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April 28, 2011
PRESS RELEASE: Controversial Atlantic Yards Project Documentary - Battle For Brooklyn - Premieres in US
BROOKLYN FILM FESTIVAL and ROOFTOP FILMS announce the US Premiere of Battle For Brooklyn
Brooklyn Film Festival (BFF) and Rooftop Films are proud to announce the US Premiere of Battle For Brooklyn, a controversial look at the Atlantic Yards project. The film will open the 2011 Brooklyn Film Festival on June 3rd at Brooklyn Heights Cinemas at 8pm. The film will be also shown as a part of the Rooftop Films Summer Series on June 9th in Fort Greene Park. Prior to both Brooklyn screenings, the documentary will have its world premiere at the Toronto HotDocs festival on April 30th.
“We are extremely excited to be working with such strong Brooklyn institutions that have supported us for over a decade,” said Directors Suki Hawley and Michael Galinsky.
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“Directors Suki Hawley and Michael Galinski, BFF alumni, have been working on this project since 2003 and we are proud to give voice to a Brooklyn community that has been fighting with limited resources and without much external support an enormous battle to save their own homes,” said festival director Marco Ursino. “We are also excited about the collaboration with Rooftop Films. Battle for Brooklyn is an important documentary that belongs to the community and we feel that this partnership will ensure a truly broad outreach.”
“We at Rooftop Films believe strongly in the value of partnerships and always strive to do everything that we can to assist filmmakers in our community. So we are very excited to be teaming with the Brooklyn Film Festival to present these two screenings and to support the theatrical release of Michael and Suki’s Battle For Brooklyn. The dedication that Rumur Inc. has shown to documentary filmmaking and to the borough of Brooklyn has been an inspiration to us for more than a decade, and we believe that their latest work is essential viewing for fans of documentary film and for those who care about the future of their communities," said Dan Nuxoll, Program Director at Rooftop Films.
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Posted by eric at April 28, 2011 5:08 PM