Starring: Cher, Nicolas Cage, Olympia Dukakis, Danny Aiello

Cher is devastatingly funny, sinuous and beautiful as Loretta, an unlucky-in-love Italian widow who finds romance through the intervention of the Manhattan moon. With her wedding to a close friend just weeks away, she meets – and falls hopelessly in love with – his younger brother, played by Nic Cage!

Starring: Steve Carell, Timothée Chalamet, Maura Tierney, Amy Ryan

Starring: Mahershala Ali, Viggo Mortensen, Linda Cardellini

Starring: Viola Davis, Michelle Rodriguez, Elizabeth Debicki, Cynthia Erivo, Daniel Kaluuya, Liam Neeson, Colin Farrell, Robert Duvall

From Academy Award-winning director Steve McQueen (“12 Years a Slave”) and co-writer and bestselling author Gillian Flynn (“Gone Girl”) comes a blistering, modern-day thriller set against the backdrop of crime, passion and corruption.

WIDOWS is the story of four women with nothing in common except a debt left behind by their dead husbands’ criminal activities. Set in contemporary Chicago, amid a time of turmoil, tensions build when Veronica, Alice, Linda and Belle (Cynthia Erivo) take their fate into their own hands and conspire to forge a future on their own terms.

Starring: Elina Löwensohn, Stéphane Ferrara, Bernie Bonvoisin

From award-winning documentary filmmaker E. Chai Vasarhelyi (MERU) and world-renowned photographer and mountaineer Jimmy Chin comes National Geographic Documentary Film’s FREE SOLO, a stunning, intimate and unflinching portrait of the free soloist climber Alex Honnold, as he prepares to achieve his lifelong dream: climbing the face of the world’s most famous rock… the 3,000ft El Capitan in Yosemite National Park… without a rope.

Celebrated as one of the greatest athletic feats of any kind, Honnold’s climb set the ultimate standard: perfection or death. Succeeding in this challenge, Honnold enters his story in the annals of human achievement. FREE SOLO is both an edge-of-your seat thriller and an inspiring portrait of an athlete who exceeded our current understanding of human physical and mental potential. The result is a triumph of the human spirit.

November 5 at 5pm
Held in Nitehawk’s Lo-Res Bar
FREE, RSVP to shorts@nitehawkcinema.com

This workshop is Seed&Spark’s dedication to connecting creators with their audiences. Identifying, and then enthusiastically engaging, your supporters is essential to a career of successfully funding and distributing your films. That’s why in this class, you’ll learn how to find and engage your fans, run an effective crowdfunding campaign, and then distribute your film—all while preparing you to make your next film. Because after all, this class isn’t about crowdfunding: it’s about career building.

Seed&Spark is the world’s only streaming and crowdfunding destination, supporting inclusive films and film-related projects with funding, audience building, and distribution.

MUSIC RIGHTS IN FILMMAKING WITH THE VOLUNTEER LAWYERS FOR THE ARTS
FREE for NSF18 filmmakers, $25 for students, $35 all others

Securing permission for the use of music in film can feel daunting. This class will provide an overview of music copyrights, including ownership and fair use, and explain the basics of music clearances for the use of music in film.

Established in 1969, Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts (VLA) is the leading legal aid and education organization dedicated to New York artists and its arts and cultural organizations (ACOs). VLA strives to protect the artistic community’s livelihoods, businesses, and creative works through access to dedicated legal representation and focused education programs.

Presented by NSF sponsor, Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts.

The Nitehawk Shorts Festival’s MATINEE TWO screening includes eight films that imbue life and death as explored in stories about finite mortality, complex relationships, and exceeding expectations in an oppressive world. Q&A with filmmakers.

ODE TO JOY
MICHAEL KOSHKIN / U.S.A. / 2018 / DOCUMENTARY / 12 MINS / NEW YORK PREMIERE
The elderly residents of a Houston retirement home make the best of their remaining days by playing in a kazoo band.

I WAS IN YOUR BLOOD
JOSEPH SACKETT / U.S.A. / 2017 / DRAMA / 7 1/2 MINS
A young boy falls in love with his babysitter.

AMAZING BAGEL
DARA KATZ AND BETSY KENNEY / U.S.A. / 2018 / COMEDY / 15 MINS / WORLD PREMIERE
When Devin, a single, 30-year-old woman learns—unbeknownst to her—she’s had a miscarriage, like everything else in her life, she’s not sure how to feel about it.

KENT STAYS IN THE WOODS
JACKSON DEVEREUX / AUSTRALIA, U.S.A. / 2018 / DOCUMENTARY / 1 1/2 MINS
A portrait of a life in rural America following an amiable cab driver in Central Maine who lives alone in a trailer in the woods.

SOTHEA
KATE-MARIE ENGBERG / CAMBODIA / 2017 / DRAMA / 15 MINS / NEW YORK PREMIERE
When Sothea witnesses corruption at work, she has to decide morally and financially how to proceed.

A GIRL
C. CRAIG PATTERSON / U.S.A. / 2018 / DRAMA / 7 MINS
The Carroll brothers are at odds. Their father wants to get to the bottom of it.

LOLA: GIRL GOT A GUN
EMILY ELIZABETH THOMAS / U.S.A. / 2017 / DRAMA / 15 MINS
A young girl searches for purpose and belonging in a conservative West Texas household.

THE GOSPEL
A.V. ROCKWELL / U.S.A. / 2016 / DRAMA / 20 MINS
A music-driven short film presented as a visual prelude to Alicia Keys’ sixth studio album, HERE.

The MATINEE ONE screening at the Nitehawk Shorts Festival features eight films that explore the encouragement of imagination, pursued ambition, and the struggles in life that are both personal and culture. Q&A with filmmakers.

OKAASAN (MOM)
KANA HATAKEYAMA / JAPAN, U.S. / 2018 / DRAMA / 18 MINS
In rural Japan, a mother and daughter attempt to reconnect after dealing with the loss of a loved one the previous year.

LIFE’S A BIQTCH
JOHN E. KILBERG / U.S.A. / 2018 / DOCUMENTARY / 12 MINS
Biqtch Puddin’ shares her views of living the nightlife as a professional and affecting the community by way of drag through her inspiring perspective.

WHAT I WISH YOU SAID
TIFFANY FRANCES / U.S.A. / 2018 / DRAMA / 9 MINS / WORLD PREMIERE
In present day Brooklyn, a young woman and man on a date unexpectedly experience a manifestation from her traumatic past.

ON MY WAY
MARY DAUTERMAN / U.S.A. / 2018 / COMEDY / 1 1/2 MINS
When you’re on the way but you’re a liar! A comedy about not wanting to leave the house.

COMPANY
DORON MAX HAGAY / U.S.A. / 2018 / COMEDY / 13 MINS / NEW YORK PREMIERE
A woman invites her former ceramics instructor to live with her after her husband’s disappearance.

SPACE GIRLS
CARYS WATFORD / UK / 2018 / DRAMA / 10 MINS / NEW YORK PREMIERE
Four 9-year-old girls obsessed with space embark on a secret mission in their cardboard rocket.

EDGECOMBE
CRYSTAL KAYIZA / U.S.A. / 2018 / DOCUMENTARY / 15 MINS
An examination of the ways trauma repeats and reinvents itself in rural Black communities revealing the deeply personal truths of three local residents.

I TURN TO JELLO
ANDREW T. BETZER / U.S.A. / 2016 / COMEDY / 15 MINS
A metropolitan nightmare unfurls as a nervous cellist cracks under pressure at an audition—and again, and again, and…