FREEHELD

Director: Cynthia Wade

BEST DOCUMENTARY AWARD

CWNY SCREENS 2007

CWNY & NYWIFT congratulate Cynthia on her Academy Award win for Best Documentary Short!

FLYING: CONFESSIONS OF A FREE WOMAN

Director: Jennifer Fox

TOUR DE FORCE AWARD

CWNY SCREENS 2007

TAXISTA

Director:  Enrica Perez

BEST NARRATIVE AWARD &

SOMEONE TO WATCH AWARD

CWNY SCREENS 2007

SWEET SALT

Director: Katerina Athanasopoulou

BEST ANIMATION AWARD CWNY SCREENS 2007 

NO UMBRELLA: 

ELECTION DAY IN THE CITY

Director: Laura Paglin SOMEONE TO WATCH AWARD CWNY SCREENS 2006

Screening Selection October 2006

(Documentary short, 26 mins.)

LITTLE PUMPKIN

Tiffany Bartok, Director

March 2008

SO CLOSE

Marin Gazzaniga, Dir. 

Nov. 2007

VITO AFTER

Dir. Maria Pusateri

(Documentary feature, 49:36)

Screening Selection September 2006

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DID YOU KNOW...?

A number of the films we have presented in our screening series have won

(or been nominated for) awards. 

A list may be found here. 

TUESDAY 

OCTOBER 28, 2008

6:30pm

TWO BOOTS PIONEER THEATER

155 East 3rd Street (between Avenues A and B)

Tickets:  $6.50 CWNY/NYWIFT/IFP members

(must show membership card)

and Students/Groups/Pioneer members

$10.00 General Public

Buy Tix at www.twoboots.com/pioneer

or call 800-595-4849

AFTERPARTY to be announced 

Director/Writer Nicole Quinn, Producer Sophia Raab, crew and cast member(s)

will be present for a Q&A following the screening

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Racing Daylight is a ghost story, a murder mystery and a love story which crosses time. What happens when time collides? Sadie thinks she’s going insane. Edmund’s sure he’s being haunted. And Henry, well Henry’s racing daylight.

Told as three short movies Racing Daylight is the story of Sadie Stokes (Melissa Leo) who’s returned to the family farm to care for her catatonic Grandma (Leclanche Durand). There have always been Stokes in Cedarsville. Sadie and Grandma are the last. Sadie’s life has been pretty colorless until the man appears in the mirror calls her “Anna!” and then fades away. As Sadie takes on the characteristics of her ancestor, Anna Stokes, she realizes that they both want the same thing, they both want Henry (David Strathairn) the farm’s idiosyncratic handyman/civil war junkie. Only Anna thinks Henry is her long lost Harry (David Strathairn).

This magical love story of hope and forgiveness is set against the backdrop of the Hudson River Valley, with light that glows from the inside out, and specifically the Shawangunk Ridge; home to Revolutionary war battles, the Underground Railroad, Native Americans and Dutch settlers.

Academy Award Nominee David Strathairn (Goodnight and Good Luck) stars opposite Melissa Leo (The 3 Burials of Malquiades Estrada, 21Grams) and Leclanche Durand (Sleepless in Seattle), along with Sabrina Lloyd (Sports Night, Ed, Sliders), Jason Downs (Hairspray, Clara’s Heart), Giancarlo Esposito (The Usual Suspects, Do the Right Thing) Denny Dillon (Dream On, Saturday Night Live), and John Seidman (Jeffrey) in this love story which crosses time.

www.racingdaylightthemovie.com

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NICOLE QUINN, Director/Writer/Executive Producer, has written for John Singleton, HBO, Showtime, the networks, and Jodie Foster's Egg Pictures. Her play, co-authored with award winning playwright Nina Shengold and some 40 high school students and community members, War at Home:Students Respond to Sept.11th is published by Playscripts, inc. and in the anthology Under Thirty by Vintage Originals. Playscripts, inc. will publish Odds & Ends a collection of Quinn's short plays in 2006.  Quinn's Slap &Tickle is a finalist and her stageplay The Torment is a semi-finalist at the 2006 Moondance Film Festival. Slap &Tickle has also won first prize in the Reel Sisters screenplay contest sponsored by African Voices Magazine.

Quinn's Hair is Crucial won the 'Spirit of Moondance' award for best short story at the 2004 Moondance Film Festival. Racing Daylight won the 'First Fifteen' at the Tanglewood Film Festival 2003. She has participated in the Hamptons International Film Festival Writers' Conference, the Equinoxe Writers Fellowship in Bordeaux, France, the Hudson Valley Film Festival and has had scripts in the finals of the Winfemme Film Festival and the Moondance Film Festival.

SOPHIA RAAB, Producer, is a graduate of NYU Tisch School of the Arts and has worked production on NBC's Law & Order, ABC's Spin City, independent feature films and music videos. As a member of the Peregrine Theatre Company she directed plays at the John Houseman Theatre and HERE Performance Space.

Sophia Raab and Jason Downs conceived Watershed Works, their film production company, in a grungy apartment in upper Manhattan three years ago. Their first film, Come Lovely, has taken them around the country to many festivals including Newport Beach International, Woodstock, Austin Independent, Dahlonega, the LA Shorts and the Hamptons International.  They are currently filming a documentary about women’s reproductive rights set against the current moral and political climate. Sheep's Clothing, a feature length drama, is in development.  

The screening series was started by 

Dianne Barnes and Andee Kinzee in 2000. 

The current committee members are:

Programming Director:

Maria Pusateri

NYWIFT Programming Coordinator:

Josefa Jaime

Curators/Programming:

Maria Pusateri

Vicki Vasilopoulos

Myra Sito Velasquez

Guest Curators:

Jessica Burstein, Louise Fleming,

Alison McMahan, Kelly Shindler

Intern:

Julie Praetzel

Newsletter:

Ylana

  Contact:

screenings@nywift.org

Now that CineWomen NY and NYWIFT have joined forces, we will continue to co-program and co-host our screening series.  On alternating months, CineWomen's screening committee and NYWIFT's programmers will curate the screenings. The upcoming screening dates will remain on the fourth Tuesday of each month at Two Boots Pioneer Theater; there are no screenings in August and December. 

CineWomen's screening team committee is made up of volunteers who solicit, screen and select films made by female filmmakers from all over the world for exhibition, while NYWIFT's programmers select from only NYWIFT members' works.  Whenever possible, the filmmakers are present for discussion and socializing after the films.

Our commitment is to provide a slate of films by emerging female artists at all levels, celebrating the work of women in film, video and digital media. Aside from their overall quality, films that are included in the series must be directed or co-directed, produced, written, edited or shot by women. Our CWNY Awards are voted on by our screening committee. The films are rated on originality, integrity of story, emotional resonance, performance (narratives), and overall composition – including editing, cinematography and sound. 

2007 CWNY Screens Awards were  awarded at our CineWomen NY Benefit and Awards Gala on April 2, 2008.  

The “Someone To Watch Award” is given to a filmmaker who has not yet received wide notoriety for her work, and has been voted on by all the screening team members as having demonstrated outstanding potential.  Awards will be given for Best Documentary, Best Narrative, Best Animation, and a special achievement Tour de Force award. 

To submit your project, please send an email with the following information to 

screenings@nywift.org and include a hard copy of it with your DVD submission, signed with a statement of authorization.  

1. CONTACT/FILM INFO:

Title:

Year of Completion:

Running Time:

Pioneer Screening Format:

[BetaSP (preferred), DVCam, miniDV, 35mm]

Production Format:

Genre:

Name of Filmmaker:

E-mail:

Address:

Phone:

Fax:

Website:

NYWIFT member? (yes/no)

CWNY former member? (yes/no)

Where has the film screened? 

Festivals or other:

Where and when has the film screened in NYC and tri-state area?  

2. FILM SYNOPSIS:

Shorts: One sentence synopsis.

Features: one paragraph synopsis - include info on the filmmaker, awards won, reviews as applicable. Credit/Cast lists.

 3. A statement of authorization to screen or written permission to screen from the copyright holder.

 4. A DVD or VHS screening copy of your work (DVD preferred, NTSC format only for either). Please include an SASE (self-addressed, stamped envelope) with the correct postage for return to you. NOTE: Any films received without an SASE will not be returned and may be subject to be recycled.

The address for submissions is: 

NYWIFT/CWNY Screenings

c/o DreamSlate Productions

PO Box 138, Syosset, NY 11791

 After reading the fine print below, if you have any additional questions, feel free to email: screenings@nywift.org.

THE FINE PRINT

Our monthly series is part of an agreement with the Pioneer Theater, a showplace for independent cinema, dedicated to new and established voices in film. Proceeds from the series go to the Pioneer Theater and to CineWomen NY, a non-profit organization that supports independent women filmmakers.  

Films submitted to the screening series are reviewed for consideration by our screening committee. This series is completely volunteer run and the submission/screening process can take 2-3 months or often times longer, depending on the volume of submissions. Screenings are usually scheduled several months in advance. Do not submit your work unless you are sure you will screen it in our series. Films cannot be pulled out of our program because your film was accepted in a New York area film festival.

You must be the copyright holder of the film or have permission from the copyright holder to screen a film in this series. We prefer short films, however, we occasionally program features.  Films/videos can be any length up to 90 minutes. Films can be from any year, and can be previously distributed or screened. Films are programmed by theme, mood or genre. A body of work and/or retrospective is open for consideration. The Pioneer requests works to be screened in the Beta SP format only – currently this is the screening requirement, but they can, in certain cases, screen miniDV, or DVCam.

 If you have any additional questions, please feel free to email screenings@nywift.org.  Our staff will be happy to help you navigate the submission process.