In August and September, Rooftop and The Fledgling Fund are planning a screening tour of Josh Fox’s documentary Gasland, about the negative environmental effects of natural gas drilling. The Gasland team is currently hiring a new employee.

Rooftop Films is hosting 46 screenings this summer. Help us add more events, in new neighborhoods, cities and venues. Be part of these special shows!

Wanna get your film funded? Kickstarter Film Festival filmmakers share their tips for running a successful crowd-funding campaign.

Get your tickets now for Saturday’s program of screenings, panel discussions and social networking with discounted tickets for Rooftop Films Fans.

The New York Times writes about the First Annual Kickstarter Festival, presented by Rooftop Films, and how Kickstarter.com is changing the world of independent film.

Director Ben Steinbauer shares his personal Top 10 quotes from viral video sensation Jack Rebney, whose comedy tentacles have touched 30 Rock, SpongeBob SquarePants, Iron Man 2 and Surviving Christmas (a movie I liked and now I know why).

Rooftop Films screened the Craig Macneill’s astonishing, dynamic, hilariously bizarre Late Bloomer back in 2007. Craig and his writing partner Clay McLeod Chapman have a new film in the works, and we’re sure it will be visually lush and emotionally fertile. Help support the film with a donation on Kickstarter.

Help me, indie folk-pop artist Charlene Kaye, and a group of talented NYC filmmakers make an epic music video for Charlene’s new single Mad Tom of Bedlam!

Apply now for the UnionDocs Collaborative, a one or two year program for emerging documentary artists.

Rooftop alum Christopher Arcella is seeking funds on Kickstarter for his debut feature, Giver Taker Heartbreaker, a jazzy, bizarre, semi-absurdist black comedy, in the vein of early Jarmusch.