Filmmaker Feedback sessions/Sesion de Comentarios
Receiving feedback from your peers is an essential part of the filmmaking process. Thoughtful feedback helps build community, strengthen your project, and deepen your understanding of what resonates with audiences. These events are designed to gather constructive insights that can support the continued development of your work while fostering meaningful exchange among fellow filmmakers.
Please submit a 5-10 minute sample of your film, be that raw footage, a scene, a completed film prior to the event
Feedback will be provided in English and Spanish!
INWOOD ART WORKS STUDIO presents PRIDE SHORTS – a short film showcase of Pride themed films.
Hosted and curated by Chen Drachman and Megan Rossman. Featuring:
Film: Cockroach
Director: Heather Holder
Juliette tries to survive a recent breakup with her longtime girlfriend by chronically masturbating and trying to convince herself to start dating “the men.” Like cockroaches, love always finds a way to survive against the odds.
Film: Therapist Crush
Director: MJ Kaufman
Soul-searching transmasculine Frankie has a crush on his hot, new therapist, until one day things get too real.
Film: Stalling
Director: Jasia Ka
An unlikely queer love story unfolds when two women bond over a shared cheating ex, and they connect year after year in the same bar bathroom.
And more to be announced!
Limited seating available. First-come, first-served. Appropriate for young adult and up.
Film Works Alfresco presents The Producers
Musical Comedy in English with Spanish subtitles (1967, USA). Runtime 88 minutes. Appropriate for all ages.
One of Mel Brooks’s finest, as well as funniest films, featuring standout performances by Gene Wilder and Zero Mostel. In 1996, the film was deemed “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant” by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry.
Programming:
7:30pm – Pre-show live performance cabaret by Shana Farr
8:30pm (approximately) – Feature Presentation
Programming will take place rain or shine at The Hudson, located at Dyckman Marina in Inwood Hill Park, 348 Dyckman Street, New York, NY 10034. Food and drink available for purchase until 9pm.
Free admission. Donations appreciated.
Film Works Alfresco presents Calle 54
Spanish Documentary with English subtitles (2000, Spain). Appropriate for families. Spanish Documentary with English subtitles (2000, Spain) Run Time: 105 minutes.
Calle 54 is a vibrant 2000 documentary by Fernando Trueba celebrating Latin jazz through intimate, uninterrupted studio performances by legendary musicians like Tito Puente, Chucho and Bebo Valdés, Paquito D’Rivera, and Michel Camilo.
Programming:
7:30pm – Pre-show live performance by Uptown Royalty
8:30pm (approximately) – Feature Presentation
Programming will take place rain or shine at The Hudson. Food and drink available for purchase until 9pm.
Free admission. Donations appreciated.
Seating for 100 people will be provided on first-come first served basis, but you can also bring your own folding chairs if you prefer, to guarantee your seat.
Film Works Alfresco presents When Harry Met Sally
95 minutes. Comedy (1989, USA). Appropriate for families.
Can men and women ever just be friends? Rob Reiner’s touching, funny film set a new standard for romantic comedies, and he was ably abetted by the sharp interplay between Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan, who each give career defining performances.
Programming:
7:30pm – Pre-show live performance by Nick Grinder Trio
8:30pm (approximately) – Feature Presentation
Programming will take place rain or shine at The Hudson
Free admission. Donations appreciated.
