Throughout the duration of Transformers: Rise of The Beasts, you can hear Anthony Ramos’s Noah Diaz exclaiming “Brooklyn, baby” time and time again. The words held so much truth on Monday night, as fans gathered both in and outside of the legendary Kings Theater to celebrate the latest installment in the beloved Transformers franchise.
The Cinema Center Event Programming Runs Opening Weekend of June 10th through June 18th, 2023.
On June 2, the Museum of the Moving Image (MoMI) screened Jennifer’s Body (2009). The horror-comedy starred Megan Fox as Jennifer and Amanda Seyfried as Needy. MoMI showed the film as part of their ‘Queer Cinema, Top to Bottom’ series. The series started on May 20 and ended on July 2.
I was able to sit down with Dennis Cieri, who is a film industry expert and the founder of The New York City Independent Film Festival and he was willing to talk about his time in the industry and how independent filmmakers need to get their films showcased.
Megan Griffiths and Eliza Flug discuss their feature film, Year of the Fox, starring Sarah Jeffrey and Lexi Simonsen which premiered at the Seattle International Film Festival on May 13.
Sarah Kambe Holland, 25-year-old Gen Z filmmaker, discusses the first feature film to be crowdfunded on TikTok, EGGHEAD & TWINKIE, a coming-of-age story about an Asian-American teenager who comes out to her parents and goes on a road trip to meet her online crush with her nerdy best friend.
Peter Colin Campbell discussed premiering his short film, Variations on a Theme, at the Seattle International Film Festival on May 14 and his many other projects.
Movie lovers gathered in Brooklyn’s historic Greenwood Cemetery this past Thursday for a night of laughs, tears, gasps, and of course, short films.
Getting an opportunity to be in the room with greatness is always a beautiful way to spend your night. With the help of Reel Works, we got an opportunity to speak to a few change makers.
On March 23, the nonprofit “Get Lit” screened thirty minutes of the documentary, “Our Words Collide.” The film showcased five poets from the Get Lit program. After, a mental health panel featured director Jordan Barrow, and two youth poets, Sam Luo, and Amari Turner. Author and mental health activist Héctor Tobar led the discussion. The event showed the organization’s positive impacts on literacy and young people.