Archive for the ‘2009 Summer Series’ Category
Rooftop Films’ 2009 Summer Series, our 13th Annual year of “Underground Movies Outdoors” included over 40 nights of programming, in outdoor venues throughout New York City. Spanning from May through September, we showed over 150 films. Here, you can read filmmaker interviews, show updates, watch shorts from the program, and stay in touch with all elements of the festival. For the complete schedule, visit the About section of our website.
The hilarious and charming documentary Winnebago Man hits theaters on July 9. See the film, bring your ticket stub to Rooftop, and get in free!
45365, one of the most beautiful, fascinating, unique feature films of Rooftop’s 2009 season, is playing at the Anthology Film Archives from June 17-24. The glowing review in The Times called it “a beguiling slice of Midwestern impressionism.”
Rooftop alumni Emily Kunstler and Sarah Kunstler’s film Disturbing the Universe is a gripping documentary portrait of their radical defense attorney father, William Kunstler. See it Tuesday, June 22nd on PBS.
Best Worst Movie, the award-winning film about the worst movie ever made: Troll 2, opens in NYC MAY 14th at Village East Cinema
One of our favorite films from Rooftop Summer Series 2009 is screening tonight at Union Docs in Williamsburg
FRIDAY AUGUST 14
ROOFTOP FILMS and VERIZON FIOS present
HOME MOVIES
Short films and video about moments in time, capturing and imagining what it felt like to be there.
OPEN BAR AFTER PARTY FOLLOWING THE SCREENING FOR ALL IN ATTENDANCE
Venue: On the lawn of Automotive High School
Address: 50 Bedford Ave. @ North 13th St. (Williamsburg, Brooklyn)
Directions: L to [...]
FRIDAY, AUGUST 15TH
ROOFTOP FILMS and VERIZON FIOS present
WHERE YOU LIVE
Short films that show us where you live and how you live. From the harshest African deserts to the fertile Irish countryside, from rapidly growing guesthouses in Hong Kong to the slowly fading inner city of Detroit, these fun and fascinating documentaries invite you into unique [...]
See The Way We Get By at the IFC CENTER.
Filmmakers and Doc Subjects in Attendance!
On Friday, June 10th, Rooftop Films screened Aron Gaudet’s film The Way We Get By on the lawn of the Automotive High School. Aron Gaudet is an award-winning director and editor. Past films include India: A New Life, a WGBH-Frontline World production, [...]
Rooftop Films (NYC) and the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) have joined forces to present two remarkable films from IFFR 2009 in Rooftop’s Summer Series. Blind Pig Who Wants to Fly by Edwin (Indonesia) and Los Herederos by Eugenio Polgovsky (Mexico) will be screened on July 17 and 18, 2009 with the filmmakers and IFFR [...]
On Saturday, June 20th, Rooftop Films will be screening Jennifer Maytorena Taylor’s film New Muslim Cool on the roof of El Museo del Barrio. Get tickets now before it sells out.
Jennifer Maytorena Taylor is a director, producer, photographer, and narrator. Her latest feature film , New Muslim Cool, chronicles the personal journey of Puerto-Rican [...]
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