LOOKING AT TIME
NYC PREMIERE Salim Shariff, a 72-year-old watch repairman originally from Bombay, India, now living & working in the Jackson Heights shares his memories of living in NY for the past 30 years.
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MISSING PEOPLE
NYC PREMIERE Martina, the director of a prominent NYC gallery, is an obsessive collector of the work of late outsider artist Roy Ferdinand, which chronicled a violent, sexual pre-Katrina New Orleans. When she meets Ferdinand’s sisters, they are drawn together by common experience: Martina too is haunted by the spectre of her own brother, the […]
CLASS DIVIDE
2015 METROPOLIS COMPETITION WINNER NYC PREMIERE A look at NYC’s gentrification and growing inequality in a microcosm, Class Divide explores two distinct worlds that share the same Chelsea intersection – 10th Avenue and 26th Street. On one side of the avenue, the Chelsea-Elliot Houses have provided low-income public housing to residents for decades. Their neighbor […]
THE JAZZ LOFT ACCORDING TO W. EUGENE SMITH
NYC PREMIERE Between 1957 and 1965, former LIFE Magazine photojournalist W. Eugene Smith obsessively photographed and taped the goings-on at the dilapidated Sixth Avenue loft he called home. As revealed in this astonishing WNYC-produced time capsule, what he captured is a treasure trove of NYC jazz of that period, including a three-week rehearsal by the […]
THE LOST ARCADE
WORLD PREMIERE Chinatown Fair opened as a penny arcade on Mott Street in 1944. Over the decades, the dimly lit gathering place, known for its tic-tac-toe playing chicken, became an institution, surviving turf wars between rival gangs, changing tastes and the explosive growth of home gaming systems like Xbox and Playstation that shuttered most other […]
CITY OF GOLD
NYC PREMIERE City of Gold profiles Pulitzer Prize- winning restaurant critic Jonathan Gold and his relationship to Los Angeles. In writing about food, Gold also covers the city’s thriving immigrant culture. He devotes the same passion to small family-run ethnic restaurants that other critics give to haute cuisine. The film includes appearances by New York […]
ANATOMY OF A SNOW DAY
WORLD PREMIERE When school remains open during a winter storm, twelve-year-old documentary filmmaker Zachary Maxwell seeks out answers from the adults calling the shots. Through tireless efforts which included countless letters, emails, phone calls and other creative forms of outreach, Zachary goes inside the New York City government to understand how weather-related emergencies influence school closings. Anatomy […]
AS YOU PASS BY
WORLD PREMIERE The roads we erect and the cars we drive maximize our comfort and efficiency, but at what cost? As You Pass By commences an exploration of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, an infamous highway in New York City that slices through the two named boroughs. We pause in Woodside, Queens to observe one of the […]
GRIT & GRIND
A recollection of the infamous, edgy, lesbian party Clit Club, which boasted a intergenerational, cross-racial, sexually charged, mixed class venue emblematic of gritty, vibrant, pre-gentrified Manhattan. This is part of the SHORTS PROGRAM: LOST + FOUND
SALAD DAYS: A DECADE OF PUNK IN WASHINGTON, DC (1980-1990)
WORLD PREMIERE As a teenager in the 1980s, Scott Crawford began a fanzine documenting the explosion of a distinctive brand of hardcore punk music in Washington, DC, exemplified by bands like Minor Threat, Bad Brains and Fugazi. Drawing from his own immersion in that world, and featuring a who’s who of musicians, label owners, photographers […]