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Friday, Jul 24 - 7:30pm Spacetime Singularities Elle Burchill and Andrea Monti Spacetime Singularities is a program of new moving image works made for the occasion of Peephole Cinema by Bradley Eros, Sarah Halpern and Andrew Lampert. The works, hand shot by each artist in the darkness – of a cave, a nightclub and on the streets of NYC in the wee morning hours – collapse sensations and sounds into a single focus viewing experience in which stalactites appear as sonograms, Kenneth Anger conducts a ceremony on the theremin, and liquid nitrogen tanks become ticking time bombs in the city’s rain-slicked streets. – EB & AM

Spacetime Singularities

Elle Burchill and Andrea Monti Spacetime Singularities is a program of new moving image works made for the occasion of Peephole Cinema by Bradley Eros, Sarah Halpern and Andrew Lampert. The works, hand shot by each artist in the darkness – of a cave, a nightclub and on the streets of NYC in the wee morning hours – collapse sensations and sounds into a single focus viewing experience in which stalactites appear as sonograms, Kenneth Anger conducts a ceremony on the theremin, and liquid nitrogen tanks become ticking time bombs in the city’s rain-slicked streets. – EB & AM
Wednesday, Jul 22 - 7:30pm Through His Documents: Remembering Christopher Lee with curator Leeroy Kun Young Kang and scholar and public health research scientist Sel J. Hwahng his program highlights the documentary work of late transgender filmmaker and activist Christopher Lee. Lee’s first film, Christopher's Chronicles, a record of the artist’s transition from female to male was among the very first films made by and about a transgender man of color and premiered at the 1997 Frameline Festival. Through his use of interviews, video collage, and music (including transgender artist Chloe Dzubilo's band, Transisters), Lee’s second feature documentary film, Trappings of Transhood focuses on the stories and lived experiences of a multi­racial group of transmen who candidly share their experiences of negotiating issues of race, ethnicity, sexuality, gender, and the medical industry within their process of transition. Trappings of Transhood was the first known feature­length work to document the experiences of transmen, and has been screened internationally. This will be both the first NYC screening of Lee’s two documentary films since his death in 2012 and within an NYC festival setting since 1997.

Through His Documents: Remembering Christopher Lee

with curator Leeroy Kun Young Kang and scholar and public health research scientist Sel J. Hwahng his program highlights the documentary work of late transgender filmmaker and activist Christopher Lee. Lee’s first film, Christopher's Chronicles, a record of the artist’s transition from female to male was among the very first films made by and about a transgender man of color and premiered at the 1997 Frameline Festival. Through his use of interviews, video collage, and music (including transgender artist Chloe Dzubilo's band, Transisters), Lee’s second feature documentary film, Trappings of Transhood focuses on the stories and lived experiences of a multi­racial group of transmen who candidly share their experiences of negotiating issues of race, ethnicity, sexuality, gender, and the medical industry within their process of transition. Trappings of Transhood was the first known feature­length work to document the experiences of transmen, and has been screened internationally. This will be both the first NYC screening of Lee’s two documentary films since his death in 2012 and within an NYC festival setting since 1997.

Little Raptures for the Uncommitted and Fissures by Patrick O’Hare

NYC Premiere Filmmaker Patrick O'Hare is interested in the sidelong glance at the world and the natural elisions and illusions found there, as well as those created through the editing of vastly disparate subject matter. Utilizing the language of merging and omission that can alter time, allowing reality to slip, hinting at the invisible. The aim is to reveal a state of mind investigating, coalescing, faltering and fusing into its own landscape. That recognizes and embraces the half seen, flashes and slow reveals of perception. Attuned as possible to phenomena of light, stasis, form, movement and the echoes of intimation. Through the cracks something startles and vanishes, the shape shifting riddle of inside and outside. Obliquely, these films try to convey the poignancy of the abstracted universe we move through, inhabit and have become inured to.
Friday, Jul 10 - 7:30pm Field Visits for Chelsea Manning With Lance Wakeling and Karl McCool. This first-person travelogue maps the surrounding areas where former Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning was imprisoned before her trial for releasing classified documents to Wikileaks. In an attempt to piece together disparate landscapes and events into a larger narrative, this essay film tracks Manning's places of detention from Kuwait to Virginia, Kansas, and Maryland. Following in the footsteps of Adachi's theory of landscape and the peripatetic tradition of road movies, Field Visits for Chelsea Manning reflects a landscape of mass-detention, endless war, whistleblowers, and America's unresolved history of race.

Field Visits for Chelsea Manning

With Lance Wakeling and Karl McCool. This first-person travelogue maps the surrounding areas where former Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning was imprisoned before her trial for releasing classified documents to Wikileaks. In an attempt to piece together disparate landscapes and events into a larger narrative, this essay film tracks Manning's places of detention from Kuwait to Virginia, Kansas, and Maryland. Following in the footsteps of Adachi's theory of landscape and the peripatetic tradition of road movies, Field Visits for Chelsea Manning reflects a landscape of mass-detention, endless war, whistleblowers, and America's unresolved history of race.
Sunday, Jun 28 - 7:30pm Documentary Fundamentals Graphics, Music, and Transmedia Campaigns With Adnaan Wasey, Kina Pickett, J. Ralph and Chai Vasarhelyi. How can title design and graphics be effectively utilized in documentary? What about my approach to music? What is transmedia and why should documentary filmmakers pay attention to it? This session will dig in to graphics and music issues that come together during post production. We will also explore broad strokes of how to plan and execute transmedia campaigns.

Documentary Fundamentals Graphics, Music, and Transmedia Campaigns

With Adnaan Wasey, Kina Pickett, J. Ralph and Chai Vasarhelyi. How can title design and graphics be effectively utilized in documentary? What about my approach to music? What is transmedia and why should documentary filmmakers pay attention to it? This session will dig in to graphics and music issues that come together during post production. We will also explore broad strokes of how to plan and execute transmedia campaigns.
Sunday, Jun 28 - 7:30pm Documentary Fundamentals How to Release Your Documentary With Ryan Werner, Ed Arentz and Chai Vasarhelyi. How can you find and build audiences for your film? How do you know if your film is best suited for theatrical, broadcast, or both? How do digital platforms affect “traditional” models of distribution and release? How can you best utilize your film festival campaign? What does a sales agent do and how do I get one? Another can’t-miss session!

Documentary Fundamentals How to Release Your Documentary

With Ryan Werner, Ed Arentz and Chai Vasarhelyi. How can you find and build audiences for your film? How do you know if your film is best suited for theatrical, broadcast, or both? How do digital platforms affect “traditional” models of distribution and release? How can you best utilize your film festival campaign? What does a sales agent do and how do I get one? Another can’t-miss session!
Saturday, Jun 27 - 7:30pm Documentary Fundamentals Financing With Tracie Holder, Sarah Meister, David Koh, and Chai Vasarhelyi. This session will address the eternal question: how to finance your doc? What are the pros and cons of different fundraising models (grants, equity investment, pre-sales, crowdsourcing)? We will also have veteran independent film accountant Fred Siegel to talk about tax ramifications and planning around financing as well as investor relations. Budgeting, how to find and successfully apply for grants, tips and tools for crowdfunding and other approaches to getting funded will be discussed in addition for this can’t-miss session.

Documentary Fundamentals Financing

With Tracie Holder, Sarah Meister, David Koh, and Chai Vasarhelyi. This session will address the eternal question: how to finance your doc? What are the pros and cons of different fundraising models (grants, equity investment, pre-sales, crowdsourcing)? We will also have veteran independent film accountant Fred Siegel to talk about tax ramifications and planning around financing as well as investor relations. Budgeting, how to find and successfully apply for grants, tips and tools for crowdfunding and other approaches to getting funded will be discussed in addition for this can’t-miss session.
Saturday, Jun 27 - 7:30pm Documentary Fundamentals Shooting and Directing With Heidi Ewing, Kirsten Johnson, and Chai Vasarhelyi. Documentary filmmakers produce and shoot in a wide variety of locations under many different practical, financial, technical and legal constraints. What kind of equipment do you need? Who do you need on your production team? How do you deal with emergencies during shooting and how do you pick out a camera and DP? Should I be thinking of archival material in advance?

Documentary Fundamentals Shooting and Directing

With Heidi Ewing, Kirsten Johnson, and Chai Vasarhelyi. Documentary filmmakers produce and shoot in a wide variety of locations under many different practical, financial, technical and legal constraints. What kind of equipment do you need? Who do you need on your production team? How do you deal with emergencies during shooting and how do you pick out a camera and DP? Should I be thinking of archival material in advance?
Saturday, Jun 27 - 7:30pm Documentary Fundamentals Editing With Bob Eisenhardt, A.C.E., Tom Fleischman, Deborah Wallach and Chai Vasarhelyi. How can documentary directors work effectively with editors, sound designers, and other essential post-production talent? How does a story emerge from a pile of footage? Can you really “fix it in post”? What is an online edit and can you do it yourself? How does a good sound designer work, and how does post-production sound enhance your documentary

Documentary Fundamentals Editing

With Bob Eisenhardt, A.C.E., Tom Fleischman, Deborah Wallach and Chai Vasarhelyi. How can documentary directors work effectively with editors, sound designers, and other essential post-production talent? How does a story emerge from a pile of footage? Can you really “fix it in post”? What is an online edit and can you do it yourself? How does a good sound designer work, and how does post-production sound enhance your documentary
Friday, Jun 26 - 7:30pm Documentary Fundamentals Planning With Nicole Page, Sam Cullman, and Chai Vasarhelyi. What are the essential business and legal issues to consider as you plan your documentary film? What can you do now to avoid problems later? Do you need an LLC? What is E&O insurance? This session covers issues of legal rights and clearances, business basics for filmmakers, budgeting, structuring agreements for talent and crew, and more.

Documentary Fundamentals Planning

With Nicole Page, Sam Cullman, and Chai Vasarhelyi. What are the essential business and legal issues to consider as you plan your documentary film? What can you do now to avoid problems later? Do you need an LLC? What is E&O insurance? This session covers issues of legal rights and clearances, business basics for filmmakers, budgeting, structuring agreements for talent and crew, and more.
Sunday, Jun 21 - 7:30pm Concerning Violence: Nine Scenes from the Anti-Imperialistic Self-Defense Co-presented by Brooklyn Institute for Social Research Concerning Violence (2014) is both an archive-driven documentary covering the most daring moments in the struggle for liberation in the Third World, as well as an exploration into the mechanisms of decolonization through text from Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth. Fanon’s landmark book, written over 50 years ago, is still a major tool for understanding and illuminating the neocolonialism happening today, as well as the violence and reactions against it. In the middle of the Cold War, radical Swedish filmmakers set out to capture the anti-imperialist liberation movements in Africa first hand. With their 16mm footage, found in the Swedish Television archives, filmmaker Göran Hugo Olsson create[s] a visual narrative from Africa - images of the pursuit of freedom, the Cold War and Sweden. Swedish filmmakers, with their sense of solidarity with anti-imperial and socialist struggles around the world at the time, created images and stories which still resonate today, and can change and deepen our impression of the globalized world we live in.

Concerning Violence: Nine Scenes from the Anti-Imperialistic Self-Defense

Co-presented by Brooklyn Institute for Social Research Concerning Violence (2014) is both an archive-driven documentary covering the most daring moments in the struggle for liberation in the Third World, as well as an exploration into the mechanisms of decolonization through text from Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth. Fanon’s landmark book, written over 50 years ago, is still a major tool for understanding and illuminating the neocolonialism happening today, as well as the violence and reactions against it. In the middle of the Cold War, radical Swedish filmmakers set out to capture the anti-imperialist liberation movements in Africa first hand. With their 16mm footage, found in the Swedish Television archives, filmmaker Göran Hugo Olsson create[s] a visual narrative from Africa - images of the pursuit of freedom, the Cold War and Sweden. Swedish filmmakers, with their sense of solidarity with anti-imperial and socialist struggles around the world at the time, created images and stories which still resonate today, and can change and deepen our impression of the globalized world we live in.
Saturday, Jun 20 - 7:30pm Shorts after the Flaherty Seminar 2015 With guest filmmakers from the Flaherty Seminar, Arthur Jafa & Juan Manuel Sepulveda. Cinema that makes the subtlest of presences perceptible.The title “The Scent of Places” suggests the ways cinema makes the subtlest of presences perceptible. It brings lost or forgotten events into present awareness. It gives form to unbidden feelings. It invents stories more truthful than fact. It detects patterns—emotional, social, and political. It sharpens perception so that we can see and hear, smell and feel more clearly. Filmmakers from the Arab world are some of the most adept at these creative strategies. Living in the Arab world in recent decades, with its barrage of external and internal pressures, demands filmmakers and artists to come up with smart and subtle ways to express forces, histories, and experiences that lie under the radar. The goal of the program is to focus not on the works’ geographic, social, and political context, but on their aesthetic qualities: the scents of places that they make present. So the program brings Arab artists together with other international filmmakers who share creative strategies with them. The program also diminishes large-scale politics to focus on more intimate and playful gestures. The richest and strangest scents—those of ordinary life—float through these works. They discover patterns in the chaos of the world. They fabulate, or invent fictions that become true. They engage in psychodynamics, teasing people into expressive acts. They crackle like Geiger counters in the presence of invisible forces. With rhythm and performance they shake up the world and squeeze it for its juice.

Shorts after the Flaherty Seminar 2015

With guest filmmakers from the Flaherty Seminar, Arthur Jafa & Juan Manuel Sepulveda. Cinema that makes the subtlest of presences perceptible.The title “The Scent of Places” suggests the ways cinema makes the subtlest of presences perceptible. It brings lost or forgotten events into present awareness. It gives form to unbidden feelings. It invents stories more truthful than fact. It detects patterns—emotional, social, and political. It sharpens perception so that we can see and hear, smell and feel more clearly. Filmmakers from the Arab world are some of the most adept at these creative strategies. Living in the Arab world in recent decades, with its barrage of external and internal pressures, demands filmmakers and artists to come up with smart and subtle ways to express forces, histories, and experiences that lie under the radar. The goal of the program is to focus not on the works’ geographic, social, and political context, but on their aesthetic qualities: the scents of places that they make present. So the program brings Arab artists together with other international filmmakers who share creative strategies with them. The program also diminishes large-scale politics to focus on more intimate and playful gestures. The richest and strangest scents—those of ordinary life—float through these works. They discover patterns in the chaos of the world. They fabulate, or invent fictions that become true. They engage in psychodynamics, teasing people into expressive acts. They crackle like Geiger counters in the presence of invisible forces. With rhythm and performance they shake up the world and squeeze it for its juice.

Magic Lantern Presents: Masses and Swarms

Curated by Seth Watter. Moving images have had a special fondness for masses and swarms: human, animal, cellular, chemical, granular.It is known that crowd scenes in the cinema produce a rhythmic, poetic, photogenic effect when there is a real, actively thinking crowd involved. The reason is that the cinema can pick this cadence up better than the human eye and by other means; it can record this fundamental rhythm and its harmonics.—Jean Epstein From the earliest Lumière actualities to the contemporary disaster film, cinema has given apt expression to masses and what they seemingly do best: massing. This program presents a survey of crowds, masses, and swarms in their many and varied manifestations: from the elemental to the complex, and from the archaic to the contemporary. Though often hidden beneath a veneer of solidity, masses and swarms are the very stuff of life. Gathering and dispersing, contracting and expanding, are the formal figures most proper to them. They exist at the level of particles and parades, demonstrations and desktop icons, spermatozoa and shopping mallers. Even the grain of film, the noise of video, the pixilation of a buffering stream—they, too, with their swirling and spreading, justly merit the name of “crowd.” Wherever division, multiplicity, and movement co-exist, masses and swarms are sure to follow: on the street, in the density of a throng; in the depths of the body, cell against cell.

Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask

Co-presented by Brooklyn Institute for Social Research Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask explores for the first time on film the pre-eminent theorist of the anti-colonial movements of this century. Fanon's two major works, Black Skin, White Masks and The Wretched of the Earth, were pioneering studies of the psychological impact of racism on both colonized and colonizer. Jean-Paul Sartre recognized Fanon as the figure "through whose voice the Third World finds and speaks for itself." This innovative film biography restores Fanon to his rightful place at the center of contemporary discussions around post-colonial identity. Isaac Julien, the celebrated black British director of such provocative films as Looking for Langston and Young Soul Rebels, integrates the facts of Fanon's brief but remarkably eventful life with his long and tortuous inner journey. Julien elegantly weaves together interviews with family members and friends, documentary footage, readings from Fanon's work and dramatizations of crucial moments in Fanon's life. Cultural critics Stuart Hall and Françoise Verges position Fanon's work in his own time and draw out its implications for our own.
Friday, Jun 12 - 7:30pm Kingdom of Shadows NYC Premiere. With Bernardo Ruiz & Katia Maguire. Kingdom of Shadows, Bernardo Ruiz, 2015, 74 minutes Bernardo Ruiz takes an unflinching look at the hard choices and destructive consequences of the U.S.-Mexico “drug war,” weaving together the stories of a U.S. drug enforcement agent on the border, an activist nun in violence- scarred Monterrey, Mexico, and a former Texas smuggler, to reveal the human side of an often misunderstood conflict that has resulted in a growing human-rights crisis that only recently has made international headlines. Presented by Participant Media in association with Boiling Pot and Quiet Pictures. “Many documentaries have chronicled the drug war in the U.S. and Mexico, but few have humanized it as poignantly as Kingdom of Shadows... [It] is more observant than crusading...rooted in first-rate journalism.” — Slackerwood | March 21, 2015 “‘Kingdom of Shadows’, produced through Participant, stands out for its measured look at deep structure." — IDA | March 27, 2015 South by Southwest, March 2015, World Premiere Full Frame Documentary Festival, April 2015 Ambulante, April 28-29, 2015, Mexico Special Preview Amnesty International Mexico, May 7, 2015, Mexico Special Preview

Kingdom of Shadows

NYC Premiere. With Bernardo Ruiz & Katia Maguire. Kingdom of Shadows, Bernardo Ruiz, 2015, 74 minutes Bernardo Ruiz takes an unflinching look at the hard choices and destructive consequences of the U.S.-Mexico “drug war,” weaving together the stories of a U.S. drug enforcement agent on the border, an activist nun in violence- scarred Monterrey, Mexico, and a former Texas smuggler, to reveal the human side of an often misunderstood conflict that has resulted in a growing human-rights crisis that only recently has made international headlines. Presented by Participant Media in association with Boiling Pot and Quiet Pictures. “Many documentaries have chronicled the drug war in the U.S. and Mexico, but few have humanized it as poignantly as Kingdom of Shadows... [It] is more observant than crusading...rooted in first-rate journalism.” — Slackerwood | March 21, 2015 “‘Kingdom of Shadows’, produced through Participant, stands out for its measured look at deep structure." — IDA | March 27, 2015 South by Southwest, March 2015, World Premiere Full Frame Documentary Festival, April 2015 Ambulante, April 28-29, 2015, Mexico Special Preview Amnesty International Mexico, May 7, 2015, Mexico Special Preview

The Winds that Scatter (World Premiere)

Part of the Northside Film Festival. With director Christopher Bell Ahmad is a refugee from Syria living in the U.S. who hopes to start his own taxi service. After losing a menial job at a gas station, he attempts to navigate the American economy with optimism. Soon, however, reality sets in and he finds consistent work to be scarce. Creeping hopelessness begins to take a toll on his relationships, faith and sense of self, his dream slipping quickly from his grasp.

Documentary Block II

Part of the Northside Film Festival. Filmmakers present for the screening. Green Card, Pilar Rico and David Whitmer, 8 minutes A film about a song and its author, Mohammad Rahman, a convenience store owner from Bangladesh living in Brooklyn, who writes song lyrics about the immigrant experience. El Porvenir, Josh Chertoff, Alfredo Alcantara, 14 mintues El Porvenir is an inside look at the world of Mexican cockfighting, where men and roosters meet at the intersection of life, death, and sport. Sandorkraut, Emily Lobsenz, 12 minutes An intimate portrait of Sandor Katz, America's foremost home fermentation revivalist. Cada Noche: Every Night (World Premiere), Ian Phillips, 8 minutes Sazon Perez Restaurant in Brooklyn serves over five-hundred customers, daily. Not including the men who line up outside...every night. Nelly’s, Danya Abt and Samantha Richardson, 12 minutes Nelly's is a portrait of Nelly's, a family-owned flower shop in the Southside of Williamsburg. Sandwiched between elevated tracks and congested streets, we watch as this tiny oasis brings the local population together in ritual, memory and celebration. Through customer portraits, candid interviews with the store's owner Nelly, and observational footage captured inside and outside the shop, this nontraditional documentary considers our varied relationship with plants and flowers and how these living things are use to redefine our ever-changing urban landscapes. As we watch the seasons turn, subtle changes are observed in the store and the surrounding neighborhood.
Tuesday, Jun 9 - 7:30pm Shorts Block III Part of the Northside Film Festival. Directors present for screening. Daniel, Amanda Ring, 3 minutes "And the visions of my mind terrify me." Mujer, Sofia Canales, 10 minutes Three Latinas of different generations take pleasure in helping each other bathe, dress up, and cook dinner. Eye in Tuna Care, John Walter Lustig, 5 minutes Eye in Tuna Care is a work of shameless plagiarism; filmmaker John W. Lustig stole the idea from a character in a dream. Didn't even bother to change the title. In the film, a dentist's expertise is put to the test when an unusual patient seeks his help. Rhythm of a City, Julie Gratz, 3 minutes An invitation into the heart of New York City through the atmospheric art of BUA. With the music of DJ Qbert and Dana Leong, escape into moments in the streets that are filled with artistic expression from hip hop culture of a vibrant metropolis. Directed and arranged by Julie Gratz and animated by KALEIDA. Alvaro (World Premiere), Alexandra Lazarowich, 13 minutes A meditation on memory and perseverance, ÁLVARO follows 75 year-old South Williamsburg, Brooklyn resident Álvaro Brandon on his daily route to feed 40 stray cats living in the abandoned lots of his neighborhood. Palm Rot, Ryan Gillis, 8 minutes Investigating a mysterious explosion in the Florida Everglades, an old crop-duster discovers a lone crate that survived the wreckage. And it ruins his day. It Hit Upon a Roof, Teymour Ghaderi, 4 minutes A house in a village, where only an old woman and a child live, the rain falls and starts dripping from the ceiling. The child tries to do something about the drips. Tick Tock (Brooklyn Premiere), Zeynep Kocak, 10 minutes The beautiful thing is not the goal you achieve; it is the road that takes you there with hope! Ham Over Rice, 4 minutes, Ying Liu Houyi saves the world but loses his immortality. N6-4Q Born Free, Sasha Gransjean, 12 minutes Short film series exploring themes of biology and technology through documentary and fiction.

Shorts Block III

Part of the Northside Film Festival. Directors present for screening. Daniel, Amanda Ring, 3 minutes "And the visions of my mind terrify me." Mujer, Sofia Canales, 10 minutes Three Latinas of different generations take pleasure in helping each other bathe, dress up, and cook dinner. Eye in Tuna Care, John Walter Lustig, 5 minutes Eye in Tuna Care is a work of shameless plagiarism; filmmaker John W. Lustig stole the idea from a character in a dream. Didn't even bother to change the title. In the film, a dentist's expertise is put to the test when an unusual patient seeks his help. Rhythm of a City, Julie Gratz, 3 minutes An invitation into the heart of New York City through the atmospheric art of BUA. With the music of DJ Qbert and Dana Leong, escape into moments in the streets that are filled with artistic expression from hip hop culture of a vibrant metropolis. Directed and arranged by Julie Gratz and animated by KALEIDA. Alvaro (World Premiere), Alexandra Lazarowich, 13 minutes A meditation on memory and perseverance, ÁLVARO follows 75 year-old South Williamsburg, Brooklyn resident Álvaro Brandon on his daily route to feed 40 stray cats living in the abandoned lots of his neighborhood. Palm Rot, Ryan Gillis, 8 minutes Investigating a mysterious explosion in the Florida Everglades, an old crop-duster discovers a lone crate that survived the wreckage. And it ruins his day. It Hit Upon a Roof, Teymour Ghaderi, 4 minutes A house in a village, where only an old woman and a child live, the rain falls and starts dripping from the ceiling. The child tries to do something about the drips. Tick Tock (Brooklyn Premiere), Zeynep Kocak, 10 minutes The beautiful thing is not the goal you achieve; it is the road that takes you there with hope! Ham Over Rice, 4 minutes, Ying Liu Houyi saves the world but loses his immortality. N6-4Q Born Free, Sasha Gransjean, 12 minutes Short film series exploring themes of biology and technology through documentary and fiction.

Aspie Seeks Love (New York Premiere)

Part of the Northside Film Festival.With director Julie Sokolow. This award-winning documentary follows a fearless outsider's quest for love. David Matthews wasn't diagnosed with Asperger's until age 41, at which point his entire life changed, including his strategy for winning love and achieving his artistic dreams.
Monday, Jun 8 - 7:30pm A Day’s Work (Brooklyn Premiere) Part of the Northside Film Festival.With director David Garcia. When a young temporary employee is killed 90 minutes into his first day on the job, his sister searches for answers as an investigation reveals how the $100 billion staffing industry is putting millions of American workers at risk.

A Day’s Work (Brooklyn Premiere)

Part of the Northside Film Festival.With director David Garcia. When a young temporary employee is killed 90 minutes into his first day on the job, his sister searches for answers as an investigation reveals how the $100 billion staffing industry is putting millions of American workers at risk.

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