Friday, January 13                                                            

6:45 p.m. Take Shelter                                             

9:30 p.m. Margin Call                                   

Tuesday, January 17                   

6:45 p.m. Circumstance                   

9:15 p.m. Cedar Rapids                   

           

Wednesday, January 18                                                  

7 p.m. Tyrannosaur              

9:15 p.m. 50/50                                  

                                                           

Thursday, January 19

6:30 p.m. Albert Nobbs                       

9:15 p.m. SHAME                             

Friday, January 20

7 p.m.  Another Earth            

9:15 p.m. Rampart

                                                                                   

Saturday, January 21

2 p.m. The Redemption…                           

4:15 p.m. Think of Me                                               

6:45 p.m. Natural Selection

9:00 p.m. The Dynamiter                 

Monday January 23

6:45 p.m. The Off Hours                              

9 p.m. The Kid with a Bike

 

Tuesday, January 24       

6:45 p.m. The Interrupters                           

9:30 p.m Midnight in Paris

                                   

Thursday, January 26

7 p.m. Martha Marcy…                                             

9:30 p.m. Win Win                                        

Friday, January 27                                                            

6:30 p.m. A Separation                                

9 p.m. The Descendants

           

Monday, January 30

6:45 p.m. Footnote                            

9:15 p.m. Terri                        

Thursday February 2

7 p.m. Pariah                                    

9:15 p.m. Drive                                              

Friday February 3

7 p.m. An African Election                          

9:15 p.m. The Artist                           

Monday February 6

6 p.m. In The Family                               

9:30 p.m. Beginners                                    

Tuesday February 7

7 p.m. We Were Here                                               

9:15 p.m. My Week With Marilyn    

Wednesday February 8

7 p.m. Hello Lonesome                                

9:15 p.m. Melancholia                      

Thursday February 9

7 p.m. Bellflower                               

9:30 p.m. A Better Life          

Event Type: Conversations 

Title: HELLO LONESOME & Q&A with Director Adam Reid

Screening of Hello Lonesome followed by a Q&A with Director Adam Reid 

Date: Wednesday, February 08, 2012 

Time: 7:00pm (Check-in starts 6:15) 

Location: NYIT Auditorium on Broadway

1871 Broadway (Between 61st and 62nd Streets)

New York City

 

** Screenings are free and open to all NYIT community members. Please email aob@nyit.edu to R.S.V.P for the screenings you’d like to attend.

 

SAG Foundation & NYIT Auditorium on Broadway, official co-hosts of the 2012 Film Independent Spirit Awards New York Screenings, invite you to this very special event.  Please join us, along with voting Film Independent and Independent Filmmaker Project members, for a celebration of independent film.

SYNOPSIS

 

With an enchanting mixture of laughter and longing, the worlds of six flawed yet endearing individuals are woven together as they explore those age-old human desires: to love and be loved.

 

Single urbanite Gordon (NATE SMITH) meets Debby (SABRINA LLOYD) online and finds their new relationship put to the ultimate test. A suburban widow (LYNN COHEN) gets much more than she was looking for when she loses her license and leans on her neighbor (JAMES URBANIAK) for support.   And in the country, successful voice-over artist Bill Soap (HARRY CHASE) starts to make amends for being such a lousy father.   Sparkling with wit and humanity, Hello Lonesome is the first feature film from writer/director Adam Reid.

 

DIRECTOR Adam Reid

 

WRITER Adam Reid

 

PRODUCER Adam Reid

DIRECTOR BIO

 

Adam Reid got his start writing and producing promos for Comedy Central including South Park and The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.

 

Most recently, Adam wrote and directed a groundbreaking book trailer for The New York Times bestseller Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter written by  Seth Grahame-Smith.

 

Adam’s short film, While the Widow is Away (available on iTunes) was a winner at film festivals across the country and one of ten films shortlisted for an Oscar nomination in 2007. The film, which Adam wrote, shot, directed and produced himself, showcased intimate performances by Lynn Cohen and Kamel Boutros, two actors who return in Hello Lonesome.

 

Adam is currently the Executive Creative Director of the production company Bodega Studios in New York City, where he lives with his amazing and beautiful wife Nell.

 

For more about Adam, check out his blog!  www.drreidsoffice.com

 

ABOUT THE FILM INDEPENDENT SPIRIT AWARDS

 

Now in its 27th year, the Film Independent Spirit Awards is an annual celebration honoring artist-driven films made with an economy of means by filmmakers who embody independence and originality. The Spirit Awards recognizes the achievements of American independent filmmakers and promotes the finest independent films of the year to a wider audience.  

 

 Awards are given in the following categories: Best Feature, Best First Feature, Best First Screenplay, Best Director, Best Screenplay, John Cassavetes Award (given to the best feature made for a budget under $500,000), Best Male Lead, Best Female Lead, Best Supporting Male, Best Supporting Female, Best Cinematography, Best International Film, Best Documentary, and the Robert Altman Award.  The Filmmaker Grants include the Piaget Producers Award, Audi Someone to Watch Award, Nokia Truer Than Fiction Award and Jameson FIND Your Audience Award.

 

This year’s ceremony is sponsored by Premier Sponsors ELLE, Piaget, Jameson Irish Whiskey®, and Principal Sponsor Nokia.  WireImage is the Official Photographer of Film Independent, and PR Newswire is the Official Breaking News Service of Film Independent. www.filmindependent.org

ABOUT INDEPENDENT FILMMAKER PROJECT

 

The Independent Filmmaker Project (IFP) is the nation’s oldest and largest not-for-profit advocacy organization for independent filmmakers. Since its debut at the 1979 New York Film Festival, IFP has supported the production of over 7,000 films and offered resources to more than 20,000 filmmakers, providing an opportunity for many diverse voices to be heard. IFP believes that independent films enrich the universal language of cinema, seeding the global culture with new ideas, kindling awareness, and fostering activism. The organization championed the early work of pioneering independent filmmakers Charles Burnett, Todd Haynes, Mira Nair, Michael Moore, Joel and Ethan Coen, Kevin Smith, and Todd Solondz. IFP continues to play a vital role in launching first films of many of today’s rising stars on the independent scene including Debra Granik (“Down to the Bone”), Miranda July (“Me, You and Everyone We Know”), and Ryan Fleck & Anna Boden (“Half Nelson”).

 

IFP represents a network of 10,000 filmmakers in New York City and around the world and fosters the development of 350 feature and documentary films each year. Through its workshops, seminars, conferences, mentorships, and Filmmaker Magazine, IFP schools its members in the art, technology, and business of independent filmmaking. The year-round program includes Independent Film Week, Envision, The Cross-Media Forum, The Gotham Awards, and the Independent Filmmaker Labs. IFP’s programs promote diverse voices in independent film by working to include racial, ethnic, religious, ideological, gender and sexual diversity. IFP, often in collaboration with other cultural institutions, builds audiences by hosting premieres and special screenings. For more information: www.ifp.org

ABOUT NYIT AUDITORIUM ON BROADWAY

 

A state-of-the-art event space just off Columbus Circle, the NYIT Auditorium on Broadway can accommodate a range of events, from conferences to film screenings, executive meetings to classy cocktail parties. A versatile, bi-level layout boasts a 262-seat auditorium and two reception areas including a glass-façade atrium and a lower-level concourse. For more information visit www.nyit.edu/aob.

 

New York Institute of Technology (NYIT) is a non-profit independent, private institution of higher education with more than 14,000 students attending campuses on Long Island and Manhattan, online, and at its global campuses. NYIT is guided by its mission to provide career-oriented professional education, offer access to opportunity to all qualified students, and support applications-oriented research that benefits the larger world. For more information, visit www.nyit.edu.

Event Type: Special Event 

Title: MELANCHOLIA

Screening of Melancholia courtesy of 2012 Film Independent Spirit Awards New York Screening Series 

Date: Wednesday, February 08, 2012 

Time: 9:15pm (Check-in starts 8:30) 

Location: NYIT Auditorium on Broadway

1871 Broadway (Between 61st and 62nd Streets)

New York City

 

** Screenings are free and open to all NYIT community members. Please email aob@nyit.edu to R.S.V.P for the screenings you’d like to attend.

 

SAG Foundation & NYIT Auditorium on Broadway, official co-hosts of the 2012 Film Independent Spirit Awards New York Screenings, invite you to this very special event.  Please join us, along with voting Film Independent and Independent Filmmaker Project members, for a celebration of independent film.

 

SYNOPSIS

 

In this beautiful movie about the end of the world, Justine (Kirsten Dunst) and Michael (Alexander Skarsgård) are celebrating their marriage at a sumptuous party in the home of her sister Claire (Charlotte Gainsbourg), and brother-in-law John (Kiefer Sutherland). Despite Claire’s best efforts, the wedding is a fiasco, with family tensions mounting and relationships fraying. Meanwhile, a planet called Melancholia is heading directly towards Earth… MELANCHOLIA is a psychological disaster film from director Lars von Trier.

 

DIRECTOR Lars Von Trier

 

WRITER Lars Von Trier

 

PRODUCERS Meta Louise Foldager, Louise Vesth

 

ABOUT THE FILM INDEPENDENT SPIRIT AWARDS

 

Now in its 27th year, the Film Independent Spirit Awards is an annual celebration honoring artist-driven films made with an economy of means by filmmakers who embody independence and originality. The Spirit Awards recognizes the achievements of American independent filmmakers and promotes the finest independent films of the year to a wider audience.  

 

 Awards are given in the following categories: Best Feature, Best First Feature, Best First Screenplay, Best Director, Best Screenplay, John Cassavetes Award (given to the best feature made for a budget under $500,000), Best Male Lead, Best Female Lead, Best Supporting Male, Best Supporting Female, Best Cinematography, Best International Film, Best Documentary, and the Robert Altman Award.  The Filmmaker Grants include the Piaget Producers Award, Audi Someone to Watch Award, Nokia Truer Than Fiction Award and Jameson FIND Your Audience Award.

 

This year’s ceremony is sponsored by Premier Sponsors ELLE, Piaget, Jameson Irish Whiskey®, and Principal Sponsor Nokia.  WireImage is the Official Photographer of Film Independent, and PR Newswire is the Official Breaking News Service of Film Independent. www.filmindependent.org

 

ABOUT INDEPENDENT FILMMAKER PROJECT

 

The Independent Filmmaker Project (IFP) is the nation’s oldest and largest not-for-profit advocacy organization for independent filmmakers. Since its debut at the 1979 New York Film Festival, IFP has supported the production of over 7,000 films and offered resources to more than 20,000 filmmakers, providing an opportunity for many diverse voices to be heard. IFP believes that independent films enrich the universal language of cinema, seeding the global culture with new ideas, kindling awareness, and fostering activism. The organization championed the early work of pioneering independent filmmakers Charles Burnett, Todd Haynes, Mira Nair, Michael Moore, Joel and Ethan Coen, Kevin Smith, and Todd Solondz. IFP continues to play a vital role in launching first films of many of today’s rising stars on the independent scene including Debra Granik (“Down to the Bone”), Miranda July (“Me, You and Everyone We Know”), and Ryan Fleck & Anna Boden (“Half Nelson”).

 

IFP represents a network of 10,000 filmmakers in New York City and around the world and fosters the development of 350 feature and documentary films each year. Through its workshops, seminars, conferences, mentorships, and Filmmaker Magazine, IFP schools its members in the art, technology, and business of independent filmmaking. The year-round program includes Independent Film Week, Envision, The Cross-Media Forum, The Gotham Awards, and the Independent Filmmaker Labs. IFP’s programs promote diverse voices in independent film by working to include racial, ethnic, religious, ideological, gender and sexual diversity. IFP, often in collaboration with other cultural institutions, builds audiences by hosting premieres and special screenings. For more information: www.ifp.org

 

ABOUT NYIT AUDITORIUM ON BROADWAY

 

A state-of-the-art event space just off Columbus Circle, the NYIT Auditorium on Broadway can accommodate a range of events, from conferences to film screenings, executive meetings to classy cocktail parties. A versatile, bi-level layout boasts a 262-seat auditorium and two reception areas including a glass-façade atrium and a lower-level concourse. For more information visit www.nyit.edu/aob.

 

New York Institute of Technology (NYIT) is a non-profit independent, private institution of higher education with more than 14,000 students attending campuses on Long Island and Manhattan, online, and at its global campuses. NYIT is guided by its mission to provide career-oriented professional education, offer access to opportunity to all qualified students, and support applications-oriented research that benefits the larger world. For more information, visit www.nyit.edu.

Event Type: Special Event 

Title: BELLFLOWER

Screening of Bellflower courtesy of 2012 Film Independent Spirit Awards New York Screening Series 

Date: Thursday, February 09, 2012 

Time: 7:00pm (Check-in starts 6:15) 

Location: NYIT Auditorium on Broadway

1871 Broadway (Between 61st and 62nd Streets)

New York City

 

** Screenings are free and open to all NYIT community members. Please email aob@nyit.edu to R.S.V.P for the screenings you’d like to attend.

 

SAG Foundation & NYIT Auditorium on Broadway, official co-hosts of the 2012 Film Independent Spirit Awards New York Screenings, invite you to this very special event.  Please join us, along with voting Film Independent and Independent Filmmaker Project members, for a celebration of independent film.

 

SYNOPSIS

 

Best friends Woodrow and Aiden spend all of their free time building MAD MAX-inspired flamethrowers and muscle cars in preparation for a global apocalypse.  But when Woodrow meets a charismatic young woman and falls hard in love, he and Aiden quickly integrate into a new group of friends, setting off on a journey of love and hate, betrayal, infidelity, and extreme violence more devastating and fiery than any of their apocalyptic fantasies.

 

DIRECTOR Evan Glodell

 

WRITER Evan Glodell

 

PRODUCERS Evan Glodell, Vincent Grashaw

 

ABOUT THE FILM INDEPENDENT SPIRIT AWARDS

 

Now in its 27th year, the Film Independent Spirit Awards is an annual celebration honoring artist-driven films made with an economy of means by filmmakers who embody independence and originality. The Spirit Awards recognizes the achievements of American independent filmmakers and promotes the finest independent films of the year to a wider audience.  

 

Awards are given in the following categories: Best Feature, Best First Feature, Best First Screenplay, Best Director, Best Screenplay, John Cassavetes Award (given to the best feature made for a budget under $500,000), Best Male Lead, Best Female Lead, Best Supporting Male, Best Supporting Female, Best Cinematography, Best International Film, Best Documentary, and the Robert Altman Award.  The Filmmaker Grants include the Piaget Producers Award, Audi Someone to Watch Award, Nokia Truer Than Fiction Award and Jameson FIND Your Audience Award.

 

This year’s ceremony is sponsored by Premier Sponsors ELLE, Piaget, Jameson Irish Whiskey®, and Principal Sponsor Nokia.  WireImage is the Official Photographer of Film Independent, and PR Newswire is the Official Breaking News Service of Film Independent. www.filmindependent.org

 

ABOUT INDEPENDENT FILMMAKER PROJECT

 

The Independent Filmmaker Project (IFP) is the nation’s oldest and largest not-for-profit advocacy organization for independent filmmakers. Since its debut at the 1979 New York Film Festival, IFP has supported the production of over 7,000 films and offered resources to more than 20,000 filmmakers, providing an opportunity for many diverse voices to be heard. IFP believes that independent films enrich the universal language of cinema, seeding the global culture with new ideas, kindling awareness, and fostering activism. The organization championed the early work of pioneering independent filmmakers Charles Burnett, Todd Haynes, Mira Nair, Michael Moore, Joel and Ethan Coen, Kevin Smith, and Todd Solondz. IFP continues to play a vital role in launching first films of many of today’s rising stars on the independent scene including Debra Granik (“Down to the Bone”), Miranda July (“Me, You and Everyone We Know”), and Ryan Fleck & Anna Boden (“Half Nelson”).

 

IFP represents a network of 10,000 filmmakers in New York City and around the world and fosters the development of 350 feature and documentary films each year. Through its workshops, seminars, conferences, mentorships, and Filmmaker Magazine, IFP schools its members in the art, technology, and business of independent filmmaking. The year-round program includes Independent Film Week, Envision, The Cross-Media Forum, The Gotham Awards, and the Independent Filmmaker Labs. IFP’s programs promote diverse voices in independent film by working to include racial, ethnic, religious, ideological, gender and sexual diversity. IFP, often in collaboration with other cultural institutions, builds audiences by hosting premieres and special screenings. For more information: www.ifp.org

 

ABOUT NYIT AUDITORIUM ON BROADWAY

 

A state-of-the-art event space just off Columbus Circle, the NYIT Auditorium on Broadway can accommodate a range of events, from conferences to film screenings, executive meetings to classy cocktail parties. A versatile, bi-level layout boasts a 262-seat auditorium and two reception areas including a glass-façade atrium and a lower-level concourse. For more information visit www.nyit.edu/aob.

 

New York Institute of Technology (NYIT) is a non-profit independent, private institution of higher education with more than 14,000 students attending campuses on Long Island and Manhattan, online, and at its global campuses. NYIT is guided by its mission to provide career-oriented professional education, offer access to opportunity to all qualified students, and support applications-oriented research that benefits the larger world. For more information, visit www.nyit.edu.

Event Type: Special Event 

Title: A BETTER LIFE

Screening of A BETTER LIFE courtesy of 2012 Film Independent Spirit Awards New York Screening Series 

Date: Thursday, February 09, 2012 

Time: 9:30pm (Check-in 8:45) 

Location: NYIT Auditorium on Broadway

1871 Broadway (Between 61st and 62nd Streets)

New York City

 

** Screenings are free and open to all NYIT community members. Please email aob@nyit.edu to R.S.V.P for the screenings you’d like to attend.

 

SAG Foundation & NYIT Auditorium on Broadway, official co-hosts of the 2012 Film Independent Spirit Awards New York Screenings, invite you to this very special event.  Please join us, along with voting Film Independent and Independent Filmmaker Project members, for a celebration of independent film.

SYNOPSIS

 

From Chris Weitz, director of About a Boy and producer of A Single Man and In Good Company, comes A Better Life – a poignant, multi-generational story about a father’s love and everything a parent will sacrifice to build a better life for his child.

 

Carlos Galindo dreamed of good things for his wife and future son when they crossed the border into the US. But when his wife left him, wanting more than he could give, Carlos’ only goal became to make sure his son Luis was given the opportunities he never had. After years of hard work and trying to set an example for his child, he still finds himself drifting apart from Luis, now a teenager, who is susceptible to peer pressures that could lead him down a dangerous path. Seeing a way to control their own destiny, Carlos borrows what little money he can and invests it all into his own gardening business, hoping to finally achieve the better life he always envisioned for his son.

 

However, after an unexpected turn of events, when everything he’s worked for is suddenly taken away, it is Luis, despite years of growing apart, who teams up with Carlos to take it back. Together, father and son embark on a physical and spiritual journey where they discover something more important – that family is the most important part of the American dream.

 

ABOUT THE FILM INDEPENDENT SPIRIT AWARDS

 

Now in its 27th year, the Film Independent Spirit Awards is an annual celebration honoring artist-driven films made with an economy of means by filmmakers who embody independence and originality. The Spirit Awards recognizes the achievements of American independent filmmakers and promotes the finest independent films of the year to a wider audience.  

 

Awards are given in the following categories: Best Feature, Best First Feature, Best First Screenplay, Best Director, Best Screenplay, John Cassavetes Award (given to the best feature made for a budget under $500,000), Best Male Lead, Best Female Lead, Best Supporting Male, Best Supporting Female, Best Cinematography, Best International Film, Best Documentary, and the Robert Altman Award.  The Filmmaker Grants include the Piaget Producers Award, Audi Someone to Watch Award, Nokia Truer Than Fiction Award and Jameson FIND Your Audience Award.

 

This year’s ceremony is sponsored by Premier Sponsors ELLE, Piaget, Jameson Irish Whiskey®, and Principal Sponsor Nokia.  WireImage is the Official Photographer of Film Independent, and PR Newswire is the Official Breaking News Service of Film Independent. www.filmindependent.org

 

ABOUT INDEPENDENT FILMMAKER PROJECT

 

The Independent Filmmaker Project (IFP) is the nation’s oldest and largest not-for-profit advocacy organization for independent filmmakers. Since its debut at the 1979 New York Film Festival, IFP has supported the production of over 7,000 films and offered resources to more than 20,000 filmmakers, providing an opportunity for many diverse voices to be heard. IFP believes that independent films enrich the universal language of cinema, seeding the global culture with new ideas, kindling awareness, and fostering activism. The organization championed the early work of pioneering independent filmmakers Charles Burnett, Todd Haynes, Mira Nair, Michael Moore, Joel and Ethan Coen, Kevin Smith, and Todd Solondz. IFP continues to play a vital role in launching first films of many of today’s rising stars on the independent scene including Debra Granik (“Down to the Bone”), Miranda July (“Me, You and Everyone We Know”), and Ryan Fleck & Anna Boden (“Half Nelson”).

 

IFP represents a network of 10,000 filmmakers in New York City and around the world and fosters the development of 350 feature and documentary films each year. Through its workshops, seminars, conferences, mentorships, and Filmmaker Magazine, IFP schools its members in the art, technology, and business of independent filmmaking. The year-round program includes Independent Film Week, Envision, The Cross-Media Forum, The Gotham Awards, and the Independent Filmmaker Labs. IFP’s programs promote diverse voices in independent film by working to include racial, ethnic, religious, ideological, gender and sexual diversity. IFP, often in collaboration with other cultural institutions, builds audiences by hosting premieres and special screenings. For more information: www.ifp.org

 

ABOUT NYIT AUDITORIUM ON BROADWAY

 

A state-of-the-art event space just off Columbus Circle, the NYIT Auditorium on Broadway can accommodate a range of events, from conferences to film screenings, executive meetings to classy cocktail parties. A versatile, bi-level layout boasts a 262-seat auditorium and two reception areas including a glass-façade atrium and a lower-level concourse. For more information visit www.nyit.edu/aob.

 

New York Institute of Technology (NYIT) is a non-profit independent, private institution of higher education with more than 14,000 students attending campuses on Long Island and Manhattan, online, and at its global campuses. NYIT is guided by its mission to provide career-oriented professional education, offer access to opportunity to all qualified students, and support applications-oriented research that benefits the larger world. For more information, visit www.nyit.edu.