The Art of Brooklyn Film Festival Keeps It Local
“What Brooklyn needed was not a good film festival,” Jason Cusato (above) says in rapid-fire speech and heavy accent, “it has plenty of good festivals. What Brooklyn needed was a film festival that concentrated solely on Brooklyn filmmakers and on Brooklyn.” With 2.5 million residents and the largest borough in New York City – if an independent city, Brooklyn would be the fourth largest in the United States – with a diverse and energetic populace residing in distinctive and tight-knit neighborhoods, with the gritty and refined hopelessly interwoven, with a tornado substituting for a Zeitgeist, with shadowboxing demons and an occasional elephant a favorite pastime, Brooklyn is large, more than […]
by Stewart Nusbaumer on May 13, 2013
