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ASIFA-East discount for Rooftop Film Festival!

May 23, 2011
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It’s almost summer and that means Rooftop Films is projecting films on rooftops throughout New York City.  This year’s festival features many animated shorts and our pals at Rooftop sent us a run-down.  They are also offering ASIFA-East members a discount to the festival shows.  Please look for the discount code in our weekly email newsletter.  Hope you enjoy the shows!! Wednesday, May 25th – New Date DARK ‘TOONS From Road Runner to The Simpsons, animated films have always been good at finding fun in the dark and twisted. It’s easier to embrace life’s awful absurdities when we don’t have to watch them happening to real, live people (or dogs). Of course, sometimes the attraction is the spectacle an inspired animator can create: the sheer, over-the-top train-wreck momentum of things going horribly wrong – an over-protective pooch’s gauntlet of challenges in Guard Dog Global Jam or the snowballing rush to Armageddon in Enrique Wrecks the World. Lots of things go brilliantly wrong in this program of shorts – some thrilling, some unsettling, all utterly unique. Venue: On the pier at Solar One, 2420 FDR Drive (E 23rd Street and the East River New York, NY 10010 Subway: R/6 to...

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Gravity Was Everywhere Back Then

June 20, 2010
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Our pals at Rooftop Films present Gravity Was Everywhere Back Then from Director Brent Green.  The film will be performed with a live soundtrack, featuring members of punk idols Fugazi. SATURDAY JUN 26, 2010 8:00 PM OPEN ROAD ROOFTOP LOWER EAST SIDE 350 GRAND STREET, NEW YORK, NY 10002 F, J, M, Z to Delancey Street-Essex Street; B, D, Q to Grand Street 8:00 Doors Open 8:30 Live Music by Brent Green 9:00 Film Begins 11:30 After-party: Open Bar at Fontana’s (105 Eldridge St.) Rooftop Films presents around 45 films all summer along, on rooftops throughout the five boroughs.  Director Dan Nuxoll has generously offered ASIFA members a discount on tickets for this show and July 29th’s.   Look for this code in our next email newsletter blast!  If you did not receive this code, please contact me and I will send it to you. On Thursday, July 29, a program called Capucine and Other Filmmaking Renegades which includes a film by animation renegade Nieto: http://rooftopfilms.com/2010/schedule/31-capucine-filmmaking-monkeys-and-other-renegades These are not the only shows featuring animation so I suggest you check out the site to see the entire festival schedule!

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A night of Dark Toons, under the stars at Rooftop Films

June 1, 2010
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A night of Dark Toons, under the stars at Rooftop Films

Article by Dayna Gonzalez. On Friday, May 28, Rooftop Films presented  a series of short films with the theme “Dark Toons“.    This intriguing mix of films ranged from the chaotic train ride that is Cordell Barker’s Runaway to a short treatise on big, juicy, tasty hot dogs appropriately titled Sam’s Hot Dogs by David Lopez Retamero.  New York’s own Jake Armstrong’s, The Terrible Thing of Alpha 9, was also featured.  His wonderfully ugly yet adorable monster got a lot of laughs.  About a dozen animated films were presented, and although not all were my cup of tea, the majority were really interesting takes on a dark or disturbing subject.   I had not seen the majority of them and it was a very international mix.  The event took place at an amazing venue at the Open Road Rooftop above New Design High School in the Lower East Side.  The space is huge and covered in graffiti murals all painted by the students who attend that high school.  Those same students were cooking hot dogs and hamburgers, the proceeds of the sale of which was going directly to the school to fund activities.  The students are quite the artists and I...

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ROOFTOP FILMS

May 20, 2010
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The 2010 Summer Series of Rooftop Films has begun, and to promote this exciting run, Program Director Dan Nuxoll has generously offered ASIFA members a discount on tickets for the following shows.   Look for this code in our next email newsletter blast! ______________ From Dan: Next Friday, May 28, we have a show called Dark Toons with some really great animation from the dark side: http://rooftopfilms.com/2010/schedule/7-dark-toons Then on June 26 we have a screening of Brent Green’s Gravity Was Everywhere Back Then, with a live score performed by musicians, including members of Fugazi: http://rooftopfilms.com/2010/schedule/20-gravity-was-everywhere-back-then Then on Thursday, July 29, we have a program called Capucine and Other Filmmaking Renegades which includes a film by animation renegade Nieto: http://rooftopfilms.com/2010/schedule/31-capucine-filmmaking-monkeys-and-other-renegades ______________ These are not the only shows featuring animation so I suggest you check out the site to see the entire festival schedule! Rooftop Films is a New York based non-profit whose mission is to engage diverse communities by showing independent movies in outdoor locations, producing new films, coordinating youth media education, and renting equipment at low cost to artists. The Rooftop Films 2010 Summer Series, our 14th year of “Underground Movies Outdoors,” will run every weekend from May 14-August...

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