Rooftop Films Press Screening of 2003 Season Highlights at the Pioneer Theater on May 22nd

Rooftop Films is a volunteer-run non-profit film festival and production collective that supports, creates, promotes, and shows daring short films worldwide and in a weekly summer rooftop film festival. Press screening of the coming seasons highlights held at the Pioneer Theater located at 155 East 3rd Street (at Ave. A) on Thursday May 22nd from 5-6:30pm.

Brooklyn, NY (PRWEB) May 19, 2003 -- Rooftop Films is in its seventh year of presenting its Summer Series, and to promote this landmark accomplishment there will be a press screening of the coming seasons highlights held at the Pioneer Theater located at 155 East 3rd Street (at Ave. A) on Thursday May 22nd from 5-6:30pm.

The shorts to be shown include Our Very First Sex Tape, by award-winning filmmaker Amy Talkington, in which a married couple set out to make a kinky sex tape, but everything comes out wrong. Shorts from the Un-American Film Festival selection will also be screened, including Eye of the Storm, by Raphael Lyon and Andres Ingoglia -- the story of the how the corporate strangle-hold on the media produced the worlds first non-partisan, non-bias, participatory news source: the Independent Media Center. And Revolutions Per Minute, by Alex Roper -- there are many way to celebrate the 4th of July. Packing a record player full of fireworks is just one of them. Also screening is Bottom Feeders, a mock documentary about a rock n soul rap band, highly ironic take on reality TV and the music industry by Bowman Hastie.

The Rooftop Films Summer Series 2003 presents short films in variously-themed nights every Friday from June 13th to September 12th. The Series serves as the central organizing element for our work, providing an audience for short, low-budget movies which might otherwise go unseen. We especially concentrate on short works, as we believe shorts to be not merely abbreviated features, but rather their own expressive medium. A poem does not aspire to the ideals of a novel; a short film should not aspire to be a feature. Small finances, quick shooting schedules, and limited equipment resources-these "restrictions" are what make the best short films so intense. In a short film, a film stripped to its essence, the filmmaker's passion is laid bare.

Rooftop Films
Rooftop Films is a volunteer-run non-profit film festival and production collective that supports, creates, promotes, and shows daring short films worldwide and in a weekly summer rooftop film festival. The venue is the roof of a loft building in the East Williamsburg Industrial Park-it attracts viewers interested in issues of community as well as those interested in film. In 2000, we screened 46 films from around the country and world, and over 1,000 people attended our eight Friday night screenings. In 2001 we expanded to 12 nights and showed 85 films to some 1,500 folks. And in 2002, close to 2,000 people visited Rooftop Films to watch the 156 movies we showed.

On October 5, 2001, Rooftop films hosted "9.11 - Present," a special benefit show. Just three weeks after the World Trade Center fell, we were able to show a variety of films pertaining to those events. We showed films made before the attacks about relative issues-such as an early 2001 film about women's rights under the Taliban, and a film shot in Iraq during the Gulf War-as well as films made since the attacks-including critiques of the mainstream media coverage of the events, a film shot at Ground Zero as the buildings came down, and an animated reflection about 9/11. The Rooftop Films Production Collective produced a film about police relations in our neighborhood before and after 9/11.

To RSVP to attend the press screening please call 718/417-7362. For more information please contact Mark Elijah Rosenberg at 718/417-7362 or Shetal Amin at 646/256-2629. You may also visit http://www.rooftopfilms.com