Park Slope Film Festival Calls For Submissions!

 

Calling all filmmakers (both with and without six figures of film school debt)! Have you made a short film of any genre that doesn't totally suck? Do you wish to share it with someone other than your mom and the 4 people who subscribe to your Vimeo page (one of which is also your mom)? If so, consider sending it along to Aaron Fisher and Brett Chalfin to be considered for Park Slope's very first film festival, which is going down on Saturday, July 7th at Two Moon Art House & Cafe on 4th Avenue. Woo hoo!

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FiPS Cares: Local Filmmakers Need Cashmoneyhos

A few years back, a Park Slope resident named Dan, who works for local grassroots organization ROOFTOP FILMS, had a strange run-in with a woman who jumped ship on a bill for some movie equipment that he rented to her. Dan attempted to track the felonious woman down, but she had seemingly vanished. If I were Dan, I probably would have cried and made some declarative statement about karma, and that would have been the end of it. But Dan did some research on this woman and learned that he was not the only one she had foiled. Other men and women have suffered heartache, broken promises and unpaid debt at the hands of the same thief. Dan unearthed some pretty wild stories about the conwoman, and eventually made a documentary about it. He was even able to interview the theiving woman who started it all.

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Support Your Local Documentary Filmmakers: My Brooklyn

Shortly after graduating film school I got a job as a set Production Assistant on a film I'll call, Please Rewind Your Movies Upon Returning Them, by a director whom I'll call Michael Flondry. My boss was a frightening man who came from a long line of Ottoman Empire warriors and articulated all thoughts through screaming, and I once frantically pounded on an elderly woman's door at 6AM to ask for boiling water as one of the lead actresses had a sudden hankering for tea while far from the craft table.

I have a soft spot for the grueling process of filmmaking and the equally frantic job of a Production Assistant. These cats are the first to arrive on set and the last to leave. So to PA Lenford Wickham, thanks for sharing this project with us!

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