ROOFTOP FILMS WEEKEND AHEAD IN NY.
August 7th 2008 15:26
*Tonight: Trouble The Water in Central Park
*Friday: Up With Me at El Museo Del Barrio
*Saturday: I'll Come Running at the Can Factory
Up With Me, playing Friday on the roof of El Museo Del Barrio
* August 6th : Trouble the Water in Central Park's Harlem Meer , public screening open to all--no charge for admission.
* August 8th : Up With Me on the roof of El Museo Del barrio with an open bar to follow, compliments of Radeberger
* August 9th : I'll Come Running on the roof of The Øld American Can Factory with open bar to follow courtesy of Brooklyn Oenology.
Wed, August 6, 2008
Rooftop Films, Historic Harlem Parks, The Central Park Conservancy, imagenation, and Zeitgeist Films Present
Trouble the Water | No charge for admission
The winner of the Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival, Trouble the Water tells the story of an aspiring rap artist and her streetwise husband who are trapped in New Orleans by deadly floodwaters. Armed with a video camera, they show what survival is all about when they seize a chance for a new beginning.
*Venue: Harlem Meer in Central Park | MAP
*Address: Lawn adjacent to the Charles A. Dana Discovery Center, 110th St. between 5th and Lenox
Aves.
*Directions: 2/3 to 110th.
Walk east on 110th.
*8:00: Live music
*8:30: Films
*Admisson: No charge for admission
*Trouble the Water also opens theatrically August 22nd at the IFC Center and at the Faison Firehouse Theatre in Harlem
The seventh annual Historic Harlem Park Film Festival concludes next week at Harlem Meer in Central Park (110th street between 5th and Lennox). On August 6th, Rooftop is proud to present Zeitgeist films' Trouble the Water. The winner of the Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival, Trouble the Water tells the story of an aspiring rap artist and her streetwise husband who are trapped in New Orleans by deadly floodwaters. Armed with a video camera, they show what survival is all about when they seize a chance for a new beginning.
Kimberly Rivers Roberts and her husband Scott had just gotten a video camera a few weeks before Hurricane Katrina hit their neighborhood, New Orleans' 9th Ward. Trouble the Water, directed by Tia Lessin and Carl Deal (co-producers of Fahrenheit 911 and Bowling For Columbine), includes Kim and Scott's astonishing footage documenting the experience. With overwhelming compassion and honesty, it tells a story that echoes the lives of too many people in America today—those whose lives were ruined (or lost) to Katrina, and those across the country who are being left behind by an uncaring government.
Trouble the Water opens theatrically in New York on August 22nd with a nationwide release to follow. This preview screening on August 6th is free and open to the public, and the filmmakers and Kim and Scott Roberts will be present for a Q and A following the film.
Prior to the film, Ms. Roberts (aka Black Kold Medina), will perform live. Transportation and accomodations for Ms. Roberts, her husband Scott Roberts and her backup singer Trichell Williams were provided for by the ASCAP Employees For Relief Fund, a non-profit fund designed to assist deserving music-related groups and individuals, who have slipped through the net of traditional big charitable organizations. No other music organization has an employee fund such as this. ASCAP employees have generously donated money along with ASCAP members and other music industry people, and all contributions are matched by ASCAP.
Fri., August 8th, 2008 Up With Me
Open Bar Afterwards
Love and loyalty are put to the test when a Harlem teenager is offered a prep school scholarship upstate.
*Venue: On the roof of El Museo Del Barrio
*Address: 1230 Fifth Avenue @ 104th Street (East Harlem)
*Directions: 6 to 103rd St. or 2/3 to 110th St.| Map
*8:00: Doors open
*8:30: Sound Fix presents live music by Balun
*9:00: The Film
*11:00: Reception on the roof courtesy of Radeberger
*Tickets : $9 online or at the door
When Francisco, a teenager from Harlem, is admitted to an upstate boarding school on scholarship, he is torn between his life at home—his loyal girlfriend and his jealous best friend—and the new environment. As he tries to leave his troubles in Harlem behind, his best friend Brandon puts his own life in danger—partly to test his own ability to hustle, and partly as a loyalty test to Francisco.
This gritty, charming and dynamic narrative feature was created as a collaboration between director Greg Takoudes and at-risk youth at the East Harlem Tutorial Program. The screenplay is based on months-long writing workshops with the teenagers, who then starred in the movie, and—when they weren't acting in scenes—helped crew the set. “I wanted to turn these teens into filmmakers,” Takoudes said in IndieWire, “to teach them film skills, and make our movie in a way that the creative responsibility for the film rested as much with the teens, as with me. I thought that if they understood this responsibility, that they would rise to the occasion. And they did.” The film was shot in the streets where they hang out and in the apartments where they live—and now Rooftop Films and El Museo del Barrio invite you to see it in that same neighborhood.
Sat., August 9th, 2008 I'll Come Running |
An awkward, comic, sexy one night stand turns substantial, then life-changing, in this dizzying mix of romantic comedy and drama.
*Venue: On the roof of The Old American Can Factory
*Address: 232 3rd Street, Gowanus/Park Slope | MAP
*Directions: F, G to Carroll Street or M, R to Union Street
*8:30: Sound Fix presents live music by the Bell
*9:00: Film begins
*11:00: FREE Open Bar reception courtesy of Brooklyn Oenology Wine
*Tickets: $9 AT THE DOOR
*All in attendance will receive a free copy of Jim Munroe's An Opening Act of Unspeakable Evil
Pelle (Jon Lange) is a Danish tourist in Texas, “a kitsch paradise, where they execute the retarded.” Veronica (Melonie Diaz) is a waitress in a tacky Tex-Mex joint. She takes him home, but they go to bed in separate rooms. Now they both have second thoughts about having second thoughts. Through a closed door, they wait expectantly, sexual tension building.
The blossoming affair between Veronica and Pelle—or Lisa and Millhouse, as they call each other, to help overcome language difficulties—is a delight to watch because it’s believable but unexpected. They flirt and dig at each other, get serious then laugh, a perfect distillation of what fast, passionate relationships are like: sharp, sweet, funny, then suddenly painful, and ultimately blissful.
Spencer Parsons, a Rooftop veteran (Resolution, 2002; Once and Future A**hole, 2005; recipient of a 2007 Rooftop Filmmakers’ Fund grant), has crafted his debut feature with wit and poignancy, lending remarkable weight to an unusual love story, and coaxing stunning performances from the entire cast. There is a glorious importance to their one-night stand, to the Viking Ship Museum, to a hand-rolled cigarette traded for a paint pen. Because through the sadness and difficulty, there is still joy, there is still laughter, there is still the possibility of love.
www.rooftopfilms.com
Source: PR Rooftop Films
*Friday: Up With Me at El Museo Del Barrio
*Saturday: I'll Come Running at the Can Factory
Up With Me, playing Friday on the roof of El Museo Del Barrio
* August 6th : Trouble the Water in Central Park's Harlem Meer , public screening open to all--no charge for admission.
* August 8th : Up With Me on the roof of El Museo Del barrio with an open bar to follow, compliments of Radeberger
* August 9th : I'll Come Running on the roof of The Øld American Can Factory with open bar to follow courtesy of Brooklyn Oenology.
Wed, August 6, 2008
Rooftop Films, Historic Harlem Parks, The Central Park Conservancy, imagenation, and Zeitgeist Films Present
Trouble the Water | No charge for admission
The winner of the Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival, Trouble the Water tells the story of an aspiring rap artist and her streetwise husband who are trapped in New Orleans by deadly floodwaters. Armed with a video camera, they show what survival is all about when they seize a chance for a new beginning.
*Venue: Harlem Meer in Central Park | MAP
*Address: Lawn adjacent to the Charles A. Dana Discovery Center, 110th St. between 5th and Lenox
Aves.
*Directions: 2/3 to 110th.
Walk east on 110th.
*8:00: Live music
*8:30: Films
*Admisson: No charge for admission
*Trouble the Water also opens theatrically August 22nd at the IFC Center and at the Faison Firehouse Theatre in Harlem
The seventh annual Historic Harlem Park Film Festival concludes next week at Harlem Meer in Central Park (110th street between 5th and Lennox). On August 6th, Rooftop is proud to present Zeitgeist films' Trouble the Water. The winner of the Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival, Trouble the Water tells the story of an aspiring rap artist and her streetwise husband who are trapped in New Orleans by deadly floodwaters. Armed with a video camera, they show what survival is all about when they seize a chance for a new beginning.
Kimberly Rivers Roberts and her husband Scott had just gotten a video camera a few weeks before Hurricane Katrina hit their neighborhood, New Orleans' 9th Ward. Trouble the Water, directed by Tia Lessin and Carl Deal (co-producers of Fahrenheit 911 and Bowling For Columbine), includes Kim and Scott's astonishing footage documenting the experience. With overwhelming compassion and honesty, it tells a story that echoes the lives of too many people in America today—those whose lives were ruined (or lost) to Katrina, and those across the country who are being left behind by an uncaring government.
Trouble the Water opens theatrically in New York on August 22nd with a nationwide release to follow. This preview screening on August 6th is free and open to the public, and the filmmakers and Kim and Scott Roberts will be present for a Q and A following the film.
Prior to the film, Ms. Roberts (aka Black Kold Medina), will perform live. Transportation and accomodations for Ms. Roberts, her husband Scott Roberts and her backup singer Trichell Williams were provided for by the ASCAP Employees For Relief Fund, a non-profit fund designed to assist deserving music-related groups and individuals, who have slipped through the net of traditional big charitable organizations. No other music organization has an employee fund such as this. ASCAP employees have generously donated money along with ASCAP members and other music industry people, and all contributions are matched by ASCAP.
Fri., August 8th, 2008 Up With Me
Open Bar Afterwards
Love and loyalty are put to the test when a Harlem teenager is offered a prep school scholarship upstate.
*Venue: On the roof of El Museo Del Barrio
*Address: 1230 Fifth Avenue @ 104th Street (East Harlem)
*Directions: 6 to 103rd St. or 2/3 to 110th St.| Map
*8:00: Doors open
*8:30: Sound Fix presents live music by Balun
*9:00: The Film
*11:00: Reception on the roof courtesy of Radeberger
*Tickets : $9 online or at the door
When Francisco, a teenager from Harlem, is admitted to an upstate boarding school on scholarship, he is torn between his life at home—his loyal girlfriend and his jealous best friend—and the new environment. As he tries to leave his troubles in Harlem behind, his best friend Brandon puts his own life in danger—partly to test his own ability to hustle, and partly as a loyalty test to Francisco.
This gritty, charming and dynamic narrative feature was created as a collaboration between director Greg Takoudes and at-risk youth at the East Harlem Tutorial Program. The screenplay is based on months-long writing workshops with the teenagers, who then starred in the movie, and—when they weren't acting in scenes—helped crew the set. “I wanted to turn these teens into filmmakers,” Takoudes said in IndieWire, “to teach them film skills, and make our movie in a way that the creative responsibility for the film rested as much with the teens, as with me. I thought that if they understood this responsibility, that they would rise to the occasion. And they did.” The film was shot in the streets where they hang out and in the apartments where they live—and now Rooftop Films and El Museo del Barrio invite you to see it in that same neighborhood.
Sat., August 9th, 2008 I'll Come Running |
An awkward, comic, sexy one night stand turns substantial, then life-changing, in this dizzying mix of romantic comedy and drama.
*Venue: On the roof of The Old American Can Factory
*Address: 232 3rd Street, Gowanus/Park Slope | MAP
*Directions: F, G to Carroll Street or M, R to Union Street
*8:30: Sound Fix presents live music by the Bell
*9:00: Film begins
*11:00: FREE Open Bar reception courtesy of Brooklyn Oenology Wine
*Tickets: $9 AT THE DOOR
*All in attendance will receive a free copy of Jim Munroe's An Opening Act of Unspeakable Evil
Pelle (Jon Lange) is a Danish tourist in Texas, “a kitsch paradise, where they execute the retarded.” Veronica (Melonie Diaz) is a waitress in a tacky Tex-Mex joint. She takes him home, but they go to bed in separate rooms. Now they both have second thoughts about having second thoughts. Through a closed door, they wait expectantly, sexual tension building.
The blossoming affair between Veronica and Pelle—or Lisa and Millhouse, as they call each other, to help overcome language difficulties—is a delight to watch because it’s believable but unexpected. They flirt and dig at each other, get serious then laugh, a perfect distillation of what fast, passionate relationships are like: sharp, sweet, funny, then suddenly painful, and ultimately blissful.
Spencer Parsons, a Rooftop veteran (Resolution, 2002; Once and Future A**hole, 2005; recipient of a 2007 Rooftop Filmmakers’ Fund grant), has crafted his debut feature with wit and poignancy, lending remarkable weight to an unusual love story, and coaxing stunning performances from the entire cast. There is a glorious importance to their one-night stand, to the Viking Ship Museum, to a hand-rolled cigarette traded for a paint pen. Because through the sadness and difficulty, there is still joy, there is still laughter, there is still the possibility of love.
www.rooftopfilms.com
Source: PR Rooftop Films
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