Rooftop Films launched a new “Extend the Summer” fundraising video. We need to raise $5,000 by Wednesday, August 4. If you love what we do, kick in a few bucks to keep it going.

One night only! On July 29th the world’s first mad scientist filmmaker will perform one of his notorious live experiments! You won’t believe your eyes! Get your tickets before it’s too late!

Rooftop speaks to filmmaker Terrence Nance about his film NO WARD and the devastating effects of forced migration in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

Rooftop alum/grantee Bill Brown is like the Huck Finn of contemporary American art. Bill and Sabine Gruffat have created The Bike Box, a mobile-media bicycle library and interactive installation housed in the Devotion Gallery.

Rooftop Films spoke to Jonas Odell about Tussilago, his brilliantly animated short that places a 1970’s terrorist act into a human perspective. See it for free TONIGHT at Socrates Sculpture Park.

Åsa Blanck and Johan Palmgren spoke to Rooftop Films about using a national tragedy as a device to tell a heartwarming tale of fear and friendship in their film Anders & Harri. See it for free TONIGHT at Socrates Sculpture Park.

Filmmaker Ruben Ostlund talks about his naturalistic, multi-perspective retelling of a bank robbery and the bizarre ways that life sometimes imitates art. See it for free tomorrow at Socrates Sculpture Park.

Elena Greenlee, director of Mariachi, talks to Rooftop Films about the delicate task of telling a non abrasive story about race relations. See it tonight for free at Ft. Greene Park.

How did a pair of French directors and a British music editor make a documentary in Japan about noise music? Rooftop Films talks to the filmmakers behind We Don’t Care About Music Anyway.

We talk to Durier Ryan, director of “Monroe St.” about the the beauty and color of Bed-Stuy and the unique perspective of an outsider. See it Saturday at “Brooklyn Transformations.”