Become an indie filmmaker at Greenpoint-based Brooklyn Movie Labs
By Elvire Camus & Arnaud Aubry
Being a filmmaker doesn’t have to be such an expensive proposition. “Doing more with less,” is the motto of Brooklyn Movie Labs, a young film school founded three years ago by Dexter Taylor, a former instructor at other major New York film [...]
Strange beings inhabit a studio on the Northside in Williamsburg.
Review by Philippe Theise
The first time I saw “Gabi on the Roof in July,” the lovely new film by Greenpoint writer/director/actor Lawrence Michael Levine that is currently screening as part of the Brooklyn International Film Festival, I found the characters so lifelike and contemporary that I could picture them walking down the sidewalk as I [...]
Review by Philippe Theise
The first time I saw “Gabi on the Roof in July,” the lovely new film by Greenpoint writer/director/actor Lawrence Michael Levine that is currently screening as part of the Brooklyn International Film Festival, I found the characters so lifelike and contemporary that I could picture them walking down the sidewalk as I [...]
Mariella from London shares her cultural experiences, in and around Williamsburg and Greenpoint.
Despite cries of outrage from local residents, Hollywood studios keep filming in Greenpoint. While it may make parking an even bigger pain in the ass than it already is, and disrupt local business, I’m still all for it. If only for one thing; the chance to watch Tracey Morgan in action. That’s right, those signs [...]
The Brooklyn International Film Festival concluded on Sunday with fanfare and a closing party at Speak Low-Below Rice in DUMBO. For a list of 2009 winners, read more, and for selected press coverage of the event and films, click here.