ROOFTOP FILMS - 2008 Summer Series
August - September Schedule

Rooftop Films announces our August and September schedule. The 2008 Summer Series runs every weekend from May 31-September 26, screening 19 feature films and over 150 short films in 38 screenings. We’ll be in a dozen spectacular outdoor locations all over the city. There will be world premieres of daring new independent feature films, and screenings of award-winning short films in exciting, themed programs. All screenings include live music before the films, and most screenings include after-parties with complimentary drinks.

Tickets are just $9, or $6 online in advance for select shows. It’s the best deal in town, for new movies, great bands, cool views, awesome parties and more.

The schedule for the second half of the summer (Aug – Sept) listed below. Visit www.rooftopfilms.com for details.

Fri., August 1
My Effortless Brilliance (Lynn Shelton | Washington | 1:19:00)
Sound Fix presents live music by Drew and the Medicinal Pen
Venue: On the lawn of Automotive High School, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
After party: Complimentary beer courtesy of Radeberger Pilsner

Dumped by his best buddy, a successful novelist voyages into the wilderness to track down his old pal, get drunk in the woods, and hunt cougars in this brilliantly understated comedy about bad friendships between good friends.
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Sat., August 2
Home Movies (Shorts Program)
Sound Fix presents live music by Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players
Venue: On the lawn of The Yard, Gowanus, Brooklyn
After party: Complimentary wine courtesy of Brooklyn Oenology

Fragile memories, preserved (and distorted) in motion pictures. Fun, fascinating, personal and profound.
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Wed., August 6
Trouble the Water (Tia Lessin & Carl Deal | New Orleans | 1:34:00)
Venue: On the lawn of Harlem Meer, Central Park, Manhattan
No admission charge

The story of an aspiring rap artist and her streetwise husband who are trapped in New Orleans by deadly floodwaters. Armed only with a video camera, they show what survival is all about.
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Fri., August 8
Up With Me (Greg Takoudes | New York, NY | 1:16:00)
Sound Fix presents live music by Balun
Venue: On the roof of El Museo Del Barrio, East Harlem
After party: Complimentary beer courtesy of Radeberger Pilsner

Love and loyalty are put to the test when a Harlem teenager is offered a prep school scholarship upstate.
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Sat., August 9
Sound Fix presents live music by Bell
I’ll Come Running (Spencer Parsons | Austin, TX & Copenhagen | 1:48:00)
Venue: On the roof of the Old American Can Factory, Gowanus, Brooklyn
After party: Complimentary wine courtesy of Brooklyn Oenology

An awkward, comic, sexy one night stand turns substantial, then life-changing, in this dizzying mix of romantic comedy and drama.
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Fri., August 15
Heavy Load (Jerry Rothwell | England | 1:31:00)
Venue: On the lawn of Automotive High School, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
After party: Complimentary beer courtesy of Radeberger Pilsner
No admission charge

A joyous and hard-rocking documentary about a band overcoming learning disabilities, as well as their own differences, to prove they can still rock on.
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Sat., August 16
Song Sung Blue (Greg Kohs | Wisconsin | 1:27:00)
Live Neil Diamond Karaoke prior to the film
Venue: On the lawn at Southpoint Park on Roosevelt Island

An extraordinary and inspiring cinematic ballad to Lightning & Thunder, a homegrown Milwaukee husband and wife Neil Diamond cover band. They fall in love, rise to fame and suffer grave misfortune as they share the music of the Jewish Elvis with the people of Milwaukee.
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Fri., August 22
Flying on One Engine (Joshua Weinstein | Brooklyn & India | 0:52:00)
Venue: On the lawn of Automotive High School, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
After party: Complimentary beer courtesy of Radeberger Pilsner

Charming curmudgeonly doctor Sharadkumar Dicksheet lives half the year in a small, dingy apartment in Brooklyn, surviving on Social Security payments. The rest of his year is spent performing hundreds of operations a day in India, saving tens of thousands of lives a year.
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Sat., August 23
Munyrangabo (Lee Isaac Chung | Rwanda & USA | 1:37:00)
Sound Fix presents live music by Twi the Humble Feather
Venue: On the roof of The Old American Can Factory, Gowanus, Brooklyn

A stunning neo-realist drama about revenge and friendship in post-genocide Rwanda. The debut feature from the 2008 recipient of the Rooftop Films and Eastern Effects Equipment Grant.
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Fri., August 29
Tricks (Sztucki) (Andrzej Jakimowski | Poland | 1:35:00)
Venue: On the lawn of Automotive High School, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
An award-winning, pitch-perfect new comedy about a six-year-old boy and his sister playing games with fate and searching for their destinies in a sleepy little Polish town.
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Sat., August 30
Looking for Love (Shorts Program)
Venue: On the lawn of The Yard, Gowanus, Brooklyn
After party: Complimentary wine courtesy of Brooklyn Oenology

Romantic short films about finding love in all the wrong places.
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Fri., September 5
Morelia Film Festival
Sound Fix presents live music by Nacotheque
Venue: On the roof of El Museo Del Barrio, East Harlem
After party: Complimentary beer courtesy of Radeberger Pilsner

Rooftop Films is proud to present selections from the Morelia International Film Festival, Mexico’s premiere showcase of new and emerging Mexican filmmaking talent.
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Sat., September 6
Arusi: Persian Wedding (Marjan Tehrani | New York, Iran | 1:02:00)
Venue: On the lawn at Southpoint Park on Roosevelt Island

Iranian-American filmmaker Marjan Tehrani chronicles her brother's return to Iran as he travels with his American wife to have a Persian wedding ceremony and explore his lost heritage.
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Fri., September 12
New York Non-Fiction (Shorts Program)
Venue: On the roof of the Open Road Rooftop Project, Lower East Side
After party: Complimentary beer courtesy of Radeberger Pilsner

It’s your city. Take a look.
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Sat., September 13
Dark Toons (Shorts Program)
Venue: On the roof of The Old American Can Factory, Gowanus, Brooklyn
After party: Complimentary wine courtesy of Brooklyn Oenology

Enjoyably evil animation.
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Tues., September 16
Trinidad (PJ Ravel, Jay Hodges | Colorado, Austin | 1:26:00)
Sound Fix presents live music by Frances
Venue: The pier of The Frying Pan
After party: Free beer courtesy of Radeberger Pilsner
No admission charge

40 years ago, Dr. Stanley Biber transformed a sleepy mining town in Colorado into The Sex Change Capital of The World.
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Wed., September 17
IFP Narrative and Documentary Lab Selections
Venue TBA
No admission charge

A sneak peek at trailers and scenes from independent narrative and documentary films that will be next year's hot festival and indie releases.
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Thurs., September 18
October Country (Michael Palmieri & Donal Mosher | New York State | 1:20:00)
Venue: On the roof of the Open Road Rooftop Project, Lower East Side

A beautifully-filmed portrait of an American family struggling for stability in the shadow of war, teen pregnancy, foster care and child abuse. Shot over the course of one year from one Halloween to the next, the film uses intimate family moments, memories, and personal ghosts to examine the forces that haunt the working poor and the violence that lurks beneath the surface of American life.
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Fri., September 19
The Pleasure of Being Robbed (Josh Safdie | New York, NY | 1:11:00)
Venue: On the roof of the Open Road Rooftop Project, Lower East Side
After party: Complimentary beer courtesy of Radeberger Pilsner

A curious and lost Eleonore looks for something everywhere, even in the bags of strangers who find themselves sadly smiling only after she's left their lives.
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Fri., September 26
Rooftop Shots (Shorts Program)
Venue: On the roof of the Open Road Rooftop Project, Lower East Side
After party: Complimentary beer courtesy of Radeberger Pilsner

The sharpest short films fired from the roof. Highlights from Rooftop Films' 2008 Summer Series.
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Rooftop Films is a non-profit organization whose mission is to engage and inspire diverse communities by showing movies in outdoor locations every weekend all summer long, producing new films, teaching filmmaking to young people, and renting low-cost equipment to artists and non-profits. At Rooftop Films, we bring the underground outdoors. For more information and updates please visit our website at www.rooftopfilms.com.