Award-winning filmmaker Bryan Wizemann’s feature plays Rooftop’s Opening Weekend on May 12. Bryan talked with us about his inspiration for the film, his festival success, and working with Lauren Ambrose.

Rooftop is proud to co-present two screenings at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival, Andrew Semans’ “Nancy, Please,” and Michael Palmieri & Donal Mosher’s “Off Label.” And don’t miss the other great Rooftop Alums at this year’s fest.

If you missed Heather Courtney’s powerful and important film Where Soldiers Come From at last year’s Rooftop Summer Series, it is now available for streaming or download.

Time to get your space nerd on.

It’s been an exciting few months for our Filmmakers’ Fund Grantees. Join us in doing a little dance for them.

Our picks for the three films that will get you through this soggy first weekend of fall.

Turns out that you can get a lot more from a film festival than just a film. Get ready, because we’ve got some music for you too. Yes, you already know that we have live bands. But it’s Dan’s playlist that has been growing in notoriety as the opening act to most screenings this summer…

The Rural Route Film Festival Returns to Queens with screenings and personal appearances at Museum of the Moving Image, plus special events at Brooklyn Grange Farm & Socrates Sculpture Park, co-presented by Rooftop Films.

I’m a child of the early 80’s so by default, I was a child of the WWF generation.  For as long as I can remember watching wrestling was a huge part of my media consumption, and I guess I never really stopped watching. Strangely, it’s always been a part of my life, even subconsciously. For [...]

We met the Blaine Brothers; the filmmakers responsible for the hilarious “0507″, a sketch about the unforeseen perils of modern technology which will commence our “Hope and Heartbreak” series of shorts.