reRun Theater (147 Front St. Brooklyn, NY 11201)

Friday, February 15th – Thursday, February 21st
Two shows nightly!

Directed by Sam Neave. Presented by Argot Pictures. Stars Alex Karpovsky & Alan Cumming will appear in person.

A love story shot in two single, continuous 40 minute takes set eighteen months apart: the first over a sunset, the second over a sunrise. Sasha has been in love with Mia for years. His best friend, Kyle, recently started dating Mia until it all fell apart. None of them have spoken for over a month when Sasha hosts a barbecue on his Staten Island terrace – but that’s all about to change. Over the course of the evening in New York and a drunken dawn in the Hamptons, the three of them show just how far they will go for love, for themselves, and for each other.

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reRun Theater (147 Front St. Brooklyn, NY 11201)

Wednesday, February 20^th, 7:30-9:30 pm

Free to IFP members at the Individual level or higher.

Email dschoenbrun@ifp.org to RSVP.

By day, Eric Swain and Troy Bernier are just a couple of mild-mannered, nerdy Florida scientists, but after hours their real passion comes alive in the form of the fantastical and sometimes inadvertently hilarious science fiction films the two lovingly craft with only the help of an enthusiastic amateur cast, a basement green-screen, and some inspired lo-fi effects. While Eric views their efforts as a fun hobby, Troy believes the films could lead to the big time, and so with very different agendas the two undertake their most ambitious project yet, an epic short known simply as Planet X. The screening will be preceded by the short film Always a Fireby Nathan Caswell & Jeremiah Zagar. A panel discussion centered around festival strategy for documentaries will follow the screening.

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DCTV (87 Lafayette Street, NYC)

Presented in partnership with DCTV & the New York Television Festival

Free to IFP members at the Individual level or higher.

Email dschoenbrun@ifp.org to RSVP.

IFP, DCTV and the New York Television Festival (NYTVF) have teamed for a special event highlighting small screen opportunities for doc and non-fiction filmmakers. As the television and digital landscapes continue to expand and the demand for talented multi-medium storytellers reaches an all-time high, this discussion will aim to provide insight on the buyers, the players, the rules of the game, and, most importantly, how non-fiction filmmakers can successfully navigate the terrain.

Panelists

Jule Anderson // Executive Producer,  Documentaries and Development, Channel Thirteen

Marco Bresaz // Vice President, Original Programming & Development, Sundance Channel

Banks Tarver // Co-Founder/Co-President, Left/Right Productions

Moderator

Milton Tabbot // Senior Director of Programming, IFP

reRun Theater (147 Front St. Brooklyn, NY 11201)

Friday, March 1st – Thursday, March 7th
Two shows nightly!

Directed by Jenny Deller. Produced by Jenny Deller & Kristin Fairweather.

Lauduree (Perla Haney-Jardine) is a 13-year-old loner, passionate about nature and obsessed with ecological disaster. Greta (Amy Madigan), her grandmother, is a fiery nurse jaded by alcohol and disappointment. When Lauduree is abruptly abandoned by her dreamer single mom (Marin Ireland), she decides to take survival into her own hands, forcing her and Greta to rethink their futures. Featuring humorous, sharply drawn characters and powerful performances by Amy Madigan (Field of Dreams, Gone Baby Gone), Lili Taylor (Say Anything, Six Feet Under), and breakout star Perla Haney-Jardine (Kill Bill Vol. 2, Spider-Man 3), Future Weather is about finding the courage to survive change.

Future Weather premiered at the 2012 Tribeca Film Fest and has since played the Seattle International Film Festival, Little Rock, Nantucket, Philadelphia and others. It won the Sloan Feature Film Award at this year’s Hamptons Film Festival. It also received the jury prize for Best U.S. Narrative Feature from Napa Valley Film Festival and the Crystal Heart Award from the Heartland Film Festival. The script for Future Weather received the Showtime Tony Cox Award for Screenwriting, an honor shared with Sophie Barthes and Debra Granik. Future Weather is the recipient of three grants from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, whose mission is to support films that broaden our understanding of science and technology.

reRun Theater (147 Front St. Brooklyn, NY 11201)

Friday, March 8th – Sunday, March 17th
Two shows nightly!

Directed by Eleanor Burke and Ron Eyal.

Oona, a young woman dealing with the loss of her mother, reaches out to a stranger: Mani, a mysterious homeless man of Middle-Eastern origin, whom she invites to stay in the garden shed on her property. Despite the space between them, Oona and Mani gradually form an unusual bond.

Stranger Things is the first feature by Eleanor Burke and Ron Eyal. Shot in Sussex on the south coast of England, the film was created using untraditional methods. The filmmakers collaborated closely with the actors to build their characters and back-stories, and only revealed the portions of the plot to them gradually during the shoot. The result is compelling and unusually intimate film, which explores themes of grief, friendship and human vulnerability.

Stranger Things is this year’s Slamdance Grand Jury Prize winner. The film also won the Grand Jury Prizes at the Woodstock Film Festival and at the Lighthouse Film Festival, and the filmmakers received the Best Director Award at the Phoenix Film Festival.

reRun Theater (147 Front St. Brooklyn, NY 11201)

Friday, March 8th – Thursday, March 14th
Two shows nightly!

Directed by Kelly Anderson.

My Brooklyn follows director Kelly Anderson’s journey, as a Brooklyn gentrifier, to understand the forces reshaping her neighborhood. The film documents the redevelopment of Fulton Mall, a bustling African-American and Caribbean commercial district that – despite its status as the third most profitable shopping area in New York City – is maligned for its inability to appeal to the affluent residents who have come to live around it.

As a hundred small businesses are replaced by high rise luxury housing and chain retail, Anderson uncovers the web of global corporations, politicians and secretive public-private partnerships that drive seemingly natural neighborhood change. The film’s ultimate question is increasingly relevant on a global scale: who has a right to live in cities and determine their future?

My Brooklyn premiered at the Brooklyn Film Festival in June 2012, and after two sold-out screenings it took home the festival’s Audience Award. Since then, the film kicked off Filmwax’s acclaimed Brooklyn Reconstructed series and has been showing to packed audiences all over the city.  It went on to win Best Documentary and Best Director at the Red Hook Film Festival, and has screened internationally at the Architecture Film Festival in Lund, Sweden and the This Human World Human Rights Film Festival in Vienna, Austria.

Deadline: March 8th, 2013
Notified: April 9th, 2013

Please read Application Guidelines thoroughly before applying.

Program Dates
Finishing Lab: Documentary: May 13-17, 2013; Narrative: June 10-14, 2013
Independent Film Week & Marketing Lab: September, 2013
Distribution Lab: December, 2013

IFP’s unique year-long mentorship program supports first-time feature directors when they need it most:  through the completion, marketing and distribution of their films.  Focusing exclusively on low-budget features (<$1million), this highly immersive program provides filmmakers with the technical, creative and strategic tools necessary to launch their films – and their careers.

Through the Labs, IFP works to ensure that talented emerging voices receive the support, resources, and industry exposure necessary to reach audiences. Open to all first time feature documentary and narrative directors with films in post-production.

Please read carefully before applying. Applicants will be informed of their acceptance status approximately one month prior to the dates of the Labs. Questions? Email Labs@ifp.org or call 212-465-8200 x226.

reRun Theater (147 Front St. Brooklyn, NY 11201)

Friday, March 29th – Thursday, April 4th
Two shows nightly!

Directed by Rebecca Richman Cohen. Produced by Rebecca Richman Cohen & Francisco Bello.

Presented by reRun Theater.

At a time when the world is rethinking its drug policies large and small, one state rises to the forefront. Once a pioneer in legalizing medical marijuana, the state of Montana may now become the first to repeal its medical marijuana law. Set against the sweeping vistas of the Rockies, the steamy lamplight of marijuana grow houses, and the bustling halls of the State Capitol, CODE OF THE WEST follows the political process of marijuana policy reform – and the recent federal crackdown on medical marijuana growers across the country. This is the story of what happens when politics fail, emotions run high and communities pay the price.