THE 100 YEARS SHOW
NYC PREMIERE Though she has painted all her life, Cuban-born NYC artist Carmen Herrera is “discovered” in her 90s. This film is followed by TOCANDO LA LUZ.
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FEELINGS ARE FACTS: THE LIFE OF YVONNE RAINER
NYC PREMIERE A long-overdue portrait of an iconoclastic performer, Feelings are Facts profiles the incomparable Yvonne Rainer. In the 1960s, within a scant few years as a dancer and choreographer, she radically changed the art form through her influential work at the Judson Dance Theater. When she shifted to film in the 1970s, she continued […]
THE RED UMBRELLA DIARIES
NYC PREMIERE Born out of a desire to give voice to a historically marginalized and criminalized workforce, The Red Umbrella Diaries turns the spotlight on seven diverse New Yorkers as they take the stage at Joe’s Pub to tell personal stories about their experiences as sex workers. At turns provocative, illuminating, hilarious and empowering, their […]
AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MICHELLE MAREN
US PREMIERE At seventeen, Michelle Maren escaped from an abusive home to the streets of NYC, taking on a variety of roles, including magician’s assistant, beauty queen and porn star. Now middle- aged and living on disability, she struggles with a host of psychological disorders. Inspired by Michel Negroponte’s acclaimed Jupiter’s Wife, Michelle reaches out […]
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 […]
BASEMENT METAL
NYC PREMIERE An intimate look into the lives of ‘Unlocking the Truth’, an up and coming heavy metal band who’s members are middle schoolers between the ages of 11 & 12. Follow them as they rehearse in a cramped basement after school, talk about their life styles and how others in school view them, right up […]
BECOMING BILLY NAME
WORLD PREMIERE Becoming Billy Name is a short film about the artist Billy Name, born William Linich. Billy is the photographer who most extensively and richly documented the “Silver Age” of Andy Warhol’s The Factory, from 1960-1971. However, this is a film about Billy and not about Warhol or The Factory. It is the intimate […]
BLINDSIGHT
WORLD PREMIERE BlindSight examines the photographic imagination of the members of the Seeing with Photography Collective through their photography. While all the members were sighted at one time, they are all now blind or visually impaired. Many came to photography after their blindness, and photography has given them a new voice, a way to express […]
EMBEDDED
NYC PREMIERE Sebastiano’s passion is documenting war. But at what cost? His award-winning photographs from Syria and Afghanistan are widely published. His girlfriend, Gessica, who is proud of him, fears for his life constantly and struggles to understand Sebastiano’s drive to work in combat zones. This short documentary is a mixture of compelling verite and […]
CAST IN INDIA
Iconic and ubiquitous, thousands of manhole covers dot the streets of New York City. Enlivening the everyday objects around us, this short film is a glimpse of the working lives of the men behind the manhole covers in New York City. This is playing part of the SHORTS PROGRAM: PARTS + LABOR