NewFilmmakers NY to Screen DAYS OF GRAY, 27 and More Next Week

NewFilmmakers is a unique Screening Series that gives new filmmakers the opportunity to screen their films in New York, Los Angeles, and online. On Thursday, January 22nd, NewFilmmakers presents the Special Program with DAYS OF GRAY, a Short Film Program, and the new feature 27. Scroll down for details!

6:00 PM Special Program

Ani Simon-Kennedy DAYS OF GRAY (2013, 79 minutes)
It is a world without language. A world where one is raised to respect the rules. Only one boy questions the verity of what he has been taught, and he must decide whether to continue living in a society of fear or choose his own destiny.

7:30 PM Short Film Program

Paulina Shur FAREWELL, MY SHORT, BUT BRILLIANT LIFE (2014, 3 minutes, video)
Leaves birth and death are a metaphor for our life: born as buds, they soon become light green, indicating spring; then they transform into different shapes of bright-green: it's summer. In a few months summer becomes autumn.

Blaise Godbe Lipman DREAMING AWAKE & EXQUISITE DOORS OF FRACTAL SELF (2014, 12 minutes, video)
An esoteric interpretation of a psychedelic experience, this nonlinear piece explores the complexity of ego identity as we follow a 16 year old runaway on her first acid trip.

Samantha Fontana DIVE (2014, 10 minutes)
Rhonda has been stood up by her OKCupid date. She finds herself alone and regretful at a bar in Brooklyn. It's last call and she is stuck taking unsolicited advice from the newly enlightened, caustically optimistic bartender, Celine.

Rory Uphold SAFETY (2012, 13 minutes)
RAndy tries to get over her ex by getting under Morgan. The results are awkward and unexpected.

Simon Lansberg-Rodriguez STASHBOX (2014, 13 minutes)
Two friends comb the Badlands in search of a mystery cache.

8:45 PM 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.

NewFilmmakers screens at Anthology Film Archives on the Lower East Side at 32 Second Avenue & 2nd Street. Tickets are $6 and are good for the whole night and go on sale at 5:30PM the night of performance at the Anthology Box Office. There is no advanced or online sales.

NewFilmmakers LA screens at the AT&T Center, 1139 S Hill Street, and has become a leading showcase for new films in Hollywood. Many features screened at NewFilmmakers are now available on NewFilmmakers Online.