NewFilmmakers Holds Documentary Series, 7/2

Welcome to the second annual NewFilmmakers Summer Fest 2010. Our five day NewFilmmakers Summer Fest 2010 will screen over fifty new films about sex, love, and everything else. We debut a new Summer Shorts Series and welcome the return of the Asian Screening Series, which had been a popular part of our regular weekly series.

The NewFilmmakers NY Series screens at Anthology Film Archives on the Lower East Side at 32 Second Avenue & 2nd Street. NewFilmmakers LA screens in the Stanley Kramer Theater @ Anthology at the Sunset Gower Studio. Many features screened at NewFilmmakers are now available on NewFilmmakers Online.

A ticket for the whole evening, tonight and every night at NewFilmmakers NY, is only $6 and tickets are available at the Anthology Box Office the night of screening.

More information on NewFilmmakers.com

Friday, July 2 (upstairs theater)

6:00 DOCUMENTARY SERIES

NewFilmmakers presents films about New York and the Italian Gangster genre, which has proved so popular in television and film even as it fades from real life.

Jena Starkes HEAVEN-O: A FILM ABOUT TAXI RAY KOTTNER (2007, 90 Minutes, Video)

7:45 SHORT FILM PROGRAM

James Ciccone NEIGHBORHOOD NONSENSE (2010, 12 Minutes, Video)
Leo Fiorica WINDOW SHOPPING (2009, 12 Minutes, Video)
Mark Chaput THE REAL WISE GUYS OF LOS ANGELES (2009, 13 Minutes)

8:30 FEATURE PRESENTATION

Frank Lisi A SICILIAN TALE (2009, 56 Minutes, Video)
Putting a new twist on a time-honored genre, A SICILIAN TALE tells the multigenerational story of an Italian American family who must grapple daily with the faithful decision made long ago by their ancestral patriarch to become part of his local Sicilian mafia; however, unlike most would-be-gangsters of fiction, who embrace such an opportunity only to regret it later on, Lorenzo, the Militello pater familias, regrets it the very moment it is made. A humble farmer working the fields of Sicily, Lorenzo is a man whose devotion to his family is unwavering and whose morality is beyond reproach, that is, until one day when he is approached by the local don, who makes him an offer he can't refuse: either join his ranks or his family dies. Going against all he holds sacred and dear, Lorenzo becomes the reluctant assassin for Don Gaetano Verde.

Friday, July 2nd (downstairs theater)

NewFilmmakers presents the Summer Shorts Series.

6:00pm EXPERIMENTAL SHORT FILMS

Tara Khalili EVEN FLOWERS WAKE UP IN THE MORNING (2009, 6 Min)
Pamela Timmins & Peter Leitch CITY IN BALANCE (2009, 16 Minutes, Video)
Pamela Timmins & Peter Leitch TANGO NOIR (2009, 6 Minutes, Video)
Ozan D. Adam ZYMOTIC - AMAUROSIS (2010, 24 Minutes, Video)

7:00pm FIRST SHORT FILM PROGRAM

Yen-Ting Cho KAPSIS (2009, 7 Minutes, Video)
Joey Grossfield 2PM (2010, 10 Minutes, 35MM)
Salvatore Sorrentino BABY BLUES (2009, 15 Minutes, Video)
Erykah Del Mundo SAMPALATAYA (2008, 16 Minutes, 35MM)
Gaba Michael Ado SILENT WHISPER (2010, 30 Minutes, Video)

8:15pm SECOND SHORT FILM PROGRAM

Debra Zarne AN ORDINARY WOMAN (2006, 1 Minute, Video)
Kim Hall UPRUSH (2008, 9 Minutes, 16MM)
Sandra Koponen GONE THE WAY OF THE INDIANS (2010, 14 Minutes, Video)
Isold Uggadottir COMMITTED (2009, 19 Minutes, 16MM)
W. Alex Reeves ALONE (2008, 23 Minutes, Video)
Michael Hamilton SETTLE (2009, 33 Minutes, Video)

Saturday, July 3rd

NewFilmmakers presents films about architecture.

6:00pm DOCUMENTARY SERIES

Zack Godshall GOD'S ARCHITECTS (2009, 82 Minutes, Video)

7:30pm SHORT FILM PROGRAM

Kent Hayward SUNSET TO SUNSET (2010, 2 Minutes, 8MM)
Ana Cuadra WRITER'S BLOCK (2009, 13 Minutes, 16MM)
Jeff Robinson SLINGS AND ARROWS (2010, 14 Minutes, 16MM)
Michael Swingler MIDLIFE (2010, 22 Minutes, Video)

8:45pm WORKS IN PROGRESS

Sebastian Neville THE WORLD'S TALLEST ARCHITECH (2010, 56 Minutes, Video)
A new documentary about Cesar Pelli's life and work. He is one the most prolific architects of our time. An Argentine architect known for designing some of the world's tallest buildings and other major urban landmarks, his designs are known for their curved facades and metallic elements. This film documents his contribution to modernism. Discussion with filmmakers follows the screening.

Anthology Film Archives
32 2nd Avenue @ 2nd Street