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Summer 2018 Quarterly Vol. 7 Issue 1
NewFilmmakers New York® • Summer • 2018
Summer Series
July 5th / Thursday Our Summer Series Begins
6:00PM NEWFILMMAKERS FIRST SHORT FILM PROGRAM Jaime J Ekkens THE WAR (2017, 4 minutes, digital) Nate Nguepsi LOST ENCOUNTER (2016, 6 minutes, digital) Jeremy Schaftel DRUG DEALING (2018, 8 minutes, digital) John Tao THE UNTOLD STORY OF ROMEO & JULIET (2018, 11 minutes, digital) Laurence Revene GESTURES: THE LOST FILM (2016, 20 minutes, digital)
7:00PM NEWFILMMAKERS SECOND SHORT FILM PROGRAM Lauren Pruitt DAVE (2016, 10 minutes, digital) Zeke Farrow RIDE OR DIE (2018, 14 minutes, digital) Rose Ozkan ALIVE (2018, 13 minutes, digital) Ben Williams MUSICIANS AND MAGICIANS (2018, 15 minutes, digital)
8:00PM NEWFILMMAKERS THIRD SHORT FILM PROGRAM Ksenia Tolmazin DADDY (2018, 9 minutes, digital) Miranda Jean Larson INNOCENCE (2018, 10 minutes, digital) Morgan Lynch FOUR WALLS (2018, 16 minutes, digital) Lee Peterkin ROSES ON THE LAWN (2018, 16 minutes, digital)
9:00PM NEWFILMMAKERS FEATURE FILM PRESENTATION Ralph Moffettone DELENDA (2018, 107 minutes, digital) In the wake of a terrorist attack, a group of young people in New York seek to capitalize on the hysteria in a variety of morally dubious ways.
Masthead Festival New York
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Editor - Brandon Ruckdashel Brandon@NewFilmmakers.com Publisher - Barney Oldfield Barney@NewFilmmakers.com
Call for Interns NewFilmmakers New York is looking for interns! Come join our team and learn about the world of film exhibition. NewFilmmakers New York is a Film Series screening at Anthology Film Archives which was start 18 years ago by NYU Film Alumni. We screen weekly throughout the year and need interns to work in the office and at our weekly events. Some of the intern duties will involve marketing/publicity, Social Media, and Film Programming. This is a great opportunity to learn about the ins and outs of film festivals, how they operate, and why your film does (or doesn’t) get programmed. Interested candidates should email a cover letter and availability to Brandon@newfilmmakers.com.
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NewFilmmakers New York® • Summer • 2018
July 11th / Wednesday
Summer Series
AltFest
6:00PM ALTFEST DOCUMENTARY PROGRAM Tationna Bosier ABOUT THAT LIFE (2017, 58 minutes, digital) About That Life is a docuseries that puts the missing “R” in LGBTQ, keeping it 100% REAL! We follow a group of LGBTQ people in the black community as they deal with prejudice and hardships not only from the outside world but also from members of the African American community and even prejudice from other people within the LGBTQ community.
7:15PM ALTFEST SHORT FILM PROGRAM Duane Michals INTERRUPTUS (2018, 4 minutes, digital) Stephanie Cherng QUEEN OF CONEY ISLAND (2018, 6 minutes, digital) Michael Barringer BACKSIDERS (2017, 16 minutes, digital) Jody Wheeler HIPPOPOTAMUS (2017, 16 minutes, digital)
8:15PM ALTFEST FIRST FEATURE PRESENTATION Gore Abrams MOM (2017, 90 minutes, digital) MOM is a quicky detective story about a young man named Try (Joe Huffman) who enlists the help of a ramshackle agency of dubious sleuths to track down his biological mother.
10:00PM ALTFEST SECOND FEATURE PRESENTATION Robert James RUMINATIONS (2017, 80 minutes, digital) A documentary profile on Rumi Missabu, the iconoclast cofounder of San Francisco’s infamous Cockettes. Through archive footage, animation and new interviews with stars from SF’s queer art past, his lurid tales in and out of the spotlight are revealed as he reinvents himself at the end of his life.
July 18th / Wednesday Films from Around the World
6:00PM NEWFILMMAKERS FIRST SHORT FILM PROGRAM Experimental Films curated by Lili White
Rebecca Krasnik THE RACONTEUR (Denmark, 3 minutes) Lucie Friederike Mueller ARMS (Austria / Germany, 3 minutes) Alisa Yang PLEASE COME AGAIN (USA, 9 minutes) Sara Koppel1st DAY & NEXT MINUTE (Denmark, 3 minutes) Lydia Moyer LETTER FROM THE GONE WORLD (USA, 17 minutes) Kera MacKenzie and Andrew Mausert-Mooney STONES FOR THUNDER (USA, 18 minutes)
7:15PM NEWFILMMAKERS SECOND SHORT FILM PROGRAM Zuxin Hou MOM’S RECIPE (2018, 8 minutes, digital) Shao Wen Liang LONG RIDE (2017, 13 minutes, digital) Jing Shen XIAODONG’S BIKE (2018, 15 minutes, digital) Zachary Metzger ROAMING (2018, 16 minutes, digital)
8:15PM YOUNGFILMMAKERS THIRD SHORT FILM PROGRAM Lucille Celic FIRST TRUST (2018, 5 minutes, digital) Eudora Tucker CONVERSATION WITH LOU (2017, 13 minutes Adam Volerich TYRANNOSAURUS DEATH! (2018, 15 minutes, digital) Chris Merola WHY DON’T WE CHECK? (2018,19 minutes, digital)
9:30PM NEWFILMMAKERS FEATURE FILM PRESENTATION Jack Luceno SAFE HARBOUR AMSTERDAM (2018, 97 minutes, digital) Safe Harbour Amsterdam is a feature film based on my years in Amsterdam and other European cities. In the late 60’s and early 70’s many artists, musicians and guy’s on the run from the law flocked to Amsterdam chasing dreams that had eluded them at home.
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NewFilmmakers New York® • Summer • 2018
Summer Series
July 25th / Wednesday
August 1st / Wednesday
6:00PM NEWFILMMAKERS FIRST SHORT FILM PROGRAM
6:00PM NEWFILMMAKERS FIRST SHORT FILM PROGRAM
William Reid TRASH EMPIRE (2017, 35 minutes, digital) Over the past two years filmmaker William Reid has only spent $5.50 on food. He survived off of food from the dumpster for two years. Now he’s on a mission to better understand what is going on. Throughout the film he leverages the absurdity of his diet to gain access to key people in government and industry while he explores the underbelly of American agriculture.The central question that Trash Empire seeks to answer is ‘How can we provide more nutritious food to people in need while creating less waste?’
Miao Hao THE PERFORMANCE (2017, 8 minutes, digital) Lina Roessler MUSTARD SEED (2017, 9 minutes, digital) Anika Films LIMBO (2017, 10 minutes, digital) Christina Cooper LOYALTY (2018, 10 minutes, digital) Laura Lechner LITTLE RED (2018, 13 minutes, digital)
Current Events
Women Filmmakers
6:45PM NEWFILMMAKERS SECOND SHORT FILM PROGRAM Roberto Peimbert Palomares THE WALL (2018, 5 minutes, digital) Cip Corp PERSONAL SPACE (2017, 7 minutes, digital) Sarah Misch CORPSE POSE (2018, 15 minutes, digital)
7:30PM NEWFILMMAKERSTHIRD SHORT FILM PROGRAM TBA
8:30PM NEWFILMMAKERS FEATURE FILM PRESENTATION Gigi Hozimah HE BELONGS TO US (2018, 98 minutes, digital) He Belongs To Us is a psychological horror drama that tells of Remy – a lonely young man recently located to New York. His mother has passed away. Remy’s grieving has led him to a place where evil spirits haunts him.
7:00PM NEWFILMMAKERS SECOND SHORT FILM PROGRAM Rosa Rodriguez HI, I’M DAN (2018, 5 minutes, digital) Christine Pardo PANSCAMDLING (2018, 5 minutes, digital) Joanna Belbey AVOCADO TOAST (2018, 7 minutes, digital) Lea-Beth Shapiro FOR MURIEL (2018, 15 minutes, digital)
7:45PM NEWFILMMAKERS THIRD SHORT FILM PROGRAM AO STARLIT (2018, 90 minutes, digital) Jessica Alvarez is twenty-four and bored. She craves independence and adventure; she needs to feel alive.
9:30PM NEWFILMMAKERS FEATURE FILM PRESENTATION Melanie Mayron SNAPSHOTS (2018, 91 minutes, digital) When a grandmother’s secret past collides with her granddaughter’s secret future and her daughter’s angry present, can the love of three generations be enough to accept decades of deceit. With a simple roll of film it begins.
August 8th / Wednesday Art on Film
6:00PM NEWFILMMAKERS FIRST SHORT FILM PROGRAM Adrian Goodman WAKEY WAKEY (2018, 61 minutes, 16mm) DCP Teen Josie tries to make sense of a frightening world in which a sleep condition blurs her dreams into waking life, and comes under the sway of her sister Samantha, whose dark web of secrets she must unravel.
7:15PM NEWFILMMAKERS SECOND SHORT FILM PROGRAM Animations
Kateryna Velychko THE FLY (2018, 5 minutes, digital) Nari Hong WE WILL SEE SOMEDAY (2018, 7 minutes, digital) John Day MATUD NILA (2017, 19 minutes, digital)
8:00PM NEWFILMMAKERS THIRD SHORT FILM PROGRAM Sofie Wang THE UNNAMED (2018, 4 minutes, digital) Pedro Baron HELL’S ROAD (2018, 5 minutes, digital) Karen Loew NO MAN’S LAND (2018, 5 minutes, digital) Devis Venturelli SCULPT THE MOTION (2017, 7 minutes, digital) Juull Linneo KEIU (2018, 15 minutes, digital) Michael Sanaiha HEARTBEAT (2017, 18 minutes, digital)
9:15PM NEWFILMMAKERS FEATURE FILM PRESENTATION TBA
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NewFilmmakers New York® • Summer • 2018
Summer Series
August 15th / Wednesday
August 22nd / Wednesday
6:00 NEWFILMMAKERS DOCUMENTARY SERIES
6:00PM NEWFILMMAKERS FIRST SHORT FILM PROGRAM
Tomasz Namerla KIESLOWSKI (2017, 12 minutes, digital) Sebastian Rider A NATURAL CONTRACT (2018, 34 minutes, digital)
Justin Giegerich GREEN SHOES (2018, 20 minutes, digital) In 1960’s suburbia, a 14-year-old girl befriends a 47-year-old man to cope with the knowledge of her father’s affairs. The man, a WW2 veteran, has developed an obsession with innocence after experiencing the horrors of the war.
New York
Horror & Sci-Fi
7:00PM NEWFILMMAKERS SHORT FILM PROGRAM Richa Rudola FRESH BLOOD (2017, 8 minutes, digital) Al Lougher THE DOLLMAKER (2018, 10 minutes, digital) Matthew Forte THE BABYFACE KILLER (2017, 14 minutes, digital) Eric McEver PALEONAUT (2018, 16 minutes, digital) Desmond Jackson FUNK FORCE (2017, 18 minutes, digital)
8:30PM NEWFILMMAKERS FIRST FEATURE FILM PRESENTATION
Daniel Fries RUNAWAY (2018, 25 minutes, digital) In 1740s Hudson Valley, New York, Sue, an enslaved woman on the Philipsburg plantation, attempts to help two runaway slaves under the nose of a seething overseer, all while trying to keep her daughter from being sold off the next day.
7:00M NEWFILMMAKERS SECOND SHORT FILM PROGRAM
JD Wilson SHELLFISH (2018, 42 minutes, digital) After the global phenomenon Cloudcrash, a generation of “screen-agers” are forced to cope with the loss of their tech devices. Mirrors replace screens as the self-obsessed are sent to a rehabilitation facility where they are haunted by a monster named TRUTH and must learn to get over themselves.
I-Hui Lee HER NEW APARTMENT (2018, 5 minutes, digital) Raz Al Saleh YOUR FATHER WAS BORN 100 YEARS OLD (2017, 7 minutes, digital) Michael Martinez BORDERS (2017, 7 minutes, digital) Viktor Burdiladze A MIRAGE OF SOLITUDE (2016, 7 minutes, digital) Rafael Salazar Moreno UNFINISHED, 2017 (2017, 17 minutes, digital)
9:30PM NEWFILMMAKERS SECOND FEATURE FILM PRESENTATION
8:00PM NEWFILMMAKERS THIRD SHORT FILM PROGRAM
Wilder Troxell IT’S JUST A GAME (2018, 72 minutes, digital) A group of children begin playing a game of Nerf at Ryan’s Birthday party when their imaginations get away from them, we see how each kid truly sees themselves.
Paul Stuart INHERITANCE (2016, 15 minutes, digital) Jorge Ospina VIDEL (2017, 15 minutes, digital) Larry Revene PREY (2018, 20 minutes, digital)
9:15PM NEWFILMMAKERS FEATURE FILM PRESENTATION John Reed THE SKY IS BLUE WITH LIES (TRIBECA PHAEDRA) (2017, 78 minutes, digital) Late 70s, downtown NYC, bar scene. Fara, the barkeep’s young wife, falls in love with her beautiful stepson, Po, just back from California.
August 29th / Wednesday Musicals and Comedy
6:00PM NEWFILMMAKERS SHORT FILM PROGRAM D. Schmudde THE RHYTHM OF TIME (2018, 10 minutes, digital) Maddie Orton I CAN’T… I HAVE REHEARSAL (2017, 60 minutes, digital) For a select few, the high school musical is sacred. Every year those students come together for the Tonys of New Jersey high school musical theatre:
7:30PM NEWFILMMAKERS SPECIAL PROGRAM Sean Robinson & NYFA present
Nathan Brewer HOLD YOUR PEACE (2018, 18 minutes, digital) T.J. Mannix AMERICAN DREAM (2018, 25 minutes, digital) Mark Olsen SEEKING ALICE (2018, 17 minutes, digital T.J. Mannix PLUS ONE (2018, 23 minutes, digital)
9:30PM NEWFILMMAKERS FEATURE FILM PRESENTATION Emory Parker THE PERFECT FIT (2018, 17 minutes, digital) William Tyler Smith THIRD MIND BLUES (2018, 61 minutes, digital) An unlikely musical duo, Doors keyboardist, Ray Manzarek, and Delta Blues guitarist, Roy Rogers, come together to create ‘twenty-first century blues.’ William Burroughs once said that when two creative minds come together to collaborate, a new “Third Mind” is created.
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NewFilmmakers New York® • Summer • 2018
Summer Series
September 5th / Wednesday
September 11th / Tuesday
6:00PM NEWFILMMAKERS FIRST SHORT FILM PROGRAM
6:00PM NEWFILMMAKERS FIRST SHORT FILM PROGRAM
Jon Silver THE CIVIL HOAX: CIVIL WAR DENIERS (2018, 52 minutes , digital) A feature comedy mockumentary exploring the idiotic depths of history denial, conspiracy theorists, and alternative facts.
Tracey Cochrane CALM IN CHAOS (2018, 65 minutes, digital) Calm In Chaos is a documentary about first responders and PTSD
Comedy
Annual 9/11 program
7:15PM NEWFILMMAKERS SECOND SHORT FILM PROGRAM Tom Soter SENSE AND NONSENSE (2018, 63 minutes, digital) The film offers a look at the history and techniques of improvisational comedy, told by veteran improvisers and illustrated with performance clips.
8:30PM NEWFILMMAKERS THIRD SHORT FILM PROGRAM Keenia Tolmazin FLORA (2018,7 minutes, digital) Maxime Pillonel MARTIEN (2018, 10 minutes, digital) Maria Sant’Angelo MRS KRANZ BAKES GREAT COOKIES (2017, 10 minutes, digital) Vertti Virkajarvi STAND UP (2018, 11 minutes, digital) Mora Tennessen HONEYMOON PHASE (2017, 11 minutes, digital)
9:30PM NEWFILMMAKERS FEATURE FILM PRESENTATION Christopher Vernale LONG GOODBYE (2017, 79 minutes, digital) “Long Goodbye” is the story of Avery and Matthew. Two lonely strangers who begin finding comfort in a fantasy relationship with one another that doesn’t exist.
7:15PM NEWFILMMAKERS SECOND SHORT FILM PROGRAM Philip Shane REWALK (2018, 30 minutes, digital) Three US Veterans, paralyzed and wheelchair bound for many years, learn to stand again, and walk, and even race with assistance of a revolutionary technology. A triumph of spirit and determination, and a glimpse of a brighter future for paralyzed people, and their families.
8:00PM NEWFILMMAKERS THIRD SHORT FILM PROGRAM Justin Juntilla THE TIN MAN (2016, 7 minutes, digital) Alexandra Liveris THE CHURCH AT GROUND ZERO (2015, 10 minutes, digital) Megumi Smiros NEW YORK VET (2014, 15 minutes, digital) Christopher Capelluto PARK 51 (2014, 21 minutes, digital)
9:15PM NEWFILMMAKERS FEATURE FILM PRESENTATION Giorgio Angelini OWNED, A TALE OF TWO AMERICAS (2018, 82 minutes, digital) ‘Owned’ is a fever dream vision into the dark history behind the US housing economy. Tracking its overtly racist beginnings to its unbridled commoditization, the doc exposes a foundational story few Americans understand as their own.
September 12th / Wednesday
NewFilmmakers Welcomes Digital Film Academy
6:00PM NEWFILMMMAKERS SPECIAL PROGRAM
Grinder A True Story
Digital Film Academy Thesis Films
9:00 NEWFILMMAKERS FEATURE PRESENTATION Usher Morgan PICKINGS (2017, 104 minutes, digital) When a short-tempered mobster and his gang of thugs try to shake down a neighborhood bar, they’re soon confronted with the wrath of its owner - a mysterious southern mother with a dangerous past.
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September 19th / Wednesday
Summer Series
Life Lessons
6:00PM NEWFILMMAKERS FIRST SHORT FILM PROGRAM TBA
7:15PM NEWFILMMAKERS SECOND SHORT FILM PROGRAM Curated by Tova Beck-Friedman
8:30PM NEWFILMMAKERS THIRD SHORT FILM PROGRAM Adielenah Perez 15 FEET (2017, 5 minutes, digital) Foad Faridzadeh BANANA BREAD (2018, 6 minutes, digital) Adam Kunselman PARANOIA (2017, 9 minutes, digital) Luka Divac BOYS AND GIRLS (2017, 10 minutes, digital) Corey Koepper EARLY SHOW (2017, 10 minutes, digital)
9:30PM NEWFILMMAKERS FEATURE FILM PRESENTATION Lillian Glass REINVENTING ROSALEE (2018, 90 minutes, digital) Rosalee Glass, a Holocaust survivor taken prisoner to a Russian gulag in Siberia during WW2, shares her story of survival and transforms her destiny by living her life to the fullest. In her 80’s, she started an acting career, in her 90’s, won ‘Miss Congeniality’ in a Senior beauty pageant, was seen by millions in a Super Bowl commercial, wrote a book sharing her secrets to a long life, and dares to ride Alaskan Sled Dogs at 100.
September 26th / Wednesday Double Feature Night
6:00PM NEWFILMMAKERS FIRST SHORT FILM PROGRAM John Ashe Say SANITAS PACIFICA (2018, 62 minutes, digital) A man in his golden years heads to a secluded mountain house seeking an enlightening experience.
7:15PM NEWFILMMAKERS SECOND SHORT FILM PROGRAM Pat Ceasar CRYING FU LADY RAP (2017, 4 minutes, digital) Carlos Grana BAD HOMBRES, BEST MEN (2017, 9 minutes, digital) Clifton Robinson OBJECTIVE (2017, 11 minutes, digital) David Kleinman ON THE WAY NORTH (2017, 17 minutes, digital)
8:00PM NEWFILMMAKERS THIRD SHORT FILM PROGRAM Doug C. Williams ADAM ( 2017, 80 minutes, digital) A retired detective is faced with one last interrogation of a mysterious confessed serial killer.
9:30PM NEWFILMMAKERS FEATURE FILM PRESENTATION Vilan Trub THE DIRTY KIND (2018, 85 minutes, digital) A young private investigator specializing in divorce accidentally uncovers the grisly murder of a call-girl, introducing him to a new and dangerous world that he can’t escape.
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Sept 26th 7pm NF Shorts A Short Film/Music Video Written & Directed by Pat Ceasar / Music: Carlos Emjay
CRYING F.U. LADY RAP® I'm crying, I'm crying, cause Donald Trump still lying
A Comical look at Pat the Crying F U Lady Meme & her heart felt tears from election night Nov. 2016 through today. Pat now proudly wears those tears as a badge of honor as we watch a comical visualization of lies & broken promises from LGBT & Dacca, to Health Care & Taxes told to us by this current administration living in the White house. ese lies will adversely affect a wide variety people who live in the USA to the point of sheer madness. Pat’s asking all of us to exercise our rights to stop the liars & this insanity.
Directed by Pat Ceasar / Lyrics: Pat Ceasar / Music: Carlos Emjay / Cinematographer Pat Ceasar/ Editors Pat Ceasar & Mitch Udoff / Producer Pat Ceasar / Executive Producers Pat & Scott Ceasar A Little Taste of Ceasar Productions / www.patceasar.com / Copyright 12/2017/18-All Rights Reserved
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