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shareWe close the 2019 Nitehawk Shorts Festival with eight short films that present stories on the intimacy of the nail salon, absurdist, dark comedies, and powerful coming-of-age stories about friendship.
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 18 at 7:30PM.
INCLUDES Q&A WITH FILMMAKERS.
Join us afterwards for the official CLOSING NITE PARTY
at Nitehawk Prospect Park’s upstairs bar.
Featuring cocktails courtesy of Campari.
Image: Skip Day (directed by Ivete Lucas and Patrick Bresnan)
In this program
THE NEIGHBORS’ WINDOW
Directed by: Marshall Curry | 20 mins
THE NEIGHBORS’ WINDOW tells the story of Alli (Maria Dizzia), a mother of young children who has grown frustrated with her daily routine and husband (Greg Keller). But her life is shaken up when two free-spirited twenty-somethings move in across the street and she discovers that she can see into their apartment.
SEE YOU NEXT TIME
Directed by: Crystal Kayiza | 6 mins
SEE YOU NEXT TIME reaches across the nail salon table to capture the intimate moments shared between a Chinese nail artist and her Black client.
PRINCESS RITA
Directed by: Blair Waters | 10 mins
NSF19 FESTIVAL JURY AWARD
A lonely insurance adjuster becomes consumed by his desire to meet his internet girlfriend, who claims to be a princess from a faraway country.
LAYING OUT
Directed by: Joanna Arnow | 5 mins
An absurd comedy about a woman who examines her relationship with a man she has just started seeing in depth, and begins to explore her own misogyny, fantasies about having a penis and hatred for traditional gender roles.
THE DISHWASHER
Directed by: Nick Hartanto, Sam Roden | 13 mins
A chef at a fine dining restaurant in New York City asks a Mexican dishwasher to find good tortillas.
ADA
Directed by: Eleanore Pienta | 10 mins
Ada is an unlikeable competitive walker who makes a dress out of toilet paper and has an unfortunate run-in with a hose.
NIGHT SWIM
Directed by: Victoria Rivera | 12 mins
Three teenage girls break into a shut down pool. When uninvited guests show up, their friendship is tested and one of them is left behind.
SKIP DAY
Directed by: Ivete Lucas, Patrick Bresnan | 17 mins
Intimate glimpses of one very special day in the lives of high-school seniors from an industrial corner of the Florida Everglades: prom’s over, the future is uncertain, and the irresistible pull of the beach makes the long-time friends drive 60 miles to chill, pose and revel in the waves.
