OPENING NITE

95 mins

OPENING NITE

November 9, 2016 7:30 pm Not Available

Description

The OPENING NITE screening at the Nitehawk Shorts Festival highlights eight independent New York filmmakers. This diverse program features narrative and documentary shorts on topics as varied as an encounter with an eccentric prostitute, a power plant engineer, and being struck by lightning.

Wednesday, November 9 at 7:30pm. Includes Q&A with filmmakers.

Join us afterwards for the official OPENING NITE PARTY at Nitehawk’s Lo-Res Bar. Featuring Jameson Irish Whiskey!

Part of Nitehawk Cinema’s signature series LOCAL COLOR.

In This Program

VEGAS

Saj Pothiawala / USA / 2016 / Narrative / 15 mins
After Riley, a young awkward Brooklyn bachelor, is stood up by a Tinder date, he encounters an eccentric prostitute named Vegas at the bus stop on his way home.
DAHLIA

Marysia Makowska / South Africa / 2015 / Narrative / 13 mins
A story of misbehavior, miscommunication and misinterpretation: on a hot summer day, two bored girls break into a stranger's empty house, setting in motion unintended consequences for the house's owner and themselves.
CONRAD & THE STEAMPLANT

Dustin Cohen / USA / 2015 / Documentary / 8 1/2 mins
Conrad Milster, Pratt Institute's Chief Engineer since 1958, has worked in the Brooklyn power plant nearly his entire adult life.
SARAH IS NOT HER NAME

Eduardo Rios / USA / 2016 / Narrative / 15 mins
A couple's path is changed forever when they are forced to confront the baggage that lives silently between them.
MS. LINDA

Ciara Cordasco / USA / 2016 / Narrative / 3 mins
Every once in a while I get a phone call from Ms. Linda.
FINAL_FINAL

Andrew May / USA / 2016 / Narrative / 9 mins
A frustrated copywriter heads upstate to kill himself - and gets writer's block on his suicide note.
FOR MAYA

Alex Huston Fischer / USA / 2016 / Narrative / 15 mins
Two friends are just trying to do something good.
LIGHTNINGFACE

Brian Petsos / USA / 2016 / Narrative / 20 mins
An origin story, of sorts - LIGHTNINGFACE stars Oscar Isaac as Basil Stitt, who in the aftermath of an inexplicable incident, decides to sequester himself inside his apartment, setting the stage for a profound transformation.