NewFilmmakers Winter Festival 2010

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Published on Monday, 04 January 2010 09:37

Written by Lynne Shannon

NewFilmmakers starts the second annual Winter Fest and its 2010 Winter Series January 2nd - 6th, 2010 at Anthology Film Archives, 32 Second Avenue at Second Street, New York City.

NewFilmmakers gives independent filmmakers a chance to show their work directly to the public.  Each night begins with films from the NewFilmmakers Documentary Series, selections from the Short Film Program, followed by a Feature Presentation.

Documentary Films include:

Muskrat John: Urban Trapper, directed by Warner Wada, a documentary about trapping in sight of the Empire State Building.

Americanism, directed by Arin Yoon, a documentary about education in South Korea.

Pardon Us for Living but the Graveyard Is Full, directed by Geoffray Barbier  
In 1976 two teenagers, Keith Streng (1976 – present) and Jan-Marek Pakulski (1976 – 1986), formed the Fleshtones in Queens, New York. Soon they were joined by neighborhood friend, Peter Zaremba (1976 – present) on vocals. The Fleshtones debuted at a CBGB's concert on May 19, 1976. By 1978, their high-energy shows, neo-psychedelic sound gained The Fleshtones a rep as a don't-miss live band and signed to IRS records (REM, The Gogos).

NewFilmmakers Feature Presentations include:

Spy, directed by Alex Klymko
A romantic thriller. A man falls in love with a woman he is spying on and tries to save her from a fate she does not wish to flee. Stars Ben Curtis as Jonathan and Vincent Pastore as Dante.

Stand Up /Zhan Qi Lai, directed by Clara Xing
A young industrial worker becomes the inadvertent victim of a radioactive accident at his company. He undergoes seven major operations in which both legs are amputated at the hip, and his left hand is amputated at the wrist. He also loses functionality of all five fingers of his right hand. A subsequent addiction to pain-killing morphine forces him to undergo drug rehabilitation three times.

The local company Song worked for refuses to give him proper compensation for his crippling losses or to even pay for prosthetic limbs with which he might some day achieve his dream of standing up. Experiencing the lowest point of his life, he meets a beautiful, caring young school teacher, named Yang Gang. Through their growing and emotionally supportive friendship, and with very meager financial support from his impoverished parents, he resolves to bring his case for just compensation to officials at his former company's headquarters in Beijing. Song Xue-Wen plays himself in this film, which is based on the true story of his life.

Dark Room Theater, directed by Benjamin Pollack
Dark Room Theater is a double feature in the vein of The Twilight Zone, about ordinary people who find themselves in extraordinary, usually supernatural, situations, using both ironic and comic twists. The show is hosted by an animated character entitled Dr. Brainly, a brain that lives in a glass beaker from an experiment gone wrong or right depending on your point of view.

8 Behind the Wheel, directed by Tracy Burroughs
Eight diverse personalities driving to unknown destinations. We are the voyeurs to their most personal thoughts. The serial killer, masseuse, pizza delivery girl, policeman, actress, middle-aged man, stoner and a pedophile. We slowly discover they are all related and that when some thoughts lead to actions bad things will happen.

In the Company of Strangers, directed by Thomas Hofbauer
Brian is arrested for assaulting a gay couple and sentenced to 600 hours at an AIDS center. Exposed to the daily existence in an AIDS hospice, Brian eventually softens and forms a friendship with James. His growth culminates in an attempt to reconcile James with his estranged son and in his own attempt at reconciliation with his father.

More information can be found at www.newfilmmakers.com.

NewFilmmakers Winter Festival 2010
January 2nd - 6th, 2010

Anthology Film Archives
32 Second Avenue at Second Street
New York City

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