The Red Hook Film Festival opens this weekend featuring movies from Brooklyn filmmakers. The screenings begin at 1pm on Saturday Oct. 3rd, with a special tribute film titled “Robert Guskind: 1958-2009” by Blue Barn Pictures, followed by a 10th anniversary screening of the seminal Brooklyn documentary “Lavendar Lake: Brooklyn’s Gowanus Canal” directed by Alison Prete. The rest of the weekend will feature several blocks of short film gems from Brooklyn, New York City, and beyond. Films include pieces about a Bushwick tailor, rooftop farms in Greenpoint, the Atlantic Yards boondoggle, Coney Island’s lost roller coaster, Williamsburg industry, Urban Explorers under Queens, lesbians in the Bronx, a Manhattan balloon deliveryman, an abandoned Connecticut insane asylum, and a city symphony set in L.A. More info at http://www.redhookfilmfest.com
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