W.80th Street, International Short Film Festival

A few weeks ago (on 20 October, I think), a friend of mine from high school, Stan Cho visited us in NYC. Stan came to NYC in part to see us, but also in part to see a couple of his friends from Mexico – Raul and Carlos.
So, on Friday night, we went out to dinner as a group and were talking about how cool it would be to watch everyone’s films. We decided to use our projector and host a small short film festival on our roof. During the summer, rooftop films are all the rage in NYC. Although this one was little late in the season we decided to go for it anyways.
On Saturday we called a couple of friends and let them know that we were planning to have a festival of short films that night. As a result, in addition to the filmmakers and their hosts our crowd included Assaf, Nivi, Marta and Clint. Basically, I work with Assaf and Marta and they also happen to live in NYC. Nivi is Assaf’s wife and is an accomplished artist here in NYC. And Clint is our neighbor, above whose ceiling the festival occurred.
Assaf, Nivi, and Marta brought a cornucopia of fruits, and we busted out the rare belgian beer collection from the back of the fridge. A few blankets and pillows – Voila! everything was set up.

We started around 11pm and finished sometime after 2am. by the end we were all pretty sleepy but the final scene in Carlos’s film (Brief Story) was incredible. We’ll screen the film at a future festival so we don’t want to ruin the surprise ending in text.

Anyways, the films we screened that night were:
A Happy Man by Carlos Morelli
The Last Night on Earth by Carlos Morelli
Una Larga Sombra (A Long Shadow) by Raul Lopez Echevarria
Mallory by Stan Cho
Nevertheless by Stan Cho
Brief Story by Carlos Morelli

Thanks to the filmmakers for sharing and thanks to the small crew of people on hand to enjoy the brisk air and big screen on our roof.