Brooklyn Shorties: Rooftop films

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. Rooftop Films is known internationally as one of the most dynamic film festivals in the world. In 2011, we will screen more than 25 feature films, almost all of which are New York, U.S. or World Premieres. We have also begun to expand to other cities. In 2010, Rooftop screened films outdoors in Toronto, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Syracuse, Harrisburg, Calicoon, and Camden, Maine. At Rooftop Films, we bring the underground outdoors.

BROAD CHANNEL (Sarah J. Christman | Brooklyn, NY | 13 min.)
Over the course of four seasons, nuances of everyday activity are examined along one narrow stretch of public shoreline on New York City's Broad Channel Island. Moments of recurrence and change cycle through an ecosystem rooted in migration

The Selection:

DOOR MAN (Andrew Goldman and Andrew Blackwell | Brooklyn, NY | 5 min.)

BLOCK (Chadd Harbold | Brooklyn, NY | 12 min.)
A young actress living in Brooklyn discovers how profoundly her hostile environment has affected her.

LOVE LOCKDOWN (Nadia Hallgren | Bronx, NY | 19 min.)
Love Lockdown is a short documentary inspired by the impassioned phone calls and shout-outs made to prisoners on Lockdown Love, a popular late-night radio show in New York City. The film tells the story of Shoshanna, a young mother from the Bronx as she waits to learn the fate of Felix, the father of her children, who is incarcerated and faces a 10 year sentence. Dialing tirelessly, waiting hours on hold, Shoshanna's phone calls tell an unconventional story of love and commitment, as she works to realize a life with or without the man she loves.

TRAIN (Darius Clarke Monroe | Brooklyn, NY | 7 min.)
Carl just wants a quiet ride home to Brooklyn at the end of the day.

THE VOYAGERS (Penny Lane | New York, NY | 16 min.)
In the summer of 1977, NASA sent Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 on an epic journey into interstellar space. Together and alone, they will travel until the end of the universe.