We will have our own press release shortly, I just wanted to start the promotion now. IndiePix is delighted to team up with Rooftop and Shooting People for this landmark event.

Rooftop Films announces “Rooftop Panorama”
Three Special Days for the Rooftop Community to Come Together
June 12-14, 2008

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PRESS Contact:
Genevieve Delaurier | 718-417-7362
press@rooftopfilms.com | www.rooftopfilms.com

+ World Premiere of Captured, feature-length documentary about Clayton Patterson, prolific photo documentarian of the turbulent Lower East Side for 30 years.
+ Films co-produced by the Rooftop Filmmakers’ Fund, including Glory at Sea and an excerpt of Persona Non Grata.
+ Short Film Programs
+ Panel Discussions
+ Live Music
+ Parties

(New York, NY) May 28, 2008 – Rooftop Films “Panorama” — a special weekend within the 2008 Summer Film Series — will showcase all that we do and bring together the diverse communities we serve. Rooftop Films is more than a film festival. We are a community of filmmakers, audience members, artists, activists, musicians, organizations, venues, and neighborhoods. We use film as a means of bridging cultural boundaries, exploring important issues, entertaining and informing tens of thousands of people every year.

Rooftop is best known for showing new independent films in unique outdoor locations throughout the city, in a way that connects filmmakers and audience, films with neighborhoods. On Friday, June 13, the World Premiere of Captured—a feature-length documentary about Clayton Patterson, prolific photo documentarian of the turbulent Lower East Side for over 30 years—will be held on a graffiti-covered roof in the neighborhood the film is about, highlighting Rooftop’s singular ability to premiere films in a memorable and meaningful way.

But Rooftop Films does so much more, including co-producing new films through the Rooftop Filmmakers’ Fund, teaching media literacy and video production to high school students, programming live music, and renting equipment to independent exhibitors. All of which will be highlighted during “Rooftop Panorama.”

The Rooftop Filmmakers’ Fund has co-produced dozens of new films, and during “Rooftop Panorama,” we will be screening the award-winning short Glory At Sea (directed by Benh Zeitlin) on June 12, and an excerpt from the upcoming feature-length documentary Persona Non Grata (directed by Fabio Wuytack) on June 14.

On Saturday, June 14, in conjunction with IndiePix and Shooting People, Rooftop Films will host two panel discussions, on “The Art of the Short Film” and “Cinema and Social Justice,” bringing in filmmakers, programmers and funders to discuss issues that are crucial to Rooftop Films’ mission.

Students from Rooftop Films’ high school education program at Automotive High School will be present at our June 12 screening, and students from New Design High School, where we are collaborating on events and fundraising for school services, will be in attendance on June 13.

On each of the three screenings, Rooftop Films will host parties and present live music. Free drinks provided by Radeberger Beer and Brooklyn Oeneology Wine will be provided at parties at Matchless Bar (Williamsburg), Fontana’s (Lower East Side), and at The Old American Can Factory (Gowanus, Brooklyn). Screenings will be proceeded by live music from O’Death, A.R.E. Weapons and Silver Haunches.

Rooftop Films “Panorama” promises to be an exciting weekend, blending the uniquely diverse qualities of Rooftop’s annual Summer Series with the condensed excitement of other film festivals. Come join us all weekend, and all summer.

Rooftop Films is a non-profit organization whose mission is to engage and inspire diverse communities by showing movies in outdoor locations every weekend all summer long, producing new films, teaching filmmaking to young people, and renting low-cost equipment to artists and non-profits. At Rooftop Films, we bring the underground outdoors. For more information and updates please visit our website at http://www.rooftopfilms.com.

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“Rooftop Panorama” – Schedule Details

THU. JUNE 12
Making the Mission (short films)
Short films about big adventures, including the award-winning post-Katrina shipwreck epic “Glory At Sea,” co-funded by the Rooftop Filmmakers’ Fund.

8:30 Sound Fix presents live music by O’Death | 9:00 – Films
On the lawn at Automotive HS (50 Bedford Ave., Williamsburg)
After-party at Matchless, with free beer provided by Radeberger

FRI. JUNE 13
Captured (Ben Solomon, Dan Levin and Jenner Furst | New York | 1:30:00)
World Premiere!
The amazing story of Clayton Patterson, prolific photo documentarian of the turbulent Lower East Side for 30 years.

8:30 – Sound Fix presents live music by A.R.E. Weapons | 9:00 – Film
On the roof at Open Road above New Design High School (350 Grand St., Lower East Side)
After-party at Fontana’s, with free beer provided by Radeberger

SAT. JUNE 14
Panel Discussions, presented by Rooftop Films, IndiePix, Shooting People
5:00PM – Cinema and Social Justice
6:30PM – The Art of the Short Film
7:30-9:00PM – Reception, with free wine provided by Brooklyn Oeneology
8:30 – Sound Fix presents live music by Silver Haunches
9:00 – INDUSTRIANCE Short Films: On the Cusp
Dynamic short films about communities in flames and on the cusp, including an excerpt from “Persona Non Grata,” vco-funded by the Rooftop Filmmakers’ Fund.