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September 07, 2006
BAM's Brooklyn Close-Up Series Starts Up with Acclaimed Telfair Doc
Pardon these long disappearances; they will likely be recurring as the fall film season takes off, festivals sprout like weeds (lush, well-cultivated weeds, of course) and big changes take shape here at The Reeler. Rest assured I will always return to you, and in the interim, let me blow a kiss to BAM, which has taken some hometown initiative to bring Brooklyn films and filmmakers into its comfy fold.
For starters, the Cinematek's new Brooklyn Close-Up series launches tonight, featuring Jonathan Hock's documentary Through the Fire (above). The film is a glimpse at the development of basketball prodigy Sebastian Telfair from a Coney Island street legend to NBA draft pick; as noted last year on The Reeler, the film made a splash at Tribeca '05 before ESPN snapped it up for cable. It hasn't been seen theatrically since then, so don't take this one for granted if you missed it the first time around. A Q&A with Hock, co-director Alastair Christopher, editor Steven Pilgrim and executive producer Diane Houslin follows tonight's 7 p.m. screening.
And just over the wire is the news of October's series selection: Critic/documentarian Atsushi Funahashi's second narrative feature, the multi-ethnic road movie Big River. A late-'90s transplant to Brooklyn from Japan, Funahashi will be on hand Oct. 4 with his DP, Eric Van Den Brulle, to chat about the film.
Posted by stvanairsdale at September 7, 2006 03:08 PM
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