We're inviting some of the most valued members of our community to screen their short films, and hang out with us after for a Q&A.
Tickets are $10 and open to the public. Please stick around immediately following the screening for drinks and snacks in the BAMCafé in the iconic Lepercq Space.
Please note: this event is presented by Vimeo. BAM house and ticketing policies may not apply. BAM membership policies do not apply.
Christine Turner is a filmmaker based in New York. Her critically-acclaimed documentary Homegoings, premiered at Documentary Fortnight at MoMA and opened the 26th season of the PBS series POV. Christine's short fiction work includes Rubber Soles, You Can Go and most recently Hold On, which screened at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival.
Shaka King is a writer, director and producer. Newlyweeds, his first feature, was developed in NYU’s Graduate Film Department where Shaka received his MFA in 2013. Later that year, the film debuted at Sundance and enjoyed a three-week run at New York’s Film Forum. The bitter-sweet comedy garnered the director the 2014 Independent Spirit Someone to Watch Award. His latest films Mulignans andLaZercism have screened at Sundance in 2015 and 2018 respectively. This year he's written and directed episodes of High Maintenance and Terence Nance's soon to be released Random Acts of Flyness. King is a native and resident of Bed Stuy Brooklyn.
New York native Reinaldo Marcus Green is a writer, director, and producer. He is a graduate of NYU Tisch Graduate Film School. In January, his first feature narrative, Monsters and Men had its world premiere at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival. The film received a Special Jury Prize for Outstanding First Feature and was acquired by NEON for US distribution. Reinaldo participated in the 2017 Sundance Institute Directors and Screenwriters Lab, where he was named a recipient of the 2017 Sundance Institute / Time Warner Fellowship. He was one of Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces of Independent Film (2015). His short film 'Stop', premiered as an official selection at the Sundance Film Festival (2015). His previous short film, 'Stone Cars', shot on a micro-budget in South Africa, had its international premier as an official Cinefondation selection at the Festival de Cannes 2014.
Rae Leone Allen is a writer, filmmaker, and scholar from Mesquite, TX. Allen owes money to the feds for the master’s in urban studies she got from Fordham University. Her poetry has been published in No, Dear Magazine, about place Journal, Puerto del Sol: Black Voices Series, and is forthcoming in Brooklyn
Magazine. Allen is also a co-writer, co-producer in 195 Lewis, her first film project.
