NoBudge is a movies club that presents a hand-picked selection of new indie movies daily. “One of the best places to sample what’s happening in low-budget cinema worldwide,” says Glenn Kenny of The New York Times. Its mission is to provide a supportive home for emerging indie filmmakers working with limited resources and without major industry connections, and to be a trusted discovery platform helping audiences find their new favorite movies and filmmakers.

The Movies

Starring: Odessa Young, Hari Nef, Abra, Suki Waterhouse, Joel McHale

High school senior Lily and her group of friends live in a haze of texts, posts, selfies and chats just like the rest of the world. So, when an anonymous hacker starts posting details from the private lives of everyone in their small town, the result is absolute madness leaving Lily and her friends questioning whether they’ll live through the night.

NEW YORK PREMIERE

James Lavelle played his first DJ set at 14, launched pioneering record label Mo’Wax at 18 and released the genre defining UNKLE album Psyence Fiction at 22. His phenomenally rapid rise seemed limitless, but it’s only when you’re going so fast that the wheels fall off.

THE MAN FROM MO’WAX tells the remarkable story of one of the most enigmatic yet influential figures in contemporary British culture. Unearthed from over 700 hours of footage, including exclusive personal archive spanning three decades, we get the rare opportunity to watch a boy become a man in the world of music.

The result is an exhilarating, no holds-barred ride into the life of an extraordinary man, and an equally extraordinary era, taking in some decidedly flawed decision-making (both personal and professional), Lavelle emerges as an innovative artist who thinks big and consistently overcomes adversity. Featuring DJ Shadow, 3D of Massive Attack, Futura, Ian Brown, Grandmaster Flash and Josh Homme.

Starring: Anne Parillaud, Marc Duret, Patrick Fontana

A beautiful felon, sentenced to life in prison for the murder of a policeman, is given a second chance – as a secret political assassin controlled by the government.

Starring: Jacques Tati, Jean-Pierre Zola, Adrienne Servantie, Lucien Frégis

Monsieur Hulot’s brother-in-law is the manager of a factory where plastics are manufactured. His nephew grows up in a house where everything is fully automated and the boy is raised in a similar fashion. To take away the influence of the uncle on his son, his brother-in-law gets Hulot a job in his factory.

Starring: Philippe Nahon, Blandine Lenoir, Frankie Pain

A horse meat butcher’s life and mind begin to breakdown as he lashes out against various factions of society while attempting to reconnect with his estranged daughter.

Starring: Vincent Cassel, Tchéky Karyo, Monica Bellucci

The charismatic criminal Dobermann, who received his first gun at his christening, leads a gang of brutal robbers. After a complex and brutal bank robbery, they are being hunted by the Paris police. The hunt is led by the sadistic cop Christini, who only has one goal: catch Dobermann at any cost.

Starring: Catherine Deneuve, Jean Sorel, Michel Piccoli

Beautiful young housewife Séverine Serizy cannot reconcile her masochistic fantasies with her everyday life alongside dutiful husband Pierre. When her lovestruck friend Henri mentions a secretive high-class brothel run by Madame Anais, Séverine begins to work there during the day under the name Belle de Jour. But when one of her clients grows possessive, she must try to go back to her normal life.

Minsky’s Burlesque-cum-Wringling Bros, THE GIRLIE SHOW happened only 39 times in 12 countries, yet had a record-breaking box office gross of $170 million (in 2018 dollars). Conceived as a “sex circus” blending “rock, fashion, carnival and cabaret,” this iconic, unforgettable spectacle featured the Queen of Pop as underground dominatrix, disco diva, and androgynous Master of Ceremonies… Her My Fair Lady-meets-Edward Gorey encore of “Justify My Love” remains the most sophisticated and elegantly enigmatic stage production of all time.

THE GIRLIE SHOW: LIVE DOWN UNDER – shot during M’s November 19 performance at the Sydney Cricket Ground – premiered the next night on HBO and became the premium cable channel’s most watched event of the year.

Now – and for one night only – Nitehawk Cinema celebrates Madonna’s 60th birthday with a very special screening of THE GIRLIE SHOW, re-mastered in glorious DCP.

From the stacks of Strand to the screen at Nitehawk, we invite you to join us for a night of literary adaptations. These stories have lived on shelves at Strand Book Store for 91 years, and we’re excited to see them come to life in 10 original short films.

Enjoy the films and hang around for the award ceremony and conversation hour. Thanks to our judges, all those who submitted, Nitehawk Cinema and book lovers everywhere who made our first ever film festival possible!

PROGRAM

REMBRANDT’S ETCHING
Directed by Thomas Grascoeur | 2018 | 3 min
After losing his eyesight, a collector decides to give his daughter visiting the family home his most precious possession.

Director in attendance.

A BELIEVER
Directed by Kenta Crisà | 2017 | 1 min
A gallery, a painting, two men, or maybe only one.

RAMBLE
Directed by Andreas Ramm | 2015 | 6 min 30 sec
Based on Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s “Osterspaziergang”, Ramble takes us on a romantic journey through nature. But sometimes we crave paradise so much that we lose track of reality. The light of the sun is not always beautiful, it can also blind us.

BEARD ENVY
Directed by John Tomkins | 2018 | 5 min 30 sec
Join Dan A Beard on his very surreal journey in search to find the perfect Beard in the film adaption of poem by Robert Garnham from his book “Nice”.

REALITY HAMLET
Directed by Film Workshop for Children & Adolescents by David Valverde | 2018 | 4 min
Reality Hamlet is an experimental version of Shakespeare’s play where fiction and reality are mixed, with humor, by the students of David Valverde’s Film Workshop for Children and Adolescents.

THRESHOLD
Directed by Michelle Cheripka | 2018 | 4 min
Focusing on the oft-unspoken dialogue between father and son, Michelle Cheripka’s Threshold explores the evolution of relationships, as well as the retrospection that comes with age.

Director in attendance.

WAIT IN VAIN
Directed by Indigo Bates | 2018 | 3 min 14 sec
A woman waits for a phone call from her lover, as she becomes increasingly manic alone in the house. Based on “A Telephone Call” by Dorothy Parker.

Shot in Brooklyn with cast and crew from the UK, USA, France and Australia. Director, cinematographer Fred Foret and producer Nile Berry in attendance.

THE ART OF BOOK REVIEWING
Directed by Temenuga Trifonova | 2017 | 10 min
A book reviewer discovers a new genre of literary criticism — ‘fictional criticism.’

Director in attendance.

BROOKLYN LEAR
Directed by Devin Burnam | 2018 | 8 min
Shakespeare’s timeless tale of treachery, insanity, and desperation plays out once more in the red hot Williamsburg hipster housing market.

Director in attendance.

SHAKESPEARE REPUBLIC: THOMAS MORE
Directed by Sally McLean | 2016 | 7 min
Meet Shakespeare Republic’s “Thomas More”, played by Christopher Kirby, as he tries to convince a group of parliamentary peers the errors of their ways. Shakespeare Republic: celebrating the brilliance of the Bard.

BARTLEBY
Directed by Laura Naylor and Kristen Kee | 2017 | 10 min
An unassuming Wall Street lawyer finds himself beset by a new employee, Bartleby, who refuses to work—in an ongoing act of passive refusal, he simply “prefers not to.” A quiet, dogged battle of wills ensues in this stop-motion reimagining of a Melville classic.

Director in attendance.

PILGRIMS
Directed by Jonathan Guggenheim | 2016 | 9 min
Set in the punk scene of Greenville, SC, 16-year-old Terry Webber struggles to navigate a new reality following a tragedy involving his girlfriend. Adapted from NY Times Bestselling author, Brad Land’s novel “Pilgrims Upon The Earth”.