Our Award Winning Feature Documentary STAGES is playing at the 2009 Queens International Film Festival!
WHEN: 9:30pm, Friday November 13th
WHERE: Frank Sinatra School of the Arts, Charter Room. 35-12 35th Avenue, Queens, 11106 Google Map
TICKETS: $10 at the Door
MORE INFO: http://www.queensfilmfestival.com/films/detail.asp?fid=410
7:30 pm FILM & DISCUSSION
Co-sponsors: Red Channels, Maysles Cinema, Paper Tiger Television & Third World Newsreel Development
Displacement, Leisure Capital & Community Interests
This is the first in a series of screenings we are doing to highlight some of the programming done uptown at the Maysles Cinema. The first two films in this program come from a series they did, “Rent Control: NYC Documented and Imagined.”
This is the second of a series of screenings we hope to do with Paper Tiger Television; going through their archives to present a rich history of media analysis, counter-hegemony, collective filmmaking, and video experimentation.
Iran | Dir. Kenneth Richter | 14 minutes | 1953 Iran],
The Case Against Lincoln Center | Newsreel | 12 mins | 1968
Rezoning Harlem| Natasha Florentino & Tamara Gubernat | 40 minutes | 2008
Brooklyn Boondoggle| Meerkat Media Collective | 11 minutes | 2009
The Right to the City | Paper Tiger Television/IndyVideo | 28 minutes | 2009
Sliding scale: $6/$10/$15, Free for Brecht Subscribers
More Information HERE
Our Award Winning Feature Documentary Screens in LA at the prestigious Los Angeles International Latino Film Festival!
TIME: 5:00pm,
LOCATION: Mann Chinese 6 Cinemas, 6801 Hollywood Blvd.
Hollywood, CA 90028
TICKETS: $10
MORE INFO: http://latinofilm.org/festival/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=223&Itemid=180#stages
Join us for a special festival screening of STAGES at the Anthology Film Archive as part of the New York United Film Festival!
WHEN: Sunday, October 11th, 6pm
WHERE: Anthology Film Archives (32 2nd Avenue,Manhattan, NY)
TICKETS: $10 at the door or you can buy tickets in advance from the festival HERE.
Our Short Documentary BROOKLYN BOONDOGGLE will be screening as part of the 2009 Red Hook Film Festival
WHEN: Sunday, October 4th at 4pm with the short film series “Urban Industry”
WHERE: The BWAC Screening Room. 499 Van Brunt Street – Red Hook, Brooklyn
COST: FREE!
ABOUT THE FILM:
Atlantic Yards, the largest single-source development in the history of New York City, is about to break ground, and the future of downtown Brooklyn hangs in the balance. In a city distinct for its vibrant diversity, this proposed $4 billion project boasts 16 towers for office, retail, and hot
el space, 7.2 million square feet of housing, and an 18,000 seat arena for the New Jersey Nets, partly owned by the developer, Bruce Ratner. During a time of economic uncertainty in an already changing neighborhood, a diverse chorus of local voices has emerged to respond. BROOKLYN BOONDOGGLE travels from stoops to street corners to meet those affected most deeply, from the man being forced to abandon the home he has known all his life, to the yo
ung upstarts who just moved into the neighborhood, as they are forced to confront the realities of modern urban development. Tackling the controversial issues of eminent domain, gentrification and government corruption, BROOKLYN BOONDOGGLE questions the trend of top-down urban planning and asks — what if we were allowed to decide the future of our own neighborhoods?
ABOUT THE FESTIVAL:
The 2009 Red Hook Film Festival will present films from some of Brooklyn’s finest filmmakers, and stories from a huge variety of New York City neighborhoods. The films in our lineup come from around the country, and reflect on the location of our festival:
Red Hook, an urban, industrial, waterfront community where fishermen, longshoremen, artists, small businesses and housing projects live together…
And where everyone likes free popcorn!
Our Short Documentary Every Third Bite was chosen as one of 13 Short Films screening in The Last Supper Festival? at 3rd Ward in Brooklyn next Saturday!
WHEN: Saturday, September 26, 2009?6pm – 2am
WHERE: 3rd Ward Brooklyn 195 Morgan Ave, Bushwick
COST: $15 or $10 w/ 3 or more canned goods
ABOUT EVERY THIRD BITE:
Two years ago, honeybees started to disappear. About one in every three colonies left their hives but never came home. We set out to discover what was plaguing these hives and learned how non-commercial beekeepers care for and keep healthy bees alive.
Bees are responsible for pollinating every third bite of food we eat. And we are losing millions of bees each year to a mysterious disease known as Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD). We visited beekeepers in Manhattan, Long Island, Nantucket and Chicago, and interviewed a scientist and elementary school students all to get a better understanding of this phenomenon. But along way, we discovered that with proper care and nutrition, bees can stay healthy and their honey can help us stay healthy and allergy free.
ABOUT THE LAST SUPPER FESTIVAL:
Last Supper 2009 is piping hot, and ready to consume!! Celebrate the crux of seasons, spark dialog with your community, and share ideas with over 50 artists, filmmakers, musicians, culinary artists, writers, performers and designers.?A non-profit benefit for the Food Bank NYC, the 5th annual salon began as a quaint backyard dinner critique series in Williamsburg. With the support of local creatives and volunteers, the show has emerged as a bridge between media, genres, social spheres, and collaborators to draw over 800 attendees for an indoor/outdoor feast for the senses. A palate of experiences, the show is somewhere between a gallery, a community forum, and a disco.
In an atmosphere of political and economic crisis, along with dwindling resources, our precarious societal climate demands a review of the way we consume locally and globally. An artist’s resource, whether medium, message, or muse, is the voice of its cultural language. Consuming, like all laws of matter, transforms the states of products, and as creators we must cherish this cyclical process and consider its effect. Reincoporating the traditional practices of frugality and domesticity into contemporary consumption has become vital to aesthetic and functional life. The self-sustaining artist is a simultaneously complex, imperfect, and idyllic model for contemporary life. Examples of this are urban Victory Gardens in spaces as unexpected as a rooftop or pick-up truck, reclaimed handmade objects as art and design, the DIY movement, or independent film and music. The Last Supper’s 2009 festival is a dialog on consumption where Means as motive, economy of Means, ways and Means, and Means of production are all tools for storytelling.
Hosted by: Design Twins – Teman & Teran Evans ?with a Sacrificial Lamb and Meal by Guest Chef Simon Lange of Apt 138
Featuring: Art: Annie Wienmayr, Scott Wolfson, Tom Sanford, Matthew Thomas, Rafael Rosario-Laguna, Robert Steel, Ryan V. Brennan, Tyrome Tripoli, Satomi Shirai, Sarah Walko+Malado Baldwin, Kerry Mansfield, Thomas Carruthers, Quinn Dukes, Sam Horine, Byrdee Rood, Brian Reed, Chris Smith Film: Bambi Bogert, Denis Villeneuve, Fiorella Castanotto, Thomas Beug, Mike Schuwerk, Yin-Ling Chen, Andrea Stanislav, Zack Wilson, Jeffu Warmouth, Casimir Nozkowski, Amautalab, Meerkat Media Collective, Zach Timm Music: Lady Bug Stingray, Dorie Colangelo, Navegante, Midnight Magic, DJ SeekTen, Funky Jungle Jazz Band, Outabodies, DJ Selector Honeyknuckles, DJ Devin Deveaux, DJ ClickBeatle Food Art: Anne Apparu, Eve + Bowie, Meg Duguid + Catie Olson, Nicole Fournier, Suko Presseau, Lucia Madriz, Tracy Candido – Sweet Tooth of the Tiger, Wild Feasties, Strataspore, Yolanda Shoshana, Christina Kelly, Francis Estrada, Rachelle Crocker, Emily Miranda, Ben Pinder, Amelia Coulter, Jenny Zhang Writing, Performance, Design: Emma, Mary Jeys, Emilie Baltz,
Casey Rocheteau, Derek Williams, Katie Cercone, Luke Loeffler
Sponsors: Majestic Research, APT 138, 3rd Ward, Food Bank for NYC, Film Forum, Brooklyn Arts Council, Brooklyn Filmmakers Collective, Solar 1, SALT artspace, Double Happiness LLC
Planners: Coralina Meyer, Thomas Newman, Jim Cronin, Mary Steel-Hayes, Demir Gjokai, Jeffrey Rosenfeld, Charlie Chiang, Doug Koh, Haanwa Chau, Erika Schnieder, Simon Lange, Nic Richards, Claire Bergeal, Sarah Ryley, Sarah Walko, Alicia Blegen, Naomi Sorkin
A moving and surprisingly funny exploration of the unexpected power of storytelling. Set at the University Settlement and its affiliate agency, The Door, in New York City’s changing Lower East Side and SoHo neighborhoods, STAGES follows a group of older Puerto Rican women and inner-city youth over 20 weeks as they create an original play out of the stories of their lives.
The arts program showcased in STAGES, the ”Evolve Theater Project,” was generously brought into the University Settlement by the innovative artist-directed Phoenix Theatre Ensemble, during a moment when community centers and public arts initiatives are facing devastating budget cuts across the country. STAGES makes a powerful argument for the vital necessity of these spaces and programs, showing the ways in which sharing stories among and across diverse communities can empower us to find common humanity, and create a healthy and sustainable society.
This is the first public screening of the film since its sweep of the top documentary honors at the HBO New York International Latino Film Festival.
WHEN: Friday, October 2, 7:30pm
WHERE: Performance Project @ University Settlement. 184 Eldridge Street (at Rivington Street)
COST: $15 at the Door. All Proceeds support arts programming at University Settlement House
Presented in collaboration with the Performance Project at the University Settlement House
FUREE and Rezoning Harlem invites you to:
RECLAIMING OUR COMMUNITIES
Film Screening & Panel Discussion on
Rezoning, Displacement & Building Community Power
FEATURED FILMS:
BROOKLYN BOONDOGGLE explores the highly controversial Atlantic Yards project, Brooklyn Boondoggle questions the trend of top-down urban development and asks, what if we were allowed to decide the future of our own neighborhoods?
11 mins. | by Meerkat Media Arts Collective |www.meerkatmedia.org
SOME PLACE LIKE HOME tells the stories of community residents and small businesses that are displaced to make way for high-end retail and luxury condominiums in Fort Greene & Downtown Brooklyn. It reveals practices and policies used to support massive real estate projects as the historical, economic and cultural fabric of the area is torn apart. It follows the battle of community residents and small businesses as they fight for some place like home. Winner of the 2009 PATIOS International Film Festival Rise Up Award.
40 mins.|Exec. Producer: Families United for Racial & Economic Equality (FUREE)|Producer & Co-Director: Allison Lirish Dean|Director & Editor: Kelly Anderson | www.furee.org/film
REZONING HARLEM follows longtime members of the Harlem community as they fight a 2008 rezoning that threatens to erase the history and culture of their legendary neighborhood and replace it with luxury housing, offices, and big-box retail. A shocking expose of how a group of ordinary citizens, who are passionate about the future of one the city’s most treasured neighborhoods, are systematically shut out of the city’s decision-making process, revealing New York City’s broken public review system and provoking discussion on what we can do about it.
45 mins. | Directors/Producers: Natasha Florentino & Tamara Gubernat | Co-Producers: Juliana Alzate & Pamela Nichols | www.rezoningharlem.com
PANELISTS:
Maisha Morales, FUREE Board Member and Small Business Owner (featured in film)
Joy Chatel, FUREE Board Member, Executive Director of Friends 227 Abolitionist Place Museum and Cultural Center, Director of 4 Boroughs Preservation Society (featured in film)
Raul Rothblatt, Develop Don’t Destroy Brooklyn
Tom Angotti, urban planner and author of “New York for Sale”
Sunday, September 20, 2009
6 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.
@ The Tank
354 West 45th Street, NYC
(btw. 8th & 9th Avenues)
Click here for travel directions.
Admission: (Sliding Scale) $7 – $10
RSVP or more Information:
(718) 852-2960, ext. 301 or film@furee.org
Our short documentary, EVERY THIRD BITE is screening at Cleopatras – a gallery space in Williamsburg as part of an Exhibition called “No Bees No Blueberries.” Come and enjoy the fall air with some fresh blueberries and a lively discussion about the future of our food system.
Cost: FREE!
When: Thursday, September 17th, 9pm
Where: Cleopatras, 110 Meserole, Brooklyn, NY
Learn more about Cleopatras: http://www.cleopatras.us/
We’re pleased to invite you to come see our latest short documentary Brooklyn Boondoggle as part of the Brooklyn Nonfiction night of shorts on September 12th, hosted by our friends at Rooftop Films.
Atlantic Yards, the largest single-source development in the history of New York City, is about to break ground, and the future of downtown Brooklyn hangs in the balance. During a time of economic uncertainty in an already changing neighborhood, a diverse chorus of local voices has emerged to respond. BROOKLYN BOONDOGGLE travels from stoops to street corners to meet those affected most deeply, as they are forced to confront the realities of modern urban development. Tackling the controversial issues of eminent domain, gentrification and government corruption, BROOKLYN BOONDOGGLE questions the trend of top-down urban planning and asks — what if we were allowed to decide the future of our own neighborhoods?
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Date: September 12th, 2009
Venue:On the roof of the Old American Can Factory
Address: 232 3rd St. @ 3rd Ave. (Gowanus/ Park Slope, Brooklyn)
Directions: F/G to Carroll St. or M/R to Union Ave.
Rain: In the event of rain the show will be held indoors at the same location
8:00PM: Doors open
8:30PM: Sound Fix presents live music
9:00PM: Films
11:00PM–12:30AM: Reception in courtyard including free sangria courtesy of Carlo Rossi sangria
Tickets: $9-$25 at the door or online
Click Here for Tickets & Additional Info
We at Meerkat Media are very excited to be screening two of our favorite short docs at Collective Shorts: Celebrating the Art of Collective Filmmaking, a fantastic event put on by DCTV & Shooting People.
The screening will feature collectively created, produced and distributed short films from around the world, including work from New York, Austin, Paris and more! The Meerkat shorts featured are “Where Were You on Election Day,”a meditation on experiencing the recent US Presidential Election while traveling abroad, and “Brooklyn Boondoggle,” a short doc exploring community response to the controversial Atlantic Yards development project.
Where:
DCTV
87 Lafayette St.
When:
Friday, August 7th
7:30pm
Price:
$5 DCTV & Shooting People Members
$7 Partner Organization Members (IFP, NYWIFT, WMM)
$8 General
Buy tickets: Brown Paper Tickets
We are very happy to be part of an event that is celebrating the collective spirit in filmmaking, and we hope that many of you will make it out to this very special screening!
Join us at The Tank this Wednesday, August 5th at 6:00pm, for a screening of Meerkat Media’s short doc about the disappearing honeybees “Every Third Bite.” Alongside activists and green business owners, we’ll be discussing how to live a sustainable lifestyle in NYC!
When:
Wednesday, August 5th
6:00pm – 9:00pm
Where:
The Tank
354 West 45th Street (between 8th and 9th)
New York, NY 10036
Organized by our friends over at Living Liberally, this should be a great event – hope to see you there!
• Wednesday, July 29, 3:30pm
• Friday, July 31, 5:00pm
WORLD PREMIERE at HBO’S NEW YORK LATINO FILM FESTIVAL
Meerkat Media’s feature documentary film STAGES will be premiering at the HBO New York International Latino Film Festival!
Launched in 1999, the New York International Latino Film Festival (NYILFF) is now the premier Urban Latino film event in the country. The NYILFF’s mission is to showcase the works of the hottest emerging Latino filmmaking talent in the U.S. and Latin America, offer expansive images of the Latino experience, and celebrate the diversity and spirit of the Latino community.
Seeing as how the NYILFF is such a widely-respected and high-profile festival, we are hoping to see as many folks as possible at our two screenings. Come see the final version of the film, a project that is very dear to our hearts.
Buy tickets and support the film,
and get full details and all the info:
• Sunday, July 19th, 5pm til sunset
MEERKAT FREESCHOOL: “Make a Movie like a Ninja”
Come learn for free at the MEERKAT FREESCHOOL: “Make a Movie like a Ninja!” Bring your handycam, flip cam, still cam, whatever ya got! — and learn how to make the most of it. We’ll provide cameras as well.
Our professionally-trained teaching staff is giving their expensive skills away! Automatic settings stopping you from getting what you want? Learn how to fight your camera and win!
Meerkat free schools are always free, always hands on, and always collaborative. We believe that spaces for teaching and learning are some of the most democratic in existence! Come spend your summer Sunday learning how to make the best of the things your already have, and pick up some new skills and ideas.
RSVP for location details
(don’t forget, it’s this sunday at 5pm!)
meerkats@meerkatmedia.org
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The time has come for another Meerkat Media Mixer! Join us, and feel free to bring some friends!
Meet, mix, mingle, and dream with friends and collaborators, old and new – and get your Saturday evening started right. The event starts at 5pm, so get there early and then at 7pm we’ll be screening our latest short documentary, Brooklyn Boondoggle: Exploring the highly controversial Atlantic Yards project, BROOKLYN BOONDOGGLE questions the trend of top-down urban development and asks, what if we were allowed to decide the future of our own neighborhoods? We talked to folks who are being kicked out of their homes, business owners hoping for increased sales, young people hoping for jobs and families concerned that the development would lower their quality of life.
Many of the community members interviewed in the film will be there, as well as representatives from organizations involved in the ongoing conflict.
Hope to see you there! |
