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Rooftop Films Screens Media That Matters
Posted on June 23, 2004
Rooftop Films, an innovative outdoor screening series based in Brooklyn, will be showing films from the third and fourth annual Media That Matters Film Festivals this summer! Each event focuses on a different theme, putting Media That Matters films in dialogue with other shorts from around the country. See the line-up below and get your tickets today!
Home Movies
Friday, June 25th, 2004
8:30 - Live Music by Tom Warnick
9:00 - Movies remembered and mis-remembered
On the roof of The Old American Can Factory
232 Third Street, in the Gowanus Section of Park Slope, Brooklyn.
Jerry Henry's I Promise Africa and 18 other shorts will be screened!.
Un-American Films
Sunday, July 4th, 2004
8:30 - Live music
9:00 - Short films explode over the Hudson River
At the River Project, Pier 26 on the Hudson.
Wes Kim's Vision Test, Alex Rivera's The Sixth Section, Joshua Holst's Esmeraldas: Petroleum and Poverty and 6 other shorts will be screened. Check out the MediaRights table to get your FREE DVD of the third annual festival and pre-order the fourth annual festival DVD!
New York Non-Fiction
Friday, July 16th, 2004
Screening times TBA
On the roof of The Old American Can Factory
232 Third Street, in the Gowanus Section of Park Slope, Brooklyn
Martina Radwan and Moira Demos' Spring in Awe and other shorts will be screened.
Youth Power
Friday, August 20th, 2004
Screening times TBA
At the River Project, Pier 26 on the Hudson
Global Action Project's Holla Back Dubai!, Lower Eastside Girls Club's Rebel, and other youth-produced shorts will be screened.
This is What Democracy Looks Like
Friday, August 27th, 2004
Screening times TBA
At Asterisk, 258 Johnson Street, between Bushwick Ave and White Street
Gabriel London's No Escape, Prison Rape and other political shorts will be screened.
For more information, email info@rooftopfilms.com