Rooftop Films IFP Filmmaker Labs Sneak Preview (Event Over)

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 20
Rooftop Films and IFP present
IFP Independent Filmmaker Labs Sneak Preview Showcase
Free Show!
A sneak peek at trailers and scenes from narrative and documentary films from the 2009 Labs—next year's hot festival and indie releases.
 
Venue: At the base of the Brooklyn Bridge in Empire-Fulton Ferry State Park  
Address: Entrance is at Main St. and Plymouth Street 
Directions: Take the A/C to High Street OR the 2/3 to Clark Street OR the F train to York Street. Walking directions can be found at   http://brooklynbridgepark.org/go/prog...
8:00PM: Doors open 
8:30PM: Sound Fix presents The Loom
9:00PM: Films 
11:00PM-12:30AM: After-party at Galapagos
Admission: FREE

Presented in partnership with: Cinereach, New York magazine, & XØ Projects


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IFP’s Independent Filmmaker Labs are a highly immersive free mentorship program for first feature films at the rough cut stage. Here's a sneak peek at trailers and scenes from narrative and documentary films from the 2009 Labs—next year's hot festival and indie releases. IFP will begin accepting applications for the 2010 Labs in January. www.labs.ifp.org


DOCUMENTARY LAB SELECTIONS

Beijing Taxi
Intimate stories of three cabbies connect a morphing cityscape and tales of citizens coping with the dizzying pace of change accelerated by the 2008 Olympics. Miao Wang (Director, Producer, Editor)

Casino Nation
After a long and bloody struggle, the Seneca Nation of Indians now owns one of the most lucrative casinos in the world. Is this a new beginning...or the end of days? Laure Sullivan (Director, Producer, Editor), Terry Jones (Director, Producer), Paul Wilson (Director Producer, DP)

An Interview with Simone Weil
A journey to understand the controversial French philosopher and activist Simone Weil (1909-1943) becomes a reflection on the complex role of documentarians in today's world. Julia Haslett (Director, Producer, Editor), Fabrizia Galvagno (Producer)

Land of Opportunity
A chronicle of the historic and tumultuous rebirth of a great American city, New Orleans, through the eyes of those on the front lines. Luisa Dantas (Director, Producer, Editor), Rebecca Snedeker (Co-producer)

Our House
In an industrial warehouse in New York City, three young political radicals form an underground squatter community for the homeless - all in the name of Jesus Christ. Greg King (Director, Producer, DP, Editor), David Teague (Director, DP)

Paul Goodman Changed My Life
About one of America's most important social thinkers, whose Growing Up Absurd ushered in the 1960s, opening up a new world for its young readers. Jonathan S. Lee (Director, Producer), Kimberly Reed (Editor), Robert Hawk (Associate Producer)

The Road to Nasiriyah
The struggle to document the looting at Iraqi archaeological sites following the 2003 war ends with the kidnapping of an American journalist and his Iraqi interpreter. Marie Hélène Carleton, Micah Garen (Directors, Producers, Writers, DPs, Editors)

Texas Heart
Bridging non-fiction with science fiction, Texas Heart follows two surgeons as they prototype a pulse-less artificial heart, creating a new physiology for the post-human future. Treva Wurmfeld (Director, Producer, Writer, DP, Editor)

Twelve Ways to Sunday
Set in the poverty belt of Western New York, a film about sharing stories when there is little else to share. Anna Farrell (Director, Producer, DP, Editor)

NARRATIVE LAB SELECTIONS

Au Pair, Kansas
Helen, recently widowed, hires Oddmund, a fun-loving Norwegian soccer player, to help raise her two boys and work on their bison farm in a small town in Kansas. Featuring Traci Lords (Zack & Miri Make a Porno, Crybaby). JT O'Neal (Writer, Director, Producer), Joan Jerkovich, Catherine A. McCabe (Producers), Brad Roszell (Editor)

City on a Hill
Present and past begin to merge when Paul finds out his old fling and quasi-revolutionary partner committed suicide. From the producers of Medicine for Melancholy, City on a Hill marks the directorial debut of actress Amy Seimetz (Alexander the Last, Wristcutters: A Love Story). Amy Seimetz (Writer, Director, Producer), Justin Barber (Executive Producer), Cherie Saulter (Producer), Adele Romanski (Editor)

The Imperialists Are Still Alive!
Asya is making her way as an artist in an indifferent and sometimes hostile NYC when she learns her childhood friend has been abducted by the CIA for false terrorist ties. Featuring Élodie Bouchez (The Dreamlife of Angels, Sorry, Haters). Zeina Durra (Writer, Director), Vanessa Hope (Producer)

The Myth of Time
Shot over five years in Guatemala with a diverse cast including over 5,000 extras, the film relates the unwritten chapter of the Popol Vuh (The Mayan Book of Advice), as told through The Dark Eyed-One’s journey into manhood. Miller "Jaguar X" Koepenick (Writer, Director, Editor), Scorpion Hernandez (Producer, Editor)

Perfection
Kristabelle, a woman her thirties, lives at home with her mother, and cuts herself to feel "something"; little does she know that Simon, a sweet, newly sober, British stand up comic is about to show her that her scars can't scare love away. Christina Beck (Writer, Director), Annette Murphy (Producer), Rob Poswall (DP, Editor)

Phasma Ex Machina
A young man tasked with raising his brother after the death of their parents invents a machine intended to be a conduit to the supernatural – but the machine’s unintended level of success threatens everyone around him. Matt Osterman (Writer, Director), Jennifer Kramer (Producer), Jon Maichel Thomas (Co-Producer)

Postales
In the streets of Cusco, Peru, the lives of an American businessman and his family become irreversibly intertwined with those of a rural Peruvian family struggling day to day to survive. Josh Hyde (Writer, Director), Claire Connelly, PJ Fishwick, Maxim Holland (Producers), Dan Fischer (DP, Producer), Evan Smith (Editor)

Stranger Things
Oona is a young woman faced with the dreadful task of clearing out her dead mother's home. Returning to the countryside property, Oona discovers a vagrant, Mani, has broken into the house. Their surprising friendship surmounts the disparities between them and offers unexpected hope and strength. Ron Eyal, Eleanor Burke (Writers, Directors, Producers, Editors)

The Tested
One year ago, plain clothes cop Julian Varone gunned down an unarmed teen. Darraylynn Warren, the teen's mother, has spiraled into a pit of despair, as her other son Dre flirts with ganglife. As Julian prepares to get back to work, the three find they cannot find closure without each other. Featuring Aunjanue Ellis (The Taking of Pelham 123, True Blood) and Armando Riesco (Che). Russell Costanzo (Writer, Director, Editor), Melissa B. Miller (Producer)

Wanderlost
The Drifter is a train-hopping gutter punk alone in the world, isolated by years of ritual abuse and life on the fringe. He returns to his father's grave to break the curse that haunts him, where he sees salvation in a beautiful girl who could be his key to freedom. David Kabler (Writer, Director), Dan Judson (Writer, Producer, Editor), Mitch Rumfelt (Writer, Producer), Troy S. Burnette (Producer)

Rooftop Films is a non-profit organization whose mission is to engage and inspire the diverse communities of New York City by showcasing the work of emerging filmmakers and musicians. In addition to our Summer Series – which takes place in unique outdoor venues every weekend throughout the summer – Rooftop provides grants to filmmakers, teaches media literacy and filmmaking to young people, rents low-cost equipment to artists and non-profits, and produces new independent films. At Rooftop Films, we bring the underground outdoors. For more information and updates please visit our website at www.rooftopfilms.com.