NewFilmmakers Presents New York Stories Today
By: Movies News Desk Jun. 29, 2011
On Wednesday, June 29th The NewFilmmakers NY Series 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. Many features screened at NewFilmmakers are now available on NewFilmmakers Online.
Tickets for the evening at NewFilmmakers NY, are only $6 and are available at the Anthology Box Office the night of screening.
Visit NewFilmmakers.com for more information
6:00 PM Documentary Series
Enid Baxter Blader THE ORD
We become the ghosts haunting an abandoned city the size of San Francisco. We discover 583 murals, painted by soldiers, forgotten in institutional architecture that rots in a sublime and familiar way.Shot in HD on a 5-D Mark ii, this experimental documen
Sofian Khan THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MATTHEW
The life and times of infomercial legend Matthew Lesko --- better known as the question mark man.
7:15 PM First Short Program
Paul Bland DINNER TIME
Michael Busch A FRIEND INDEED
Tiffany Doesken SCATTERED CLOUDS - DRAMATIC SKY
Benjamin Hayden PICK
Antonio Padovan PERRY ST
Mark Levine FOLLOWER
8:30 PM Second Short Program
Tyler Holtman ZEUS'S MUSES
A Zeus-worshiping director of a performance artist's group plans for his next big show... about the 1929 Stock Market Crash!
Joy Marzec THE MEDICINE WHEEL
A brother and sister who are a musician and a filmmaker are seriously but humorously stressed out as they each face the biggest day of their careers. Can they get through their unusual dream like day without panicking, ruining their relationship, or dest
9:30 PM Feature Presentation
Some New York Stories
Alex Sclar THE HALF-ASSED STALKER
The story of a man who falls in love with a woman but can't commit to stalking her.
Maartje Wegdam JACKIE - A RULER IN HAND
Jackie Ferrara keeps her socks and underwear by color and stacks up straight lines to create art. The tension between order and disorder made her a renown New York artist, but it is also the 80-year-old's life struggle. A story of a place maker, struggli
Corey Neufville THE AVENUE
The Avenue is a satiric comedy about a young man who comes back to his neighborhood after finishing school. After hanging out with his friends and around his old neighborhood, he realizes how crazy everyone is and why he left in the first place.
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