NewFilmmakers Summer Fest 2010 Announces Film Line-up, 7/5-7

Welcome to the second annual NewFilmmakers Summer Fest 2010. Our five day NewFilmmakers Summer Fest 2010 will screen over fifty new films about sex, love, and everything else. We debut a new Summer Shorts Series and welcome the return of the Asian Screening Series, which had been a popular part of our regular weekly series.

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 @ Anthology at the Sunset Gower Studio. Many features screened at NewFilmmakers are now available on NewFilmmakers Online.

A ticket for the whole evening, tonight and every night at NewFilmmakers NY, is only $6 and tickets are available at the Anthology Box Office the night of screening.

Monday, July 5th in the Courthouse Theater

6:00pm DOCUMENTARY SERIES

Emily Pyle BURNED: LIFE IN AND OUT OF TEXAS YOUTH PRISONS
'Burned' follows a year in the life of two boys committed to maximum security youth facilities in Texas. When Joseph is released after five years of incarceration, he struggles to adjust to life at home with his family. Justin stands trial for an escape attempt he made after a prison psychologist told him he would spend the rest of his life locked up.
7:00pm SHORT FILM PROGRAM

Sally Grizzell Larson AXIOM (2010, 1 Minute, Video)
Gabrielle Lansner DAD (2010, 7 Minutes, Video)
James Arrabito WHAT'S IN ALASKA (2009, 13 Minutes, Video)
Roy Clovis THE CYCLE (2010, 18 Minutes, 16MM)
J. J. Adler NEW MEDIA (2009, 20 Minutes, Video)

Monday, July 5th in the Deren Theater

NewFilmmakers presents film about the dirty business of oil along with our Summer Shorts Series.
6:00pm DOCUMENTARY SERIES About Oil

Rossana Jeran 6 GEMINI (2007, 5 Minutes, Video)
Jeremy Earp BLOOD AND OIL (2008, 52 Minutes, Video)
7:00pm FIRST SHORT FILM PROGRAM

Joyce P Fields A KINDNESS (2009, 10 Minutes, Video)
Mike Smith Rivera COLD APRIL (2010, 16 Minutes, Video)
Matthew J. Clark DRY RAIN (2008, 23 Minutes, 16MM)
8:30pm SECOND SHORT FILM PROGRAM

Sascha Just TRIP (2010, 5 Minutes, Video)
Christian Vogeler IT IS (2009, 8 Minutes, Video)
Petter Ringbom MAY FLY (2009, 14 Minutes, Video)
Ben Hur Sepehr THE DESPERATE (2009, 33 Minutes, Video)

Tuesday, July 6th in the Courthouse Theater

NewFilmmakers welcomes the return of the Asian Filmmakers Series, which had been a popular part of our weekly Series.
6:00pm DOCUMENTARY SERIES

Jeff Giordano LONG-DISTANCE RUNNERS
Welcome to the long-distance, romantic relationship between a man from New Jersey (USA) and a woman from Kobe (Japan). This feature-documentary essay integrates years of home video footage of the couple's adventures through Japan, Australia, and USA.
7:15pm SHORT FILM PROGRAM

Minji Kang REQUIEM FOR HERSTORY (2010, 25 Minutes, Video)
Arckii MunJong Kim FANTASTIC GLASS PORTRAIT (2009, 25 Minutes, Video)
8:15pm FEATURE PRESENTATION

Yuko Torihara AMATERASU (2010, 15 Minutes, Video)

Tatsuo Kobayashi COUNTRY GIRL (2010, 70 Minutes, Video)
Hayashi is a high school boy in Kyoto who has no regard for traditional values of the old city. His routine us to con foreign tourists. Unexpectedly he falls in love with a young geisha who belongs to the traditional side of the city. COUNTRY GIRL is a teen movie with great cultural insight.

Tuesday, July 6th in the Deren Theater

NewFilmmakers presents LAST CHANCE

6:00pm COMEDY SHORT PROGRAM

Debra Zarne MENDEL'S BLACK HATS (2007, 1 Minute, Video)
Mattson Tomlin SOLOMON GRUNDY (2009, 10 Minutes, Video)
Matt Golub SUPER SUNDAY (2009, 14 Minutes, Video)
Matt McGregor BIKE CLUB (2009, 15 Minutes, Video)
Jennifer Reeder SEVEN SONGS ABOUT THUNDER (2010, 20 Minutes, Video)
7:00pm SHORT FILM PROGRAM

Derek Braasch MURDER FOR PLEASURE MUSIC VIDE 1 (2010, 4 Minutes, Video)Kantarama Gahigiri LEILA (2009, 2 Minutes, Video)
Debra Zarne GOING WITH GRANDMA FOR HER PRUNES (2006, 6 Minutes, Video)
Hans Christian Berger NO (2009, 6 Minutes, Video)
Zev Frank CYCLE (2008, 13 Minutes, 16MM)
Wei Zhang NORA'S FISH (2008, 13 Minutes, 16MM)
Brendan Bellomo BOHEMIBOT (2008, 26 Minutes, Video)
8:00pm FEATURE PRESENTATION

Hightower LAST CHANCE (2010, 82 Minutes, Video)
After spending the last six months getting his life together Nate decides he's ready to try again with his ex-girlfriend Kim. Unknown to him Kim has moved on to another relationship and has no intentions of ever going back to Nate.

Wednesday, July 7th in the Courthouse Theater

NewFilmmakers ends Summer Fest 2010. Tonight's program is not for everyone. Films contain adult material.
6:00pm DOCUMENTARY SERIES

Greg Paxton BABY (1998, 3 Minutes, Video)
Deborah Staab DESPERATE FOR A LAUGH (2009, 50 Minutes, Video)
7:00pm SHORT FILM PROGRAM

Lori Bowen ESSENGER (2010, 5 Minutes, Video)
Williams Crooks ROBOTIC PANIC (2010, 10 Minutes, Video)
Peter Pizzi SUCKER (2008, 18 Minutes, Video)
Matthew Silver LOVE COMES OUT OF THE BUTT (2009, 24 Minutes, Video)
Arthuro Cubacub B-17: A MINI-EPIC (2007, 36 Minutes, Video)
8:45pm FEATURE PRESENTATION

ZacH Clark MODERN LOVE IS AUTOMATIC (2009, 93 Minutes, Video) Lorraine Schultz works as a nurse in a doctor's office. Every day she rides the bus to work, listens to her co-workers gossip, and returns home to her boyfriend. None of it really matters. When she's cheated on, it's far from emotionally devastating.

Wednesday, July 7 in the Deren Theater

NewFilmmakers ends Summer Fest 2010. Tonight's program for everyone.
6:00pm FILM SCHOOL PROGRAM

NewFilmmakers regularly invites leading film schools to present films and to discuss their programs with potential students.

Jason Ortiz TEAR (40 Minutes)
Larry Bernardo WHITE (6 Minutes)
Joe Pomarico GUS (8 Minutes)
Diego Zambrano VICE (8 Minutes)
7:30pm SHORT FILM PROGRAM

Steve Hosford VACANCY (2005, 52 Minutes, Video)
8:30pm FEATURE PRESENTATION

Nathan Rose Freeman AUTHORING ACTION (2010, 120 Minutes, Video)
When three children survive a bus crash that kills their parents, their childhood dies as well until they find an unlikely partner in grief at the shallow grave of a long lost child in the woods of a desolate park.