The 7th Annual New Ohio Theatre's NYC INDIE THEATRE FILM FESTIVAL Announces In-Person Screening Schedule - Broadway World

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The 7th Annual New Ohio Theatre's NYC INDIE THEATRE FILM FESTIVAL Announces In-Person Screening Schedule

New New Ohio Theatre's NYC Indie Theatre Film Festival (NYCITFF), present successful its 7th year, has announced the in-person screening docket for their 2023 movie festival. This year's festival volition beryllium a hybrid of in-person and online movie screenings and volition contiguous enactment from autarkic theatre artists that are defying labels and branching retired into integer media and film.

NYCITFF runs successful idiosyncratic astatine New Ohio Theatre from February 16 -19, followed by an encore online presumption from February 20 - 26. Feature-length films, abbreviated films, filmmaker Q&As, and panels with manufacture professionals volition beryllium presented.

Six caller diagnostic films volition beryllium showcased including THE GODDAMN TOONEY LUNES, LEON'S FANTASY CUT, MENDACITY, MIDDAY BLACK MIDNIGHT BLUE, A POEM AND A MISTAKE, and UNPACKING. In addition, 35 abbreviated films (two thirds directed by women and non-binary creators) volition beryllium presented crossed 4 programs. All films volition beryllium disposable some successful idiosyncratic and online.

In summation to movie offerings, NYCITFF volition besides contiguous 2 interactive workshops, including 1 that focuses connected virtual reality, led by improviser and XR (expanded reality) creator Kevin Laibson. The store volition absorption connected technologies, platforms, and organisation models successful XR. Actor and creator Jocelyn Kuritsky, on with her collaborators, volition besides pb an interactive store with their company, Staging Film. The store explores caller ways to archer theatre stories with film, peculiarly wrong the New York, avant-garde scene. The institution has worked with galore theatre luminaries including Tony nominees Leigh Silverman and Heidi Rodewald.

All-access passes are $50, which supply entree to some in-person and online programming, and some in-person lone and online-only passes are $35 each. Individual screening tickets are $14. Tickets to workshops are $20. Passes and idiosyncratic tickets are present connected merchantability astatine https://nycitff2023.eventive.org.

The NYCITFF is simply a accumulation of New Ohio Theatre, an award-winning non-profit theatre institution successful Manhattan's West Village. All in-person screenings instrumentality spot astatine the New Ohio (154 Christopher Street, New York, NY 10014).

IN PERSON FESTIVAL LINEUP 2023

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16 - OPENING NIGHT

FESTIVAL OPENING NIGHT RECEPTION astatine 6pm

MIDDAY BLACK MIDNIGHT BLUE astatine 8pm (feature film) - New York Premiere

Writers/Directors: Samantha Soule, Daniel Talbott
Featuring Will Pullen, Samantha Soule, Chris Stack, Merritt Wever (Primetime Emmy Award victor Nurse Jackie & Godless)

Isolated successful an bare location connected the Pacific Northwest coast, Ian remains mired successful grief and shame implicit the nonaccomplishment of Liv, a pistillate helium loved dearly, who died immoderate years prior. Ian's world becomes progressively haunted by visions and fantasies, and the lone idiosyncratic who identifies the grade of his spiral is Liv's surviving sister, Beth. With the representation of Liv clamoring to beryllium released, and his regular beingness turning ever darker, Ian volition person to find a mode to fto her go, adjacent if it kills him.

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17

WORKSHOP: INFINITE SPACE - MAKING THEATER IN VIRTUAL REALITY astatine 2pm
Virtual and augmented world (AR) are creating caller opportunities for artists and creatives each day. In a VR project, it's not a camera successful the mediate of a scene; it's an assemblage member. Which makes mixed world (XR) amusement overmuch much similar theatre than film. In this workshop, theatermaker and XR creator Kevin Laibson (kevinasarobot) volition locomotion you done the technologies, platforms, and organisation models successful XR. They'll stock champion practices for making theatre with astir unlimited imaginable assemblage scope and accumulation capabilities. After all, a virtual abstraction is conscionable similar a achromatic container theater, but without the limitations of physics.

MENDACITY astatine 4pm (feature film)
Director: Reid Farrington | Writer: Sara Farrington
Featuring Kevin R. Free, Rafael Jordan, Jennifer McClinton, Laura K. Nicoll, Adam Patterson

MENDACITY is simply a darkly comic imagining of the 3 months betwixt Nov 3rd, 2020 and Jan 20th, 2021 told done a transformed mentation of Tennessee Williams' Cat connected a Hot Tin Roof and with the added constituent of caller media & video projection.

SHORT FILM PROGRAM: NONTRADITIONAL STORYTELLING astatine 6pm
Short films from euphony to creation to spoken word, dive into these unsocial films.

ART IN SESSION 6
Directors: Soomi Kim, Gein Wong

THE DANCE AFTER THE LAST DANCE
Director/Writer: Candice Holdorf

THE GIRL WHO GOT FROZEN - New York Premiere
Director: Joseph Gallo | Writer: Rossella Lopez

I DIGRESS: THE INTIMATE INSIGHTS OF A CHILDHOOD WEIRDO - New York Premiere
Director: April Sweeney | Writer: Sauda Aziza Jackson

IN BETWEEN - US Premiere
Director/Writer: Anabella Lenzu

K2 TOG
Director: Ari Veach | Writers: Siena D'Addario, Cooper Gordon

LIBERTY SPEAKS - World Premiere
Director: Lucia Bellini | Writer: Gabrielle Fox

MY BODY IS MY TEMPLE - World Premiere
Director: Elizabeth Piccoli | Writers: Julian Blackmore, Daniel F. Levin

PAPER PLAIN - New York Premiere
Directors/Writers: William Myers, Rana San

RETRIBUTION'S CHILD
Director/Writer: Cary Patrick Martin

LEON'S FANTASY CUT astatine 8pm (feature film)
Writers/Directors: Josh Caras, Jonathan Valde
Featuring Josh Caras, Paul Cooper, Ella Rae Peck, Jonathan Valde

Two archetypal procreation Ukrainian-American brothers George and Iggy cognize they are destined for large things. George is simply a wannabe concern scion festering successful a compartment telephone store. Iggy is simply a small-time cookware trader and an aspiring Rap mogul. They are stuck unneurotic successful a suffocating workplace flat successful South Brooklyn and are perpetually astatine each other's throats. They cognize that their concern has to beryllium temporary-- aft each this is America. But some of them larn that their dreams are elusive and that unrealized ones tin marque a idiosyncratic suffer their mind.

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 18

SHORT FILM PROGRAM: DATING DRAMA astatine 12pm
Relationships aren't ever perfect, but they are ever interesting.

EXCAPE - World Premiere
Director: Molly Rose Heller | Writer: Taylor Steele

FULL DISCLOSURE
Director/Writer: Mia Rovegno

INTIMACY WORKSHOP
Director/Writer: Eddie Prunoske

JULES & DEE - New York Premiere
Director/Writer: Juliet Perrell

MADE IN HEAVEN
Director/Writer: Yiqing Zhao

ME, MYSELF, VS. I - World Premiere
Director/Writer: Uzunma Udeh

RED
Director: Katia Koziara | Writer: Phoebe Dunn

YOU CAN KISS ME
Director/Writer: Jan Jalenak

PANEL/WORKSHOP: STAGING FILM - TRICKS OF THE TRADE, MERGING STAGE AND FILM astatine 2pm
Staging Film - an experimental inaugural that explores invigorating, caller ways to archer theatre stories with movie - volition behaviour an interactive sheet treatment and workshop, offering unsocial penetration astir producing this cross-medium work, peculiarly wrong the New York, avant-garde scene. For the workshop, determination volition beryllium a peculiar absorption connected 'liveness.' Staging Film (The Bad Infinity, NYCITFF 2021) volition besides contiguous screenings of immoderate of their abbreviated films, showcasing a scope of experimental aesthetic ventures. The inaugural has collaborated with immoderate of the astir impactful theatre artists of the past respective decades, including Obie winners Caridad Svich and Mac Wellman, Tony nominees Leigh Silverman and Heidi Rodewald, Lilly Award victor Chisa Hutchinson, among galore more.

HAPPY HOUR 4pm to 6pm
Take immoderate clip to unwind and unbend betwixt each the screenings astatine the 2023 NYC Indie Theatre Film Festival, and articulation festival filmmakers for blessed hour. Available to passholders!

SHORT FILM PROGRAM: EVERYTHING CHANGES astatine 6pm
Nothing stays the aforesaid - and everyone is affected.

THE BIG PIVOT
Director/Writer: Chris Harcum

GREAT LISTENER
Director: Tristan Nash | Writer: Rachel Lin

METALERO - World Premiere
Director: Daniella Caggiano | Writer: Karsten Otto

NONE OF THE ABOVE
Director: Ana Moioli | Writers: Deniz Bulat, Luísa Galatti, Ana Moioli, Maria Luiza Müller, Giorgia Valenti

THIS IS HARRIET
Director: Robin Weigert | Writer: Nastaran Ahmadi

WAITING PERIOD - New York Premiere
Director: Taylor Lee Nagel | Writers: Julia Greer, Julia Weinberg

WENDY
Director: Maren Lavelle | Writer: Matt Steiner

WOMEN AND ELEPHANTS
Director: Barbara Stepansky | Writer: Marlowe Holden

UNPACKING astatine 8pm (feature film) - New York Premiere
Directors: Alexandra Clayton, Michal Sinnott | Writers: Alexandra Clayton, Joseph Schollaert, Michal Sinnott
Featuring Dania Arancha, Sam Bianchini, Katie Braden, Alexandra Clayton, Gandhi Fernando, Jessica Rotondi, Michal Sinnott, Stephanie Ann Whited, Natalie Mitchell

Six women, sold connected the committedness of extremist transformation, question to Bali into the hands of an Instagram guru and her Indonesian assistant--and get slapped with reality: alteration is messy AF (!).

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 19

A POEM AND A MISTAKE astatine 12pm (feature film) - North American Premiere
Director: Tamilla Woodard | Writer: Cheri Magid
Featuring Sarah Baskin

A POEM AND A MISTAKE follows the communicative of Myrrha, a grad pupil successful the classics, who is grappling with however to grip the 50 intersexual assaults successful Ovid's Metamorphoses. When 1 of her professors refers to the poem as, 'being astir love'. Myrrha becomes truthful distraught that she inadvertently pushes him, and suddenly, similar the characters successful Metamorphoses itself, the prof is transformed into a young pistillate who looks precisely similar Myrrha.

SHORT FILM PROGRAM: FRIENDSHIP BONDS astatine 2pm

There are each kinds of friendships - ticker our characters' relationships beryllium tested successful utmost circumstances.

ANDY & KALIOPE

Directors: Crystal Arnette, Catriona Rubenis-Stevens | Writer: Rachel Handler

THE BOTTOM

Directors: James Kautz, Morgan Ruaidhrí O'Sullivan | Writer: James Kautz

EYEBALLS - World Premiere

Director: Robert Thaxton-Stevenson | Writer: Molly Powers Gallagher

LINDSAY LINDSEY LYNDSEY

Director: Claire Mathiot | Writer: Billy McEntee

THE ONE THEY WANTED

Director: Catriona Rubenis-Stevens | Writer: Byran Harlow

SCENE STUDY - New York Premiere

Director/Writer: Trace Pope

SAKRE FIS (SACRIFICE)

Director: Bandar Albuliwi | Writer: Nily Refal

TWO WOMEN ON A BRIDGE - New York Premiere

Director/Writer: Tom Bean

WE (DON'T) KNOW HOW TO LIVE - US Premiere

Director: Perrie Voss | Writers: Jayne McLendon, Khadijah Roberts-Abdullah, Perrie Voss, Hilary Wirachowsky

THE GODDAMN TOONEY LUNES astatine 4pm (feature film)

Director: Carsen Joenk | Writer: Molly Bicks
Featuring Breezy Diabo, Violet Falkowski, Jordin Palmer, Bonnie Jean Tyer

A radical of geeky teens successful backwoods New Hampshire commencement a punk set arsenic a mode to marque consciousness of their precocious schoolhouse angst, raging hormones, and raucous personalities. When they accidentally pull a cult pursuing and go section municipality legends, they conflict to equilibrium their wayward persona with the looming pressures of adulthood.

Led by Co-Producers/Co-Programmers Allyson Morgan and Marc Weitz, The NYC Indie Theatre Film Festival presents enactment from New York City autarkic theatre artists and artists crossed the state that are defying labels and branching retired into integer media and film. For our 7th year, we're taking the festival some successful idiosyncratic and online, continuing to see indie theatre artists from crossed the United States! We're excited to instrumentality vantage of the internet's wide scope to conscionable a new, nationalist assemblage of chap theatre artists, and showcase caller perspectives and voices from crossed the country. North & South. Coast to coast. NYCITFF is some section and national.

New Ohio Theatre is simply a two-time OBIE Obie Award-winning theatre nether the enactment of Robert Lyons, Artistic Director, and Jaclyn Biskup, Creative Producer. The New Ohio serves New York's astir adventurous theatre audiences by processing and presenting bold caller enactment from downtown's divers autarkic theatre community. They judge the champion of this community, the tiny artist-driven ensembles and the daring producing companies who run without a imperishable theatrical home, are actively expanding the boundaries of what theatre is, however it's made, and who makes it. From their location successful the West Village's historical Archive Building, the New Ohio provides a high-profile level for downtown's astir mature, ridiculous, engaged, irreverent, gut-wrenching, frivolous, sophisticated, foolish, and profound theatrical endeavors. For info sojourn www.newohiotheatre.org