The Museum of Modern Art, in collaboration with Independent Feature Project (IFP) and its quarterly publication Filmmaker, presents the second annual Best Film Not Playing at a Theater Near You, November 16–19, 2007, in The Roy and Niuta Titus 2 Theater.
This five-film exhibition of fiction and nonfiction feature films, all of which have been on this year’s film festival circuit but have yet to be picked up for theatrical distribution, are nominees in the category “Best Film Not Playing at a Theater Near You” for the 17th annual Gotham Film Awards.
Best Film Not Playing at a Theater Near You is organized by Joshua Siegel, Assistant Curator, Department of Film, The Museum of Modern Art, with Michelle Byrd, Executive Director, IFP, and Scott Macaulay, Editor, Filmmaker. The five films were nominated in this category by MoMA, IFP, and Filmmaker judges. The award will be presented to the winner, selected by editors of Filmmaker, at the Gotham Awards on November 27.
The features in this exhibition include work from emerging directors, including some who have established themselves in other areas—such as Frownland’s Ronald Bronstein, who is a projectionist at MoMA and several other institutions. Representing a range of genres, the films include a powerful family drama (August the First), a tale of disaffected youth in 1996 St. Petersburg, Florida (Loren Cass), two documentaries (Off the Grid: Life on the Mesa, which looks at New Mexico frontiersmen, and Mississippi Chicken, a exposé on the factory chicken industry shot on Super-8 film), and the New York–set black comedy Frownland.
MODERN MONDAYS
As Part of MoMA’s recently launched Modern Mondays series, Ronald Bronstein will introduce his film Frownland on November 19 at 7:00 p.m. and will also be available for a post-screening Q&A with the audience.
GOTHAM FILM AWARDS
For further information on the Gotham Film Awards, an annual event that “celebrates the independent voices behind and in front of the camera in the year’s best films,” go to www.ifp.org This year’s ceremony takes place November 27 at Steiner Studios, Brooklyn Navy Yard. -- www.moma.org
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