Fall 2014
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Bridging the Gap
NewFilmmakers opens it’s 16th Fall season with with one of the most agressive film programs to date. Five days, two theaters, all short films. At first glance this may seem like a small feat, but the truth is rather frightening because somewhere around 150 films will be screened between wednesday and sunday... but wait there’s more! Our regular schedule starts immediately the next day. Get ready for all of your favorite programs and the addition of our new 6:00pm foreign shorts programs. Pictured on the front of our quarterly this month is alumnus Alice Cox who screened her film L to Canarsie with us during last quarters Brooklyn night and sat down for a quick Q&A with our program director to discuss lessons she learned screening with NewFilmmakers Also on the inside you’ll find an interview with alumnus Paige Campbell who works with the innovative non-profit Fractured Atlas to finance her films. -Brandon Ruckdashel Program Director NewFilmmakers NY
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Wednesday, October 1, Courthouse 6:00 NEWFILMMAKERS DOCUMENTARY SERIES Constantin Hartenstein KEYSTONE (2013, 3 minutes) Eli Brown STORIES IN THE STREETS (2013, 16 minutes, video) Indrani Kopal THE GAME CHANGER (2014, 18 minutes, video) Erin Kron ALOHA ‘AINA: LOVE OF THE LAND (2013, 22 minutes, video)
7:15 NEWFILMMAKERS SHORT FILM PROGRAM Tobias Stretch UNITY (2014, 6 minutes) Marc Dickerson BAMMY’S DAD (2013, 10 minutes, video) Haley Southee TWO LIVES (2014, 11 minutes, RED) Tatiana Bears THESE WOODS (2013, 14 minutes, video) Annabelle Attanasio ANCHOVIES (2014, 16 minutes, video) Oscar Sanders INDUSTRIOUS GRIND (2014, 23 minutes, video) Tyler Bodamer FOR ANABELA (2013, 33 minutes, video)
9:15 NEWFILMMAKERS FILM OF THE MONTH March 2014
Cameron Granadino COMRADE SUNSHINE (2013, 20 minutes, video) Set in Baltimore, Comrade Sunshine focuses on the friendship between Dominique Stevenson, whose Friend of a Friend program helps men in prison through peer mentoring, and Wahid Shakur, a recently released 20-year-old now working with her to help build community. As she attempts to guide him in making a smooth transition back into society, Wahid faces the new challenge of life on parole. Dominique, meanwhile, continues to raise questions about the dire impacts of incarceration. with Cameron Granadino VISIONS OF ABOLITION
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2) What is your best advice for filmmakers who are screening? Reach out to everyone you know to attend the screening. It feels great to have an audience for something you worked on for so long! Also, think about how to describe your film in 1-2 quick angles to share in the Q&A with the audience after the screening so you feel prepared and ready.
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3) Was there anything you wish you had taken more advantage of? I would have liked to talk more with the other filmmakers in attendance after the screenings. 4) What are your hopes for distribution of L to Canarsie? I would love to set up some sort of self distribution on line channel with other similarly themed films and I’m also aware of some outlets for on line distribution. However, there are only so many hours in the day, and I prefer concentrating on new projects. So at the moment, no plans unless something just suddenly falls in my lap. Could happen, right? 5) Tell us a little bit about your upcoming feature. The story is about an ensemble group of high school kids in a rural Texas town. The characters are a range of your typical stereotypes in a high school: a metal head, a girl in band who wants to be popular, the daughter of an authoritarian pastor, a cheerleader, the purported kid who worships the devil, etc. As anyone whose attended a high school in middle of nowhere America knows, life during this time of rapid change and adolescent yearning can feel suffocating in a small town. The Plains of Arning takes it to the next level by creating narrative ties to the Bible Belt traditions in the region as well as the landscape. Oh and there is an Angel in the film. Seriously, with wings. I’ll need a budget for CGI graphics!
Alice Cox sat down briefly in DUMBO with NewFilmmakers Program Director Brandon Ruckdashel for a quick follow up to her screening of L to Canarsie last quarter on Brooklyn Night. 1) What did you learn most from screening with NewFilmmakers? After my have a baby hiatus, I felt reconnected to the rich community of filmmakers here in NYC through my screening with NewFilmmakers.
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6) How do you plan on taking advantage of what you learned for the screening of Poison Berry I will be sure to talk more to the other filmmakers! For more info about my feature, please see the In Progress section of my website: www.rustrainfilms.com
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Wednesday, October 1, Deren NEWFILMMAKERS DOCUMENTARY SERIES
NewFilmmakers presents Gay, Lesbian & Friends Short Films 6:00 David LaRocca BRUNELLO CUCINELLI: A NEW PHILOSOPHY OF CLOTHES (2013, 38 minutes, video) What can a profit-driven, luxury, Italian fashion brand learn from the likes of Marcus Aurelius, St. Benedict, St. Francis, and Kant? Its founder, Brunello Cucinelli, thinks quite a lot, and has shaped his company with reference to the history of philosophy. Moreover, in his effort to ‘embellish the world’ with enterprises that reflect his understanding of a New Humanism, he has built a library, a theater, a school, and restored a church and an Etruscan Arch--but perhaps most crucially to his core values, he has created a manufacturing environment that aims to support a robust and varied human life.
6:45 NEWFILMMAKERS FIRST SHORT FILM PROGRAM Sonora Chase AIRPORT DOUCHERY: BOARDING & HOARDING (2013, 3 minutes, video) Assad Yacoub CHERRY POP (2013, 16 minutes, video) M A Abbasi ANATHEMA (2012, 21 minutes, video) Shonali Bhowmik SARDINES OUT OF A CAN (2013, 22 minutes, video)
8:00 NEWFILMMAKERS SECOND SHORT FILM PROGRAM Nicholas Brown THE MORTAR BETWEEN BRICKS (2012, 13 minutes, video0 Elena Oxman LIT (2014, 14 minutes, video) Keith Adam Johnson LITTLE LIES (2012, 15 minutes, video) Anna Maria Cianciulli STAY (2014, 17 minutes) Michael Manese MAXINE (2014, 20 minutes, video) Isaac Hoff REVOLUTION Y (2014, 25 minutes, video)
9:45 NEWFILMMAKERS THIRD SHORT FILM PROGRAM Wes Cole PLAYING WARHOL (2014, 55 minutes, video) After the tragic loss of their beloved dog Tara, Wes and Gregg head down a twisted path that pushes their relationship to the edge. Wes turns to drugs to ease the pain, while Gregg is struggling with his own personal demons. They must rely on their amazingly talented group of friends to help them realize how truly lucky they are to have each other.
Thursday, October 2, Courthouse
NewFilmmakers presents Experimental & Environmental and films .
6:00 NEWFILMMAKERS SPECIAL SERIES with Experimental films.
Gloria Chung NIGHT TRAIN (2014, 3 minutes, video) Sojin Jenny Park 35 SECONDS OF SWEETNESS (2014, 4 minutes, video) Gloria Chung NIGHT TAXI (2014, 4 minutes, video) Lucia Hinojosa NOTES ON HISTORY (OR FICTION) (2013, 8 minutes, video) Qi You DEAR (2013, 9 minutes, video) Ted Collatos BERLIN DAY TO NIGHT (2013, 11 minutes, video) Chris Yeonho Jung YOUR SPACE (2014, 16 minutes, video) Dawn Hollison ODE (2010, 19 minutes, video)
7:45 NEWFILMMAKERS SPECIAL SERIES about the Environment
Oscar Lalo DIMANCHE (2011, 5 minutes, video) An average Frenchman wants to save the planet. Gareth Burghes FILTERING FUTURES: A STORY OF LONG ISLAND LIVELIHOOD & SHELLFISH (2013, 24 minutes) Christian Chapman, Paul Jason Hoffman, and Cody Troyer LA SELVA TRANQUILA
9:15 NEWFILMMAKERS SPECIAL PROGRAM Adrian Briscoe DREAM TOWN (2013, 73 minutes, video) Part documentary, part fiction, the film takes place in Barentsburg, a Russian coal-mining town on a Norwegian Island located in the northernmost inhabited place in the world. Set in this isolated, as well as environmentally and economically devastated space, the film documents the stark reality of the miners, scientists, and children who live there, and contrasts their often brutal existence with fictional interludes that authored and created with the director. From nonfiction to fiction, the weave of both narratives gradually disintegrates entirely into a fiction, concluding with a series of resolutions centered on the themes of love, dreams and escapism.
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Thursday, October 2, Deren
Friday, October 3, Courthouse
NewFilmmakers presents films from India and other Short Films.
NewFilmmakers presents a lot of drama and a MMA Series featuring Nip / Tuck Director Dirk Craft’s last film.
6:00 NEWFILMMAKERS SPECIAL PROGRAM
6:00 NEWFILMMAKERS FIRST SHORT FILM PROGRAM
A taste of India
Socially Awkward in the Modern Age
Thomas Torrey LITTLE STAR (2011, 14 minutes, video) Rushikesh More DHAAR (2011, 23 minutes, video) Mattheau O’Brien 5A (2012, 26 minutes) Sunil Narkar LOVE (2012, 33 minutes)
7:30 NEWFILMMAKERS FIRST SHORT FILM PROGRAM Ezra Nachman HIGHWAY REVISITED (2014, 6 minutes, video) Sofian Khan BILL HOULIHAN (2013, 15 minutes, RED) Andrew Margetson HELP POINT (2013, 13 minutes, video) Rick Williams LOST CREATURES (2012, 25 minutes, video) Sebastian Smeureanu BY TOMORROW (2013, 29 minutes, RED)
9:15 NEWFILMMAKERS SECOND SHORT FILM PROGRAM Corey Scott Rutledge LADIES NIGHT (2014, 15 minutes, video) Alex Reyme ECHOES IN AN EMPTY APARTMENT (2014, 23 minutes) SangJin Ko MILKSHAKE (2013, 30 minutes, video) Lu Ricky THE LAST SHOW (2014, 30 minutes, RED)
Asil Baykal LONELY HEARTS CLUB (2014, 5 minutes, video) Shavon Meyers CORAZON (2014, 6 minutes, video) Jared Passante THIS MODERN LOVE (2013, 8 minutes, video) Troy Deutsch NO ONE TOLD US (2014, 18 minutes) Colin Gerrard I KNOW YOU (2012. 20 minutes, video) Gall Friedman THE LONELY CURE (2014, 26 minutes, video)
7:30 NEWFILMMAKERS SECOND SHORT FILM PROGRAM Action
Chidi Nobi HU.MANS (2014, 10 minutes, video) Kwon Oh HERO (2014, 12 minutes, video) Christian Vermazen BY MY HAND (2014, 12 minutes, RED) Gabriel Munitz-Alessio FIRU NO TOBAKO (2013, 13 minutes, video) Dirk Craft SKINHEADS IN LOVE (2013, 17 minutes, RED) Paul Villanova OCTOPUS (2013, 22 minutes, video)
9:15 NEWFILMMAKERS THIRD SHORT FILM PROGRAM Michael Kefeyalew SCOUNDREL (2013, 8 minutes, RED) Alberto D’Onofrio TAKES TWO TO HUSTLE (2014, 11 minutes, video) Shan Jin THE RIGHT THING (2014, 12 minutes, RED) Elias Noel THE OVERPASS (2013, 16 minutes, video) Cusi Cram WILD & PRECIOUS (2014, 18 minutes, video) Roderick Morrison MALUM IN SE (2013, 24 minutes, video)
Friday, October 3, Deren
NewFilmmakers presents films from Poland and other Short Films
6:00 NEWFILMMAKERS SPECIAL PROGRAM A taste of Poland
Kristen Lauth Shaeffer PIEROGIES (2012, 14 minutes) Piotr Zlotorowicz CHARCOAL BURNERS (2012, 15 minutes, video)
7:00 NEWFILMMAKERS FIRST SHORT FILM PROGRAM Marc Rotondo SING ME TO SLEEP (2014, 15 minutes, video) Alexa Green WAITING FOR SUNRISE (2013, 14 minutes, video) Christian Martel WELCOME HOME (2014, 12 minutes, video) Matthew Fleming UNEVEN STRINGS (2013, 16 minutes, video) Christina Yoon WHITE RABBIT (2014, 19 minutes, video)
8:30 NEWFILMMAKERS SECOND SHORT PROGRAM Samuel Besser MATCHES (2013, 13 minutes, video) Rudy Mungaray DEAD LIGHT GLORY (2014, 13 minutes, video) Laura Archer THE TICKET SELLER (2013, 7 minutes, video) Jason Grinde THE TELL TALE HEART (2014, 10 minutes, video) Remsy Atassi THE LIAR (2013, 23 minutes, RED) Ardy Aryan EMILY 2050 - SHORT (2014, 29 minutes, video)
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Saturday, October 4, Courthouse
A hilarious take on the differences between a man and a woman as they get ready for their blind date.
NewFilmmakers presents more new Short Films.
6:00 NEWFILMMAKERS SPECIAL PROGRAM
A taste of France in Memory of Stephanie Assimacopoulo Gerald Assouline 13:04 (2012, 11 minutes, video) Luciana Botelho BLUSH (2012, 14 minutes, video) Stephanie Assimacopoulo LE TRAIN BLEU (2012, 18 minutes, RED)
7:15 NEWFILMMAKERS FIRST SHORT FILM PROGRAM Christian Sex
Romina Schwedler HOW A MAN GETS READY (2014, 2 minutes, 35mm) Alex Modlin THE DISPATCHER (2013, 7 minutes, video) Peter Vack SEND (2013, 9 minutes, video) Irene Chin THE BACHELORETTE PARTY (2014, 14 minutes, video) Serena Dykman THE DOORMAN (2014, 15 minutes, video) Chantal Massuh-Fox EXCESS BAGGAGE (2014, 26 minutes, video)
8:45 NEWFILMMAKERS SECOND SHORT FILM PROGRAM Alice Cox POISONBERRY (2013, 13 minutes, 16mm) Robertson Tirado THE LOST INTERVIEW OF CARLINA LA SALLE (2013, 18 minutes, video) Peter Horgan MAN IN BOMB VEST (2013, 15 minutes, video) Leah Chen Baker CINEPHILIA (2012, 19 minutes, 35mm) Joshua McQuilkin JEUNE FILLE (2013, 26 minutes, video)
Actress Romina Schwedler’s directorial debut, the piece gained immediate recognition with an Audience Award when it debuted on Citizen TV earlier this year. After that, this clever spec commercial went on to screen at NYC’s DGA Theater for SHOOT Magazine’s New Directors Showcase, followed by an Award of Merit at the LA Cinema Festival of Hollywood, a Best Microshort Film Award at the Houston Comedy Film Festival and a nomination for Best Short Film by a Woman at the Burbank International Film Festival.
Saturday, October 4, Deren
NewFilmmakers presents more new Short Films.
6:00 NEWFILMMAKERS DOCUMENTARY SERIES Alice Rothchild VOICES ACROSS THE DIVIDE (2013, 57 minutes, video) Voices Across the Divide is a powerful documentary and oral history project exploring the Israeli/Palestinian conflict through rarely heard personal stories. Narrated by Alice Rothchild, an American Jew raised on the tragedies of the Holocaust
7:15 NEWFILMMAKERS DOCUMENTARY SERIES Joe Looby THE DECADE OF DISCOVERY (2014, 62 minutes, video) A documentary about a government attorney on a quest to find a better way to search White House e-mail, and a teacher who takes a stand to establish civil justice on the new electronic frontier.
8:30 NEWFILMMAKERS SHORT FILM PROGRAM Darryl Webb OUTSIDE THE WALLS (2013, 3 minutes, video) Boris Cifuentes CELEBRITY HARASMENT (2012, 7 minutes, video) Taniel Kilajian 05.23.14 (2014, 8 minutes, video) Trish Harnetiaux YOU SHOULD BE A BETTER FRIEND (2012, 9 minutes, video) David Berget JONESTOWN (2013, 23 minutes, video)
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Sunday, October 5, Courthouse NewFilmmakers Fall Fest 20114 ends.
6:00 NEWFILMMAKERS DOCUMENTARY SERIES James Beacham FORT WAYNE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD HOUSE NEW YORK (2013, 13 minutes, video) Tommaso Donati CASA DI LEGNA (2013, 16 minutes, video) Jim Augustine CLUB 86 (2014, 24 minutes, video)
7:15 NEWFILMMAKERS FIRST SHORT FILM PROGRAM a taste of Brazil
Rubens Marinelli Neto AMONGST LAUGHS & TEARS (2013, 8 minutes, RED) Joﾃ｣o Paulo Andrade O AMULETO DO DRAGﾃグ (2013, 17 minutes, RED) Rafael Yoshida LUCAS (2011, 19 minutes, video) Mathais Mangun DONA ROSA (2013, 23 minutes, video)
8:45 NEWFILMMAKERS SECOND SHORT FILM PROGRAM Sci-Fi
Tobias Belliard THE END (2013, 6 minutes) Edward James Anderson FLIP (2014, 11 minutes, video) V.C. CAMPOS GUN CONTROL (2013, 15 minutes) Shawn Murphy ALIVE! (2012, 16 minutes, video) Ben Lazarus BODIES IN IRREVERSIBLE DETRIMENT (2013, 25 minutes, video) Rick Apicella JUSTICE (2014, 19 minutes, video) Lori Precious CURSE OF THE SUNSET STARLET (2012, 21 minutes, video)
Sunday, October 5, Deren
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NewFilmmakers presents more new Short Films.
New York Bill Woods - NY Coordinator Barney Oldfield - NY Producer Brandon Ruckdashel - Program Director Info@newfilmmakers.com Los Angeles Larry Laboe - Executive Director LA@newfilmmakersla.com Online Bill Elberg - Online Director Jessica Canty - Online Director Support@Newfilmmakersonline.com
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6:00 NEWFILMMAKERS SPECIAL PROGRAM A taste of Iran
Farshad Teimoori A MOTHER DAUGHTER STORY (2014, 15 minutes, video) Tara Atashgah FOR THE BIRDS (2013, 14 minutes, RED)
7:00 NEWFILMMAKERS FIRST SHORT FILM PROGRAM Crime and Punishment
William Hollander A BETRAYAL (2013, 7 minutes, video) Gabriel Maxwell Freed HAPPENSTANCE (2014, 8 minutes, video) Mark Russell STAIN REMOVAL (2013, 15 minutes, video) Eric Rich A BAD GAMBLE (2014, 22 minutes, video) Christine Dakin LA VOZ DEL CUERPO / THE BODY SPEAKS (2013, 27 minutes, video)
8:30 NEWFILMMAKERS SECOND SHORT FILM PROGRAM Domestic Affairs
Ben Bentsman HUSBAND AND WIFE (2014, 7 minutes, video) Christine Magdalene FINDERS KEEPERS (2014, 9 minutes, video) Kevin Haus THE WRECK (2013, 15 minutes, video) Barak Barkan THE EX FACTOR (2014, 16 minutes, video) Rob Fortunato LORETTA (2014, 16 minutes, video) Jennifer Harrison SITTER (2013, 20 minutes, video)
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ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT
Paige Campbell, sat down this last week to speak with Brandon Ruckdashel, NewFilmmaker’s Program Driector, in Queens. She recently screened her film VANITAS with NewFilmmakers New York and is a 2012 graduate of NYU Tisch School of the Arts Film Program. They spoke about her upcoming projects, unique methods of non-profit financing, and her experiences at NYU. Wait, I’m not in Brooklyn? No Dorothy you’re not. This is Queens. What is there to do in the neighborhood for artistic meetups? There’s Bat Haus, it’s a coworking space in Brooklyn off the Jefferson stop, they do a lot of things there. They have film festivals, they do a one minute film festival, they do a Vine festival, and they have Drink N’ Draws with live models. Drink N’ Draw? Are you unfamiliar with the Drink N’ Draw? I would say yes. So Drink N’ Draw is where you have a live nude model and they do a series of poses throughout three hours. Once everybody is inside they close the door and you pretty much get all the beer you want for free while you are drawing.
provides fiscal sponsorship for various artistic and philanthropic endeavors.
Basically what fiscal sponsorships means is that they will sponsor your project so that when people donate to your project, they will be able to write all or some of it off their taxes. So basically you’re donating to Fractured Atlas on behalf of a project, for example Thicker Than Water, and because you are Let’s say you have a series of short term donating to a projects. 501 c 3 you There is a “My father has always been a are able to yearly memmentor artistically. In addition to write off all bership fee being a really talented writer, he’s of your cash and as long been in the industry longer than donation or as you have part of your I’ve been alive. He’s given me the your open donation of membership best writing advice that I’ve ever equipment, you can do recieved from anybody.” or costumes. a project that spans They also a number of help you with accounting to make sure, years or one or two a year. I think you for example, at the end of the year can only have one active project at a you’re not being taxed for seventy grand time, but you’d have to check out the of income. They don’t disburse funds, website. until you can provide a receipt or an estimate, to make sure everything they www.fracturedatlas.org give you you are being reimbursed for. Do you have any upcoming projects? Fractured Atlas helps you with grants. Thicker Than Water, which is a feature They approve all your grant inquiry letfilm about a young man who is strugters and individual appeal letters. For gling with Aspergers syndrome and his the last few project I’ve been involved desire to track down his biological sister, with they’ve been really helpful. You with a twist. can call and ask them questions, ask them to clarify what is tax deductible. How was your time at NYU? Can I apply to this grant, can I not to this It was actually pretty good, I think that grant? They also have a running page if I hadn’t been at Tisch, I wouldn’t have of grant deadlines coming up. enjoyed my experience so much. Like most kinds of universities the type of education you get at Tisch is really dependent upon the classes you, take the professors you have, and your willingness to figure out how to put your schedule together in a way that most benefits you. I had really excellent teachers, especially camera teachers. The late Geoff Erb, who passed away two years ago, was really incredible. He taught me a lot of things and was very encouraging to me.
That sounds like a load of fun. It’s close and only 10$ Has anything happened with Vanitas since your screening? I’m going to have a couple more screenings to promote my new film, Thicker Than Water. I might have them here or maybe at the bar my boyfriend works at, I’ve considered approaching them and seeing if they would do a screening. Just events to promote Thicker Than Water and to get more people to see Vanitas. I think maybe in the late fall maybe winter, there are going to be a couple more screenings, probably free, just so that people can come and hang out and watch it. People who couldn’t make it to the screening at Anthology Film Archives. Tell me about Fractured Atlas? Fractured Atlas is a non-profit that
Is there a fee? There is a membership fee, you need to become a member in order to apply. I’ve been a member for three years so I can’t remember what it is, but it’s nothing big, $10 a month as an individual I think? So once you are a member you can apply whenever you want as long as you are an active member.
There were a lot of teachers who gave me the room to create the work I wanted to create. Encouraged me and kept me in line. I think that if I hadn’t been as lucky or wise, depending on the circumstances, in my choice of professors I might not have had the same positive experience. Do you apply? Basically they have an application on their website and the deadline is the 30th or the last day of the month. They let you know by the 15th of the following month if you have been accepted and you can do single year or multi-year/ongoing membership.
I felt that there were a lot of people who had our best interests at heart and tried to make sure we were safe and knew what we were doing on shoots. That we were able to make our films, make them safely, get insurance, and knew what our resources were.
really trying to make sure that the students get to learn and make films, I think they are the ones who made it a really good experience. You were in the Undergrad Program right? I was in the Undergrad Program It’s not less intensive, they’re relatively the same right? You do have four years to do what they do in three, but are they really that different? They are similar programs, we have fewer resources than they do. It’s obvious that the undergrad is less respected than the grad program, which makes no sense. A lot of the graduates are coming from backgrounds other than film and they don’t have a lot of the technical skills that they need and they’re not encouraged to reach out to the undergrads to help them meet those technical skills. The undergrads are required to have crew hours, they work while they are in college, and a lot of them go on to work even more after school. The Grad students have a lot more resources available to them including the RED. They got priority for the better camera equipment, however, they didn’t always have the expertise with the equipment that the undergraduates did. If they had fostered better communication between the programs I think that the undergraduates would have had better opportunities to work on shoots with better funding, that got to go places, and had slightly older more mature directors, which can be a real benefit. Do you have any specific mentors who have guided you along the way? My father has always been a mentor artistically. In addition to being a really talented writer, he’s been in the industry longer than I’ve been alive. He’s given me the best writing advice that I’ve ever recieved from anybody. I also have Chris Kelly, a writing professor from NYU, he has such an incredible way of seeing the potential in any project and in any story line. He always knows exactly what any story need, but also doesn’t tell you what it needs. Like a therapist he’s very good at being able to solicit from you the thing that the story needs. Thank you for taking the time to speak with me today. Thank you for having me. You can learn more about Paige on her website at: PaigeCampbellCinema.com
It’s those people, the people who are
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Monday, October 6
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6:00PM NEWFILMMAKERS DOCUMENTARY SERIES
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Jerry Sangiuliano HELLO, GOODBYE (2013, 8 minutes, video) Huckleberry Lain ANTIQUITIES FOR THE QUEEN OF ANGELS (2013, 11 minutes, video) David Ketterer CHANGEOVER (2014, 11 minutes, video) Livio Fornoni TOO COOL FOR ZINGONIA (2013, 7 minutes, video) Reza Monahan GEO ILLOGICAL ASPHYXIATION ANGLE (2013, 17 minutes, video)
Pauline Zalkin REMEMBER THE SUN (2014, 8 minutes, video) Rayquan Henderson-Warren IDLE TIME (2013, 15 minutes, video) Catharine Axley IN PORT (2014, 11 minutes, video) JungSung Kim MADE IN THAILAND (2014, 18 minutes, video)
NewFilmmakers starts its sixteenth Fall Season.
NewFilmmakers presents films about relationships.
7:00PM NEWFILMMAKERS SHORT FILM PROGRAM Drew Angle CLIFF (2013, 8 minutes, video) Livio Fornoni KONO SAMURAI (2012, 5 minutes, video) Garrett McNamee THE ORBIT OF OSIRIS (2014, 40 minutes, video) Robert Buncher CUT YOU RIGHT HERE (2014, 32 minutes, video)
9:00PM NEWFILMMAKERS FEATURE PRESENTATION Eric Schwartz TATTOO NATION (2014, 86 minutes) How did tattoos go from something that was put on you to an expression that comes from within you? That transformation is the subject of a new groundbreaking documentary film, TATTOO NATION.
7:00PM NEWFILMMAKERS SHORT FILM PROGRAM Yvette Farmer KEELEY FORSYTH ‘THEN THERE CAME A TIME’ (2013, 4 minutes) Sarah Friedland (AFTER) SHE LEFT (2014, 11 minutes, video) Brian DiLorenzo VOID (2013, 13 minutes, video) Amy Barrett WHAT SHOULD WE WATCH (2013, 17 minutes, video) Troy Deutsch NO ONE TOLD US (2014, 18 minutes, video) Mark Stolzenberg I LOVE YOU NOW DIE (2014, 18 minutes, video) Sanjit De Silva TIME AFTER (2013, 21 minutes, video)
9:00PM NEWFILMMAKERS FEATURE PRESENTATION Marc Lafia 27 (2014, 86 minutes, video) 27, a fiction film in the guise of a documentary, follows an artist, a group of actors, a filmmaker, and students who share similar desires to be free, to try things, to love, and to be loved. James Leary, a young artist who has walked away from his success in New York invites filmmaker Marc Lafia to his studio to talk. The filmmaker constructs a series of narratives to amplify James fears and ecstasies juxtaposing his life with Lola, an early teen poet, Divina, an intellectual with whom he’s in love and who wants to be free of him, and Tzuan, his Chinese student perplexed by translation all this folding into the documentary and another film made by Alejandro, a theater director making a film with James melding Shakespeare and surrealism.
Wednesday, October 15
NewFilmmakers celebrates Columbus Day with Latino films.
6:00PM NEWFILMMAKERS DOCUMENTARY SERIES Juan Vallejo CERRO RICO, TIERRA RICA (2012, 87 minutes, video) Two distinct mining communities in southwestern Bolivia are portrayed in this unsparing rendering of life and work in the high plateaus of the Andes mountains. More than ten thousand miners face danger and illness on the slopes and tunnels of Cerro Rico (Rich Hill), the richest silver field in mining history; as a counterpart, the breathtaking plains of Salar de Uyuni, traditionally mined for salt, contain half of the world’s lithium reserves and are still untapped.
7:45PM NEWFILMMAKERS FIRST SHORT FILM PROGRAM Abinado Meza HOUR BETWEEN DOG AND WOLF (2013, 5 minutes, video) Yasemin Tarakci LA CONFIDANCE (2013, 7 minutes, video) Victor Ridaura TRAFFIC CONES (2012, 8 minutes, video) Dan Carrillo Levy ZERO HOUR (2013, 8 minutes, video) Cali Bondad TWIN LENS (2013, 10 minutes, video) Kayla Llanes EL CUCO (2013, 12 minutes, video)
8:45PM NEWFILMMAKERS SECOND SHORT FILM PROGRAM H J Leonard MIEDO A LAS ALTURAS (2013, 4 minutes, video) Marcelo Galan STORGE (2012, 12 minutes, video) Charlie Alderman BENNY PICASSO (2013, 14 minutes, video) Mariana Sobrino PAULINA ROSAS (2012, 13 minutes, video) Alexander Barrios BLAME IT ON THE HAT (2014, 16 minutes, video)
10:00PM NEWFILMMAKERS FEATURE PRESENTATION Hector Jimenez LAS FOSAS (2012, 66 minutes, video) Twenty three men from Guanajuato, on their way to try to get illegally into the United States, disappear without a trace. Their families start a long journey to try to find them, but they stumbled with Mexican bureaucracy and indifference, just like thousands of people who have lost their loved ones in the war between the government and organised crime.
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Wednesday, October 22
NewFilmmakers presents Thrillers.
6:00PM NEWFILMMAKERS DOCUMENTARY SERIES Mark Oliver TESLA’s ENGINE (2014, 55 minutes, video) The film Tesla’s Engine is the story of Nikola Tesla’s last day on earth. A film that penetrates the veil that for so long has hid the triumphs, tragedies and mysteries of what many call the world’s greatest and most warily ignored inventor.
7:00PM NEWFILMMAKERS SHORT FILM PROGRAM Uzair Merchant CANDYMAN (2014, 5 minutes, 16mm) Dani Schoffman DAYBREAK (2014, 7 minutes, video) Rodney To TWO WEEKS (2013, 11 minutes, video) Susan Hogue THE DOWN DOWNS: JENA (2013, 13 minutes, video) Lesley Steele DESTINY JONES (2014, 16 minutes, video)
8:15PM NEWFILMMAKERS FIRST FEATURE PRESENTATION Adam Engel ON A COUNTRY ROAD (2014, 71 minutes, video) The Wounded Bird, a turn of the century painting, steeped in blood and misfortune, has turned up somewhere in Maine. It’s presence alone, unknowingly brings four four people to meet their inescapable fate.
9:45PM NEWFILMMAKERS SECOND FEATURE PRESENTATION Ilara Gamberelli TI OFFRO DA BERE (2014, 98 minutes, video) Christian is a dreamer who cannot find his place in this world; for the past 10 years he’s been living in London, a city of a million opportunities, and training to become a professional in martial arts. At 35 years old, nothing he aspired to has become a reality. When he finds himself unemployed, his girlfriend (tired of his endless excuses) kicks him to the curb. Now he will be forced back to his birthplace, Genoa, where he will have to rediscover himself, reinvent himself, and above all else adapt himself to a new reality of friends and family, a reality far different from that which he imagined.
Wednesday, October 29
Wednesday, November 5
NewFilmmakers celebrates Halloween. Hosted by Dan Abella programmer of the PhilipKDick Festival
NewFilmmakers celebrates Politics and Addiction.
6:00PM NEWFILMMAKERS Short Film Program Dan Abella The MULDER CHRONICLES (TRAILER ) (3 minutes) Edmond Deraedt RELIQUARY 8 (8 minutes) Jason Markowitz THE DAHL HOUSE (8 minutes) William Holden THE NULL SET (10 minutes) Peter La Sala & Christopher Ventura EXCEPT FOR US (11 minutes) Scott Danzig SKY PARADISE (13 minutes) Winnie Cheung DEAR LUCAS (19 minutes) Daniel Abella THE SINGULARITY (17 minutes) Alessandro Bricoli IGNORENATUS ALIUS (23 minutes)
8:00PM NEWFILMMAKERS Feature Presentation Mark Netter THE NIGHTMARE CODE (2014, 99 minutes) Nightmare Code is an independent sci-fi thriller about computerized behavior recognition, behavior modification and 24/7 surveillance. It takes place in a troubled start-up where a young programmer with a troubled past of his own is brought in to finish the company’s product on a tight deadline, in the wake of the murderous rampage and suicide of the previous programmer. The deeper he probes into the code, the more his own behavior changes as the code takes on a life of it’s own. Utilizing surveillance camera, PC cam, videochat and eyeglasscam, for more than half the movie the viewer watches four images at once, but often out-of sync as if someone - perhaps the software program itself - is telling the story.
6:00PM NEWFILMMAKERS DOCUMENTARY SERIES Jared Bratt STREAMER (2013, 10 minutes, video)
7:45PM NEWFILMMAKERS SHORT FILM PROGRAM Macho Miranda CORAZON (2013, 3 minutes, video) David Maire IN SESSION (2013, 13 minutes, video) Zach Fleming WE’LL BE HAPPY OVER THERE (2014, 13 minutes, video) Mary Neely THE DRESSER (2014, 13 minutes, video) Alicia J. Rose THE GIFT OF GRAVITY (2013, 16 minutes, video)
9:00PM NEWFILMMAKERS FEATURE PRESENTATION John Smith INDIGO (2013, 93 minutes, video) Eli Casey, an up-and-coming photographer and recovering heroin addict, implodes after his son is kidnapped. He separates from his wife. He stops working. He gives up. As a favor to his agent, Eli begrudgingly agrees to shoot a wedding. While there, he takes a picture of a suspicious couple who offer to bribe him in return for deleting certain photos. Eli refuses. The next day, Eli discovers that the flower girl at the wedding disappeared and Eli sets out to conquer his demons and save the girl.
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Wednesday, November 12
Wednesday, November 19
6:00PM NEWFILMMAKERS DOCUMENTARY SERIES
6:00PM NEWFILMMAKERS SPECIAL EVENT
Joel Katz WHITE: A MEMOIR IN COLOR (2012, 61 minutes, video) WHITE: A MEMOIR IN COLOR is a personal memoir film about what it means to be white in America. It tells an emotional multi-generational story about my (white) family that encompasses immigration, assimilation, liberal idealism, bitter disillusionment, and ultimately reconciliation and an adoption that makes our family multi-racial.
Zachary Maxwell ANATOMY OF A SNOW DAY (2014, 41 minutes, video) When his school remains open during a winter storm, an ambitious young documentary filmmaker searches for answers from the adults calling the shots.
NewFilmmakers celebrates Veterans Day.
NewFilmmakers presents its Works In Progress Series and
7:15PM NEWFILMMAKERS SPECIAL EVENT Alanna John RESTIVE (2013, 9 minutes, video) Molly Calliste LINGER (2013, 21 minutes, video) Jason Donghyuk Jeon JASON IN WONDERLAND - CEASEFIRE AND DMZ (2013, 24 minutes, video)
9:00PM NEWFILMMAKERS FEATURE FILM Chase Conner LESS LOST (2012, 76 minutes, video) Luke is a young and medically retired soldier struggling to reconnect with his wife and daughter. Through a friendship with another veteran, Darien, he learns to keep moving.
7:00PM NEWFILMMAKERS SPECIAL EVENT Garden of DeLight, Another Experiment By Women curate by Lili White
Joey Huertas (AKA Jane Public) THE D-BLOK SNAG (5 minutes, 16mm) Rhayne Vermette BLACK RECTANGLE (2 minutes, 16mm) Rhayne Vermette FULL OF FIRE (3 minutes, 16mm) Denise Iris SWEETMEATS (5 minutes, video) Katya Yakubov SHE LEARNS TO LUNGE (7 minutes, video) Lili White TURQUOISE BEADS with voices of: Marcel Duchamp, Langston Hughes, Krishnamurti (39 minutes, video)
8:30PM NEWFILMMAKERS FEATURE PRESENTATION Linsley Farley BULLS’ NIGHT OUT (2000, 82 minutes, video) Four retired New York City police detectives with a lot of time to kill decide to clean up an urban neighborhood where one of them owns a bar. Their attempted vigilantism leads to tragic … (original NewFilmmakers screening June 2009)
Wednesday, November 26
Wednesday, December 3
6:00PM NEWFILMMAKERS DOCUMENTARY SERIES
6:00PM NEWFILMMAKERS SHORT FILM PROGRAM
Anthony Haden-West FORGIVE US (2013, 78 minutes, video) After losing 83 colleagues on September 11th, 2001, the film director Anthony Haden West, saw the US, his newly adopted homeland, descend into a thinly disguised anti-Muslim frenzy that left him aghast. He is traditionally Christian but had no understanding of evangelical America. He picked up a camera and followed 4 US missionaries through Muslim parts of Africa over 5 years. The film is tender, warm, close to the characters but still shows a sample of a vast global trend in religious fundamentalism.
Tafari Lawton RELATIONSHIPS (2014, 4 minutes, video) Ronit Pinto EODIPUS (2013, 4 minutes, video) Sabina Sattar FLOWERS (2014, 9 minutes, video) Joshua Fisher LET HER DANCE (2014, 16 minutes, video) Eric Naylor THE DIVORCE (2014, 19 minutes, video)
NewFilmmakers celebrates Thanksgiving.
NewFilmmakers presents Relationship Night.
7:30PM NEWFILMMAKERS SHORT FILM PROGRAM Animation
Beyon & Jessie Chen RED (2014, 2 minutes, video) Emma Eisner THE LONG NIGHT (2014, 2 minutes, video) Yvette Farmer PEOPLE LIKE YOU ‘HAVE SOME PRIDE’ (2013. 3 minutes. video Falyaz Jafri BABY, I LOVE YOU (2012, 3 minutes, video) Margeaux Walter ACT OF GOD (2013, 4 minutes, video) Livio Fornoni ADRIANO DALL’ABISSO (2013, 4 minutes, video) Rico Grunenfelder KRANK (2014, 8 minutes, video) Evan Mann THE OTHERWORLDLY (2013, 8 minutes, video) Steven Markowitz HANDS OF FAME (2014, 9 minutes, video) Faiyaz Jafri PLANET UTERO (2012, 10 minutes, video)
7:15PM NEWFILMMAKERS FIRST FEATURE PRESENTATION Jonathan Smith THE WORST YEAR OF MY LIFE (2013, 80 minutes, video) The Worst Year of My Life is a comedic drama about a down-on-his-luck romantic named Kyle who, one week before proposing to his girlfriend, discovers that she’s been sleeping with another man. Unemployed, saddled with debt, and depressed, Kyle embarks on a funny yet affecting journey to recovery that involves living in his car, bottom-of-the-barrel jobs, therapy, online dating, and Kyle’s own wild, fantastical, and snarky imagination.
8:45PM NEWFILMMAKERS SECOND FEATURE PRESENTATION Kamal Ahmed LAUGH KILLER LAUGH (2014, 90 minutes, RED) A Jewel thief named Frank Stone is a very deeply disturbed, anti social, milquetoast who finds no joy or humor in anything - until he awakens from a deep coma.
8:45PM NEWFILMMAKERS FEATURE PRESENTATION Marc Menchaca THIS IS WHERE WE LIVE (2012, 97 minutes, video) When wanderer Noah Warden’s newest odd job is caregiver to the Sutton family’s son, August, who has Cerebral Palsy, an unlikely friendship is forged. A slice-of-life drama set in the Texas hill country, THIS IS WHERE WE LIVE, explores the shifting dynamics and strengths of the bonds of family.
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Wednesday, December 10
Wednesday, December 17, Courthouse
6:00PM NEWFILMMAKERS DOCUMENTARY SERIES
6:00PM NEWFILMMAKERS DOCUMENTARY SERIES
Kristine Stolakis FUNNY WORK (2014, 5 minutes, 16mm) Dan Delorenzo COFFEE TO GO (2013, 6 minutes, video) Anthony Ruiz & Ed Trucco TRUTH WILL OUT (2014, 9 minutes, video) Jay Shatz WILD WOMAN (2013, 12 minutes, video) Murat-Eyup Gonultas HONEYMOON HOTEL (2013, 22 minutes, video)
Rob Florence ZACK & ADDIE (2014, 75 minutes, video) ZACK AND ADDIE explores the possible root causes of an internationally notorious 2006 French Quarter murder-suicide that involved dismemberment, beheading, and the cooking of human remains. The documentary addresses issues including the impact of Iraq and Bosnian military experience; post Hurricane Katrina P.T.S.D closeted homosexuality in the military; drug / alcohol abuse; the disappearing safety net reflected by an absence of psychiatric services in crisis; sexual abuse of children; and the role and responsibility of the media during tragedy and disaster. In exploring this confounding, mysterious crime, this film raises as many questions as it answers.
NewFilmmakers presents a Night Of Comedy.
NewFilmmakers celebrates Crime & Punishment.
7:15PM NEWFILMMAKERS SHORT FILM PROGRAM Alex Beh LUNCHES WITH MEL (2014, 6 minutes, video) Eduardo Rufeisen HUMAN RESOURCES (2013, 8 minutes, video) Paul Medico STOOP (2013, 12 minutes, video) Mike Lars White STEVE’S PROBLEM (2013, 15 minutes, video) Kayla Martine INSOMNIA (2014, 16 minutes, video)
8:30PM NEWFILMMAKERS FEATURE PRESENTATION Michael Kuell READY OR KNOT (2013, 96 minutes, video) When Zoe turns down Jack’s marriage proposal in front of friends and family, their relationship falters, they break up and Jack moves out. But now that they’re free and single, why are they so miserable and why can’t they stop thinking about each other?
7:30PM NEWFILMMAKERS SHORT FILM PROGRAM Josef Lorenzo BIRTHDAY BOY (2014, 9 minutes, video) Adam Vazquez KEEP ME SAFE (2014, 22 minutes, video) Bryan Rooney KATJA GLIESON’S METROPOLIS (2013, 15 minutes, video)
8:30PM NEWFILMMAKERS FEATURE PRESENTATION Eric Rivas VAMP BIKERS VIDEO (2014, 8 minutes, video) Josh Itzkowitz JAMMED (2014, 72 minutes, video) Rachel and her boyfriend Evan attend a jam band festival to document an upand-coming band, The Epic Concept. When Rachel’s gear gets stolen, Evan’s on a mission to find the missing camera.
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Wednesday, December 17, Deren
Sunday, December 21
6:00PM NEWFILMMAKERS DOCUMENTARY SERIES
6:00PM NEWFILMMAKERS DOCUMENTARY SERIES
Shawn Kosmerly A SECOND SKIN (2013, 10 minutes, video) Jamerry KIm WHO IS PAULINE PARK? (2012, 12 minutes, video) Jessica Hayes LOVE YA (2014, 19 minutes, video)
Caro Jost FINAL TRACES OF THE ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISTS (2014, 45 minutes, video) Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Willem de Kooning, Peggy Guggenheim et.al.,: what is left of their former studios, galleries, bars, meetings places in New York City today? Filmmaker Caro Jost (a famous artist herself) follows in the footsteps of these artists of an era. In a mixture of walk and detective hunt, she shows what has now become of these once important places, where art history was made and the Abstract Expressionism arises after WW II in NYC.
NewFilmmakers presents Gay & Lesbian films.
NewFilmmakers celebrates Christmas.
7:00PM NEWFILMMAKERS FIRST SHORT FILM PROGRAM Alan Weintraub HEAD-TIE (2013, 11 minutes, video) Genesis Diaz HERE WE GO (2014, 13 minutes, video) William Scurry Jr. THIS IS WHAT WE KNOW (2014, 16 minutes, video) Shu Zhu EROS (2013, 26 minutes, video)
8:15PM NEWFILMMAKERS SECOND SHORT FILM PROGRAM
7:00PM NEWFILMMAKERS SHORT FILM PROGRAM
Rebecca Farina VICARIOUS (2014, 11 minutes) Suzanne Trauth JIGSAW (2012, 22 minutes, video) Jill Salvino TAKING IT FOR GRANTED (2013, 23 minutes, video)
Joe Ahern YOUR MOTHER’S MAIDEN NAME (2013, 4 minutes, video) Annie Kaempfer SLOW AND STEADY (2013, 11 minutes, video) Uta Seibicke LAST CHRISTMAS (2013, 14 minutes, video Shadab Omar ARE YOU PROUD OF ME? (2013, 15 minutes, video) Gala Goliani RED RIDER (2013, 17 minutes, video)
9:45PM NEWFILMMAKERS FEATURE PRESENTATION
8:30PM NEWFILMMAKERS FEATURE PRESENTATION
Benjamin Walter PINK ZONE (2013, 93 minutes, 35mm) When a group of young delinquents, carrying a deadly virus for women, attacks a girls high school, the spoiled reckless daughter of a powerful local man has to collaborate with her cruel schoolmates to get out before she gets infected.
Mauri Bernstein CHRISTMAS CRACKERS (2014, 7 minutes)
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Caroline Goodman-Thomases THE BELLES OF GREENLEE COUNTY (2012, 31 minutes, video) A modern look at the real American West, THE BELLES OF GREENLEE COUNTY provides a window into the lives contemporary women ranchers in southeastern Arizona. They can ride all day, work alongside their husbands and still come home and make biscuits and a pie. Jean’s story and manner perfectly capture the twofold sweet/tough qualities intrinsic to each of the Belles. Jean serves as the film’s ambassador into this insular cattle ranching community. She takes us to a meeting of the Greenlee County Cowbelles, where we listen in as they plan the annual Christmas Dance.
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NewFilmmakers Online
Many of the films we screen this Summer at Anthology will be available on NewFilmmakers Online. If you can not attend the screening at Anthology or would like to see a film again, go to www.newfilmmakersonline.com. You can watch most of the films online or you can download them to your computer, Ipod, or burn them on a DVD. The entire purchase price of an an online download goes to the filmmaker.
NewFilmmakers Online puts the popular New York and Los Angeles screening series on the Internet and gives independent filmmakers the ability to reach audiences worldwide. Now NewFilmmakers Online awards the Film of the Month prize to the online film which sells the most copies. The NewFilmmakers Film of the Month Award is based on actual sales and demonstrates to festival programmers and distributors that the winning film is popular with audiences. Film of the Month winners receive a NewFilmmakers New York Screening and a NewFilmmakers Mailing promoting the film to 25,000 Festival Programmers, Distributors, and Indie Film Fans as well as Featured Placement on the NewFilmmaker web sites for one month.
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