The Rooftop Films 2008 Summer Series

The rougher side of the rural life. Short films about troublemakers, hell-raisers, and two entire towns that brawl annually.

Free gift from The Brooklyn Kitchen to the first 100 attendees who arrive at the show!



Venue: On the lawn of Automotive High School
Address: 50 Bedford Ave, between N. 12th and Lorimer (Williamsburg Brooklyn)
Directions: L to Bedford Avenue OR G to Nassau Avenue
Rain: In the event of rain the show will be held indoors at the same location
8:00PM: Doors open
8:30PM: Sound Fix presents live music by Goddamn Rattlesnake
9:00PM: Films
11:30PM - 1:00AM: Open Bar After Party at Matchless (557 Manhattan Avenue @ Driggs ) Courtesy of Radeberger beer and Cabana Cachaca

Tickets: $9 at going.com

Preview: See short films from this and other programs at www.IFC.com
Presented in partnership with: Rural Route, Cabana Cachaca, Radeberger, The Brooklyn Kitchen, IFC.com, New York magazine, and Automotive High School

PROGRAM NOTES:
Every year at Rooftop we co-present a program with The Rural Route Film Festival, and usually we have a show about the greener side of life, the pastoral peace of country living. We spread out on the lovely lawn at Automotive High School, have a picnic, and wax poetic about nature—the quiet lands, the kindly folks, the soothing solitude. But that ain’t gonna happen this year. In this show we’ve got escaped convicts and their daring daughters, psychotic pumpkin salesman and their would-be sons, shitters, shiners and more. This show is about how that seemingly peaceful pasture turns into an eerily isolated nightmare. How that innocent little rube of a girl turns out to be a ruthless vixen. How one small town uniquely thrills for a sport that’s just a step above total mob chaos. This is a show to shock and shake up us city folk, and show off just how rugged the Rural Route is—this year we’re burning rubber in the road.

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