Spring 2014
Weekly • Anthology Film Archives • 32 Second Avenue • $6 All Night
A New York Heart Beat Screening on April 2nd at 8:15pm
The NewFilmmakers Screening Series selects films and videos often overlooked by traditional film festivals. This quarter we start with a screening of A New York Heart Beat, written and directed by Tjardus Greidanus, distributed by Echo Bridge Entertainment. As a part of our college series we will be featuring our first series by Columbia University. In addition to new documentaries, short films, features, and works in progress, admission includes free receptions and networking events with filmmakers. Admission for the whole night is still only $6.
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Wednesday, April 2
NewFilmmakers starts its Spring Season
6:00 NEWFILMMAKERS DOCUMENTARY SERIES Zijian Mu ONE CHILD (2013, 40 minutes, video) The 2008 Sichuan earthquake,China’s deadliest disaster in three decades, killed 90,000 people, including thousands of children. For the majority of families in China, losing one child means losing their only child. One Child follows the journey of three families, all from the devastated city of Beichuan, as they struggle to move past their loss and long for normalcy.
7:00 NEWFILMMAKERS SHORT FILM PROGRAM Nia Imani AUTUMN LEAVES (2013, 7 minutes, video) Okke Rutte IN MOTION (2013, 18 minutes, video) Gregory Michael Baney SPREADING THIN (2013, 21 minutes, video) Alex Lombard SOPHIE (2013, 14 minutes, video)
8:15 NEWFILMMAKERS FEATURE PRESENTATION Tjardus Greidanus A NEW YORK HEARTBEAT (2014, 90 minutes, video) Tjardus Greidanus wrote and directed this period street gang drama starring Escher Holloway, Rachel Brosnahan (HOUSE OF CARDS) and veteran actor Eric Roberts. His first narrative feature tells the story of Spider, a 17-year-old gang leader, trying to make a rep for himself on the streets of Brooklyn in 1959. A bad choice lands him on the wrong side of a notorious gangster, and in his attempt to hide he is taken in by a sheltered young woman who finds herself in a very precarious position. www.anewyorkheartbeatmovie.com
Wednesday, April 9
NewFilmmakers presents Action Films.
6:00 NEWFILMMAKERS DOCUMENTARY SERIES Scott Chamberlin Hoyt IN THE MAGIC OF THE GREEN MOUNTAINS (2013, 74 minutes, 16mm) Vermont herbalists Jeff and Melanie Carpenter sold their natural products business to buy raw land and start an organic farm to grow medicinal herbs, rather than source them from halfway around the world. The farmers exemplify a relationship of living sustainably with nature, that requires giving, as much as receiving. We see into their lives, the healing dimension, the changes. Unforeseen hardships, are met, with commitment, unwavering purpose, and with a touch of magic. The film is about love and partnership, how embracing the green world, will inspire us to roll-up our sleeves, and dig our hands into the soil, to grow our own. When the mind slows down, the heart opens. It is an uplifting story that is beautifully portrayed, entirely on 16mm film.
In The MAGIC
of the GREEN
MOUNTAINS A film about an organic herb farm and the love that made it happen
7:30 NEWFILMMAKERS SHORT FILM PROGRAM Katrina Strickland UNITY IN WE (2009, 6 minutes, video) Enrique Flores Roldan SLEEP PARALYSIS (2013, 12 minutes, video) Toni Branson THE EDUCATION OF ELLIS (2013, 35 minutes, video)
8:30 NEWFILMMAKERS FEATURE PROGRAM Edgar Jimz DIRTY SHIELD (2014, 86 minutes, video) Detective Ricardo Colletti’s personal life is turned upside down when his wife is raped by members of a notorious street gang. When two of the gang members are found dead, the Internal Affairs Bureau makes a bold move to catch their suspect before the remaining rapist is killed. They will attempt to break the blue wall of silence in an unorthodox way.
“When the mind slows down, the heart opens . . .”
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Wednesday, April 16
NewFilmmakers presents a night of Experimental Film
6:00 NEWFILMMAKERS DOCUMENTARY PROGRAM
Digital Film Academy
J.J. Starr THE DUST ON OUR FEET (2013, 50 minutes, video) Born into a culture that is forced to collect trash for a living, three kids will attempt to graduate high school and attend university.
7:00 NEWFILMMAKERS COLLEGE SCREENING SERIES Digital Film Academy presents a series of new shorts
8:00 NEWFILMMAKERS SHORT FILM PROGRAM Abinadi Meza BLACK BOX RECORDER (2013, 3 minutes, video) Campbell Logan ORION BEACH (2014, 5 minutes, video) Devon Johnson VIEW FROM A HILL (2013, 8 minutes, video) Harry Bartle DAVEDREAMER (2014, 16 minutes, 16mm) Jack Kyser JAKE THE CINEPHILE (2013, 24 minutes, video)
9:15 NEWFILMMAKERS FEATURE PROGRAM Sean Weiner WE ARE STRANGERS (2013, 73 minutes, video) A man shutters his windows and locks his door, intending to enjoy a debauched night alone away from his girlfriend, when he’s interrupted by a surprise guest. A woman on the run ventures out to parts unknown to visit an old friend, but winds up an unwanted outsider at a private party. This is We Are Strangers, an improvised anthology of interconnected stories that explores the bonds we’d rather forget, the bonds we run from, and ultimately the bonds we find when we’re least expecting it. Raw, unpredictable, and surprisingly funny, the debut film from New York’s Private Cabin Collective explores the space between where old relationships end and new relationships begin.
One-Year Production Membership for Graduates DFA graduates receive a One-Year Production Membership after completing a digital filmmaking program. What does this mean? Continued access to DFA equipment and the facility free of charge! The Membership has been used by alumni to continue their training, shoot their next projects, and begin earning money as independent filmmakers! With the Membership, DFA graduates have a full production company at their fingertips! For more information on the Membership visit DFA online at www.digitalfilmacademy.com and click on “Membership.”
MY FRIENDS
Wednesday, April 23
NewFilmmakers presents Earth Day with films about life and death
6:00 NEWFILMMAKERS SPECIAL PROGRAM
Directed by Kreshnik Seseri
Philip Blackburn THE SUN PALACE (2012, 63 minutes, video) An epic visual and musical homage to the era, not too long ago, when tuberculosis consumed the nation. 80% of the populace had been infected and were one bloody cough away from a desperate prognosis. X-Rays were brand new. Antibiotics were four decades in the future.
7:15 NEWFILMMAKERS SHORT FILM PROGRAM A R Ogbu THE NECKLACE (2013, 15 minutes, video) Jessica Kaye ANGEL (2012, 14 minutes, video) Yael Bridge THE HABITAT GAME (2013, 17 minutes, video)
8:15 NEWFILMMAKERS FEATURE PRESENTATION Kreshnik Seseri MY FRIENDS (2013, 140 minutes, video) Excessive life has no boundaries; stature in life, reality and actuality catches up with everyone. One will find out whom his true family and friends are when tested. When goings get tough, is time to be a man. Where do your loyalties lie? ‘My Friends’ ; on opposite sides of the law; will attempt to maintain their love, relationship, and RESPECT! When murder is always a valid option, Respect keeps the balance, but creed is what they bleed. How far will they go for each other? In the underworld: sex, drugs and cash, it’s just Monday! Love or Lust; Loyalty or Legacy, the barrel will make that decision! Keep your friends close, and your family closer!
Screens April 23rd @ 8:15 www.NewFilmmakers.com
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Wednesday, April 30
Wednesday, May 7
6:00 NEWFILMMAKERS FIRST SPECIAL PROGRAM
5:30 NEWFILMMAKERS RECEPTION
Tatyana Bronstein PRIMA (2013, 57 minutes) Prima is a moving portrait of Larissa Ponomarenko, prima ballerina of the Boston Ballet, who has recently hung up her pointe shoes to pursue new avenues of self-expression.
6:00 NEWFILMMAKERS DOCUMENTARY
NewFilmmakers presents East Carolina University Film Guild
NewFilmmakers celebrates Cinco de Miedo
7:15 NEWFILMMAKERS SECOND SPECIAL PROGRAM Edith Stephen celebrates her 95th birthday with a new Documentary Edith Stephen THE LOPSIDED PEOPLE (2014, 60 minutes) For simplicity we will call the left brain more interest in Money and the right brain more interested in the ARTS. How can we create a world that is more balanced and which side are you on?
8:30 NEWFILMMAKERS SHORT FILM PROGRAM Ben Perron DEATH OF A FRIEND (2013, 3 minutes, 35mm) Jeremy Stewart LAUNDRY DAY (2013, 4 minutes, video) Bernd Porr WHITE ROMEO (2013, 9 minutes, video) Jacob Beyer RUNNING SKINNY (2013, 11 minutes, video) Smeralda Abel CUSTOMER #935 (2013, 17 minutes, video) Etienne Goldet BIRTHDAY CRASHERS (2013, 15 minutes, video)
Brian Oh WAIT (2013, 54 minutes, video) Two friends, a filmmaker and a musician, travel through South America, journeying toward an ever elusive home. Along the way, they capture stories on the road through song and film, discovering the beauty of the present.
7:00 NEWFILMMAKERS SHORT FILM PROGRAM TBA
8:30 NEWFILMMAKERS FEATURE PRESENTATION Pablo Oliverio CINE TOMADO (2014, 90 minutes, video) Fiction about a capitalism crisis in Argentina.
9:45 NEWFILMMAKERS FEATURE PRESENTATION Tim Hall ORDINARY WILDERNESS (2011, 97 minutes, video) Ordinary Wilderness Fred, a twenty-something slacker, finds himself at a place where nothing has gone as planned. Forced out of his mother’s home, he finds himself relegated to the guest bedroom of his successful, older brother. Over the blistering summer in North Carolina, he finds his only friend in Donnie, a surprisingly ambitious buffoon, who stands as his own biggest obstacle.
Wednesday, May 14
Wednesday, May 21
6:00 NEWFILMMAKERS DOCUMENTARY SERIES
6:00 NEWFILMMAKERS DOCUMENTARY SERIES
James Wallace AT FEST (2013, 81 minutes, video) AT FEST is a fun, heartwarming acoustic music documentary with universal themes of family, music, and love centered on an up-and-coming band getting a big break at the much-loved 50th annual Philadelphia Folk Festival.
BJ Barretta SURVIVING DEATH: A PARANORMAL DEBATE (2012, 27 minutes, video)
7:30 NEWFILMMAKERS WOMEN FILMMAKERS
Chiara Natalini MOTHER (2013, 8 minutes, video) Rodney Reyes NOT FADE AWAY (2013, 9 minutes, video) Jack McWilliams THE WOUND (2013, 13 minutes, video) Michael Nicholls DEVIL’S CORNER (2013, 15 minutes, video) Serge Levin PARAGON ALGORITHM (2012, 20 minutes, video)
NewFilmmakers presents New York films.
NewFilmmakers presents Sci-Fi night
2013 ANOTHER EXPERIMENT by WOMEN Film Festival (AXWFF) BODY HOT curated by Lili White Ellen Sylvarnes ASTRONOMY DOMINE (3 minutes) Ursula Sommer HEARTBEAT (5 minutes) Nicola Walkerden CINAMNESIA;(16 minutes) Lili White I SNAKE-FOOT (6 minutes) Reka Szucs ISTEN BÁRÁNYA| / AGNUS DEI (11 minutes) Linda Fenstermaker INVERSION (13 minutes) Cornelia Eichhorn VED’MA (14 minutes) Lili White FOR SALLY (3 minutes)
7:45 NEWFILMMAKERS FEATURE PRESENTATION Andrew Kightlinger DUST OF WAR (2013, 92 minutes, video) In a post-apocalyptic American Frontier, a soldier fends off a brutal warmonger to rescue a girl fated as the savior of humanity. It’s ‘Star Wars’ on the prairie!
8:45 NEWFILMMAKERS FEATURE PRESENTATION James Arrabito BROOKLYN UNEMPLOYED (2013, 77 minutes, video) Brooklyn Unemployed is a no budget feature film shot by a bunch of unemployed/underemployed filmmakers having a good time working on their personal project. Making this film for less then what most NYers pay for rent in a month was challenging but the tenacity of everyone involved won through and the film was finished. Shot from an outline as oppose to a script the film takes a look at what its like for a comic artist holding onto his dreams of surviving off his work instead of getting a 9-5. When the pressure gets too much the decisions he makes to get ahead have drastic repercussions on his life. We are proud to present you Brooklyn Unemployed, funded by our blood, sweat, and tears!
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6:30 NEWFILMMAKERS SHORT FILM PROGRAM
9:30 NEWFILMMAKERS SECOND FEATURE PRESENTATION Stig Svendsen ELEVATOR (2011, 86 minutes, video) Nine Wall St. party-goers are trapped on an elevator fifty floors up - one has a bomb. They will do absolutely anything to survive.
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Tuesday, May 27
NewFilmmakers presents Coming Of Age films.
6:00 NEWFILMMAKERS DOCUMENTARY SERIES Sezar Alkassab STAND-UP: A DOCUMENTARY BY JENNIFER DARWIN (2012, 60 minutes, video) A mockumentary about a filmmaker who goes to the Lion’s Den Comedy Club, an open-mic comedy club in Piccadilly Circus London, to find out about stand-up comedy and what being a comedian is like.
7:15 NEWFILMMAKERS SHORT FILM PROGRAM about Coming of Age
Natasha Paris MARGARITAS ON THE ROAD (2012, 8 minutes, video) Jaime Chapin THE MORNING TIDE (2012, 12 minutes, video) Michael Lamarra SURFACE TENSION (2013, 11 minutes, video) Shane Andries WHATEVER SUNLIGHT REMAINS (2013, 22 minutes, video)
THE TASTE OF FREEDOM K-One, X-Elle and Red give up their careers for a life on the road. they pick up Thomas, a hitchhiker. Little does he know that his life will take a new turn…
8:30 NEWFILMMAKERS FEATURE PRESENTATION
A film by NATASHA PARIS
Brian Hauser NONTRADITIONAL (2013, 74 minutes, video) Nontraditional tells the story of Erika Byrd, a 26-year old female combat veteran who is now a freshman in college. Erika contends with freshman classes, noisy neighbors, well-meaning classmates, and demanding professors. She struggles with this transition, and the temptation to return to the structure of the military is strong. Will she have the courage to confront this kind of transformation and plunge headlong into a new life? Will she mistake it for some kind of idealistic nonsense? Will real change, however incremental, just seem too hard for her?
LUNALUZ PRODUCTIONS MR. CONCEITED FILMS PRESENT A NATASHA PARIS FILM “MARGARITAS ON THE ROAD” VANESSA COOK KIMBERLY NGUYEN FELICIA TAYLOR EDITED BY DWIGHT MATHIS WES SUTTON MUSIC BY EVAN WEISS CINEMATOGRAPHY BY MARTIN CATT PRODUCED BY BLAKE E. JOHNSON WRITTEN & EXEC. PRODUCED BY NATASHA PARIS CLAUDIA BIALLARGEON
Wednesday, June 4
Tuesday, June 10
6:00 NEWFILMMAKERS DOCUMENTARY SERIES
6:00 NEWFILMMAKERS DOCUMENTARY SERIES
NewFilmmakers presents new films
NewFilmmakers presents Brandon’s Night of Christian Sex
Third World News Reel presents a new series of documentaries.
7:00 NEWFILMMAKERS SPECIAL PROGRAM
Jack Truman 7 STORIES FROM AN OLD STRIPPER (2011, 65 minutes, video) A collection of 7 short films about a former stripper in a ghost town.
7:15 NEWFILMMAKERS SHORT FILM PROGRAM
Short Experimental Documentaries
A program of short innovative and unconventional documentaries Curated by Tova Beck-Friedman Lionel Retornaz LA CRAIE ET LA PLUME (2012, 11 minutes) A conversation with children about the world Todd Herman CABINET (2007, 16 minutes) Life - from birth to death Roger Deutsch MARIO MAKES A MOVIE (2004, 12 minutes) A developmentally disabled man learns how to use a movie camera Camille Hardman & Yasuko Nagano WHEN THE CLOUDS CAME (2013, 2 minutes) A boy who lives in a world where bright colors are to be feared. Catron Booker BETWIXT AND BETWEEN (2013, 11 minutes) A journey through the archives and a tribute to the jazz virtuoso, Ms. Valaida Snow. Tess Martin THE WHALE STORY (3 minutes) A fisherman experiences a connection with a whale in the waters of San Francisco.
8:15 NEWFILMMAKERS FEATURE PRESENTATION
Rachel McKeon MARTA (2014, 7 minutes, video) Robbie Norris SECOND KISS (2012, 9 minutes, video) Takahisa Shiraishi JUDITH (2013, 9 minutes, 16mm) Blake Pruitt CAMCHAT (2013, 14 minutes, video) Charles Chintzer Lai INSOMNIACS (2013, 15 minutes, video)
8:30 NEWFILMMAKERS FIRST FEATURE PRESENTATION Anna Margarita Albelo WHO’S AFRAID OF VAGINA WOLF (2013, 83 minutes, video) As another birthday rolls around, forty-year-old filmmaker Anna (played by the director) returns to her never-changing list of resolutions: lose twenty pounds, get a girlfriend, and direct a feature film. Imagine Liz Lemon, if she were a lesbian cinéaste with a dash of Cuban blood in her. This year, Anna plans to knock (at least) two of those resolutions out with one stone, as she begins writing a lesbian remake of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, devised to win the affections of her leading lady, Katia (Janina Gavankar of The LWord).
9:45 NEWFILMMAKERS SECOND FEATURE PRESENTATION Chris Hansen WHERE WE STARTED (2012, 105 minutes, video) When there’s a line you know you shouldn’t cross...what makes you cross it anyway? Two married strangers who have reached the age where life’s disappointments begin to add up consider other options when a chance meeting leads to a possible romance in this drama.
Jean-Philippe Tremblay SHADOWS OF LIBERTY Shadows of Liberty presents the phenomenal true story of today’s disintegrating freedoms within the U.S. media, and government, that they don’t want you to see.
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Wednesday, June 18
NewFilmmakers presents the Horror’s of Life
6:00 NEWFILMMAKERS DOCUMENTARY SERIES two experimental Documentaries
Bobby Lewis NOISEFOLD (2013, 15 minutes, video) Jin Kyu Ahn ORGAN (2011, 24 minutes, video)
7:00 NEWFILMMAKERS SECOND DOCUMENTARY PROGRAM Ilse van Lamoen DAUGHTERS OF THE NIGER DELTA (2012, 56 minutes, video) DAUGHTERS OF THE NIGER DELTA tells a different story about the Niger Delta than the usual media reports about oil outputs, conflict, and kidnapping. Through the life stories of three ordinary women, this bottom-up documentary sheds light on human rights violations in the Niger Delta that we rarely hear about in the news.
8:15 NEWFILMMAKERS SHORT PROGRAM Ronit Pinto HOUSE OF THE HAUNTED HOOKER (2014, 8 minutes, 8mm) Claire Ensslin PEDESTRIAN (2013, 7 minutes, 35mm) Brian Stone COLD QUIET (2013, 10 minutes, video) Greg Falkin PROVOCATION (2012, 30 minutes, video)
9:30 NEWFILMMAKERS FEATURE PRESENTATION John Mitchell SPHERE OF FEAR (2013, 135 minutes, video) A possessed football is killing people. Dylan Davis, with the help of a hot goth chick, must avenge his brother’s death by the football and kill it before it falls into the mercenary hands of the mysterious hunter.
Wednesday, June 25
NewFilmmakers presents new films.
6:00 NEWFILMMAKERS DOCUMENTARY SERIES Monica Alba HOME COURT (2013, 40 minutes, video) n this exploration of the power of sports, foreigners from five continents find an unlikely family in New York City through an Olympic sport that few people in the U.S. know: team handball. The squad seeks to defend its national title and cement its reputation as the ‘world’s handball club,’ a group of friends that speak a common language on and off the court. Meanwhile, the only homegrown American strives to make Team USA and represent his country in international competition
7:00 NEWFILMMAKERS SPECIAL PROGRAM NewFilmmakers presents films from Columbia University Curated by Eric Shahinian Mansi Jain SLEEP (2014, 9 minutes) Markus Englmair MILK AND BLOOD (2014, 11 minutes) Rachel del Giudice DON’T TRUST HER (2014, 8 minutes) TBA
8:30 NEWFILMMAKERS FEATURE PRESENTATION Danielle Jadelyn FOLIE À TROIS (2013, 81 minutes, video) 19-year-old Natalie is confined to her room because of her crippling OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder). She spends her days looking out the window at Guy, a young man she sees in the park every day, fantasizing of a romantic relationship with him.
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