11/4/08 Screening in NYC - be there!

Below is a letter from Natalie Difford, Producer of 11/4/08:

I want you to be the first to know that on June 15th, 11/4/08 is following it's great festival run, including SXSW and Sarasota Film Festival, by coming to NYC by way of an exclusive sneak preview screening at Stranger Than Fiction, a prestigious documentary film series, which it's a true honor to have been selected for.

This is currently the only opportunity to see the film in New York, so please don't wait to purchase your ticket, as I expect they will go fast.  This project is geographically expansive, but it was conceived in New York and many of the contributing filmmakers shot here or live here - including Jeff, Henry Joost (Catfish, NY Opus: Export Jazz) and Margaret Brown (The Order of Myths).  The film was even edited at the IFC Center!  So this should be a blast of a screening with many of the filmmakers on hand for a Q&A afterwards.

 

IFC Center

 

 

This isn't a screening - it's an event! There will be a great Q&A afterwards, helmed by industry maestro, Thom Powers, followed by drinks! Join us in celebrating this achievement on our home turf!

If you aren't going to be in NYC for this, don't worry - the film will make its way to you shortly.  But please send your NY-based friends & family to see the film as early traction often determines the course of the film in the world.

I hope you can make it,

Natalie

 

http://www.11-4-08.com - we are still looking for more footage, upload! upload! upload!
Watch the Trailer

 

 

"A PROVOCATIVE CINEMATIC EXPERIMENT."  - Michael Tully, Hammer To Nail

 

"One of Ten to Watch at SXSW."  - Eugene Hernandez, indieWIRE

 

"THE DEFINITIVE DOCUMENTARY CHRONICLING THE ELECTION OF BARACK OBAMA."  - Robert Saucedo, Inside Pulse

 

"Watching the film you're reminded how it felt for so much of the country to have so much hope."  - Ari Berman, The Nation

 

"I can highly recommend you see 11/4/08...Goes well beyond just telling a story of which we know the ending."  - Brian Newman, Springboard Media

 

"11/4/08 SHINES...has the power of a double-barreled shotgun blast...Robert Drew would be proud of the direct cinema distillation of pure human experience on display."  - Stephen Saito, IFC News

 

"AN INCREDIBLE FILMMAKING ACHIEVEMENT."  - Jared Moshe, indieWIRE Blog

Two weeks before the election of Barack Obama, filmmaker Jeff Deutchman asked friends around the world to record their experiences of 11/4/08.  He collected footage from over a dozen cities, from Alaska to Dubai, and edited it into a feature-length documentary.  What emerges is a portrait of how people choose to live through "history." Check out the trailer: 11-4-08.com/trailer

 

The feature documentary premiering at SXSW is the first phase of our project.  The second phase is a website, 11-4-08.com, that continues to accept submissions of footage shot on 11/4/08, and will make the raw footage available for users to edit their own versions of events.  Our goal is to use available technology to democratize the way history can be written and understood.