2017 Program

The 13th annual Rural Route Film Festival is centered around ‘Singer-Songwriters (…in Suspense)!’ Each film contains live music performances of original and traditional songs…as well as some element of suspense. There will also be live music on each day of the festival!

Best Narrative – COVADONGA by Sean Hartofilis
Best Documentary – THE RABBIT HUNT by Patrick Bresnan
Best Experimental – HAIRAT by Jessica Beshir

Opening Night Screening Party (July 14) at Brooklyn Grange rooftop farm (Flagship Long Island City, Queens location) and COFFEED – 37-18 Northern Blvd, Long Island City, NY 11101. Projections by Rooftop Films. Tickets HERE!

Core Festival (July 15-16) at Museum of the Moving Image – 36-01 35th Ave., Astoria, NY 11106. Tickets HERE!

Poster art by Sam Crees

Friday, July 14 – 8PM @ Brooklyn Grange rooftop farm (Queens loc.) – Opening Night Screening Party

Some of our best short films on Brooklyn Grange’s beautiful flagship rooftop farm – just down the street from MoMI in Long Island City! + a performance from vocalist, Shelley Thomas! An Opening Night Party will follow at COFFEED downstairs w/beer specials from SingleCut. Tickets HERE Live Music – Arabic songs from SHELLEY THOMAS, accompanied…

SATURDAY, JULY 15 – 1:30PM @ MUSEUM OF THE MOVING IMAGE – LIVE MUSIC FROM SEAN HARTOFILIS

Sean Hartofilis will perform Irish folk-inspired songs before the World Premiere of his film, Covadonga.

Saturday, July 15 – 2:00PM @ Museum of the Moving Image – COVADONGA

COVADONGA. Dir. Sean Hartofilis. 2017, 70 min. Narrative. Lakeville, PA. World Premiere! Live Musical Performance + Q&A w/Hartofilis! Tickets HERE Mourning his wife and their stolen life at a secluded lake house, Martin Ravin watches a tipsy young couple commandeer his canoe for a moonlight ride. Only the boy returns to shore, and Martin abducts…

Saturday, July 15 – 4:00PM @ Museum of the Moving Image – NASHVILLE

NASHVILLE. Dir. Robert Altman. 1975, 160 min. Narrative. Nashville, TN. 35mm Print! Tickets HERE “…a film that a lot of other directors will wish they’d had the brilliance to make and that dozens of other performers will wish they’d had the great good fortune to be in. Nashville is about the quality of a segment…

Sunday, July 16 – 1:30PM @ Museum of the Moving Image – LIVE MUSIC FROM DESMOND WHITE

Australian singer-songwriter Desmond is one of the most in-demand sidemen in NYC and Melbourne’s jazz, pop and folk scenes. The Perth native is releasing his second album of original material, Glace, on July 21st. Catch a sneak preview at the festival!

Sunday, July 16 – 2PM @ Museum of the Moving Image – OLANCHO

OLANCHO. Dir. Chris Valdes and Theodore Griswold. 2016, 70 min. Documentary. Olancho Department, Honduras/Durham, NC. Q&A w/the directors! Tickets HERE Manuel, a farmer from Olancho, seeks fame with his infamous band, Los Plebes, by making narcocorrido music for the region’s drug lords. When a song he writes angers a rival cartel, Manuel is forced to…

Sunday, July 16 – 4PM @ Museum of the Moving Image – LA BARRACUDA

LA BARRACUDA. Dir. Julia Halperin and Jason Cortlund. 2017, 100min. Narrative. Austin, TX. Sneak Preview Screening! Tickets HERE “Co-directors Julia Halperin and Jason Cortlund build atmosphere, psychological texture, an ingrained sense of place and a needling undercurrent of dread.” -David Rooney, Hollywood Reporter (Best of SXSW 2017) The directors of the critically hailed indie, Now Forager,…

2017 Honorable Mentions

WHERE IT FLOODS. Dir. Joel Benjamin. 2017, 46 min. Animation. Chicago, IL. Blind stubbornness in the face of global catastrophe, and the victims thereof. Calvin, his wife Patty and their son, Kenny, try to maintain their farm and survive in a flooded mid-western landscape despite the fact that (mostly) everyone else seems to have moved…

Venues

Museum of the Moving Image – 36-01 35th Ave., Astoria, Queens, New York 11106 Subway: R Train to Steinway St. station, or N/Q Train to 36th Ave. station July 15-16 (Tickets available HERE soon) ————————————————————————————— Brooklyn Grange Rooftop Farm – 37-18 Northern Blvd, Long Island City, Queens, New York 11101 Subway: R Train to 36th St. station, or…

2017 Program

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