Inwood Art Works proudly announces the programming for its fourth annual Inwood Film Festival. The festival will expand to show 32 short and feature films in eight screenings on Friday and Saturday, March 16-17, plus two special seminars — Scoring for Cinema and Writing for Film and TV. Details of the screenings and all the films are listed below.
The festival includes a special Opening Night Benefit on Thursday, March 14 at 6.30pm featuring featuring Love, Gilda, followed by a post-screening interview by WNYC’s Brian Lehrer with filmmaker Lisa D’Apolito and original Saturday Night Live writer Alan Zweibel. There will also be live stand-up comedy and delicious food and beverages from Indian Road Café.
Before and after the festival screenings you can mingle in The Red-Carpet Community Room, a hip hub to connect filmmakers and audiences that 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.
Following the final screening, at approximately 9:30pm on Saturday, join us in the theater for the announcement of the Inwood Film Festival’s awards for Excellence in Filmmaking, presented by Manhattan Borough President, Gale A. Brewer and State Assembly Woman, Carmen De La Rosa.
And on both Friday & Saturday evenings at 10:00pm, Indian Road Café (600 West 218th Street) will host the post-screening discussion of Brief Reunion and the Award Ceremony. Join filmmakers, film aficionados, and the Inwood Art Works team at Indian Road to raise a glass to our Inwood community and its vibrant arts scene.
Tickets and Location
$50 Festival Pass — all access pass to all screenings March 15 and 16.
$85 Benefit Ticket — admission to Opening Night Benefit on March 14
$115 Benefit Ticket & Festival Pass – admission to Opening Night Benefit on March 14, and all access pass to all screenings March 16 & 17.Online ticket sales end March 14. Special discount give to local students. Email info@inwoodartworks for promo code and attach proof of current valid ID. There will be a waiting list at the door for each screening, as all shows are expected to sell out. No refunds or exchanges.
Don’t Miss:
Opening Night Benefit
Seminar: Scoring for Cinema
Seminar: Writing for Film and TV
Friday Screenings
Short Shorts | Short films under five minutes | Friday, 2:05pm
(40 minutes total screening time, and featuring a post-screening conversation with filmmakers. There is an encore of this screening on Saturday at 7pm)
Say No to Drift Walking, directed by Michael Pizzano
As the DRIFT WALKING epidemic spreads, we can only hope that YOU are part of the solution. Say NO to DRIFT WALKING.
Foreverness, directed by Lori Funk
When you consider all of the places there are to go in this world, there is one where we all belong, unconditionally, without prejudice, judgement or fear. One we can depend on for love, safety, comfort, and pure, simple joy. It’s as much a journey as a destination and we will go to any lengths to get there. We will never stay forever, but it will be there every time we return. This is foreverness.
6:17, directed by Jeffrey Prosser
A girl rushes to the train, to little avail.
Guy in Crosswalk Seeks Nirvana, directed by Matt Lewis
A passionate greeting card maker tackles a penetrating question. Will he find the answer in a crosswalk?
From Dad to Bobby, directed by Miguel Medina
A son reminisces about a conversation he had with his father, about the memories they shared through Baseball.
My Generation, directed by Ariel Ruff
My generation follows Phoenixx, as seven-year-old girl, as she presents the viewers with how her generation perceives technology and how the most important technology can be found within us all.
Everybody’s Got Something, directed by Alison Loeb
An off-beat experimental animated musical about ancient mythology.
Our Picture, directed by Mike Castro
Stephen and Erin want someone to take their picture. Really anyone. Please send help.
First Contact in Inwood (Student Film), directed by Bryce Cameron Walsh
Two Inwood children come across a chilling discovery in their local park. They quickly realize that they may not make it through the night alive.
Freeze Frame (Student Film), directed by Dylan O’Reilly
A young student discovers the power his pen has over time, but what will be the consequences of his new-found power?
Seminar: Scoring for Cinema | Friday, 4:00pm
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 under 25 minutes | Friday, 7:05pm
(40 minutes total screening time)
Quiet Sundays, directed by Katie Kemmerer
Quiet Sundays tells the story of American football’s surprising impact on the lives of four Europeans. They include an Englishman who quits his day job and leaves his girlfriend to attend a game in every NFL stadium, a Scotsman who played the game for years despite sketchy fields and little recognition, a Dutchman who is the only American football fan in his town, and a Londoner who leads a group of rowdy tailgaters when the NFL plays Wembley Stadium. Each fan finds a way to express his individuality and love for American football in a place where it is on the fringe of the sports scene.
Savino, directed by Carla Franchesca
Giovanni Savino is an Italian photographer whose work is about (in his own words) documenting and preserving oral culture.
Disappearing NYC: Three Stories, directed by Christopher Ming Ryan
New York City is under siege. Long standing beloved neighborhood businesses are falling prey to greedy landlords. Everyone has seen a favorite mom and pop announce that they can no longer keep the business going. In this short film, we meet a fish monger, a watch-repair man, and a popular local indie cinema. Each business cannot survive in today’s climate. Each will leave a hole in the city that will affect the sensitive fabric of our city neighborhoods. Each will be missed in their own way.
Revolution Selfie: The Red Battalion | Feature Film | Friday, 8:05pm
(120 minutes, plus a special post-screening conversation with the filmmakers)
Directed by Steven De Castro
Revolution Selfie expands the horizons of documentary storytelling while broadening our understanding about the lesser-known fronts in the global “War on Terror.” Filmmaker Steven De Castro paints a portrait of the 48-year-old Maoist guerilla army in the Philippine hinterlands. But rather than simply presenting interviews and images in a traditional journalistic manner, this film weaves fantasy elements and web-based camera techniques into the documentary form to disrupt our entire matrix of widely held beliefs underpinning the discussion of terrorism, poverty, and the motivations of the warriors who fight in a peasant revolution.
Saturday Screenings
Long Shorts: Poetry in Motion | Short films under 25 minutes | Saturday, 12:05pm
(57 minutes total screening time)
Perception, directed by KarynRose Bruyning
Perception is made up of four vignettes of people showing the difference between what they see and what is true, proving that in life and love, perception is everything.
Three Trees (In Three Parts), directed by Brian Mihok
A woman feels trapped in suburbia, pestered by the barking dogs in her neighborhood; a wayward cowboy recounts a creation story that matches his own sense of longing, memory, and sorrow; a young woman decides to end a relationship as the advice from her mother runs incessantly through her head.
Seasoned, directed by Alex Jenkins, Audrey Rachelle, Blake Horn
A journey told through intimate moments. As one woman navigates shifting relationships and landscapes, she feels the effects of the history she creates and carries with her.
Long Shorts: Black Heritage | Short films under 25 minutes | Saturday, 1:35pm
(55 minutes total screening time)
Ebb Tide, directed by Vivian Rivas
Zee, an 86-year-old retired teacher, decides to go back to the happiest time of her life to make peace with the path she has chosen and reconnect with her students from the early 90s in East Harlem.
Birth of a Union, directed by Josh Karan
Despite being full time employees of the State of North Carolina, wages of many workers have been so low that they have qualified for Federal food stamps. Birth of a Union chronicles the historic and heroic effort to organize low wage workers in North Carolina, where it is illegal for public sector workers to receive a contract with any State agency.
In the Face of What We Remember: Oral Histories of 409 and 555 Edgecombe Avenue, directed by Karen Taylor
The story of two of the sweetest addresses on Harlem’s Sugar Hill, which were home to movers and shakers such as W.E.B Du Bois, Thurgood Marshall, Paul Robeson, and Elizabeth Catlett. Racing against time and gentrification, the residents celebrate a little-know history.
Long Shorts: Love Stories | Short films under 25 minutes | Saturday, 3:05pm
(78 minutes total screening time)
Casualidad Rodríguez, directed by Andre Zucker
A chance encounter between two people in which language is a barrier.
Things Ain’t What They Used to Be, directed by Raymond Alvin
A lonely senior citizen tries to improv his social life unaware of the pitfalls.
Michael Joseph Jason John, directed by Scott T. Hinson
A short romantic thriller that explores the emotional aftermath of a one-night stand (and the inherent risk of hook-up culture) as a lonely man images what life might be like with a mysterious stranger he picks up on the New York City subway.
La Bombilla (The Fuse), directed by Juan Carlos Londoño
Lila must clarify her feelings and needs to bring light to her life with or without her lover.
Distances, directed by Carlos Deschamps
Two students meet and fall in love in college, only to discover the difficulties and temptations of a long-distance relationship after graduating.
Night’s Melody, directed by Dylan Scott
Mike, a talented guitarist, yet hesitant of where his life is going, finds comfort late in the night by walking with a woman named Kathy, learning about her and more about himself.
Negatives (Student Film), directed by Anthony Rojas
An introverted photographer struggles to let go of his ex-girlfriend, who continues to control his life – after death
Seminar: Writing for Film and TV | Saturday, 5:00pm
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, Jenna Laurenzo, 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 writer’ some real work.
Short Shorts | Short films under five minutes | Saturday, 7:00pm
(40 minutes total screening time) This is an encore of the 2:05pm Friday screening.
Long Shorts: If You Can Make it Here… | Short films under 25 minutes | Saturday, 8:05pm
(84 minutes total screening time)
Adam Adamson: Licensed Realtor, directed by Adriano Valentini
Adam Adamson is a homeless real estate agent. This is his promotional video.
Me De La Lata, directed by Lipmann Wong
A popular, self-obsessed, young web model Andreas runs into an enthusiastic but unknown street poet, Emilio, who shares their encounter with his girlfriend, and edgy aspiring mode, Alicia. The two plan to fulfill their dream of stardom which turns into a series of outrageous drama in and around The Big Apple.
Hurry Up and Wait, directed by John Tanner
A depressed twenty-something Mexican actor races to a last-minute audition, but after the trains shut down in transit, he’s forced to enlist the help of a total stranger.
The Brothers Molina, directed by Jamie Canobbio
A gambling degenerate must convince his shut-in brother to sell the family’s Brooklyn apartment worth a half-million dollars.
La EntreViú, directed by Maite Bonilla
La EntreViú strengthens our resolve and tugs at our heart strings, addressing the never-ending immigration situation in the United States, shedding light into the simple, yet complex, lives of those who just want to make a living in the and of the free.