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Short films on the Brooklyn waterfront
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| General | The 3rd Annual
Red Hook Film Festival
October 3rd and 4th, 2009
Festival Founder and Chair:
Daniel Durning
Festival Managers:
David Spritzler
Aaron Sugiura
Festival Advisor:
Nathan Kensinger
Festival Programmers:
Daniel Maldonado
Meghan O'Hara
Joe Pacheco
Programming Assistance:
Marin Tockman
UnionDocs
Screening Room Manager:
Mike Olshan
Email: redhookfilmfest[at]yahoo.com
| | Movies | The 2009 Red Hook Film Festival presented films from some of Brooklyn's finest filmmakers, and stories from a huge variety of New York City neighborhoods. The films in our lineup came from around the country, and reflected on the location of our festival:
Red Hook, an urban, industrial, waterfront community where fishermen, longshoremen, artists, small businesses and housing projects live together...
And where everyone likes free popcorn! |
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Our 2009 Screening Schedule
| Saturday | October 3rd: |
| At 1:00 p.m. | On The Gowanus |
 | Robert Guskind: 1958-2009
Directed by Blue Barn Pictures
Documentary, 2009, color, 6:30 minutes
A tribute to Robert Guskind - aka "Brooklyn's Blogfather" - who for many years published The Gowanus Lounge, a local news website that offered unique coverage of Brooklyn's many neighborhoods. This year's Red Hook Film Festival is dedicated to Robert Guskind, to The Gowanus Lounge, and to local storytelling. |
 | Lavender Lake: Brooklyn's Gowanus Canal
Directed by Alison Prete
Documentary, 1999, color, 53 minutes
A 10th anniversary screening of this classic Brooklyn documentary, which chronicles the gritty details of the decades-long struggle to clean up the Gowanus Canal. This film remains especially relevant today, as the Gowanus neighborhood faces a potential Superfund designation. What has changed on the canal - and what remains the same - in the ten years since this fascinating documentary was completed? |
| At 2:30 p.m. | Abandonment Issues |
 | Karsh Kale - "GK2"
Directed by Zina Brown
Music Video, color, 2005, 5 minutes
A phantasmagorical electronic-fusion costume drama music video filmed inside the ruins of a local abandoned power plant. Awesome and bizarre.
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 | Urban Underground Explorer
Directed by Howard A. Silver
Documentary, color, 2009, 6 minutes
Before his recent departure for the west coast, Steve Duncan was considered one of New York's premiere Urban Explorers. This film follows him on his quest to discover the lost waterways hidden under the streets of New York. |
 | Under the Roller Coaster
Directed by Lila Place
Documentary, color, 2005, 15 minutes
The Thunderbolt roller coaster in Coney Island was once a Brooklyn icon. Before its surprising demolition in 2000, it was also the home of Mae Timpano, a unique Brooklyn character. This is the story of her life under the roller coaster. |
 | Scion
Directed by Michael Rossetti
Fiction, 2008, color, 12 minutes
A cyborg waits in an abandoned New York factory, crippled by damaged technology, until one day a stranger arrives... |
 | Insanity Vault
Directed by Sylvie Bolioli
Documentary, 2009, color, 15 minutes
The chronicle of an underground exploration into the strange remains of an abandoned, fenced-off, tightly guarded Connecticut insane asylum. |
| At 4:10 p.m. | The Streets of New York |
 | Fortification
Directed by Elena Wen
Animation, color, 1 minute
The urban cacophony fades to silence. |
 | Everything Said
Directed by Andy Cahill
Animation, 2007, color, 2:30 minutes
The residents of a tenement building find love and gluttony. |
 | Don't Fly Away
Directed by David Spritzler
Non-Fiction, 2009, color, 8 minutes
A delivery man journeys through the streets and tunnels of Manhattan with 100 balloons in tow. |
 | Nueva York
Directed by Manolo Celi
Fiction, 2008, color, 8 minutes
The lives of a seemingly disparate group of Hispanics in New York City are interwoven as we see how they survive and thrive. |
 | Mr. Brooklyn
Directed by JSOK
Fiction, 2009, color, 14 minutes
An old-school Brooklyn dockworker experiences a tumultuous day on the shores of Red Hook. Set on the piers outside Steve's Key Lime Pies, independent filmmaking does not get more local then this! |
 | The Found
Directed by Carlos Berrios
Fiction, color, 2009, 12 minutes
A beautifully realized neo-noir story structured around a conversation between two men who meet one night after a violent incident on the cobblestone streets of Brooklyn. |
 | Spanish Girls Are Beautiful
Directed by Gabrielle Rivera
Fiction, 2009, color, 21 minutes
Brings a hazy world of weed and women into sharp focus, with the intersection of urban and suburban, stoop and subdivision, as a group of Bronx Latina lesbians meets a lesbian crew from a much different background. Romance and drama ensue. |
And at 6:00pm...
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at Sunny's Bar!
Live music by The Tarnishers
and food from DeFonte's, Anselmo's and Steve's Key Lime Pie! |
| Sunday | October 4th: |
| At 2:00 p.m. | Red Hook's Finest! |
 | Mike Doughty - "Put It Down"
Directed by Robert Barocci and Tina Fallon
Music Video, 2008, color, 4 minutes
A man wearing a boat embarks on a Homeric odyssey across New York City, heading towards Red Hook, Brooklyn. |
 | Spirit Ship
Directed by Kristin B. Eno
Preview, fiction, 2009, color, 3 minutes
A special preview of Red Hook Film Festival alum Kristin B. Eno's new film "Spirit Ship" - a story of three children who see beyond the living world, into the spirit realm, where three young victims of a shipwreck are wandering along the Red Hook waterfront. |
 | Moment
Directed by Lee Songe
Fiction, 2007, color, 10 minutes
Three strangers meet at Valentino Park in Red Hook, sharing a moment that could change their lives. |
 | Pool
Directed by Lila Place
Documentary, 2009, color, 4 minutes
Dive back into summer at the Red Hook Pool. |
 | Mr. Mack's Kitchen
Directed by Mike Attie
Documentary, 2008, color, 6 minutes
Red Hook Film Festival alum Mike Attie takes a trip to Mr. Macks kitchen, where you need respect and discipline to survive! Can the kids of Lafayette Elementary take the heat? |
 | Last Day at the Nut House
Directed by Kathy Kensinger
Documentary, 2009, color, 5 minutes
Red Hook Film Festival alum Kathy Kensinger's new documentary visits a San Francisco institution on its closing day, to bid a fond farewell to "the nut lady." |
 | The Secret Life of Beards
Directed by Melanie Levy
Documentary, color, 6 minutes
Red Hook Film Festival alum Melanie Levy discovers that beards can hide many secrets and that there are many reasons to grow a beard. The World Champion of Beards sums it all up in this film when he enigmatically claims "My beard means Freedom." |
| Mr. Brooklyn
Directed by JSOK
Fiction, 2009, color, 14 minutes
An old-school Brooklyn dockworker experiences a tumultuous day on the shores of Red Hook. Set on the piers outside Steve's Key Lime Pies. independent filmmaking does not get more local then this! |
| At 4:00 p.m. | Urban Industry |
 | Journey to the Line
Directed by Corey Brandensteinr
Documentary, 2009, color, 9 minutes
A photographic, symphonic view of Los Angeles and the working class that keeps it going. |
 | A Farm Grows in Brooklyn...On a Rooftop
Directed by Liza de Guia
Documentary, 2009, color, 3 minutes
Meet the farmers at Brooklyn's very first rooftop farm, which started in Greenpoint, Brooklyn in April 2009. Up on their huge roof, organic tomatoes, spinach and other vegetables grow within view of the Empire State Building. |
 | Storefront
Directed by Greg DeLiso
Documentary, 2008, color, 6 minutes
Catch up with James and Karla Murray, who screened at last years festival, as they talk about their new book "Storefront" - an amazing collection of images from New York City's vanishing mom & pop shops. |
 | Brooklyn Makes
By Sarah Nelson Wright with sound by Jennifer Stock
Video Installation excerpt, 2009, color, 8 minutes
This is a special preview of Sarah Nelson Wright's upcoming event "Brooklyn Makes" - an outdoor walking tour of North Brooklyn industrial businesses, with site-specific video installations projected onto local manufacturing facades. "Brooklyn Makes" will take place the evenings of October 9th and 10th. Visit www.brooklynmakes.org for more information. |
 | Portrait of Ricardo Leon Pena Villa
Directed by Sebastian Gutierrez
Documentary, 2008, color, 7 minutes
A Colombian poet eloquently tells the story of his involvement with the Lower East Side squatter movement, which built and legalized homes in long-neglected buildings while battling the city government. |
 | Lessons from a Tailor
Directed by Galen Summer
Documentary, 2008, color, 8 minutes
Martin Greenfield has worked as a tailor in Bushwick, Brooklyn for decades. In his life, he has gone from concentration camp survivor to factory floor boy to owning his own company and making suits for President Bill Clinton. This is his story. |
 | Brooklyn Boondoggle
Directed by Meerkat Media Collective
Documentary, 2009, color, 12 minutes
As developer Bruce Ratner continues to strip away any redeeming qualities from his Atlantic Yards project, this documentary captures a variety of responses from neighbors affected by this controversial plan to redevelop Brooklyn's Vanderbilt Railyards. |
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