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Down the Rabbit Hole: Outsider, Amateur, and Underground Films

Down the Rabbit Hole: Outsider, Amateur, and Underground Films

This Friday, the Outsider Art Fair is hosting a free series of shorts that highlight outsider, amateur, and underground films made completely away from the eye of a big production company.

March (Membership) Madness!

March (Membership) Madness!

Buy your 2014 Membership this week and save! As a thank you for supporting us early this year, we’re offering $20 off Double Membership to the 2014 Summer Series.

On Discovering Rooftop

On Discovering Rooftop

“I know you like rooves,” I said, in my first email inviting someone to a Rooftop screening.

A conversation with Brothers Hypnotic filmmaker Reuben Atlas

A conversation with Brothers Hypnotic filmmaker Reuben Atlas

Filmwax Radio interviews Reuben Atlas, director of BRothers Hypnotic and Gabriel “Juda” Hubert of the Hypnotic Brass Ensemble.

See “Moonstruck” this Saturday at Epix Free For All

See “Moonstruck” this Saturday at Epix Free For All

See the 80s classic “Moonstuck” under stars as EPIX Free-For-All partners with Coney Island Flicks On The Beach.

Epix Presents “Biutiful” at Socrates Sculpture Park

Epix Presents “Biutiful” at Socrates Sculpture Park

On August 17th, “Biutiful” will screen in Long Island City, Queens. Javier Bardem gives a tour de force performance as Uxbal, a Barcelona man who operates on the wrong side of the law while trying to provide for his two young children. Take the journey through the rougher corridors of life, and find redemption in bright, bad, biutiful love, entirely for free and only at EPIX Movie Free-For-All .

Rural Route Festival Returns to Queens

Rural Route Festival Returns to Queens

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.

Filmmaker Interview: Imperialists’ Zeina Durra

Filmmaker Interview: Imperialists’ Zeina Durra

We are screening Zeina Durra’s The Imperialists are Still Alive at the Ace Hotel on Sunday, February 13, and Zeina will be there for a Q and A after the screening, but we sent her some questions about the film in advance, and here they are…

Free “War Don Don” Screening This Saturday in NYC

Free “War Don Don” Screening This Saturday in NYC

Our friend, filmmaker Rebecca Richman Cohen, directed the thought-provoking, gut-wrenching film War Don Don, about the trial of alleged Sierra Leone war criminal Issa Sesay. See it for free this Saturday night in NYC.

Thurs: Beyond Bullets Free Screening of “Shooting Poverty”

Thurs: Beyond Bullets Free Screening of “Shooting Poverty”

Fresh off a screening at the United Nations, on Thursday October 28 Rooftop’s parters at DCTV’s Beyond Bullets are hosting a free show of Oxfam’s “Shooting Poverty” short films.

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