A Phantom Song directed by Michael Gorman and Donna Daly, is an official selection of New York City’s 13th Annual Winter Film Festival. The documentary follows a stage play that focuses on enabling recovering addicts often overlooked in their community. The film is a moving look at the impact art can have on people and how a community can uplift everyone in it.
Playing Sam, directed by Ramon Pesante, is an official selection of New York City’s 12th Annual Winter Film Awards International Film Festival. The film is a semi-autobiographical story that follows Samantha as she struggles to fit into Hollywood’s narrow standards of beauty and ethnicity.
Few filmmakers are able to build their careers off having a distinct style, but Mars Roberge has created his own: Rocktopia. Roberge describes Rocktopia as, “The struggles of the protagonist against the ideals of utopian society, where the only form of escape is to rock out.”
NYC is rapidly gentrifying and pricing out the people and business that make New York, New York. But, things are not hopeless … It’s not defined by politicians. It’s not defined by corporations. It’s defined by people uniting and fighting back. See the documentary “There Goes the Neighborhood as part of Documentary Day on Feb 18 @9PM at Cinema Village as part of New York City’s 11th Annual Winter Film Awards International Film Festival.
Part comedy, part coming of age, yet all true — Schemers is a lesson to us all to follow our ambitions. See the NYC Premiere of “Schemers” on Friday Feb 21 @6:30pm at Cinema Village (22 East 12th Street) as part of New York City’s 9th Annual Winter Film Awards International Film Festival.
Life and art overlap when creating a film about pregnancy in your own Brooklyn apartment while you are actually pregnant with your first child. A Scientist’s Guide to Living and Dying shows a uniquely personal exploration of fear, hope, love and the meaning of life and death. See the New York City premiere of “A Scientist’s Guide to Living and Dying” on February 21, 2019 @ 7:45 pm at Cinema Village (22 East 12th Street) as part of New York City’s 8th Annual Winter Film Awards International Film Festival.
Batlir feels the weight of the world on his shoulders in Stare’ Yildirim’s debut feature film “My Name is Batlir, Not Butler”. See the world premiere on February 27 as part of Winter Film Awards celebration of women in film double feature.
