NewFilmmakers NY Screens Doc Series, Short Film Program and GODMOTHER Tonight

Tonight, March 13th, NewFilmmakers presents its Documentary Series, a Short Film Program, and the feature GODMOTHER.

6:00 PM First Short Film Program

Defne Enc & Alonso J. Lujan TIME AGAIN (2012, 8 Minutes, Video)

Alan Spearman MADRE (2012, 3 minutes)
In this autobiographical film poem, Spanish poet Leonor M. J. and American filmmaker Alan Spearman collaborate on their common quest to understand the past, present and future of their connection. The two friends had each lost someone to death.

Sara Masetti UNDOCUMENTED DREAMS (2012, 15 minutes)
Loren, a young Latino college graduate and civil right organizer, learns to move forward in life with an engineering degree in one hand and an expired visa in the other.

Patrick McEveety SOUTHERN DYSCOMFORT (2012, 31 minutes)
Reared and mentored by black nanny Annie Mae, Michael Alton Lowder, a bisexual male from the Deep South, navigates his way through a fairytale of excess surrounded by dysfunctional upscale family and friends.

7:00 PM Second Short Film Program

Orlando Brenes THE CROSS (2012, 14 min)
The Cross is a psychological horror short film about a high school counselor who is consumed with life's problems. It's the story about a man who finds himself in a supernatural environment where he will be forced to face his inner most fears and battle the demons that are driving him to the point of insanity.

Rati Oneli LEITMOTIF (2013, 18 Minutes)
Isabelle, an introverted high-school music teacher, is infatuated with her colleague, Mark. Unable to openly share her feelings she stalks Mark, tormented by her desire and fear of rejection.

Elisa Cepedal AY PENA (2011, 20 min)
Lucia returns to the town of her childhood to bury her grandmother and sell the family shop. When she arrives she encounters various old friends, and finds everything still very much as she left it.

Michael Martinez OVERCOME (2012, 6 minutes)
A young girl struggles with hardships of life, but in the end, overcomes all.

Emmeline Wilks-Dupoise SPEECH ACT (2011, 15 minutes)
Speech Act follows a young woman's struggle to communicate the unexpected death of a loved one to a close friend. The day is set in a failing office in New York City's financial district.

Edgar Jimz THE EVIL'S GATE (2012, 15 minutes)
A rebellious man seeking an answer finds himself at the edge of darkness.

8:30 PM Feature Presentation

Jeanine Corbet THE GODMOTHER (56 Minutes, 2012)
In a 22-room Victorian house overlooking the Verrazano Bridge, Rain Storm a.k.a. Fred Gorski transforms men into the women of their dreams at his full service cross-dressing salon Fairplay. Amidst the local culture notorious for their thick accents and social and political conservatism, "The Godmother" takes an intimate look inside the safe haven Rain has created for men who want to express the more feminine aspects of their personalities - no matter how modest or outrageous. A former Drag performer, licensed hairdresser and make-up artist, Rain founded Fairplay after the tragic loss of his long time partner from HIV/AIDS left him heavily in debt and with his once thriving salon in financial ruin. Over the years his unique skills, incredible charisma and confidence have attracted a wide array of devoted customers as well as attention from the local and mainstream media. To his clients Fairplay is a sanctuary and Rain is their godmother and guide. Fred's life story and the portraits of his staff and clients shatter preconceptions by representing gay, straight, young, old, blue-collar and professional. "The Godmother" puts the beauty of these multi-faceted personalities center-stage in all their complex reality and captures the indomitable spirit that is Rain Storm. Glamorous, tough, funny, sexy and above all a survivor, walk into Rain's salon and walk out transformed.

NewFilmmakers screens at Anthology Film Archives on the Lower East Side at 32 Second Avenue & 2nd Street. NewFilmmakers LA screens in the Stanley Kramer Theater at the Sunset Gower Studio and has become a leading showcase for new films in Hollywood. Many features screened at NewFilmmakers are now available on NewFilmmakers Online. New York Admission is $6 for the whole evening and tickets are available at the Anthology Box Office the night of screening.

Additional information is available online at www.NewFilmmakers.com.