Filmmakers, Aliens, Wrestlers on Rooftops
We met our Kickstarter goal! Thanks everyone. Read here about all the filmmakers, wrestlers, robots, and lesbian space aliens on the Rooftops of New York City.
Announcing our 15th Annual Summer Series Lineup
Rooftop Films is proud to announce the line-up for our 15th Annual Summer Series. This summer we’ll show more than 200 great new underground movies outdoors in NYC.
Orbit(Film) Outdoors in Houston
Rooftop Films and Cinemad present Orbit(Film), an omnibus of short films about the solar system. Three events March 17-19 at the Aurora Picture Show in Houston, TX.
Rooftop Alums in New Day Films at MoMA
Long-time Rooftop alum Jesse Epstein, among many other New Day films, will be screening films on February 26 at the Museum of Modern Art.
Drunken baby goes on rampage, Rooftop grantee goes viral
The trailer for Johannes Nyholm’s Rooftop grantee has received almost 6 million hits on YouTube. Watch it and you’ll see why.
Rooftop Alum Cory McAbee presents TnT (Titles and Trailers)
Union Docs and Rooftop Films present TnT (Titles and Trailers), an evening of exploration into whether titles and trailer sequences be works of art in and of themselves. This Saturday, 7:30pm at Union Docs.
Sundance Midnight Masterpieces #3: The Oregonian
Rooftop alum and blogger Calvin Lee Reeder’s The Oregonian is a psychotic horror freakout of epic proportions, scary and hilarious.
The Case for Compulsory (Film) Education
Every year Sundance picks out movies to screen for students at Park City High School. I make the case for why kids shouldn’t decide for themselves what films they watch – we should decide for them.
Sundance Favorites
Banksy, Martha Marcy May Marlene, and getting to see an edit of my new feature.
Dear Isabella Rossellini:
You were at the director’s brunch; I was at the director’s brunch. Our eyes met. You smiled. Then I waved, which admittedly might have been a little misleading.