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TUESDAY JAN 31, 2012
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The Old American Can Factory
Gowanus/Slope, Brooklyn

BATTLE FOR BROOKLYN follows the story of reluctant activist Daniel Goldstein as he struggles to save his home and community from being demolished to make way for a...

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THURSDAY MAR 1, 2012
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Submit your movies! In May 2012, Rooftop will begin celebrating our 16th year of bringing the best underground films in the world outdoors and to the rooftops of New...

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FRIDAY MAY 11, 2012
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Open Road Rooftop
Lower East Side, Manhattan

Opening Night of Rooftop Films 16th Annual Summer Series will feature grand stories in little packages, with some of the greatest new short films from all around the...

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The Rooftop Films BlogClick for Full Blog
by Mark Elijah Rosenberg
January 24th, 2012

The Comedy is a fiction film about a self-absorbed, filthy-rich, entitled, obnoxious, lazy hipster who goes around insulting his friends and condescending to strangers—and I genuinely, deeply cared about him.

by Genevieve DeLaurier
January 22nd, 2012

Heavy Girls (Dicke Maedchen) is a touching unconventional love story about Sven, his dementia suffering mother Edeltraut and her married male home care worker Daniel.

by Mark Elijah Rosenberg
January 21st, 2012

A myth is brewing. A storm is a-coming. The beasts are rising. A radical work of cinematic passion, Beasts of the Southern Wild does what cinema was made to do: dazzle, inspire, confound.

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Rooftop Films is a New York based non-profit whose mission is to engage diverse communities by showing independent movies in outdoor locations, producing new films, coordinating youth media education, and renting equipment at low cost to artists.


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