GYPSY MUSICANSThrough literally centuries of slavery, genocide, massacre, and relentless ostracization, the Romani (Gypsy) people, who presently number around 15 million worldwide, continue to suffer unprecedented levels of violence, civilian attacks and fervent segregation, police brutality, and an appalling lack of legitimate representation in art and in media. Abrasively, intimately, and artfully handled in 12 hand-picked films from Bulgaria, Serbia, Hungary, Greece, and the US, the first annual New York Gypsy Film Festival brings some of these artists and their subjects to the forefront of the so called First World, with love, and without mercy.Festival includes the world premiere of Sándor Cs. Nagy's Mundi Romani- The First Roma Pavilion in Venice Biennale 2007 with the participation of Twelve Roma Artists. (Hungary), and an Americas premiere of Ivana Todorovic's Everyday Life of Roma Children From Block 71 (Serbia). Discussions with filmmakers, special screenings, and special events ? including very special musical guests - will be announced throughout the week.