GEAR UP FOR ELECTION DAY ‘08
- by Raphaela Neihausen, October 21, 2008
Two great films to satisfy your political cravings!
1) For those of you that missed ELECTION DAY when it played at STF last year, now is your chance to attend a FREE screening in a beautiful venue. ELECTION DAY will be playing as part of the Brooklyn Museum’s First Saturdays program and will include a Q&A with director Katy Chevigny.
Date: Saturday, November 1, 2008
Time: 6 pm screening (arrive by 5 pm to ensure tickets)
Where: Brooklyn Museum (200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, NY)
More information about the film and screening at www.electiondaythemovie.com.
2) On election night itself, STF will be showing a special presentation of CHISHOLM 72, with director Shola Lynch in attendance. The film looks at the career of Brooklyn Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm and her campaign to become the Democratic Party’s presidential nominee in 1972. After the film we will head to a nearby bar and watch the election results roll in. Definitely a night to be with friends!
Related Film/Screening: CHISHOLM 72 by Shola Lynch
OF ALL THE THINGS: BIG IN THE PHILIPPINES AND NEW YORK CITY
- by Raphaela Neihausen, October 15, 2008
STF had a sold out crowd on Tuesday for OF ALL THE THINGS, the sweet and funny story of songwriter Dennis Lambert making a comeback tour in the Philippines. The night was co-presented by the SXSW film festival which gave the film its world premiere in March. SXSW’s new programmer Janet Pierson flew up from Austin to introduce the film. In recent months, OF ALL THE THINGS has been collecting Audience Awards at other fests including Nantucket, Sarasota and Palm Beach. The sales agent Josh Braun is still working to close a distribution deal in a market of cautious buyers. Judging from the STF audience, the film should enjoy a long future of enthusiastic viewers. For more information, visit the official website.
After the show, the STF gang headed over to La Lanterna for food and drinks. Here are some pictures from the night:
1) Director Jody Lambert with his father Dennis Lambert
Read more »Shoot the Photographers
- by Raphaela Neihausen, October 12, 2008
At last week’s STF screening of BLOOD TRAIL on Oct 7, viewers were treated to a special appearance by the film’s subject war photographer Robert King (visiting from Tennessee) joining director Richard Parry (visiting from London) for the Q&A. The film follows King over 15 years, from the start of his career in Bosnia to his breakthrough work in Chechnya to his recent embed in Iraq. The audience had a strong representation of Robert’s peers, including a few familiar faces from past STF events.
Here are some of our unprofessional snaps:
1) Robert King outside the Fat Black Pussycat bar on Third Street where STF loyalists gathered after the screening.
Read more »STF discount for Paley DocFest 08
- by Raphaela Neihausen, October 03, 2008
The Paley Center for Media (formerly the Museum of Television and Radio) is hosting its annual Doc Fest in October and offering a discount on film tickets to STF fans.
Just go to the Paley Center web site and enter the code “STF” when you order film tickets to get a reduction from $20 to $15. One highlight of the fest is The Art of the Documentary Pitch Workshop on Saturday, Oct 25. That same day the fest will show SWEET DREAMS with an appearance by the director Eric Latek and boxer Gary “Tiger” Balletto. STF showed this film last February and the response was so overwhelming it helped earn Latek a place in Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces of Independent Film. If you couldn’t make SWEET DREAMS at STF, don’t miss this second chance to discover this knockout talent.
STF kicks off fall season
- by Raphaela Neihausen, September 24, 2008
STF kicked off its fall season on Sept 23 with the opening night sneak preview of AT THE EDGE OF THE WORLD which will have its official US premiere at the Woodstock Film Festival next month. STF inaugurated a new location for its post-screening gathering: the Fat Black Pussycat conveniently located at 103 West 3rd St across from the IFC Center. As usual, the STF audience contained many notable figures from the New York documentary community.
Pictured here are:
1) Andrew Berends (right), recently returned from Nigeria where he was detained by the government while working on his documentary Delta Boys, with filmmaker Amelia Hanibelsz and Alex Travelli, a writer and editor for The Economist.
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