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Bamcinématek Announces Special Events, Short Films Lineup, and Full Schedule for the Eighth Annual Bamcinemafest, Jun 15—26 BAMcinématek announces special events, short films lineup, and full schedule for the eighth annual BAMcinemaFest, Jun 15—26 Outdoor Sneak Preview—Sara Jordenö’s Kiki in Brooklyn Bridge Park NY Premiere—New restoration of Eagle Pennell’s long-lost indie classic Last Night at the Alamo NY Premiere—New DCP of Martin Bell’s Streetwise screened alongside Tiny: The Life of Erin Blackwell The Wall Street Journal is the title sponsor for BAMcinemaFest, BAMcinématek, and BAM Rose Cinemas. Brooklyn, NY/May 16, 2015—BAMcinématek announces special events, shorts and full schedule for the eighth annual BAMcinemaFest (Jun 15—26). BAMcinemaFest moves outdoors on Thursday, June 23 with Sara Jordenö’s Kiki. In this kaleidoscopic profile of New York City’s contemporary voguing scene, Swedish filmmaker Jordenö and queer community leader Twiggy Pucci Garçon join forces to showcase vogue’s unabated vitality as a dance form. Offering a behind-the-scenes look at this underground culture and its various rival collectives, including the Opulent Haus of Pucci and the House of Unbothered Cartier, Kiki moves beyond the flashing lights and extravagant styles to grapple with the injustices faced disproportionately by LGBT youth of color. Assembled from four years’ worth of footage, this winner of the Berlinale Teddy Award is an inspiring tribute to a world in which fierce talent and tireless activism go hand in hand. On Tuesday, June 21, BAMcinemaFest presents the New York premiere of a new restoration of Eagle Pennell’s classic Last Night at the Alamo (1983). A lost treasure of American independent cinema reemerges thanks to this new restoration, executive produced by Richard Linklater and SXSW co-founder Louis Black. On the day before its demolition, a colorful assortment of barflies, local oddballs, and urban cowboys assemble at the titular Houston, Texas honky-tonk for one last round. Among them is local legend Cowboy (Sonny Carl Davis) who mounts a last-ditch stand to save the beloved watering hole. Shot in gloriously grainy, 16mm black-and-white and scripted with an uncanny ear for the profanity-laced poetry of dive bar patois by Texas Chainsaw Massacre writer Kim Henkel, Texan auteur Pennell’s boozy, bittersweet ode to a vanishing way of life is one of the finest examples of 1980s micro-budget regional filmmaking. BAMcinemaFest presents a new DCP of Martin Bell’s documentary Streetwise (1984), screening along with Tiny: The Life of Erin Blackwell, which revisits the tumultuous life of one of the most indelible Streetwise subjects on Saturday, June 25. In 1983, filmmaker Bell and pioneering photojournalist and artistic collaborator Mary Ellen Mark took a camera onto the streets of Seattle to document the lives of teenage runaways. With startling intimacy, this groundbreaking, Academy Award-nominated documentary chronicles an unforgettable group of kids—including Tiny, a fourteen-year-old sex worker whose heartrending story Bell and Mark documented in Tiny: The Life of Erin Blackwell—who have turned to dumpster diving, drug dealing, panhandling, and prostitution in order to survive. Their mix of childlike naiveté and weary-beyond-their-years resignation remains heartbreaking and haunting. BAMcinemaFest also announces 11 short films, including nine New York premieres and two World premieres. Mariko Munro and David Andalman’s Jack makes its World premiere at the festival, and stars Chloë Sevigny (Kids: 20th Anniversary, BAMcinemaFest 2015) and Eshan Bay as a sex-starved couple hoping to get pregnant after a drunken night with a new acquaintance. Director Carson Mell makes an appearance in Jack which will screen along with his feature Another Evil. Also having its World festival premiere is Young Jean Lee’s A Meaning Full Life, a-genre-bending portrait of Sheikhar Boodram, a Puerto Rican/Guyanese/Indian teenager from the Bronx, told through a script written by Sheikhar when he was fifteen and performed by Wooster Group stalwarts Wallace Shawn, Paul Lazar and Kate Valk. A Meaning Full Life will screen with Fraud. Screening in their New York premieres in the Shorts Program are BAMcinemaFest three-time alum Jennifer Reeder’s Crystal Lake, a narrative short about a young Muslim-American skater grrrl in the small-town Midwest; Naima Ramos-Chapman’s And Nothing Happened a narrative short that follows a young woman’s daily routine in the wake of a surreal occurrence; Rodney Evans’ Persistence of Vision a touching documentary about photographer John Dugdale; Rodrigo Ojeda-Beck’s and Robert Machoian’s Oh, My Father, a portrait of an aging father and the daughter who cares for him; and Tom Rosenberg’s Nothing Human, in which a forensic investigator guides audiences through a life-size reconstruction of the 2009 mass shooting at Fort Hood. A collection of New York premiere selected shorts are paired with BAMcinemaFest features including Elizabeth Lo’s Bisonhead, screening with A Stray; Jack Dunph’s Chekhov which screens with Little Sister; Jacqueline Castel’s The Puppet Man, screening with The Alchemist Cookbook; and Janicza Bravo’s Woman in Deep which screens with collective:unconscious. Full press screening schedule can be found below. For press information, please contact Maureen Masters at 718.724.8023 / [email protected] Hannah Thomas at 718.724.8002 / [email protected] BAMcinemaFest Schedule HT = Steinberg Screen at the BAM Harvey Theater BRC = BAM Rose Cinemas BKBP = Brooklyn Bridge Park Wed, Jun 15 7:30pm: Opening Night—Little Men (HT) Thu, Jun 16 7pm: Suited (BRC) 9:40pm: The Alchemist Cookbook + The Puppet Man (BRC) Fri, Jun 17 6:45pm: Author: The JT LeRoy Story (BRC) 7:30pm: Centerpiece—Wiener-Dog (HT) 9:45pm: Little Sister + Chekhov (BRC) Sat, Jun 18 1pm: A Stray + Bisonhead (BRC) 3:45pm: Kate Plays Christine (BRC) 6:45pm: Goat (BRC) 7:30pm: Spotlight—In a Valley of Violence (HT) 9:45pm: Another Evil + Jack (BRC) Sun, Jun 19 2pm: Fraud + A Meaning Full Life (BRC) 4:15pm: Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World (BRC) 6:45pm: A Woman, A Part (BRC) 9:30pm: Slash (BRC) Mon, Jun 20 7pm: Spa Night (BRC) 9:45pm: collective:unconscious + Woman in Deep (BRC) Tue, Jun 21 7pm: Newtown (BRC) 8pm: Last Night at the Alamo (BRC) Wed, Jun 22 6:45pm: Radio Dreams (BRC) 7:30pm: Spotlight—Joshy (HT) 9:30pm: Shorts Program (BRC) Thu, Jun 23 7pm: The Childhood of a Leader (BRC) Sundown: Free Outdoor Screening—Kiki (BKBP) Food vendors curated by Smorgasburg start at 7pm, live music starts at 8pm, and screening begins at dusk. Fri, Jun 24 6:45pm: Morris from America (BRC) 9:30pm: The Love Witch (BRC) Sat, Jun 25 2pm: Tiny: The Life of Erin Blackwell + Streetwise (BRC) 7:30pm: Closing Night—Dark Night (HT) Press Screening Schedule Wed, Jun 1 10am: Little Men (85min) 12pm: Kate Plays Christine (110min) 12:15pm: A Stray + Bisonhead (91min) 2pm: In a Valley of Violence (104mn) 2:15pm: collective:unconscious + Woman in Deep (93min) Thu, Jun 2 10am: Dark Night (85min) 10:15am: Fraud + A Meaning Full Life (65min) 11:45am: Goat (102min) 12pm: Streetwise (91min) 1:45pm: Tiny: The Life of Erin Blackwell (87min) 2pm: Little Sister + Chekhov (96min) Mon, Jun 6 10am: The Love Witch (120min) 10:15am: Wiener-Dog (104min) 12:15pm: Radio Dreams (94min) 12:30pm: Morris from America (90min) 2:15pm: A Woman, A Part (98min) 2:30pm: Last Night at the Alamo (81min) Tue, Jun 7 10am: Another Evil + Jack (102min) 10:15am: Kiki (95min) 12:10pm: The Alchemist Cookbook + The Puppet Man (91min) 12:30pm: Suited (77min) 2pm: Joshy (93min) 2:15pm: Spa Night (93min) Wed, Jun 8 10am: Author: The JT LeRoy Story (110min) 10:15am: Slash (101min) 12:10pm: Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World (98min) 12:20pm: Newtown (83min) 2pm: The Childhood of a Leader (115min) 2:15pm: Shorts Program (75min) Press screening held at BAM Rose Cinemas (30 Lafayette Ave, Brooklyn, NY). *Please RSVP by Friday, May 27 with the screening(s) you’re planning to attend to: Maureen Masters at 718.724.8023 / [email protected] Hannah Thomas at 718.724.8002 / [email protected] Short Film Descriptions Shorts Program And Nothing Happened 16min NY Premiere—Narrative Directed by Naima Ramos-Chapman. A young woman struggles to get through her morning routine and face the day in the wake of a surreal occurrence. Crystal Lake 20min NY Premiere—Narrative Directed by Jennifer Reeder. Isolated in a new town after the death of her mother, Ladan joins her cousin Samiyah’s gang of sk8r grrrls as they take over the local halfpipe. Nothing Human 17min NY Premiere—Documentary Directed by Tom Rosenberg. Forensic investigator Louis Akin guides us through a life-size reconstruction of the 2009 mass shooting at Fort Hood. Oh, My Father 11min NY Premiere—Documentary Directed by Rodrigo Ojeda-Beck, Robert Machoian. A quiet portrait of the daily routine of an aging father and the daughter who cares for him from the directors of the acclaimed film God Bless the Child. Persistence of Vision 11min NY Premiere—Documentary Directed by Rodney Evans. The touching story of photographer John Dugdale, and the changes in his creative process after his loss of vision dues to an HIV related illness. Shorts with Features Bisonhead 9min NY Premiere—Documentary Directed by Elizabeth Lo. A poignant portrait of a Ponderai Native American group’s efforts to preserve their treaty-endowed hunting rights in Yellowstone National Park. Screens with A Stray. Chekhov 5min NY Premiere—Documentary Directed by Jack Dunphy. A secretly recorded phone conversation between the director and his sister, laced with bitter honesty, familial messiness, and complex affections that only siblings can provide. Screens with Little Sister. Jack 10min World Premiere—Narrative Directed by Mariko Munro, David Andalman.
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