Film | Lower East Side Film Festival

Lower East Side (Photo credit: Susan NYC)

NYC Cultural Calendar | 10 Unmissable Art Events in Summer 2014:



 "Film | Lower East Side Film Festival

12 – 22 June



Now in its fourth year, the Lower East Side Film Festival has grown from humble beginnings in a pop-up theatre to being featured in publications like New York Magazine and Indiewire, attracting landmark venues and securing distribution for its filmmakers. Established in 2011, the festival seeks out what it calls ‘visionary low-budget films’ made by up-and-coming filmmakers with the purpose of giving the unsung trailblazers of independent film a platform while engaging with the Lower East Side community. Each year the festival recognises the best films screened with awards judged by the audience and industry professionals, which in the past has included actors Susan Sarandon and Willem Dafoe. Last year Chioke Nassor’s first feature film How to Follow Strangers – a tale of urban alienation in which a young man plots his own disappearance to see if anyone notices – scooped the Best of Fest Prix D’or award.
Venues across Manhattan’s Lower East Side"

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The 39th Annual New Year's Day Marathon Benefit Reading / nycgo.com

St Mark's Church in-the-Bowery, New York City (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

The 39th Annual New Year's Day Marathon Benefit Reading / nycgo.com:

 "Poetry as hangover cure? Only in New York, kids. This long-running event, now celebrating its 39th anniversary, hosts poets of all stripes to welcome the New Year and represents the nonprofit Poetry Project organization's biggest annual fund-raiser. This year's lineup is as inspired as ever and includes performances by celebrated composer Philip Glass, author Eileen Myles, surviving Andy Warhol superstar (and Lower East Side fixture) Taylor Mead, Sonic Youth guitarist Lee Ranaldo and singer-songwriter Suzanne Vega, among many others.

 The festivities begin at January 1st 2013 at 2pm in the East Village at St. Mark's Church-in-the-Bowery.
 For more information, visit poetryproject.org."

 Admission: $20, $15 for students and seniors,
 and $10 for Poetry Project members.

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