BAMcinemaFest 2016 Heads Into the Home Stretch With ‘Joshy’, a Free Outdoor Screening, Back by Popular Demand & More

BAMcinemaFest 2016 Heads Into the Home Stretch With ‘Joshy’, a Free Outdoor Screening, Back by Popular Demand & More


Hopefully you’ve been keeping an eye on BAMcinemaFest 2016, because the film festival of American independents is heading into its home stretch. Already under the fest’s belt are screenings of Todd Solondz’s Weiner-Dog, Ti West’s In a Valley of Violence, and Andrew Neel’s Goat, among others. But don’t fret, there’s plenty still to come, including added by popular demand encore screenings of films that were featured in the first half of the festival.

Highlights of what’s to come include Chad Hartigan’s crowd-pleasing coming-of-age comedy-drama Morris in America, Anna Biller’s tribute to 1960s Technicolor thrillers The Love Witch (see trailer below), and fest closer Dark Night, Tim Sutton’s film inspired by the 2012 shooting in Aurora, Colorado. All three will be followed by lively Q&As with the filmmakers, and as a special bonus, The Love Witch will also feature a special beer tasting courtesy of Brooklyn Brewery.

In the fest Spotlight is Joshy. The film, which screens on Wednesday, June 22, is mostly improvised and features a gifted cast that includes Thomas Middleditch (Silicon Valley), Nick Kroll (The League), Adam Pally (Happy Endings), Jenny Slate (Obvious Child), and Alex Ross Perry (Listen Up Philip). Director/writer Jeff Baena and Alex Ross Perry will be no hand for a Q&A following the screening.

On Thursday, June 23, the fest serves up a free outdoor screening of Sara Jordenö’s Kiki. The film profiles New York City’s youngest generation of voguers and is an excellent pre-game for Pride Weekend. The screening goes down at Pier 1 at Brooklyn Bridge Park and DJ MikeQ is providing a musical warm up.

As for those encore screenings, collective:unconscious and A Woman, A Part are both being brought back on Sunday, June 26. The former is a mind-bending anthology film that finds five New York indie directors adapting each other’s dreams for the screen. The latter is the feature-length debut of artist Elisabeth Subrin and tells the story of a workaholic actress who abruptly quits her role in a successful tv show to return to her old life in New York in hopes of reinventing herself.

BAMcinemaFest runs through Sunday, June 26. For tickets and more information, visit BAM’s website.

Image above is from The Love Witch.