Crown Heights Film Festival to Highlight Artists From Around the Block and World

CROWN HEIGHTS, BROOKLYN — Twenty-two short films from a collection of international and local artists will be rolling for free next week at the Crown Heights Film Festival.

The two-day event will take place on Oct. 28 and 29 at FiveMyles, the Crown Heights performance and exhibition space located at 558 St Johns Pl. The films will start at 7 p.m. each night, and will run back-to-back for about an hour and forty minutes. Afterward, organizers expect filmmakers to stick around for a Q&A with audience members.

Among the local artists on tap: Liza and Gregg Mann, as well as Benjamin Smith, hail from Crown Heights, while Mesbah Uddin lives in Brooklyn and Mina Mir makes her home in Bed-Stuy.

You don't need a ticket for the festival, and there's no need to RSVP to reserve a seat. Here's the schedule, courtesy of FiveMyles:

Friday, Oct. 28:

• Crisscross, by Michael Jackson, 12:46 min
• Sapien X, by Mesbah Uddin, 16:51 min
• The Gardener, by Luke Asente, 5:00 min
• This is My Cap, by Adonis Williams, 09:42 min
• A Cosmos of Patterns, Jeremy Newman, 4:40 min
• Eggs and Soldiers, by Imelda O'Reilly, 20:00 min
• Luther Von Shaft, by Christopher Williams, 6:19 min
• All Tru-ish, by Mina Mir, 2:37 min
• The Cheshire Cache, by Scott Danzig, 12:13 min
• The Weaveologist, by Sandra Itainen, 5:38 min
• Rye Manhattan, by Michael Goldberg, 6:34 min

Saturday, Oct. 29:

• Blower's Daughter, by Patrycja Paczkowska, 6:49 min
• Farewell Auntie, by Hang Yin, 4:47 min
• Ben Jones: Consciousness Rules, by Liza and Gregg Mann, 7:31 min
• Gagarine, by Fanny Liatard and Jeremy Trouilh, 15:30 min
• Forget-me-knot, by Jennifer Farrugia, 8:33 min
• The Plastic Bag, by Jorgen Johansen, 1:00 min
• Strange Bird, by Daniel Mecca, 17:44 min
• One Life's On Board, Sequoyah Aono, 4:29 min
• Zeba (Promenade), by Fransix Tenda, 1:18 min
• Broken Pencils, by Pveclidias Witbooi, 18:00 min
• Beacon, by Benjamin Smith, 6:18 min

Top image courtesy of Andrew Yee/Flickr