Free Tickets Nov 4th Screening

Rooftop Films - Summer 2013 Lineup

I am assuming everyone reading this blog is enrolled or was enrolled in the DFM department. And I am assuming everyone enrolled in this program loves watching films. One of the earliest links on this blog was for Rooftop Films. For the unfamiliar - "Rooftop Films is known internationally as one of the most dynamic film festivals in the world. In 2012, we screened more than 30 feature films, almost all of which are New York, U.S. or World Premieres. We showed over 150 short films in themed programs which have received accolades for being smart, entertaining, and filled with astonishing movies." - From Rooftopfilms.com

Rooftop has just published their Summer 2013 series. There is a great breakdown on Firstshowing.net that I encourage you to check out - Firstshowing Rooftop Films Summer 2013. Their opening weekend is coming up! Opening night is a showcase of short films that prove to rival any festival. Check out tickets HERE - May 10 Opening Night Rooftop Films - This is what we mean by short films. This is a good opportunity to get exposure, network, and inspiration for your thesis.

Please check out the site for submission guidelines and schedules for future screenings. This is your industry. Be a part of it!

Short Program at TriBeCa Film Festival

The best way to prepare for your thesis is to be inspired by successful shorts that are screening at the
TriBeCa Film Festival! Click on the link below to see the entire shorts program and to buy tickets!!!!

http://www.tribecafilm.com/blogs/Here-are-the-60-Short-Films-Screening-at-the-2013-Festival

Two Screenings This Week

Oscar Winners! 
Inocente - Best Documentary Short Thursday February 28th in TV Studio @ 12:30pm

Argo - Best Picture Friday March 1st in Gallery @ 7:30 pm

Oscars Party on Sunday

Just a reminder  -

The 85th Annual Academy Award
OSCARS VIEWING PARTY
February 24, 2013 Doors @ 6pm

Join us Sunday, February 24th for the 85th Annual Academy Awards, presented live on Big Screen Plaza’s 30 ft. HD screen. Drink specials include $3 select beers and $6 themed cocktails. Make your Oscar picks and predictions in our Oscar Pool, and the winner will receive a bottle of champagne for their table. The celebration kicks off at 6pm with live Red Carpet coverage.

Big Screen Plaza | The Event Hotel 839 Avenue of the Americas New York, NY 10001 646.600.7141 | rsvp@bigscreenplaza.com

Send reservations to rsvp@bigscreenplaza.com to receive your official Oscar Ballot, which must be submitted via email or in person before the show begins to qualify. Spread your Oscar buzz with @BigScreenNY using #EventiOscars. See you in your Red Carpet finest!

Oscar Nomination Events

Events:
Argo Screening in the Gallery March 1st! Details will follow.
2013 Live Action Shorts Screening @ IFC Center - 20 students to attend this Thursday Feb. 7th @ 7:40pm.
Click Here for Tickets - http://2013liveactionoscarscreening.eventbrite.com/

Alpha Channel Tickets and Program SP12

Below is the Alpha Channel Program for the Spring 2012 Show. This program is subject to last minute changes for thesis films.

DF226 - Harlem Knights Doc.
Catherine Pajares - Prayer
Joshua Rossy - ABItronix Commercial
Daniel Arena - Epic Brew
Andrew Greenblatt - Prestige Pride
Fredrick Orozco - Vespa Trailer
Adam Spieler Thesis Film
Geroni J - I
Manny Oliveira - AI Redux

Please click on the link below for your tickets! All portfolio students should get their tickets through here!
http://sp12alphachannel.eventbrite.com/

Alpha Channel Event

Alpha Channel - 200 Hudson Street 92Y TriBeCa - 6-10pm Monday March 19th

Tickets for 92nd St Y TriBeCa are reserved for Portfolio students, winners, employers and faculty. Any tickets left over will be available on the day of the show.

Alpha Channel Selections will be screening in the TV studio same time and date as the screening at 92Y.

Project DFM - Short Screening Every Friday in TV Studio

Missed the Oscar Shorts? We're gonna screen them in the TV studio on Fridays from now until the end of the quarter. Films screened will be posted up here the day before the screening. Tomorrow's selections are Time Freak and the 2010 winner The New Tenents. See you there!

2012 Oscar Nominated Shorts

http://www.ifccenter.com/series/2012-academy-award-nominated-short-films/

2012 Academy Nominated Shorts - Documentry, Live Action, Animation - are available at IFC Center until Feb 16th ONLY! Take this weekend and check out the shorts! I'll let you guys know if we can set up a date to see them, as a department, this week. I'll post that date HERE!!!! - Eve.

IFC Center This Quarter

Holy Cow! IFC has a fantastic line up for the next three months! http://www.ifccenter.com/
Cult Carpenter - http://www.ifccenter.com/series/waverly-midnights/cult-carpenter/
- For those of you who love cult and horror films, you must know about John Carpenter! The amazing director, editor, and composer has created some of the most memorable films of the 20th century! I'll be at the Thing screening!
Stranger than Fiction - http://www.ifccenter.com/series/stranger-than-fiction/stf-winter-2012/
- Documentaries are making a significant strides with the immediacy of cheap, fast technology. This continuous series at IFC is memorable and worth your time.
Kill List - http://www.ifccenter.com/films/kill-list/
- This film has been on every top ten list I subscribe to for this year. Now, it's getting a formal release in the states. Check it out!
- Academy Nominated Short Film Screening - http://www.shortsinternational.com/
IFC will be hosting screenings of the 2012 Oscar Nominated Shorts in Feb. I'll be posting a DFM field trip when the date approaches.
Enjoy! and go to the movies!

New Filmmakers Screenings - NYC

From their site -

The NewFilmmakers Series was begun in 1998 by NYU Film Students in order to show their work and promote themselves in New York film community. Then, and now, most festivals and screening programs in the city only screened known and established filmmakers and there were few that are open to new filmmakers.

Without sacrificing our original mission NewFilmmakers has grown into recognized international
screening series and over the past fourteen years has screened over 600 feature and 2,000 short films. In 2000 we brought the Havana Film Festival to New York and in 2002 we started the highly successful NewFilmmakers Los Angeles. Recently we started NewFilmmakers Online.

NewFilmmakers screens a wide range of films including animation, documentaries, shorts, and features.Many are films and videos overlooked by traditional film festivals. NewFilmmakers NY screens every week and sometimes more at Anthology Film Archives on the Lower East Side. NewFilmmakers also programs the Soho House Screening Series in New York & Los Angeles.

Submit your thesis films! - http://newfilmmakers.com/submit/submission-links/submit-new-york

Student Screening - Balloon Girl

Lost in the Crowd: Screening this Weekend

About the films:
LOST IN THE CROWD
Dir. Susi Graf, USA, 2009, 61 min.
In the underbelly of New York City, an unfamiliar reality exists right next to daily routines—a disturbing and dangerous sphere where colorful strangers with exotic stories share their adventures. In this parallel world, nothing can be taken for granted, daily survival is a challenge, and life becomes a brutal boot camp. Here, young, (mostly) transgender, homeless runaways continuously chase a big break that is supposedly waiting around the corner.


7th Anniversary Screening Celebration
Sunday, May 15th, 3 - 6 PM

Hosted at the Queens Museum of Art, Flushing Meadows Corona Park www.cinemarosa.org

How to Get Your Short Film In Front of 37 Million People

Here is yet another avenue to get your short film out to the world and bring yourself exposure! Now DirectTV has a channel where they play short films 40 minutes or less!
Thanks to Nick @ the Cage for bringing this to my attention.

Shorts TV - LINK

SOURCE: indiewire.com

GUEST LECTURE and SCREENING - Calvin Marshall

Monday, December 6 (week 10) at 6pm in the Gallery Open to all Ai Students!
A free, funny movie is the perfect cure to the stress of week 10!

After the movie, the director will speak about making independent films and will take your questions!

“CALVIN MARSHAL” is a comedy that stars Steve Zahn (Out of Sight) and Alex Frost (Elephant). It is a grand-slam comic drama that's heartwarming, funny, inspirational and, above all, triumphant.

Junior college student Calvin Marshall is determined that he's going to have a huge career in major league baseball. What everyone else realizes and Calvin does not is that Calvin is one of the worst ballplayers in history. When Calvin falls hard for an attractive volleyball star with a big future, he gets some hard lessons in love and life, but must face his own strengths and limitations before he can move into the future and determine the profession he's really suited for.

C/16 Screening Event

C/16 is a modern take on silent film - the program combines rare, vintage shorts shot on 16 MM film, and made "silent" as a live score is played by an up and coming musical artist or band...All the music is completely original, performed specifically for the film program.

This Thursday is a particularly spectacular show. The film will be projected outside on the archway of the DUMBO overpass and features performance by MotMot for Smack Mellon's First Thursday concert series.

Doors 7:00pm Show: 8:00pm Location: Archway under the Manhattan Bridge, located at Pearl and Water Street in Dumbo
Featured film: The Adventures of Prince Achmed, by Lotte Reiniger
FREE ADMISSION! Clip listed below!

Van Heuven ice cream truck parked outside afterward! - Info and post by Thomasin Bentley

Film Screening at Rubin Museum of Art

RUBIN MUSEUM OF ART presents:
Hoop Dreams Co-Creator Frederick Marx and his new film, Journey From Zanskar

Join the Oscar- and Emmy- nominated director in a post-screening discussion of his latest movie.

$12/$7 students

Two monks. Seventeen children. A perilous mountain pass.

ONLY FOUR SCREENINGS include post-screening discussion with director:
Wednesday, May 5 – 7PM,
Saturday, May 8 – 2 & 4PM
Sunday, May 9 – 1PM
Additional screenings:
Friday. May 14 – 7PM
Saturday, May 15 – 2 & 4PM
Sunday, May 16 – 1PM
Wednesday, May 19 – 7PM
Wednesday, May 26 – 7PM

From the co-creator of Hoop Dreams, Frederick Marx, comes a film about a daring attempt to save Tibetan Buddhism in the Himalayas.

Narrated by Richard Gere, this inspiring film follows the audacious plan of two Tibetan monks to safeguard Tibetan Buddhist cultural heritage. Spurred by their promise to the Dalai Lama, they retrieve seventeen children from a remote and ailing valley in Kashmir and together march in the direction of far off Dharamsala, on the other side of the ice-bound Himalayas.

For tickets and details visit: www.rmanyc.org/zanskar

RUBIN MUSEUM OF ART
150 WEST 17TH STREET, NEW YORK CITY  www.rmanyc.org 212.620.5000 x344

Ticket includes admission to museum exhibitions including:
Bardo: Tibetan Art of the Afterlife Through September 6, 2010

Bardo: Tibetan Art of the Afterlife presents about fifty works of art that illustrate the bardo experiences that confront one upon death. These works from throughout the Himalayan region include paintings and sculptures depicting peaceful and wrathful deities; initiation cards; illuminated manuscripts; a three-dimensional mandala inhabited by afterlife deities; and two shrine room models. Audio-visual devices will allow visitors to view Tibetan death-related ceremonies and rituals.

Michael Caine at the Directors Guild Theater

From the Museum of the Moving Image -
Sir Michael Caine, Icon:
A conversation with Michael Caine followed by a preview screening of Harry Brown
Wednesday, April 28, 7:30 p.m.
At the Directors Guild Theater, 110 W. 57th Street, Manhattan

Presented in association with BAFTA (British Academy of Film and Television Arts). Sir Michael Caine is one of the world's most acclaimed screen actors; along with Jack Nicholson, he is the only actor with Oscar nominations in every decade since the 1960s. Caine has played a wide range of characters, some aristocratic, some reflecting his working-class roots. Some of his best roles have been hard men. He was a brutal hitman in Get Carter (1970), a gold thief in The Italian Job (1969), and a British officer in his star-making role in Zulu (1964). In his latest film, Harry Brown, Caine plays a widowed veteran who seeks vengeance against a youth gang after his friend is murdered. Caine will discuss his tough-guy roles in a conversation with clips moderated by Chief Curator David Schwartz. The conversation will be followed by an exclusive preview screening of Harry Brown (2009, 97 mins. Directed by Daniel Barber. With Emily Mortimer.), which will open in theaters on April 30.

Tickets: $20 public/$12 Museum members/Free for sponsor-level and above.
Buy advance tickets online or by calling 718.784.4520. Members at the sponsor level and above should call to reserve tickets.

The Song of the Little Road Screening

Meet Director/Producer Priyanka Kumar at the New York world premiere of The Song of the Little Road.
Satyajit Ray's masterpiece the Apu Trilogy is widely considered one of the most important works in cinema history. In 1992, Ray was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Oscar. But when film-preservationist David Sheppard volunteered to go to Bengal, he found the original negatives in a terrible state. "It's hard to think of another world-class filmmaker", says Sheppard, "whose oeuvre hangs by such a thin thread!" The Song of the Little Road tells the story of how a master's body of work came so close to disintegration, and why Ray's films move audiences so deeply across time and cultural boundaries. Three icons – director Martin Scorsese, producer Ismail Merchant, and music composer Ravi Shankar – illustrate stirringly what makes a masterpiece.
WHEN:
Thursday, April 8, 2010, 7:00p.m.
WHERE:
Tribeca Cinemas
54 Varick Street, New York, NY 10013
TICKETS: $25
Special student discount available for Art Institute of New York City students. Use promo code GROUPSALE to receive $5 off the ticket price.
Advance online tickets are available up to 5:00p.m. EST on Thursday, April 8, 2010. At the door tickets will be available at the Tribeca Cinemas.
Your ticket includes admission to the screening, virtual swag bag with free movie download, and a post film Q&A with Priyanka Kumar. Priyanka will be available to sign autographs as well.