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Join NYWIFT for our first drive-in films this weekend! NYWIFT is proud to co-present two double feature screenings featuring films by members at the 2020 Woodstock Film Festival.
Saturday, October 3rd:
Double Feature: I Carry You with Me and Stake Land
Tickets are $25 per person. One car limit per order.
Doors open at 6:00pm. First film starts at 7:00pm. Second film starts at 9:30pm.
I Carry You with Me, Academy-Award® nominee (and NYWIFT member) Heidi Ewing’s luminous, moving debut as a narrative filmmaker, follows a tender romance between Iván and Gerado, spanning decades. Starting in provincial Mexico and continuing as first Iván, then Gerardo, journey towards sharing a life together in New York City. The film, winner of two awards at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival, is an intimate love story, as well as a soulful rumination on family, sacrifice, regret, and ultimately, hope.
Ewing gracefully traces both men’s lives from childhood through the decisions that lead them into adulthood. Iván, an aspiring chef and young father, hopes to secure a spot in a restaurant kitchen while supporting his child. But the discovery of his relationship with Gerardo causes conflict and, in despair, he makes the arduous choice to cross the border into the United States, promising his son and his soulmate Gerardo that he will return.
Sunday, October 4th:
Double Feature: What the Constitution Means to Me and The Sit In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show
Tickets are $25 per person. One car limit per order.
Doors open at 6:00pm. First film starts at 7:00pm. Second film starts at 9:30pm.
In 1968, Johnny Carson was king of late-night television. As host of the top-rated “Tonight Show,” he gave America mild humor and middle-of-the-road entertainment. But when Carson planned a week’s vacation, his choice of replacement host was no less than revolutionary. Black entertainer and civil rights activist Harry Belafonte was given five nights on air. Belafonte did not squander the opportunity; he booked guests calculated to change the hearts and minds of a country embroiled in racial crisis. Among them, Aretha Franklin, Sidney Poitier, Dionne Warwick, Zero Mostel, Diahann Carroll, Paul Newman, and national leaders Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King. THE SIT-IN is an exhilarating documentary about a rare moment when truth and justice entered the living rooms (and bedrooms) of middle-class America.
Although three of the five TV segments are now lost, director (NYWIFT Member) Yoruba Richen pieces together the programs through archival photographs and footage, as well as contemporary interviews with historians, politicians and activists, including Whoopi Goldberg and Norman Lear. Indeed, the film captures a chaotic time in American history, drawing inescapable parallels with the Black Lives Matter movement.
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