2015 Rooftop Films: Crystal Moselle, Sean Baker & Trey Shults Part of 19th Edition

Think Drive-in sans automobile. Think film festival that isn’t over with the blink of an eye. We’ve mentioned just how important a role it has in supporting works in progress from the participating IFP’s Independent Filmmaker Lab folks, but it’s also a indie film love-in destination for some of the more innovative items found on the film fest circuit. Brooklynites and visiting cinephiles have several reasons to rejoice as the Rooftop Films folks have unveiled their 2015 Summer Series program and they’ll be serving up a must see plate of indie, docu and shorts.

Among the more tantalizing offerings, Sundance is well repped with Tangerine, The Wolfpack and Finders Keepers and SXSW menu offerings are found in Trey Shults’ Krisha award-winner and in Bob Byington’s 7 Chinese Brothers, which technically opens the 19th edition on May 30th. Here is the list of feature film offerings (dates and more titles will be announced throughout the summer):

Bloomin’ Mud Shuffle (Frank V. Ross)
The Chinese Mayor (Hao Zhou)
Digging for Fire (Joe Swanberg)
Divine Location (Michael Loeken, Ulrike Franke)
Field Niggas (Khalik Allah)
Finders Keepers (Bryan Carberry)
Goodnight Mommy (Severin Fiala and Veronika Franz)
Kings of the Wind and Electric Sheep (Cédric Dupire and Gaspard Kuentz)
Krisha ()
Men Go To Battle (Zachary Treitz)
Romeo is Bleeding (Jason Zeldes)
Sam Klemke’s Time Machine (Matthew Bate)
Spartacus & Cassandra (Ioanis Nuguet)
Tangerine (Sean Baker)
Welcome to Leith (Michael Beach Nichols, Christopher K. Walker)
The Wolfpack (Crystal Moselle)