Submit your movies! We are currently accepting submissions for the 2008 Summer Series. In June 2008 we will begin celebrating our 12th year of bringing the best underground films in the world outdoors and to the rooftops of New York. Submit your films and videos now and participate in one of the most unforgettable, unique, […]

Rooftop Films alum Brad Neely has a new series on SuperDeluxe.com that is nearly as funny as his masterpiece (and YouTube hit), Washington, which showed at Rooftop back in 2006 (the rights to which have been semi-legally stolen by Spike and Mike). Check out the adventures of Baby Cakes (the baby of cakes)! Yeah he […]

The newest film by lo-fi YouTube superstar/long-time Rooftop Films alum Cas Nozkowski stares into the blackened soul of the professional spammer. I have a friend who occasionally sleeps with this guy who designs pop-up ads and I have always wanted to meet him one day and ask him what the hell he is thinking doing […]

  OK, so this has nothing to do with indpendent films or the Rooftop Films Summer Series or microcinemas, but Human Tetris sure is awesome. Hat tip to office mate Josh Pelzek

Two great indie rock bands have signed on for our incredible 4th of July show. Red Leader Records’ The New Dress will be playing at 6:00 and Pretty Activity’s The Subjects will be playing at 7:00, followed by Vic Thrill + The Saturn Missile at 8:00, followed by the fireworks and some really extraordinary short […]

Join Spout Buy DVD Watch Video Podcast Get Code For those of you who don’t already know this: Erin Crumley and Susan Buice are really wonderfully sweet, helpful, hard-working filmmakers who made a very good film called Four Eyed Monsters and rung up a HUGE personal debt in the process. Please listen to their plea […]

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Mark Elijah Rosenberg is the Founder and Artistic Director of Rooftop Films. Born and raised in New York City, Mark received his BA in Film Studies at Vassar College before returning to the City to translate his study of film into an artistic and curatorial career. In twelve years, Mark has built Rooftop Films from […]

* 100 OF THE BEST FILMS FROM THE ROOFTOP FILMS SUMMER SERIES NOW ONLINE AT IFC.COM–A NEW SHORT EVERY DAY * FRIDAY, JUNE 8: OFFICIAL OPENING NIGHT ON A ROOF IN THE LOWER EAST SIDE For 11 years, Rooftop Films has been a champion of short films. In fact, for the first several years of […]

  the slowness waits… the slowness attacks… the slowness kills…  when the bell tolls… like a whisper.. June 15th… June 15th… Juuuuuuuuuunnnnnneeeeeeeee 111111111555555555ttttthhhhhh!!!! Our friend Ryan Junell has a new project, and it’s so cool I wish that I had thought of it first. Ryan put together the original Slo-Mo fest in 2006 and it […]