilmmakers begins its Spring Series with films featuring New York 6:00PM SHORT FILM PROGRAM Penny Whistleton IT STARTS WITH A DRINK (2014, 4 minutes, video) Daniel Feighery HEAVEN (2014, 4 minutes, video) Ali K. Guven 6 MONTHS AND 4 DAYS (2014, 5 minutes, video) Beyza Boyacioglu and Sebastian Diaz TONITA’S (2014, 21 minutes, video) 40-year-old Caribbean Sports Club has witnessed the transformation of South Williamsburg from a Hispanic neighborhood ravaged by gang violence and drugs into one of the hippest and most luxurious places in New York. As the harsh gentrification cleared the neighborhood from poverty and crime, it also washed away the majority of Puerto Rican community, thus the local identity and culture. Today, Caribbean Sports Club is the last social club in the South Side, kept alive by its owner and the community matriarch Maria Tonita. ‘Tonita’s’ is a short documentary that dives into the microcosm of Caribbean Club, in order to talk about urban space, displacement and identity. In addition, it is a love letter to the Nuyorican culture, especially the music and dance. 6:45PM WEBSERIES SHOWCASE J. Hurley R&J (2015, 10 minutes, video) This is the fourth episode of R & J (the web series): JESU, WHAT HASTE. 7:00PM FIRST FEATURE RESENTATION Benjamin Orifici DELIVERY HOUR (2015, 68 minutes, video) Anthony’s Delivery Hour usually runs like clockwork. Not tonight. His wife went into labor 20 minutes ago. His girlfriend is threatening to leave him if he doesn’t meet up. A cocaine buy goes terribly wrong. And if the Nets tank in Game 7, so will Anthony’s dream to move his family out of Red Hook Housing. *Shot in real-time in ‘One Continuous Take’, Delivery Hour is a non-stop adrenaline ride through the streets of South Brooklyn to a Manhattan hospital. 8:30PM SECOND FEATURE PRESENTATION Lawrence Krauser WENDELL AND THE LEMON (2013, 103 minutes, video) Food, found object, talisman, protest song, object of desire, stress ball, confidante, mandala, lover, self-portrait, the universe? ‘What is this lemon to me?’ wonders Wendell. He found it on the street. It is an ordinary lemon. He knows it is ordinary because that’s what he tells people. And if he forgets to tell someone, they remind him: It’s only a lemon, Wendell. It’s just a lemon. Get over it.
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Wednesday / April 8th
NewFilmmakers presents a night of Crime and Punishment 6:00PM FIRST SHORTS PROGRAM Experimental Films Taniel Kilajian CITY REFLECTIONS (2014, 3 minutes, video) Rehana Esmail LOIN DE NOUS (2014, 5 minutes, video) Jeff Huston LA CHIAVE (2014, 6 minutes, video) Kevin Kelly THE LIMITS OF MY LANGUAGE ARE THE LIMITS OF MY WORLD (2014, 10 minutes, video) Kryssa Schemmerling & Donal Gray THE WEST BEGINS AT FIFTH AVENUE (2014, 17 minutes, video) Marc Ponthus IF, THE RUINS OF NARRATIVE (2014, 19 minutes, video) 7:15PM SECOND SHORTS PROGRAM Daniel Ferry SLICE (2015, 30 minutes, video) Max Hannam THE FOOL (2014, 30 minutes, video) Aaron Murtagh WHAT YOU DON’T SEE (2014, 13 minutes, video) 8:45PM FEATURE PRESENTATION David Jesus Michael Coyle IN THE SHADOWS UNDER THE CRIMSON MOON (2015, 98 minutes, video) A characters study of certain people when the world falls in the shadows and under the crimson moon.
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NewFilmmakers New York • Spring 2015
Wednesday / April 15th
Spring Fest 2015
NewFilmmakers presents Christian Sex Nite 6:00PM FIRST SHORT FILM PROGRAM Chantal Massuh-Fox GIRLS CLUB (2014, 4 minutes, video) Lauren Muller AURA (2015, 10 minutes, video) David Steven Simon DANTE AND BEATRICE: A FAMILY FILM (2014, 20 minutes, video) Joseph Minion AIRPORT 2012 (2014, 22 minutes, video) Tristan Pope ROMANCE IN NYC (2014, 18 minutes, video) 7:30PM SECOND SHORT PRESENTATION JD Glasscock BURNING CIGARETTES (2014, 8 minutes, video) Jennifer Valdes ISABELLE (2014, 32 minutes, video) Astrid Ovalles CAMP BELVIDERE (2014, 38 minutes, video) 9:00PM FEATURE PRESENTATION Jaques Moliter MAMMEJONG (2014, 80 minutes, video) In a far-flung corner of Luxembourg, ‘Flepp’ (20) will need to sever the intense and unhealthy ties to his mother Sophie (45), in order to get close to the mysterious Leena (19).
Wednesday / April 22nd
NewFilmmakers presents an Earth Day Program 6:00PM FIRST DOCUMENTARY PROGRAM Paul Turano WANDER, WONDER, WILDERNESS (2014, 59, video) This hour long essay film chronicles the filmmaker’s engagement with green spaces in an urban environment and explores the complex notions that they reveal about human ecology. 7:15PM SECOND DOCUMENTARY SERIES Susan Caro FIGHTING LOVE (2014, 7 minutes, video) Joe Rubenstein RUSSIAN BLUE (2013, 6 minutes, video) Shehrezad Maher DIMENSIONS OF A FISH (2013, 8 minutes, video) Patrick Johnson THE GLEANER’S KITCHEN (2014, 10 minutes, video) Alice Driver MY HOMELAND (2014, 20 minutes, video) 8:15PM SPECIAL PROGRAM CHICAGOLAND SHORTS is a new short film series that highlights the incredible diversity of The Windy City and its surrounding communities. The series celebrates the vastness of the Chicagoland experience, and provide an outlet for those cinematic voices that sometimes go unheard 9:15PM FEATURE PRESENTATION Geoffray Barbier EARLY LIGHT (2014, 74 minutes, video) After spending 10 years at a Juvenile Facility, two young men with dark deeds in their past, struggle to reclaim their freedom and re-enter society, as their will is out to the test by horrific memories and a society that never forgot. all screenings at 32 Second Avenue (@ Second Street) • Anthology Film Archives
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NewFilmmakers New York • Spring 2015
Spring Fest 2015
Wednesday / April 29th
NewFilmmakers celebrates Cinco de Mayo 6:00PM SPECIAL PROGRAM NewLatinoFilmmakers celebrates cinco de mayo curated by Edward Pagan 7:30PM SHORT FILM PROGRAM Graciela Cassel IN THE SKY (2015, 4 minutes, video) Harriet Feigenbaum PASSAGE TO CONEY ISLAND (2014, 6 minutes, video) Terence Digan PROLOGUE (2014, 10 minutes, video) Victoria Greene SUBJECT 100503 (2014, 11 minutes, video) Erica Genereux Smith NIGHT LIFE (2014, 12 minutes, video) Anthony Marinelli ACOUSTIC SPACE (2014, 15 minutes, video) Stephen Parkhurst FRONTIER (2014, 16 minutes, video) 8:45PM FIRST FEATURE PRESENTATION Joseph Villapaz 14 DAYS (2014, 54 minutes, video) A diverse cast of characters deals with life changing issues in a variety of stories tied together by the location they all pass through. 10:00PM SECOND FEATURE PRESENTATION Alex M. Garnett BELLE (2013, 52 minutes, video) After a failed American uprising, Robert - a prominent member of the insurgency- goes into hiding somewhere deep within the Boreal Forest with his newborn son, Tom. 14 years later, when Robert falls ill, Tom must attempt to nurse his father back to health while struggling to carry out the many crucial tasks which have tumbled down onto his shoulders.
In The Sky The water towers stand as titans and sentinels over the city
Video artist: Graciela Cassel Music: Massimo Sammi Tenor: Alejandro Salvia Soprano: Patricia Vital 4
Wednesday April 29th 7:30pm all screenings at 32 Second Avenue (@ Second Street) • Anthology Film Archives
NewFilmmakers New York • Spring 2015
Wednesday / May 6th
Spring Series 2015
NewFilmmakers presents a Mother’s Day Program 6:00PM SPECIAL PROGRAM curated by Tova Beck-Friedman Kelly Gallagher THE HERSTORY OF THE FEMALE FILMMAKER (15 minutes) Andrew Gralton CINDERS (2013, 9 minutes) Brendan Kirwin SKYMIND (2013, 15 minutes) Silvia Turchin F-LINE (2013, 9 minutes) Mariya Nikiforova BEACONING (4 minutes) Ken Paul Rosenthal IN LIGHT, IN! (12 minutes) 7:15PM SHORT FILM PROGRAM Edward Shieh SONNET 134 (2014, 3 minutes, video) Marc Macaluso BLOOD MEMORY (2014, 15 minutes, video) Rachel Foley THE UNDERTOW (2014, 25 minutes, video) 8:15PM FEATURE PRESENTATION Matt Ott OVUM (2014, 86 minutes, video) Ovum is a dark comedy about a quirky actress who will do anything for a part, who must give up a part of herself when her method acting exercise goes too far and she’s drawn into the lucrative and disturbing world of egg donation clinics. During production, writer/performer O’Hara became an egg donor while portraying the lead character on screen, further blurring the boundaries between fantasy and reality in this provocative rumination on risking everything for art.
Wednesday / May 13th
NewFilmmakers presents Animation and Women Filmmakers 6:00PM SPECIAL PROGRAM Women Filmmakers with Lili White Claire Bennett THE CHEERWINE TRAIL (2012, 3 minutes, video) Elizabeth Henry & Tony Gault FLEDGLING (2009, 8 minutes, 8mm ) Elizabeth Henry BRING WITH YOU A HEART (2013, 8 minutes, video) Naz Shahrokh ON THE ROAD (BE FEKRET HASTAM (2013, 7 minutes, video) Nora Sweeney SOMETHING LIKE WHALES (2013, 5 minutes, 16mm) Elizabeth Henry SUSAN’S HORSES (2010, 7 minutes, 8mm) Elizabeth Henry OUT OF GREEN STUFF WOVEN (2014, 4 minutes, 16mm) 7:00PM SHORT FILM PROGRAM Animation Program Kintan Chauhan DAUGHTER OF AN OCEAN (2013, 3 minutes, video) Zak Hoke GOMMI ARCADE: “INTRODUCING S.T.A.R. ACADEMY” (2014, 4 minutes, video) Michael Finegold FRAGMENTS AND LIGHT (2014, 4 minutes, video) Negin Sharifzadeh STORY OF A CURSE #1 (2014, 5 minutes, video) Peter Meng GALAXY RECORDS (2014, 6 minutes, video) Faiyaz Jafri DISCONNECTOR (2014. 7 minutes, video) Zeynep Kocak TICK TOCK (2014, 10 minutes. video) Mohammad Zare JUNK GIRL (2014, 16 minutes, video) 8:00PM FEATURE PRESENTATION Graham Nolte PARALLAX (2014, 79 minutes, video) Set in 1987, Parallax is the story of a man who develops an alternate vision for the Internet, and isolates himself throughout the process. all screenings at 32 Second Avenue (@ Second Street) • Anthology Film Archives
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NewFilmmakers New York • Spring 2015
Wednesday / May 20th
NewFilmmakers presents a Program on the Arts 6:00PM DOCUMENTARY SERIES Amanda Macchia YORKVILLE (2014, 68 minutes, video) If you want to know one thing about Toronto, let it be what went on in Yorkville during the 1960s. In Canada’s version of Greenwich Village and Haight-Ashbury, draft dodgers mixed in with musicians, political activists, and curious Canadian youths until a presence was born that shocked and alarmed the Silent Generation as the 1960s counterculture grew. 7:15PM SHORT FILM PROGRAM Josiah Cuneo IN THROUGH THE NIGHT (2014, 5 minutes, video) Mark Satin DELIVERY BOY (2014, 8 minutes, video) Shane Dewalt FADE IN (2014, 8 minutes, video) Juliet O’Reilly OTAKU (2014, 8 minutes, video) Audevian Monda THE LAST DANCE (2014, 11 minutes, video) Deanna Saltzman BACKSTAGE (2014, 16 minutes, video) 8:30PM FEATURE PRESENTATION Enrico Rossini Cullen A MAN FULL OF DAYS (2014, 92 minutes, video) In a search for meaning and authenticity, a man walks in a semidream state to shake off his once cogent view of the world. He dons a lighted wig and a leather suit as he pursues and is pursued by elusive angels, freaks and wise strangers in a postbiblical world. “He speaks by dreams, and visions come in the night...” JOB 33:15
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Wednesday / May 27th
NewFilmmakers presents a night of Comedy 6:00PM FIRST SHORT FILM PROGRAM Alexandra Collins MILK RUN (2015, 10 minutes, video) Justin Ambrosino HUNGRY FOR LOVE (2014, 15 minutes, video) Ben Fraternale WASHED UP (2015, 16 minutes, video) George Gaffney THE DESK (2014, 20 minutes, video) 7:15PM SECOND SHORT FILM PROGRAM Chris Valenti THE EXCHANGE (2014, 7 minutes, video) Derek Shane Garcia BEANED (2014, 6 minutes, video) Katie-Marie Engberg KITTY (2014, 11 minutes, video) Max Baker THE FLOWER SHOP (2014, 16 minutes, video) Gerard Zarra JOHN DABLOVSKI: REALITY TV STAR (2013, 15 minutes, 16mm) 8:15PM FIRST FEATURE PRESENTATION Sean Gannet CHASING TASTE (2014, 89 minutes, video) Down-and-out writer Chase Guidry is transformed overnight into NYC’s next big food critic before a freak accident robs him of his senses of taste and smell. In order to keep his new-found fame and pursue the love of his life, he relies on a team of super ‘smellers’ and tasters to fake his reviews. Riding his lie for as long as it will carry him, Chase is bound for a collapse of epic proportion. 10:00PM SECOND FEATURE PRESENTATION Pamela Sutch TRAKKED (2014, 106 minutes, video) Mystery type thriller comedy. A woman inserts a small camera inside her cheating boyfriends head and watches his every move on her computer. She can see through his eyes. She then kicks him out but can still see what is going on at his next girlfriends house. 8
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NewFilmmakers New York • Spring 2015
Spring Series 2015
Wednesday / June 3rd
NewFilmmakers presents films about Coming of Age 6:00PM FIRST SHORT FILM PROGRAM Yung-Jen Yang SWEET SIXTEEN (2014, 9 minutes, video) Robin Takao D’Oench TADAIMA (2014, 15 minutes, video) Johnny Pik DIWALI DREAM GARAGE (2014, 17 minutes, video) Victoria DeMartin KNICK-KNACKS (2014, 23 minutes, video) 7:00PM SECOND SHORT FILM PROGRAM Zachary Bernstein & Daniel Orentlicher WONDERMENT (2014, 9 minutes, video) Elena Araoz JOY (2012, 15 minutes, video) Amanda Brennan GOODBYE CASEY TRADE (2014, 15 minutes, video) Adam Volerich ROLLING (2014, 15 minutes, video) 8:15PM FIRST FEATURE PRESENTATION Alyssa Rallo Bennet ABERRANT (2014, 83 minutes, video) Two best friends (JACK QUAID & JARED WERNICK) struggle to deal with their past, secrets and obsessions with each other in time for one of them to be married to his small town girlfriend (JUSTINE MAGNUSSON), who has a secret of her own. 10:00PM SECOND FEATURE PRESENTATION Philip Marlatt THE AGE OF REASON (2014, 93 minutes, video) On the last summer weekend after graduating high school, Oz has a choice to make: skip town to Nashville and try out for major league baseball, or stay and care for his little sister and best friend. After his alcoholic father convinces him not to go, Oz realizes that his father purposely sabotaged his chances at being a professional pitcher.
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NewFilmmakers New York • Spring 2015
Wednesday / June 10th NewFilmmakers presents a night of YoungFilmmakers 6:00PM DOCUMENTARY SERIES
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Susan Weiser-Finley CHANGING MINDS AT CONCORD HIGH SCHOOL (2014, 30, video) Concord is a transfer school – a last chance high school for at-risk teens. Most of the students have experienced tremendous challenges in life. They don’t believe that change for them is really possible. This film follows them as they embark on a semester-long mindfulness training program. The students both help to film the experience and conduct a scientific study – of their classmates! – comparing the effects of mindfulness practice with that of a placebo group. Working as research assistants with scientists from Harvard, Portland State and Hunter College, they pose the question: Will practicing mindful awareness for just three minutes a day help their classmates learn to cope with anxiety and develop resilience? 6:45PM SHORT FILM PROGRAM Eric Hayes DELIVERY (2014, 6 minutes, video) Jennifer Westburgh BUT, I LOVE YOU (2014, 7 minutes, video) Shalom Kolontarov I SAW A DEMON (2014, 8 minutes, video) Sammy James, Jr., THE REHEARSAL (2013, 12 minutes, video) Fernando Toscano NO STRING (2012, 15 minutes, video) 8:00PM FEATURE PRESENTATION
STRUGGLING STUDENTS PARTNER WITH NEUROSCIENTISTS: CAN PRACTICING MINDFULNESS THREE MINUTES A DAY CHANGE THEIR LIVES?
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Ken Cosentino WITHIN (2014, 88 minutes, video) Albert, Katrina, Jill, Danny and Officer Dearborn find themselves hiding out in a house during a zombie apocalypse brought upon by a blood-born disease.
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NewFilmmakers New York • Spring 2015
Spring Series 2015
Wednesday / June 17th
NewFilmmakers presents a Father’s Day Program 6:00PM SPECIAL PROGRAM Middle East Series curated by Moniere 7:30PM SHORT FILM PROGRAM Cynthia Silver SLEEP TRAINING (2014, 10 minutes, video) Dagny Looper THE LIPSTICK STAIN (2014, 10 minutes, video) Dania Bdeir KALEIDOSCOPE (2014, 12 minutes, video) Mauricio Ovalle THE LAST MINUTES (2014, 14 minutes, video) Albert M. Chan DESCENDANTS OF THE PAST, ANCESTORS OF THE FUTURE (2014, 16 minutes, video) Riley Wilson ORANGE BRIGHT (2014, 23 minutes, video) 9:00PM FEATURE PRESENTATION
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CHICAGOLAND SHORTS is a new short film series that highlights the incredible diversity of The Windy City and its surrounding communities. The series celebrates the vastness of the Chicagoland experience, and provide an outlet for those cinematic voices that sometimes go unheard. The first installment in this series is scheduled for release in Spring 2015. This unique package will showcase genre- and boundary-pushing films, with an eye towards local LGBTQ stories and films by and about women, minorities,
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NewFilmmakers New York • Spring 2015
Spring Series 2015
New York Pride 2015
Wednesday / June 24th NewFilmmakers Celebrates Pride Week NYC 6:00PM DOCUMENTARY SERIES Jill Uchiyama THE LEGACY OF JOSEPH GIFFORD (2014, 57 minutes, video) ‘The Legacy of Joseph Gifford’ is the first in a series of films, created by Jill Uchiyama. ‘Legacy’ capture the heart of a subject by artfully expressing the most important aspects of that life and how the subject has uniquely touched and changed the world in one lifetime. 7:15PM SHORT FILM PROGRAM Willard Morgan SILKS AND SATINS ADORN MY BONES (2014, 5 minutes, video) Angelique Letizia FOR FRANCIS (2014, 15 minutes, video) Ernesta Mensah TABOO (2014, 17 minutes, video) 8:30PM FEATURE PRESENTATION Rob Moretti TRUTH (2013, 94 minutes, video) A suspenseful, psychological thriller, “Truth” exposes the hidden demons buried deep inside each and every one of us. After a chance encounter over the Internet, Caleb, who suffers from borderline personality disorder, meets and falls head over heels for Jeremy, and soon the line between love and lies blur. Struggling to keep his past a secret, including his mentally ill mother, Caleb slowly succumbs to his darker side. A sudden turn of events finds Jeremy held captive, until Caleb’s quest for the truth be revealed.
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