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New York’s 16th Annual Rooftop Films Summer Series has just announced their line up for the 2012 season. This years programming will consist of 45 outdoor events, all featuring big crowds, live music, spectacular venues and the best new, independent and foreign films in the world. The Summer Series will run from May 11- August 18, with special events in September.
Most of the feature films that will be shown are either New York, US or World Premieres. The screenings will be held at various venue’s in Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Long Island City that include, Automotive High School, Bam Cinematek Outdoors, Brooklyn Tech, Fort Greene Park, Open Road Rooftop, The Ifc Center, Solar One, Socrates Sculpture Park, And The Old American Can Factory. For more information about the times and dates of the events, visit the Rooftop Films site.
Films in this year’s series include Sundance favorites “China Heavyweight,” “Detropia,” “Kid-Thing” and “An Oversimplification of Her Beauty,” and SXSW favorites like “Kumare,” “Gayby” and “Sun Don’t Shine.”
The list of films in the 2012 Rooftop Films Summer Series
An Oversimplification of Her Beauty
Director: Terence Nance
Argentinean Lesson
Director: Wojciech Staron
Bovines
Director: Emmanuel Gras
China Heavyweight
Director: Yung Chang
Detropia
Directors: Heidi Ewing, Rachel Grady
Dicke Maedchen
Directors: Axel Ranisch, Heavy Girls
Fat Kid Rules the World
Director: Matthew Lilliard
Gayby
Director: Jonathan Lisecki
Grandma Lo-Fi
Director: Louise Johansen
Her Master’s Voice
Director: Nina Conti
I Think It’s Raining
Director: Joshua Moore
Inocente
Directors: Sean Fine, Andrea Nix Fine
Kid-Thing
Director: David and Nathan Zellner
Kumaré
Director: Vikram Ghandi
Love Story
Director: Florian Habicht
Only the Young
Directors: Jason Tippet & Elizabeth Mims
Sun Don’t Shine
Director: Amy Seimetz
The Imposter
Director: Bart Layton
The Patron Saints
Director: Brian Cassidy & Melanie Shatzky
The Sheik and I
Director: Caveh Zahedi
The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom
Director: Lucy Walker
The Waiting Room
Director: Peter Nicks
Think of Me
Director: Bryan Wizemann
This Ain’t California
Director: Marten Persiel
Welcome to Pine Hill
Director: Keith Miller
