Red Hook Community Cinema Festival

All Screening tickets are via donation here on eventbrite or at the door as capacity allows. Please consider donating today to reserve your spot for the screenings!

Friday November 1, 2024

7:00 PM: Boys at 20 (Feature 77 Minutes)

Director: Booth McGowan

Still living at home and unable to find the connection he craves in romantic relationships, Andy (Booth McGowan) returns to childhood best friend Ray (Papa Mbye) to fill the void. But reconnected after a year apart, they struggle to recapture their once effortless closeness.

Occupy Elm Street (Short 6 Min 31 Seconds)

Director: Brandon Boudreaux

First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you invade their dreams and M**der them. Then you win. Freddy, Jason, and Michael Myers come together with bloody victims, Final Girls, and other horror associates to call for a return to fundamental horror values.

9:00 PM: Opening Night Costume Party

Ticketed Event $20 Live DJ & LiveMusic

Come dressed in your day old Halloween costume and celebrate Red Hook CInema with music, dancing and refreshments. Sounds by the Benny Lopez Latin Jazz Ensemble

Saturday November 2, 2024

1:30 PM: Branded By Fire (Feature 84 Minutes)

Director: Caio Ribeiro

As the filmmaker embarks on a journey to uncover the mystery behind an obscure film adaptation of Jorge Luis Borges’ The Intruder, Caio exposes the stories of sexual enslavement by military dictatorship which forces himself to resolve his own childhood trauma.

4:30 PM: 3 A.M. (Feature 92 Minutes)

Director: Lee Davis

The feature film directing debut of Spike Lee protege Lee Davis takes viewers into the world of New York City taxi drivers with performances by cinema legends Danny Glover, Pam Grier and Michelle Rodriguez.  A Showtime Original Feature Film, this project was developed in collaboration with the Sundance Institute.

8:00 PM: Live Music Show

Ticketed Event: $20

Transcendental Filth: Experimental Noise- Punk from Buffalo, NY

b o t: R&B, Experimental Singer-Songwriter

Key Hutch: Guitarist, Composer, Perpetual Shapeshifter

Seven: Avant Garde, Alternative Rock/ Experimental Noise

Sunday November 3, 2024

1:30 PM: Short FIlms Block A

Sitting By a Body of Water in the Dark (Short 3 min 15 seconds)

Director: Mia Martelli

“Sitting by a body of water in the dark” is a love letter to vintage surf footage, re-set on the shorelines of Brooklyn. Martelli holds the ecstasy and dread of climate-change-related phenomena experienced in South Brooklyn through the lens of a super8 camera.

86’D (Short 12 min 5 seconds)

Director: Antonette Hudak

86’D is a film about a girl who works at a restaurant in New York and experiences all the crazy dynamics of the establishment and her coworkers.

I Remember You (Short 17 min 6 seconds)

Director: Sunyoung Kim

The film was created in Hook Arts Media's Digital Connections program.

Shop Screening (Short 3 minutes)

Director: Leif Larson

The film shows three friends installing a big movie screen on the roll gate of their woodshop in Red Hook. The shop is located by the Red Hook Farm. A screening was later hosted that night for friends.

6:30 PM: Brooklyn Cinema Forum: Sambizanga (1972) (Feature 102 Minutes ) 

Director:  Sarah Maldoror

Based on a true story, Sambizanga follows a young woman as she makes her way from the outskirts of Luanda toward the city’s center looking for her husband after his arrest by the Portuguese authorities—an incident that will ultimately help to ignite a national uprising.

8:15 PM The Politics of Resistance: Film Historian Samm Deighan

Samm Deighan is a New York City–based film historian, author of The Legacy of World War II in European Arthouse Cinema, editor of Revolution in 35mm: Political Violence and Resistance in Cinema from the Arthouse to the Grindhouse, and host of the Eros + Massacre podcast. She joins us for a pre-election day chat on the films of political resistiance throughout history.

Wednesday November 6, 2024

6:00 PM Networking Hour

Strong Rope Brewery. 

7:00 PM Movie Trivia Night with Cinephile Game! 

Strong Rope Brewery.

9:00 PM After Party at Sunny’s Bar

Sunny’s Bar.

Thursday November 7, 2024

7:30 PM: MONOXIDE  (Short 17 min)

Director: Aerie Dupree Thompson

A young hopeful girl moves to New York City, only to slowly lose her mind. Is her doll obsessed basement dwelling landlady to blame? Yes.

8:00 PM: Gods and Mosterss (Feature 90 Minutes)

Director: Risha Gorig

A dark and powerful tale of the passing existence. The fallen angels watching from another world beyond, but can’t do anything about the suffering and brutality. Their presence and touch are not felt.

Friday November 8, 2024

7:30 PM: I Am Not Ok  (Short 12 min 10 seconds)

Director: Gabrielle Lansner

The narration of the film was taken directly from a Facebook Live Post made after George Floyd was killed. 

8:00 PM: Sister Una Lived a Good Live (Feature 72 Minutes)

Director: Par Parekh

Following a terminal cancer diagnosis, Sister Úna—a smoking, drinking, wisecracking Catholic nun dedicated to mentoring teens—chooses to live life to the fullest in the face of death.

Saturday November 9, 2024

12:00 PM: Overcoming Obstacles in Documentary

A lecture featuring a panel of documentary professionals: 

Melissa Georges- Entertainment Lawyer with a focus on documentary

Michael Lopez- Independent documentary Producer

Joseph Patel- Documentary Producer, Oscar Winning Producer of Summer of Soul

1:15 PM: Hook Arts Media: Documentary Shorts

Ladies Lore (Short 14 min 37 seconds)

Filmmakers: Shanell Culler-Sims, Kevin Wilson, Arial Smith, Kailyn Perez, Mikayla Greene

Ladies lore is a comedic documentary about women's reproductive health.

Nostalgia and Change  (Short 6 min 12 seconds)

Filmmakers: Amanda Greenberg, James Bell, Nia Lewis-Clyde, Angie Hernandez

Nostalgia and Change takes a look at the film's namesake through the lens of two neighborhoods: Red Hook and Roosevelt Island. 

City of Flavors (Short 12 min 40 seconds)

Filmmakers: Mariam Soumahoro, Jennifer Escalona, Jeslyn Estrada, Massiel Toribio, Jackelinee Navidad, Mohamed Ghonim

A documentary exploring the limitless food options of New York City.

4:00 PM Lighting Workshop: The Talking Head

Independent Cinematographers Stephen Szmed and Steven Carmona lead a workshop through all the possible ways to light the simple (or not so simple) sit down interview.

Location: TBD

7:30 PM: She Came to Me (Feature 102 Minutes)

Director: Rebecca Miller

A composer who suffers writer's block rediscovers his passion after an adventurous one-night stand.

Sunday November 10, 2024

3:00 PM: Brutal Season (Feature 100 Minutes)

Director: Gavin Fields

In 1948 Red Hook, Brooklyn, the Trouth’s are facing no income and the hottest summer on record. When their estranged son inexplicably returns, the apartment is full again - but is it big enough for the gambling, trauma, and substantial life insurance policy that comes in his wake?

5:30 PM BLOCK B Short Films

True Love (Short 2 min 37 seconds)

Directors: Renaldo Dailey and Brian WF Tobin

Two lovers quarrel in the night... Can love be restored?

Mad Clean  (Short 21 minutes)

Director: Jordan Campbell

86’D is a film about a girl who works at a restaurant in New York and experiences all the crazy dynamics of the establishment and her coworkers. 

One Night (Short 7 minutes)

Director: Riya Paul

A young woman believes she is being followed after a late night out; though the actual threat may be someone far closer to her. 

Pretty Soon, But Not Yet (Short Runtime TBA)

Directors: Michael Buscemi, Marika Hacking

Set in Red Hook, Brooklyn, "Pretty Soon, But Not Yet" tells the story of a down and out musician, Vincent, as he navigates through a mounting list of struggles.

6:30 PM Closing Festival Mixer.

Green Lung Studio. Wine. Oyster Cash Bar. Refreshments.

Host or Publisher Green Lung Studio