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Inwood Film Festival
March 14, 2019 - March 16, 2019
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The 4th annual Inwood Film Festival celebrates and showcases Inwood and its surrounding community through the moving image. It is created to be a homegrown community platform to promote and celebrate the neighborhood of Inwood and its residents. Everyone from amateurs to Oscar winners are encouraged to participate by submitting films shot in the Inwood community, or by Inwood community filmmakers.
INWOOD FILM FESTIVAL will take place March 14-16, 2019 at the Campbell Sports Center located at 218th Street and Broadway in Inwood, NYC.
$15 Single Tickets / $50 Festival Pass
$85 Benefit Ticket / $115 Benefit Ticket & Festival Pass
*$10 Single ticket/$40 Festival Pass discount for local students. Email info@inwoodartworks for promo code and attach proof of valid ID.
Thursday, March 14
Opening Night Benefit
Thursday, March 14 – 6:30-10:00pm
$85 pre-purchase. $125 day-of, and at the door, if space allows.
Special presentation featuring: Love, Gilda, post screening interview with filmmaker Lisa D’Apolito and original Saturday Night Live writer Alan Zweibel by WNYC’s Brian Lehrer, live stand-up comedy, and delicious food and beverages by Indian Road Café.
Love, Gilda opens a unique window into the honest and whimsical world of beloved performer Gilda Radner, whose greatest role was sharing her story. Working with the Radner estate, director Lisa D’Apolito unearthed a collection of diaries and personal audio and videotapes documenting her childhood, her comedy career, her relationships and ultimately, her struggles with cancer. These never-before-seen-or-heard footage and journal entries form the narrative spine of the documentary, allowing Gilda to tell her own story – through laughter and sometimes tears.
Friday, March 15
Short Shorts
<5 min. Shorts Exhibition – 40 minutes – Friday, March 15, 2:05pm
Featuring: Say No to Drift Walking, Foreverness, 6:17, Guy in Crosswalk Seeks Nirvana, From Dad to Bobby, My Generation, Everybody’s Got Something, Our Picture. Plus, special presentation of student films: First Contact and Freeze Frame. Featuring a post-screening conversation with filmmakers.
Seminar: Scoring for Cinema
Friday, March 15 at 4:00pm – pay-what-you-can.
Hosted by Jonathan Bell. Panel featuring Ronan Coleman, Joel Diamond, Michael Patterson, and James Sizemore.
What makes an effective score? What gear and software are essential to have in order to craft the vision for the scene? How do you break into the business and pursue opportunities? Join Inwood Art Works for a seminar on Scoring for Cinema to hear how industry professionals tackle these questions and more on Friday, March 15 at 4pm. Q & A will follow.
Long Shorts: Documentary Portraits
<25 min. Shorts Exhibition – Friday, March 15 at 7:05pm – 40 minutes
Featuring: Quiet Sundays, Savino, Disappearing NYC: Three Stories.
Revolution Selfie: The Red Battalion
Friday, March 15 at 8:05pm – 120 minutes – Plus special post-screening conversation with filmmaker, Steven De Castro.
Saturday, March 16
Long Shorts: Poetry in Motion
<25 min. Shorts Exhibition – Saturday, March 16 at 12:05pm – 57 minutes
Featuring: Perception, Three Trees (In Three Parts), Seasoned.
Long Shorts: Black Heritage
<25 min. Shorts Exhibition – Saturday, March 16 at 1:35pm – 55 minutes
Featuring: Ebb Tide, Birth of a Union, In the Face of What We Remember: Oral Histories of 409 and 555 Edgecombe Avenue.
Long Shorts: Love Stories
<25 min. Shorts Exhibition – Saturday, March 16 at 3:05pm – 78 minutes
Featuring: Casualidad Rodríguez, Things Ain’t What They Used to Be, Michael, Joseph, Jason, John, La Bombilla (The Fuse), Distances, Night’s Melody. Plus, special presentation of student film, Negatives.
Seminar: Writing for Film and TV
Saturday, March 16 at 5:00pm – pay-what-you-can.
Hosted by Roxana Petzold.
Ever watched a show and thought, “I can write that”? Ever faced the cold glare of a monitor and realized you should have gone to law school? Ever waited for the phone to ring and understood why writers have a rep for drinking? Join us when we drag Kent Jones, Kevin Katoaka, Sherese Robinson Lee, and Evan Waite out from their dank hovels and into the spotlight for a for a lively conversation about creating empathetic characters, pitching ideas, navigating the writer’s room, and survival. Bring your questions – let’s give these writers some real work.
Short Shorts
<5 min. Shorts Exhibition – Saturday, March 16 at 7:00pm – 40 minutes
Featuring: Say No to Drift Walking, Foreverness, 6:17, Guy in Crosswalk Seeks Nirvana, From Dad to Bobby, My Generation, Everybody’s Got Something, Our Picture. Plus, special presentation of student films: First Contact and Freeze Frame.
Long Shorts: If you can make it here…
<25 min. Shorts Exhibition – Saturday, March 16 at 8:05pm – 84 minutes
Featuring: Adam Adamson: Licensed Realtor, Me De La Lata, Hurry Up and Wait, The Brothers Molina, La EntreViú
FESTIVAL EVENTS
RED CARPET COMMUNITY ROOM (Friday, March 15 and Saturday, March 16)
The Red-Carpet Community Room is a hip hub to connect filmmakers and audiences. It is for the exclusive use of all Inwood Film Festival ticketed patrons before and after each screening. Enjoy a glass of wine from Indian Road Café or a Dyckman Beer and come to connect with neighbors before the show, stay afterward to discuss the films, meet like-minded folk, and hob-nob with local movers n’ shakers.
POST FEATURE CONVERSATIONS
Hear first-hand from local filmmakers about their process how they made their films following the presentation of select screenings. Stay tuned for the forthcoming schedule.
AWARD CEREMONY (Saturday, March 16 – Following the final screening)
Join us in the Theater following the final screening on Saturday, March 16 for the announcement of the Inwood Film Festival’s Awards for Excellence in Filmmaking by Manhattan Borough President, Gale A. Brewer and State Assembly Woman, Carmen De La Rosa.
AFTER PARTIES (Friday, March 15 & Saturday, March 16 – 10:00pm at Indian Road Café)
Following the post-screening discussion of Brief Reunion and the Award Ceremony, join filmmakers, film aficionados, and the Inwood Art Works team at Indian Road Café (600 West 218th Street) to raise a glass to our Inwood community and its vibrant arts scene.
