Thanks!
On Thursday night we hosted our first LA event. We called it ‘The Community Shorts’ and held it at the Evil Monito space in Echo Park that our friend Rickey Kim opened a few months ago. We showed 13 new videos from friends of ours here in LA and out in New York. Namely, Casey Anderson, Birthday Boy Presents (Craig Hildebrand, Dan Samiljan & Morgan Pritchard), Oscar Boyson, Russ Finkelstein, Brennan Hill, Int’l Waters (Jett Steiger, Eli Born & Will Campbell), Felipe & Josh, Patrick McKenzie, Carson Mell & Grant Falardeau, Phil Pinto, Red Bucket Films (Benny & Josh Safdie and Alex Kalman), Avi Rothman, and Rue Brutalia (Jon Pack & Jason Kalter). We had two screenings of the 45min program, and served drinks in the backyard.
The Evil Monito space is an old carnicería that’s been retrofitted w/ wood paneling and a huge glass façade. It worked well as a theater.
Sam Sundos came down and served drinks for us.
Thanks Sarah!
Last minute savior: Echo Park Film Center
It was cold outside (50-smthg degrees!), so we set up heaters.
Standing room only (in the back and on the top level) for the first screening.
Avi and our own Ashley
Wrapping things up…
Patrick McKenzie and Casey Anderson helped us plan and coordinate from the beginning. Big thanks to Sylvia, Jon, Paul, and Eugene at EM. Photos (mostly) by Elise Velasco.
More about it on Rickey’s personal ‘blog‘ or on his new feed at NylonMag.com.
See you in ‘08!
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