NewFilmmakers NY Screens 'Unknown Soldier,' 'Central Park,' et al., 8/4

The NewFilmmakers NY Series will have an evening filled with different screenings on Wednesday, August 4, 2010. The evening will take place at the Anthology Film Archives on the Lower East Side, NYC, at 32 Second Avenue & 2nd Street. Tickets for the night are $6 and are available at the Anthology Box Office the night of the screening.

The evening will start off with the NewFilmmakers Documentary Series at 6 p.m. This session will feature three documentaries: Bob Jones' "Unknown Soldier," Anna Petrus' "345 Segons del Meu Viatge a New York", and Suzannah Herbert's "Central Park: The Park at the Center of the World".

At 7 p.m., the Filmmakers will be screening the British Straight 8 series. Straight 8 began in 1999 when a bunch of people were invited to make a short turnaround no budget three minute film on a single cartridge of super 8 without editing but with a cinema audience guaranteed. Twenty-five people: directors, producers, runners, d.p.'s, editors, writers, actors, a.d.j., a cinema manager and various others braved the challenge. It was bold and it was loose. There was no expectation. Then it grew and great things have happened including the films becoming a lot more polished and clever. But the experimental spirit is still very much part of the DNA.

At 8:00 p.m., there will be a reception for the 9:00 p.m. screening of James Dougherty's "The Party." The Party Beyond Obama serves up a satirical inside-out look at local politics on NYC’s Lower East Side. Harry Moncrief has a problem. He is a black republican ward leader in the projects. Harry has just one day to register a candidate or he is out of a job. Harry’s pleas are rejected one by one by his tiny band of eccentric, wacko republican members. Desperate, he ends up running a half- white half-black albino janitor, Arnold Caesar. Arnold miraculously, is genetically linked to George Washington, George Washington Carver, and Sitting Bull.