Director Alex Ross Perry will be at Nitehawk for a Q&A on 10/27 following the 7pm show!
A complex, intimate, and highly idiosyncratic comedy, LISTEN UP PHILIP is a literary look at the triumph of reality over the human spirit.
Anger rages in Philip as he awaits the publication of his sure-to-succeed second novel. He feels pushed out of his adopted home city by the constant crowds and noise, a deteriorating relationship with his photographer girlfriend Ashley, and his own indifference to promoting the novel. When Philip’s idol, Ike Zimmerman, offers his isolated summer home as a refuge, he finally gets the peace and quiet to focus on his favorite subject—himself.
The second annual Nitehawk Shorts Festival opens with an evening featuring an incredible program of documentary, animation and narrative fiction shorts.
Introduction by festival programmers and Q&A with filmmakers following the screening. Plus, we announced the Festival prize winner and host and after-party in Nitehawk’s downstairs bar from 11:30pm – 1:00am!
NITEHAWK SHORTS FESTIVAL: OPENING NITE PROGRAM
Efrén Hernández – Master Muscles (14 minutes)
Dean Peterson – Ving Rhames (9 minutes)
Sam Cullman and Benjamin Rosen – Black Cherokee (20 minutes)
Trinity Andersson and Barry Andersson – Me & Ewe (7 minutes)
Elizabeth Chatelain – Jenny and Steph (9 minutes)
Mickey Duzyj and Jeremy Johnstone – The Perfect 18 (7 minutes)
Paolo Bitanga – Mang Abe’s Ube (The Farmer and the Glowing Green Shell) (15 minutes)
Program subject to change.
Prize sponsorship provided by Heard City (a boutique audio post-production facility) and Nice Shoes (the full service, artist-driven design, animation, visual effects and color grading studio specializing in high-end commercials, web content, film, TV and music videos). One filmmaker will receive 14 hours (2 days) of Sound Design and/or Mix in Manhattan or Dumbo with one Sound Designer/Mixer courtesy of Heard City and 20 hours of color grading with a night colorist (valued at $16K) from Nice Shoes. The winner is selected by festival organizers and invited guests.
The second annual Nitehawk Shorts Festival is excited to introduce the debut of a ‘Midnite’ category this year.
Co-programmed with Sam Zimmerman (Fangoria), this program features short films by international filmmakers more appropriately viewed after dark. Screening includes an introduction by Caryn Coleman, Sam Zimmerman and filmmakers.
Filmmakers Gathering pre-party in our downstairs bar from 10pm – 12am.
NITEHAWK SHORTS FESTIVAL: MIDNITE PROGRAM
Darren Banks – Interiors (ALT Ending) (10 minutes)
Peter McCoubrey and Luke McCoubrey – The Grey Matter (18 minutes)
Andrea McGinty – McDreamy (2 minutes)
Claire Ensslin – Pedestrian (7 minutes)
Ben Aston – He Took His Skin Off For Me (11 minutes)
David Cronenberg – The Nest (9 minutes)
Rick Niebe – Study for Interior with Figures and Sounds (4 minutes)
Jesse Burks – One Please (6 minutes)
Bonnie Black – Brute (15 minutes)
Ben Steiner – The Stomach (15 minutes)
Prize sponsorship provided by Heard City (a boutique audio post-production facility) and Nice Shoes (the full service, artist-driven design, animation, visual effects and color grading studio specializing in high-end commercials, web content, film, TV and music videos). One filmmaker will receive 14 hours (2 days) of Sound Design and/or Mix in Manhattan or Dumbo with one Sound Designer/Mixer courtesy of Heard City and 20 hours of color grading with a night colorist (valued at $16K) from Nice Shoes. The winner is selected by festival organizers and invited guests.
The second annual Nitehawk Shorts Festival continues with our DAY TWO brunch screening featuring a another fantastic program of documentary, animation and narrative fiction shorts.
Screening followed by Q&A with the filmmakers and festival programmers along with a casual closing party afterwards in our downstairs bar!
NITEHAWK SHORTS FESTIVAL: DAY TWO PROGRAM
Dan Canyon and Leo Marks – Cuckoo (8 minutes)
Connor Hurley – The Naturalist (12 minutes)
Christopher Hawthorne – Bender (18 minutes)
Josh Lopata – Fade (9 minutes)
Talia Alberts – re: Jess (15 minutes)
Joe Kowalski and Zoe Logan – Minor Monuments (3 minutes)
Nerina Penzhorn – A Day in the Sun (13 minutes)
Jacob LaMendola – Stoney (15 minutes)
Joe Petrilla – reConception (12 minutes)
Prize sponsorship provided by Heard City (a boutique audio post-production facility) and Nice Shoes (the full service, artist-driven design, animation, visual effects and color grading studio specializing in high-end commercials, web content, film, TV and music videos).One filmmaker will receive 14 hours (2 days) of Sound Design and/or Mix in Manhattan or Dumbo with one Sound Designer/Mixer courtesy of Heard City and 20 hours of color grading with a night colorist (valued at $16K) from Nice Shoes. The winner is selected by festival organizers and invited guests.
The second annual Nitehawk Shorts Festival continues with our DAY ONE brunch screening featuring a another fantastic program of documentary, animation and narrative fiction shorts.
Screening followed by Q&A with the filmmakers and festival programmers!
NITEHAWK SHORTS FESTIVAL: DAY ONE PROGRAM
Marcel Simoneau – Le Village (22 minutes)
Roy Germano – A Mexican Sound (13 minutes)
Theodore Collatos – Time (7 minutes)
Marisa Tontaveetong, Shir Wen Sun, Tamarind King, and Yu Ueda – Starlight (4 minutes)
Nathaniel Lindsay – Green Eyed (15 minutes)
Mike Fernandez – i found a bird (8 minutes)
Lindsey Lambert – Lost in Prospect Park (5 minutes)
Bill Morrison – All Vows (10 minutes)
Saul Abraham and Josh Feder – Baby (15 minutes)
Peter Vack – SEND (8 minutes)
Prize sponsorship provided by Heard City (a boutique audio post-production facility) and Nice Shoes (the full service, artist-driven design, animation, visual effects and color grading studio specializing in high-end commercials, web content, film, TV and music videos). One filmmaker will receive 14 hours (2 days) of Sound Design and/or Mix in Manhattan or Dumbo with one Sound Designer/Mixer courtesy of Heard City and 20 hours of color grading with a night colorist (valued at $16K) from Nice Shoes. The winner is selected by festival organizers and invited guests.
In 20,000 DAYS ON EARTH, drama and reality combine in a fictitious 24 hours in the life of musician and international cultural icon Nick Cave.
20,000 Days On Earth takes us deep into the heart of how myth, memory, love and loss, shape our lives, every single day. A line in Cave’s songwriting notebook calculating how many days he’d been alive inspired the film’s title. The film delves into Nick’s artistic processes, unpicking the stuff that makes him tick. Fusing drama and documentary to weave a cinematic day-in-the-life with unique verité observations of his full creative cycle.
Multimedia artist One9’s documentary NAS: TIME IS ILLMATIC follows the trajectory of Nas’ 1994 landmark debut album, Illmatic, one of the most important and revolutionary albums in hip hop.
Even 20 years after its release, Illmatic is widely recognized as a hip-hop benchmark that captured the sociopolitical outlook, enduring spirit and collective angst of a generation of young artists searching for their voice in America.
Tracing Nas’s influences from the music of his jazz musician father, Olu Dara, to the burgeoning hip-hop scene in his native Queensbridge, Nas: Time is Illmatic describes the almost insurmountable obstacles he faced in creating his opus, providing an authentic and passionate account of Nas’s personal journey from a young street poet to a visionary MC. -Cara Cusumano
A two-hour feast of zombie film footage and pop culture commentary.
Comedian Kevin Maher and filmmaker Matt Glasson present an obsessive look at zombies, from White Zombie to World War Z. The hosts explore pre-Romero voodoo zombies, Night of the Living Dead rip-offs, the recurring theme of Nazi Zombies in film, and the recent run of zombies overtaking pop culture. The two-hour show features dozens of clips including zombie film highlights from Italian, Asian, British and Mexican filmmakers.
With special guest presentations by Heather Buckley (Fangoria, Dread Central), Brian Solomon (The Vault of Horror), Daan Van Versendaal (The Netherlands Institute of Neuroscience), Doug Sakmann (Special FX Artist) and Captain Cruella (Village Invasion Zombie Crawl). Plus trivia prizes and zombie snack foods!
Kevin and Matt are excited to bring their humorous, terrifying, quite unforgettable video variety show to Nitehawk Cinema. From casual filmgoers to die-hard zombie fanatics, it’s an evening of guaranteed zombie fun for everyone!
Two-time Academy Award nominee Jeremy Renner leads an all-star cast in KILL THE MESSENGER, a dramatic thriller based on the remarkable true story of Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Gary Webb.
In Kill the Messenger, Gary Webb (Renner) stumbles onto a story which leads to the shady origins of the men who started the crack epidemic on the nation’s street and further alleges that the CIA was aware of major dealers who were smuggling cocaine into the U.S., and using the profits to arm rebels fighting in Nicaragua.
Despite warnings from drug kingpins and CIA operatives to stop his investigation, Webb keeps digging to uncover a conspiracy with explosive implications. His journey takes him from the prisons of California to the villages of Nicaragua to the highest corridors of power in Washington, D.C. – and draws the kind of attention that threatens not just his career, but his family and his life.
Nitehawk and Noisey present two special midnite screenings of KILL YOUR IDOLS with post screening Q&A with director Scott Crary. Also expected to attend: members of Teenage Jesus & The Jerks, Liars, Foetus, SWANS, Black Dice, Flux Information Sciences and other surprise guests
Scott Crary’s documentary Kill Your Idols is a sweeping look at New York’s No wave and art punk movements, and starts in the 1970s with acts like Suicide and DNA and goes all the way up to the early 2000’s with young acts like Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Liars and Black Dice. Through clever editing, Crary tells the story of this difficult (for some!) style with clarity and wit, and features interviews from members of Sonic Youth, Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, Swans, Gogol Bordello and more. No Wave bands have the best names, don’t they?
Music Driven is presented in partnership with Noisey. Featuring Absolut Vodka cocktails.
