Brooklyn Historical Society and Brooklyn Film & Arts Festival Screening of Brooklyn Documentaries December 21st, 2016

 

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On  Wednesday, December 21st, 2016 at 6:30 PM, the Brooklyn Historical Society in partnership with the Brooklyn Film & Arts Festival will present a screening of Brooklyn documentaries titled, "Brooklyn, New York; The Way of the World."

 

 Our main feature for this screening will be an assemblage of excerpts from filmmaker Ric Burns' magnificent documentary opus "New York, A Documentary Film." 

  Also being presented is an enigmatic short meditative film about Brooklyn's Dead Horse Bay by filmmaker Garret Shore titled, "ends.of.newyork/dead horse bay."

  Ric Burns and Garret Shore will participate in a post-screening discussion with the audience about their films. 

  Location: Brooklyn Historical Society, 128 Pierrepont St. Brooklyn,N.Y. 11201

                Time: 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm. This program is FREE & Open to the Public.

                 For information call the Brooklyn Historical Society at (718) 222-4111

Winner of the 2015 Brooklyn Non-Fiction Prize

 Winner of the 2015 Brooklyn Non-Fiction Prize

Clifford Genece

The winner of the 2015 Brooklyn Non-Fiction Prize is Clifford Genece for his essay  “A Fraud in Brooklyn.”

 

2015 Brooklyn Non-Fiction Prize Finalists

                                  2015 Brooklyn Non-Fiction Prize Finalists

Gala Mukomolova  - “Every Psychic In The City Of Our Love Says We're No

Good” 

Stefanie Joshua – “A Bushwick Story”

Andrea Della Monica  -  “Ballads Beer and a Bus”

Marcia Greenwald -  “Coincidence is God’s way of Staying Anonymous”

Michael Weinstock – “Laundromat Jail”

William Lannigan -  “Muggsy, The Big Fat Fellow on a Horse and Other Amazing Adventures”

Adam Warwinsky  - Strangers Saved My Life 

 

Clifford Genece -  “A Fraud in Brooklyn”

Ben Phillipe – “Hard Home”

Julia Conrad – “For Real”

Michelle Gabay -  “Small Town Brooklyn”