What a great tribute. The 3rd Annual Red Hook Film Festival is paying homage to my fellow blogger and friend Bob Guskind, who died unexpectedly this spring and who left a huge hole in the Brooklyn blog world.
As part of their film line-up, the organizers are including Blue Barn Pictures's film on Bob, Also included is the incredibly poignant "Lavender Lake: Brooklyn's Gowanus Canal" documentary.
Bob cared deeply about the dangerously toxic waterway. On many a day, I sit at my computer and think of Bob and what he would have thought of the EPA's willingness to step in to clean the area. He would have been all over that story, I can assure you. His voice is still missed in these parts!
The 3rd Annual Red Hook Film Festival
has just announced its schedule of films!
The Red Hook Film Festival will take place on October 3rd and 4th at the Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition screening room at 499 Van Brunt Street. Our screenings begin at 1pm on Saturday Oct. 3rd, with the tribute film "Robert Guskind: 1958-2009" by Blue Barn Pictures, followed by a special 10th anniversary screening of the seminal Brooklyn documentary "Lavender Lake: Brooklyn's Gowanus Canal" directed by Alison Prete. This year, our festival is "dedicated to Robert Guskind, to The Gowanus Lounge, and to local storytelling."
The rest of the weekend will feature short film gems from neighborhoods around Brooklyn, including pieces about a Bushwick tailor, rooftop farms in Greenpoint, the Atlantic Yards boondoggle, Coney Island's lost roller coaster, Williamsburg industry, and a whole program of films about Red Hook!
Our screening schedule can be seen online at www.redhookfilmfest.com and at www.myspace.com/redhookfilmfestival
We hope that you and your readers can make it to the festival!
Best -
The Red Hook Film Festival
Festival Founder and Chair: Daniel Durning
Festival Managers: David Spritzler & Aaron Sugiura
Festival Advisor: Nathan Kensinger
Festival Programmers: Daniel Maldonado, Meghan O'Hara, Joe Pacheco
web: www.redhookfilmfest.com
myspace: www.myspace.com/redhookfilmfestival
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2 comments:
Wonderful indeed. Thank you Katia, for honoring Bob in this way -- and thank you to the RHFF as well!
Those for alerting us to this! I hope I can make it.
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