11/17 - All Shorts Program @ Brooklyn Independent November 17, 2008
376 9th St
Brooklyn, New York 11215
Brooklyn, New York 11215
FIRST & THIRD MONDAY of Every Month @ 7pm - FREE
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 17 @ 7pm
Brooklyn Independent is pleased to present a selection of
award-winning short films from the Red Hook Film Festival
All Shorts Program
Las Historias Mas Sexy Del Mundo No. 2
Directed by Eric Cheevers
* RHFF Spirit of Red Hook Award *
15 min - 2007 - USA - English - Color
Hallucinatory recreations of 1970's existential European soft-core films dubbed into Spanish and scored with a soundtrack found in a dumpster.
Rooftop Bees
Directed by Melissa Lohman Wild
* RHFF Spirit of Red Hook Award *
15 min - 2007 - USA - English - Color
An engaging portrait of John the beekeeper, who raises thousands of honeybees on a rooftop in Fort Greene, Brooklyn.
Cave Flower
Directed by Sam Fleischner
* RHFF Best Fiction Film*
19 min - 2007 - USA - English - Color
A story of colliding worlds, as a Brooklyn squatter living in an abandoned powerhouse on the Gowanus Canal becomes infatuated with a woman on the F Train. This short film was also shot in Park Slope, in a canoe on the Gowanus, and inside the Red Hook container port.
Hooked: Philly's Urban Anglers
Directed by Mike Attie, Shannon Kane-Meddock, Andrew Schwalm
* RHFF Spirit of Red Hook Award *
14 min - 2008 - USA - English - Color
"Hooked" is a glimpse into the little known world of urban fishing, and profiles a colorful assortment of characters who have been lured to the waterways of Philadelphia.
Twilight Becomes Night
Directed by Virginie-Alvine Perrette
* RHFF Best Documentary *
36 min - 2007 - USA - English - Color
A documentary tear-jerker that captures the lively culture of New York's endangered mom & pop stores, many of which have been forced to close by a ruthless economy which is changing the fabric of New York City.
FIRST & THIRD MONDAY of Every Month @ 7pm FREE !
Brooklyn Independent Cinema Series
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Park Slope, Brooklyn
subway: F to Seventh Ave
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