I'd like to meet:
Black and Latino filmmakers, directors, producers, actors,grips, gaffers investors and film lovers that can help our organzation grow.
2008 OFFICIAL MOVIE SELECTIONS
Opening Night - May 3, 20008
Doors open at 7:30pm Showtime 8:00pm
Embora Studio 900 Fulton, (Btwn Washington Ave. and Waverly Ave.)
Visit brooklynindiehouse.com for more details
If You Succeed 56min
Director - Chris Arnold and Augusta Palmer
Barely making ends meet at his first restaurant, Christian risks everything he has to open a new café called Bodegas on a troubled Brooklyn block. He hopes this gamble will pay off by increasing his purchasing power while decreasing waste and labor costs, enabling him to finally make a profit. Together with his business partner and estranged wife, Dolores Lagdameo, Christian raises and runs out of money, survives construction nightmares, builds his reputation in the community, and finally succeeds in both opening Bodegas and saving his marriage.
The City is Mine 105 min
Director Patrick Pierre
The movie stars Kirk Ponto as a gangster named Gruver, just out of prison after a five-year sentence. Like Odysseus, Gruver returns to his old stomping grounds to find that all sorts of unsavory characters have moved into the power vacuum left when he went to jail.
Dear Lemon Lima 11 min
Director: Suzi Yoonessi
A lonely girl with a vivid imagination struggles to plant seeds of love after her narcissistic sweetheart breaks her heart.
The Schedule 16 min
Director: John Laing
A motivational speaker's plans to schedule every second of his life are derailed when his wife becomes pregnant.
Prop 10 min
Director: Rob Hendriks
Prop has made some bad decisions in his life but now he's determined to make a change, starting with his music. Prop tells the story of a rising Hip-hop start forced to choose between his artistic freedom and his liberty.
Storage Unit #57 22 min
Director: Aldo Romero
A frustrated security guard sees nightmarish supernatural apparitions of the possible future death of a woman he has not yet met after receiving a bizarre request from a mysterious stranger.
Parked 27min
Director: Sonny Arthur
A serendipitous take of five parked cars in and around the city of Chicago, interweaving the strange tales of their passengers and causing a domino effect that leads all parties involved to the scene of a kamikaze bank heist.
