Editor

The Rural Route Film Festival kicks off tonight (Aug 3) w/a free screening of David Lynch’s “The Straight Story”, and finishes up Sunday w/free beer at New York City’s largest green roof farm!  (See http://rooftopfilms.com for tickets for the limited-capacity green roof farm shows.)  And all weekend long, the core of festival screenings at the Museum of the Moving Image are free w/museum admission! 

For the lowdown on ALL films & venues, see http://ruralroutefilms.com/2011-program/.

FRI

NIGHT, don’t miss our Opening Night Sneak Preview of Mike Ott’s “LiTTLEROCK”, one of the best reviewed indie fictions of the year!  “When her rental car breaks down on a site-seeing tour of California, a young Japanese woman winds up stranded in a small desert town. The excitement of the new permeates every frame of this intimate evocation...”  That’s Friday night, Aug 5 at the Museum of the Moving Image! (LiTTLEROCK opens @ Cinema Village Aug 12)

EXCITING NEW UPDATES you should know about:

 -   Rural Route was the top film pick in the Sunday NY Times ‘Week Ahead’ section!:            http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/31/arts/july-31-aug-6.html?_r=1 

 -   It looks like “Greenhorns” director, Severine von Tscharner Fleming will be present for the Sun., Aug 7       screening after all – speeding straight from an oxen workshop in New Hampshire, Sev plans to join in on an      amazing young farmer panel w/an anarchist beekeeper and other ‘prog-ag’ rock stars!

 -   The parking situation has been configured!  Indeed, the Truck Farm itself will be parked right in front of the      museum before/during/after Ian Cheney’s screening on Sat!!!

 -   The one-&-only Jersey Meadowlands sportsman ‘Muskrat John’ (Johnny Rohweder) is making a rare      Hudson River crossing to be at the Sat., Aug 6 show!

 -   Filmmakers of amazing ‘world docs’ from Uganda, Pakistan, Tibet will ALL be present Sat. & Sun. to share       their experiences!

 -   Multiple filmmakers will be around the museum Sunday @ 2 for our super-fun Shorts Program!

 -   Along w/free beer at the closing night rooftop farm screenings, Brooklyn Grange will be selling concession       baskets of vegetables, homegrown on the very roof we’ll be watching films on!

2011 Schedule: 

Wednesday, August 3rd @ Socrates Sculpture Park, Queens:
Sundown – David Lynch’s “The Straight Story” - special free kickoff screening (part of Outdoor Cinema 2011 presented by EPIX™ Movie Free-for-All and Socrates Sculpture Park, in collaboration with Museum of the Moving Image and Rooftop Films).

Friday, August 5th @ Museum of the Moving Image, Queens:
7PM – opening night special sneak preview screening of Mike Ott’s hot new indie feature, “Littlerock” (opens at Cinema Village next week - Aug. 12)
 
Saturday, August 6th @ Museum of the Moving Image, Queens (all free w/museum admission): 
2PM – “Summer Pasture” (Tibetan yak-herding nomads) *w/Q&A
5PM – Short Films feat. “Driftless” & “Muskrat John” *w/Q&A (Muskrat John will be there) 
7:30PM – Ian Cheney’s “Truck Farm” *w/Q&A (Truck Farm will be parked outside)
 
Sunday, August 7th @ Museum of the Moving Image, Queens (all free w/museum admission): 
2PM – Short Films (“Footloose” fan re-makes, NZ dream of American South, Canada exp) *w/multi-Q&A 4PM – “Delicious Peace Grows in a Ugandan Coffee Bean” *w/Q&A (director of Baltistan, Pakistan film to be present as well) 6PM – Severine von Tscharner Fleming’s “The Greenhorns” *w/new farmer panel (looks like Sev will make it)
 
Sunday, August 7th @ Brooklyn Grange Rooftop Farm, Queens (w/Rooftop Films):
-- closing night special presentations --  (Free Beer, Veggie Concessions, Amazing View, Limited Capacity) 8PM – Short Films on the farm roof w/Rooftop Films *w/Q&A 10PM – Short Films on the farm roof w/Rooftop Films *w/Q&A