The Rural Route Film Festival kicks off this Friday night at Museum of the Moving Image w/a special preview screening of Olivia Owens Wyatt’s SAILING A SINKING SEA, co-presented by the Margaret Mead Film Festival, w/Owens Wyatt in person for Q&A.  An Opening Night Screening Party will follow just down the street at Brooklyn Grange’s flagship Long Island City rooftop farm.

Through 19 films from 16 countries (7 continents), this year’s focus is on bold, independent women behind and in front of the camera (and instrument, as the line-up also includes an eclectic array of music-entwined films and live performances).  Don’t miss hard-to-see premiere screenings of films like Ágnes Sós's quirky documentary on aging and romance in Transylvania, STREAM OF LOVE.  Read a great review on that film from The Hollywood Reporter here.  On Sunday, catch new Argentinian feature, DOG LADY, w/a stand-out performance by co-director, Verónica Llinás, followed by the New York Premiere of Elise DuRant’s EDÉN, starring Will Oldham, with DuRant in person for Q&A!

On Saturday, we’ll have the World Premiere of the new sci-fi/coming-of-age film by Will Sheff of Okkervil River, DOWN DOWN THE DEEP RIVER, w/Sheff in person for a live music performance and a Q&A.  Director Alison Bagnall and actress Joslyn Jensen will also be present before that for their screening of FUNNY BUNNY, featuring one of the best ensemble indie casts of the year (Jensen, Kentucker Audley, Olly Alexander, Josephine Decker)!  Another music film not to miss is Christopher Kirkley’s AKOUNAK, an impressive remake of Prince’s Purple Rain, with all Tuareg cast, shot in the N. Niger desert.

Live music will be present throughout the fest via alphorn soloist Barbara Oldham at Brooklyn Grange, and free Museum outdoor courtyard sets from all-female accordion orchestra, The Main Squeeze, and all-female mariachi band, La Flor de Toloache.  

Get your TICKETS soon for screenings at Museum of the Moving Image HERE, and the Opening Night Screening Party at Brooklyn Grange HERE w/the option of a special discount on our all-new Very Best of Blu-ray release!

Read the COMPLETE SCHEDULE here!  Watch the new TRAILER here!
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Special thanks to key Supporting Partners:  Investors Bank, the Romanian Cultural Institute NY, the Hungarian Cultural Center NY, and Jet Blue.
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Rural Route 2015 is made possible in part by New York State Council on the Arts w/the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the NY State Legislature, & the Queens Council on the Arts with public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, along with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts’ Electronic Media and Film Presentation Funds grant program, administered by The ARTS Council of the Southern Finger Lakes, and the Puffin Foundation.
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