NF Spring 2017 Quarterly Vol. 5 Issue 4
Anthology Film Archives
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Spring Series
NewFilmmakers New York® • Spring • 2017
Rivers
Wednesday / April 5th
NewFilmmakers Begins its Spring Series
5:30 NEWFILMMAKERS AWARDS PRESENTATION
a Graciela Cassel film
Recognizing the most popular films from our Winter Series
6:30PM YOUNGFILMMAKERS FIRST SHORT FILM PROGRAM
Spencer Cohen SELL BY (2016, 6 minutes, digital) Jack Nordstrom PUGET SOUND (2016, 10 minutes, digital) Stephen Bodossian CHURCH (2016, 13 minutes, digital) Henry DaCosta THE WILD THINGS (2016, 21 minutes, digital)
7:30PM NEWFILMMAKERS SECOND SHORT FILM PROGRAM
Kiara Ramirez BEHIND THE WALL (2016, 6 minutes, digital) Aaron Combs & Oli Baker JUSTICE FOR ALL (2016, 9 minutes, digital) Valerie Rose THE TRIANGLEHEADS (2016, 9 minutes, digital) Michael Jackson CRISSCROSS (2016, 13 minutes, digital) Thomas Alexander A JOURNEY TO THE EAST (2106, 15 minutes, digital)
8:30PM NEWFILMMAKERS THIRD SHORT FILM PROGRAM Graciela Cassel RIVERS (2016, 8 minutes, digital) Ke Mi NEW YORK SMELLS (2016, 10 minutes, digital) Deana LeBlanc TONSHI (2016, 13 minutes, digital)
The development of civilizations always starts with rivers. It is the multifunctional presence of the river that interests us and informs this film. Rivers serve as a place for the natural environment, for animals, and plants, as well as recreation, and also as means of transportation.
9:15PM NEWFILMMAKERS FEATURE PRESENTATION
Ricki Hostutler DEVIANT (2017, 94 minutes, digital) Jake, a young sex addict, finds his deviant mind turning on him as he continues his self-destruction through entertaining all of his darkest sexual fantasies and desires.
Tuesday / April 11th
Monday / April 24th
6:00PM NEWFILMMAKERS DOCUMENTARY PROGRAM
6:00PM ALTFEST FIRST SHORT FILM PROGRAM
NewFilmmakers presents an Earth Day program
Paul Kaplan ALMOST BOSS: THE LONGEST RUNNING TRIBUTE BAND IN HISTORY (2017, 60 minutes, digital) Ask anyone, and they’ll tell you that Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band has one of the most dedicated and fiercely loyal fans bases. Imagine a tribute band that plays Bruce’s music almost spot on and that is from Springsteen’s home state of New Jersey. Enter the B Street Band. Of those 14,000 tribute bands worldwide, there had to be a first.
7:15PM NEWFILMMAKERS SHORT FILM PROGRAM
Anoah Levine THE FISHERMAN (2016, 6 minutes, digital) Justin Cerone THE SUSTAINABLE (2015, 22 minutes, digital) Miku Otagiri FOR THE BIRDS (2015, 21 minutes, digital)
8:15PM NEWFILMMAKERS FIRST FEATURE PRESENTATION
Dell Cullum ISABELA: A GREEN EXPLORER EXPEDITION (2016, 78 minutes, video) An artist and filmmaker take an unauthorized journey around two widely known pristine and untouched Galapagos islands to show the worldwide destruction to our shorelines caused by decades of trash and debris being dumped into our oceans.
9:45PM NEWFILMMAKERS SECOND FEATURE PRESENTATION
NewFilmmakers presents an Altfest program and Spirituality
Jules Pigott THE UNCANNY UPSHURS (2016, 4 minutes, video) Dorian Carli-Jones EXCHANGE (2016, 9 minutes, digital) Savannah Magruder SKID (2016, 9 minutes, digital) Truett Vaigneur THE PSYCHOLOGY PROFESSOR (2017, 10 minutes, digital) Stephen Riscica IT GETS BETTER? (2016, 12 minutes, digital) Tommy Do MASC ONLY (2016, 16 minutes, digital) David Bobrow COUNTRY PEOPLE (2016, 18 minutes, digital)
7:45PM NEWFILMMAKERS SECOND SHORT FILM PROGRAM
Eric Alexander THE BRIGHT SIDE (2016, 16 minutes, digital) end of week Marco Cassiano THE LORDS OF DESTINY (2016, 15 minutes, digital)
9:15PM NEWFILMMAKERS FEATURE PRESENTATION
So Young Yang THE FUSION: BEING PHYSICALLY SPIRITUAL, SPIRITUALLY PHYSICAL (2016, 84 minutes, digital) This film challenges the traditional notion of “spirituality”, the distant and equivocal into something tangible and practical, our day-to-day living perhaps. From a neuroscientist to a spiritual teacher, linking Berlin-Seoul-New York and Tokyo, the contemporary urban dwellers share with us how our physical life is actually spiritual as it is.
Maryanne Galvin SEED & SPROUT: GROWING THE FOOD RESCUE REVOLUTION (2016, 47 minutes, digital) In 2015, one in six Americans experienced hunger while over 40% of food produced in the USA went uneaten. The film follows eight innovative food rescue initiatives across the USA. All Screenings @ 32 Second Avenue • New York, NY • 10003
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NewFilmmakers New York® • Spring • 2017
Wednesday / May 3rd
Spring Series
NewFilmmakers presents a YoungFilmmakers Program and Art Films
6:00PM YOUNGFILMMAKERS FIRST SHORT FILM PROGRAM
Ivana Noa FALLIN (2016, 2 minutes, digital) Claire Imler ROUGH WATER (2016, 7 minutes, digital) Pasha Gray ZOEY GRAY (2016, 16 minutes, digital) Antoneta Alamat Kusijanovic IF WE MUST DIE (2016, 19 minutes, digital) Mo She HONEY TRAP (2016, 23 minutes, digital)
7:15PM NEWFILMMAKERS SECOND SHORT FILM PROGRAM
Francesco Fontana Antonelli LUCIA (2016, 4 minutes, digital) Sunny Brún PÉRÉGRINATION BLEUTÉE (2016, 7 minutes, digital) Bradly Dever Treadaway BOOKED FOR SAFEKEEPING (2016, 9 minutes, digital) Stephanie Bollag THE PAINTED LADY (2016, 11 minutes, digital) Yusuke Fujiki DATTA-HITO (2016, 13 minutes, digital) Jared Biunno WALK AWAY (2016, 19 minutes, digital)
8:30PM NEWFILMMAKERS THIRD SHORT FILM PROGRAM Erik Hir STANDPOINT (2016, 17 minutes, digital)
Franco Melis CINEMA, MAESTRO! (2015, 56 minutes, digital) Cinema is the medium that enriched the cultural and economic relationships between Italy and the United States the most.
9:45PM NEWFILMMAKERS FEATURE PRESENTATION
Karl Shefelman LOOKING FOR THE JACKALOPE (2016, 103 minutes, digital) After a surprise phone call from his old college girlfriend, Jordan Sterling, a disenchanted New York writer, misses his plane and plunges into a harrowing hitch-hiking odyssey to his college reunion in Ohio.
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Spring Series
Tuesday / May 9th
Wednesday / May 10th
6:00PM NEWFILMMAKERS FIRST SHORT FILM PROGRAM
6:00PM NEWFILMMAKERS DOCUMENTARY PROGRAM
NewFilmmakers presents a night of Women Filmmakers and Mother’s Day films
Curated by Lili White
Juliette Liautaud RECUERDO DE MI SANTUARIO (France, 8 minutes) Carolin Koss EMERALD GREEN (Finland, 15 minutes) Anna Lytton ANOTHER SEASON (Germany, 5 minutes) Ya-Ting Hsu & Geoffrey Hughes THE RIVER (Taiwan, 13 minutes) Ruth Hayes COPPER PERFORATION LOOP TRIPTYCH (USA, 4 minutes) Andrea Novoa SURVIVOR HERB (Chile 3 minutes) Sara Bonaventura CHRONOSCOPE (Italy 4 minutes) Tânia Dinis OLD WIVES’ TALES (Portigal 4 minutes)
7:15PM NEWFILMMAKERS SECOND SHORT FILM PROGRAM
Bianca Panos FISH (2016, 5 minutes, digital) Christine Carone BECHDEL BLUES (2016, 9 minutes digital) Didem Avkan Gültekin THE LOSS (2016, 9 minutes, digital) Danielle Kampf JEANS (2016, 10 minutes, digital) Shelby Hougui ACCEPTANCE (2016, 11 minutes, digital) Mary-Pat Green WALK (2016, 20 minutes, digital)
8:30PM NEWFILMMAKERS THIRD SHORT FILM PROGRAM
Mother’s day program Lexee/Sarah McEntee/Harper MOM (2017, 9 minutes, digital)
NewFilmmakers presents a Chernobyl documentary and films about dating
Joeann Calabrese GALA’S STORY (2016, 57 minutes, digital) A funny and heartwarming series of true stories about a brave woman’s journey from the U.S.S.R. to New York City after the Chernobyl incident. This is a rough cut, not the final version.
7:15PM NEWFILMMAKERS FIRST SHORT FILM PROGRAM
Dennis Trifonov THREE YEARS (2016, 9 minutes, digital) Frederic Lehne SHY GUYS (2016, 9 minutes, digital) Kamyar Raad FLAT TIRE (2016, 10 minutes, digital) Aaron Berke HATS (2016, 15 minutes, digital) Jordan Axelrod SEVEN TEN SPLIT (2016, 22 minutes, digital)
8:30PM NEWFILMMAKERS SECOND SHORT FILM PROGRAM Craig Friedman THE IDIOT (2016, 7 minutes, digital) Joe Plummer LOVE LIFE (2015, 22 minutes, digital) Erik Martens TIME (2016, 23 minutes, digital)
9:45PM NEWFILMMAKERS FEATURE PRESENTATION
Stanislav Lavrik LIFE IN PICTURES (2016, 82 minutes, digital) After death of his father, a recluse tries to find the meaning of his existence while suicide is around the corner.
Daniel Solaris Melguizo IT’S HAPPY HOUR OUT THERE (2016, 11 minutes, digital)
Lauren Major FOSTERING CONNECTIONS (2016, 30 minutes, digital)
9:30PM NEWFILMMAKERS FEATURE PRESENTATION
Padraig Trehy SHEM THE PENMAN SINGS AGAIN (2015, 80 minutes, digital) Shem the Penman Sings Again is a journey into the creative imagination of James Joyce and his most obscure text, Finnegans Wake.
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All Screenings @ 32 Second Avenue • New York, NY • 10003
NewFilmmakers New York® • Spring • 2017
Wednesday / May 17th
Spring Series
NewFilmmakers presents Mini Docs and a night of Sci-Fi, Horror, and Fantasy
6:00PM NEWFILMMAKERS FIRST SHORT FILM PROGRAM
Short Docs Luca Pizzoleo SEEKING REBIRTH (2016, 5 minutes, digital) William Randall METHANE GHOSTS (2016, 10 minutes, digital) Simon Mendes LIFE & SAND (2016, 12 minutes, digital) Shuhan Fan ONE EIGHTIETH OF ZHANG TIANYI (2016, 20 minutes, digital)
7:30PM NEWFILMMAKERS SECOND SHORT FILM PROGRAM
Ciara Boniface MENTAL PATIENTS ONLY (2016, 6 minutes, digital) Armando Johannes REWIRED 2: UNINSTALLED FEAR (2016, 10 minutes, digital) Chris Schramm BRAINS (2015, 11 minutes, digital) Brandon Lang POST APOCALYPTIA (2015, 11 minutes, digital) Max Silver TRUNK SPACE (2015, 14 minutes, digital)
8:305PM NEWFILMMAKERS MUSICAL FILM PROGRAM
two musical films from NYFA Sean Robinson LANDED (2016, 26 minutes, digital) Sean Robinson THE LEGION OF GRADS (2016, 33 minutes, digital)
9:45PM NEWFILMMAKERS FEATURE PRESENTATION
Dan Schneidkraut VORE KING (2016, 118 minutes, digital) Vore King is a detailed portrait of R.P. Whalen, world famous horror host, trash movie guru, carnival sideshow barker, and America’s premier purveyor of vorarephilia pornography. Vorarephilia, popularly known as “vore,” is a sexual fetish where arousal is brought about by the act of one creature consuming another creature, often manifested by monsters eating women.
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NewFilmmakers New York® • Spring • 2017
Spring Series
Wednesday / May 24th
NewFilmmakers presents an Experimental Program
6:00PM NEWFILMMAKERS FIRST FILM SHORT PROGRAM
Jac Rubenstein STILL LIFES (2016, 44 minutes, digital) A meditation on looking, listening and memory, Still Lifes is a journey into the filmmaker’s own memories as that are personal as well as universal.
7:00PM NEWFILMMAKERS SECOND FILM SHORT PROGRAM
William S Davis LONGSHOREMAN (2016, 2 minutes, digital) Stephanie Davidson SNOOT IN THE CITY (2016, 2 minutes, digital) Yihui “Cece” Jiao BLANK, THE BIRD (2016, 3 minutes, digital) Bianca Boragi COTTON CANDY (2014, 4 minutes, digital) Samantha Krukowski FERMEUSE (2016, 7 minutes, digital) Paul Turano MY EARTH’S EYE (2016, 8 minutes, digital) Tiasia O’Brien BLACK ROSE (2016, 15 minutes, digital)
8:00PM NEWFILMMAKERS FIRST FEATURE PRESENTATION
Lindley Farley THE RODNEES: WE MOD LIKE DAT! (2005, 77 minutes, digital) Four young African-American men from Brooklyn have a tough time making it in the hip-hop world, discover the Beatles and decide to re-invent themselves as a modern day British-Invasion band.
9:30PM NEWFILMMAKERS SECOND FEATURE PRESENTATION
Asiel Norton ORION (2016, 110 minutes, digital) In a desolate, future world, after civilization has collapsed, a wanderer fights to save a virgin mother from a powerful magician and, with her, searches for a mythical city containing the world’s last survivors.Incto quibusa eperiata comnis et
Call for Interns NewFilmmakers New York is looking for interns! Come join our team and learn about the world of film exhibition. NewFilmmakers New York is a Film Series screening at Anthology Film Archives which was start 18 years ago by NYU Film Alumni. We screen weekly throughout the year and need interns to work in the office and at our weekly events. Some of the intern duties will involve marketing/publicity, Social Media, and Film Programming. This is a great opportunity to learn about the ins and outs of film festivals, how they operate, and why your film does (or doesn’t) get programmed. Interested candidates should email a cover letter and availability to Brandon@newfilmmakers.com.
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Wednesday / May 31st
Spring Series
NewFilmmakers presents and AltFest program followed by Mental Health shorts and a Documentary Feature about people in New York
6:00PM ALTFEST FIRST SHORT FILM PROGRAM
Chelsea Muscat HANDS (2016, 8 minutes, digital) Oakley Fugate & Oli Baker NOT A DAUGHTER (2016, 17 minutes, digital) Isabella Richter de Medeiros CHEERS AND QUEERS (2017, 16 minutes, digital) Aaron Immediato DICKEATERS (2016, 17 minutes, digital)
7:15PM NEWFILMMAKERS SECOND SHORT FILM PROGRAM
Steven Shaw BEYOND THE RUSH (2016, 21 minutes, digital) Tyler Byrnes BREAKFAST (2016, 10 minutes, digital) Rafe Karen DNGU [DO. NOT. GIVE. UP.] (2016, 10 minutes, digital) Antonio Darwiche EPHEMERAL (2016, 17 minutes, digital) Orit Ben Shitrit WARD OF THE FERAL HORSES (2016, 20 minutes, digital)
8:45PM NEWFILMMAKERS FIRST FEATURE PRESENTATION
Fredgy Noël SEVEN DAYS IN NEW YORK (2016, 49 minutes, digital) Seven Days In New York is a feature documentary that follows the lives of seven charismatic New Yorkers in their daily routines. The film mirrors the days of the week with each subject chronicled on a separate day. Shot in an observational, cinema verité style, with an original jazz score, the film records the subjects of the film—unique personalities who capture the New York of past and present
9:45PM NEWFILMMAKERS SECOND FEATURE PRESENTATION
Rachel Wortell & Dan Erickson A SIBLING MYSTERY (2016, 80 minutes, digital) A brother and sister become consumed with investigating a mysterious woman they suspect has stolen their winning lottery ticket, endangering their summer party plans.
A young charismatic preacher and his hot Latina girlfriend travel Route66 scamming the small churches along the way only to find that the bogus healing powers he portrays become real. The healing powers serve as a blessing and a curse. Irish Film Critic (James McDonald): “Director Norman McGuire, shows a natural gift for storytelling and stylistic camera movement. While the movie subscribes to convention, Jesse James elevates it above board and gives a wonderfully nuanced performance as a spiritually troubled protagonist, desperately wanting to do the right thing, but not always knowing how.” Accolades: The Lucky Man has already won this year at IndieFEST and set for distribution, worldwide, through Indican Films and LIONSGATE. Director’s Note: It’s been said as that one’s background and experiences are the fruits of the scripts we create. If we are lucky enough, we get to tell these stories in moving pictures. This movie was totally a fictional vision that I drew from my life growing up in a small town with family in very deep rooted beliefs in their spirituality. And then of course I always wanted to do my own version of a Bonnie & Clyde flick. -Norman McGuire
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NewFilmmakers New York® • Spring • 2017
Spring Series
Wednesday / June 7th
NewFilmmakers presents a YoungFilmmakers short doc program and a sci-fi feature.
6:00PM YOUNGFILMMAKERS SHORT DOC PROGRAM
Erin Sayder LEX (2016, 12 minutes, digital) Eli Bedel MY KIND OF MUSIC (2016, 15 minutes, digital) Steffie Van Rhee A LIFE BEFORE THIS (2016, 22 minutes, digital) Sarah Jordan RECOGNITION (2016, 23 minutes, digital)
7:30PM NEWFILMMAKERS SECOND SHORTS PROGRAM
Maria Riboli MEET ME HERE (2016, 10 minutes, digital) Ben Garchar JAKE (2016, 20 minutes, 35mm) Marcelo Mayen BULLOCK THE BRUISER (2016, 40 minutes, digital)
9:00PM NEWFILMMAKERS FEATURE PRESENTATION
Wednesday / June 14th
NewFilmmakers presents a Father’s Day program
6:00PM YOUNGFILMMAKERS FIRST SHORT FILM PROGRAM Logan Calder SOLDIER (2016, 5 minutes, digital) Ken Asada GROW UP (2016, 5 minutes, digital) John Kohler PASSENGER (2016, 15 minutes, digital) Tom Byrnes I’VE GOT A SON CALLED ROCK ‘N’ ROLL (2016, 15 minutes, digital) Avery Cohen BURNT ASHES (2016, 23 minutes, digital)
7:15PM NEWFILMMAKERS SECOND SHORT FILM PROGRAM
Athletic Docs Nina Horowitz THE MARGARET LAMBERT STORY (2016, 25 minutes, digital) Vanessa Hudson DUTEE (2016, 24 minutes, digital)
Russell Emanuel OCCUPANTS (2016, 81 minutes, digital) ‘Occupants’ is a film about Annie Curtis, an award-winning documentarian and her husband Neil. Annie and Neil embark on a ‘30 Days of Clean Living’ documentary, setting up cameras all over their house to document, via the Internet, their new eating habits. By doing so, half of their cameras capture a parallel version of themselves - a version that ultimately unravels and threatens their very existence.
8:30PM NEWFILMMAKERS THIRD SHORT FILM PROGRAM
Wednesday / June 21st
Wednesday / June 28th
6:00PM NEWFILMMAKERS DOCUMENTARY PROGRAM
6:00PM ALTFEST FIRST SHORT FILM PROGRAM
NewFilmmakers presents a night of Organized Crime and Punishment
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7:15PM NEWFILMMAKERS SHORT FILM PROGRAM
Aymeric Nicolet WILD (2016, 12 minutes, digital) Michael Thomas KYLE (2016, 12 minutes, digital) Steve Hally TWISTED SOBRIETY (2016, 14 minutes, digital) Brandon Salerno HALF EMPTY (2016, 16 minutes, digital)
8:30PM NEWFILMMAKERS FEATURE PRESENTATION
Ryan Slattery ONE SHOT (2016, 9 minutes, digital) Charlie Kessler BAIT (2016, 14 minutes, digital)
9:30PM NEWFILMMAKERS FEATURE PRESENTATION
James L Perry THE CURSED MAN (2016, 91 minutes, digital) Alister believes death is in love with him. A simple smile from friend or stranger is all it takes to encourage death to kill. With his family deceased and a path of destruction behind him, Alister sits inside a mental institution, sworn to silence and separated from the rest of the world, haunted by his inability to escape death’s preferential treatment. But when a beautiful psychologist arrives at the institution and starts offering him care, Alister braces himself for more killings. When none follow, he tries to figure out whether he truly is insane or if death has finally come to him in the form of a woman.
NewFilmmakers presents a program on secrets
Brett Boon PROM? (2016, 4 minutes, digital) Elwood Walker HER (2017, 4 minutes, digital) Dylan Oliver MOVING-ON (2016, 9 minutes, digital) Paula Cury SINS OF EXCESS (2016, 12 minutes, digital) Terry Miller DEAL (2016, 17 minutes, digital) Alejandro Sesma UNDERWATER (2016, 24 minutes, digital)
7:15PM NEWFILMMAKERS SECOND SHORT FILM PROGRAM
Steve Silver THE WATCHTOWER (2016, 56 minutes, digital) A story of love and survival in New York City’s notorious Hell’s Kitchen as declining West side Irish and Italian gangs compete for their bloody share of the action.
Emanuele Michetti LILLY’S SECRET (2016, 10 minutes, digital) Barbara Stepansky DA CAPO (2016, 14 minutes, digital) Layne Marie Williams DOLLFACE (2016, 19 minutes, digital) Jack Kyser JACK AND LUCAS GO TO A WEDDING (2016, 23 minutes, digital)
9:45PM ALTFEST LATE NIGHT EROTIC PROGRAM
8:45PM NEWFILMMAKERS FEATURE PRESENTATION
Adults only. Films may contain BDSM and hardcore sex Bruno Downey WHAT DO YOU DESIRE (2015, 4 minutes, video) Urvashi DAYBREAK (2016, 11 minutes, digital) Pinar Ogun EXHIBIT (2016, 13 minutes, digital) Jesse James and Lilith Luxe BIRTH (2016, 17 minutes, digital)
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Norman Greg MacGuire THE LUCKY MAN (2015, 98 minutes, digital) A young charismatic preacher and his hot Latina girlfriend travel Route 66 scamming the small churches along the way only to find that the bogus healing powers he portrays become real. The healing powers serve as a blessing and a curse.
All Screenings @ 32 Second Avenue • New York, NY • 10003