Rooftop Films will be presenting a sneak peek at Rhett & Link’s new IFC series, COMMERCIAL KINGS, Thursday night in Williamsburg
Crown Vic backyard
60 South Second St. at Wythe Ave.
Thursday, June 23, $10, 8:00
www.rooftopfilms.com
Since 1997, Rooftop Films has been screening shorts and feature-length works, paired with live indie music, in outdoor areas all around New York City, from parks and high school lawns to open spaces and, yes, rooftops. The nonprofit’s 2011 summer season is once again filled with international works curated into thematic programs. Next up is Thursday night’s “Home Movies and Commercial Kings,” held at the soon-to-open backyard of the Crown Vic in Williamsburg, an evening of self-documentation films that offer unique, personal views of life and family, including Giancarlo Iannotta’s My Big Red Purse (Chicago), David Levy’s Grandpa Looked Like William Powell (Brooklyn), Charles Fairbanks’s Wrestling with My Father (Massachusetts), Dustin Guy Defa’s Family Nightmare (Salt Lake City), Mikhail Zheleznikov’s For Home Viewing, (Russia), Jenn E. Norton’s Wee Requiem (Canada), Paul Shoebridge and Michael Simons’s Welcome to Pine Point (Canada), and a sneak peek of Rhett & Link’s new IFC series, Commercial Kings. Au Revoir Simone’s Erika Spring, whose first single, “6 More Weeks,” is due out next month, will play a live set at 8:30, with the films following at 9:00 and an open-bar after-party at 11:30. Chairs are limited, but you are encouraged to bring a blanket to sit on.
TICKET GIVEAWAY: Tickets are $10, but twi-ny has ten pairs to give away for free. To be eligible to win, just send your name and daytime phone number to contest@twi-ny.com by Wednesday, June 22, at 5:00 pm. All entrants must be twenty-one years of age or older; ten winners will be selected at random.