New Brooklyn
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New Brooklyn is a 2008 feature film
directed by Christopher Cannucciari, starring Blanca Lewin, Matt Cavenaugh
, Frank Harts, Pablo Cerda, Kat Ross and Frank Nasso.
New Brooklyn is Blanca Lewin's first feature film in English. Her previous works include; Sangre eterna, Sábado, una película en tiempo real and En la cama. The film will be released to various film festival
s beginning late Fall 2008. The film is a drama
about the movable and unmovable obstacles in the lives of Brooklyn dwellers, centering around the story of a recent South American arrival, Marta Piro (Blanca Lewin). The film includes a mix of professional actors and Brooklyn non actors.
is in transition from warehouses and barrios to a gentrified playground of boutiques and ultra-modern condominiums. New Brooklyn is a gritty depiction of survival alongside a tumultuously changing city."
. Marta becomes exploited by both the city and Angela's brother, Eddie. She desperately waits for her Chile
an boyfriend, Alvaro to arrive and make things better. Marta, it seems, is a woman with her life on hold. She moved from Chile to get work as an actress in New York, but she spends all of her free time talking about and waiting for her boyfriend, Alvaro (Pablo Cerda), to join her from Chile. Once he arrives, however, he is so supremely uninterested in her that he rarely makes eye contact with her and bolts from the apartment as soon as he dumps his stuff on the bed. After Alvaro arrives only to break up with her, Marta must learn to find the courage to stand up for herself and confront Angela and Eddie.
Feature film
In the film industry, a feature film is a film production made for initial distribution in theaters and being the main attraction of the screening, rather than a short film screened before it; a full length movie...
directed by Christopher Cannucciari, starring Blanca Lewin, Matt Cavenaugh
Matt Cavenaugh
Matt Cavenaugh is an American stage, film, and television actor. He graduated from Ithaca College with a BFA in 2001. Cavenaugh's film debut was in Little Monsters as a child actor, and has more recently played starring roles on Broadway and Off Broadway...
, Frank Harts, Pablo Cerda, Kat Ross and Frank Nasso.
New Brooklyn is Blanca Lewin's first feature film in English. Her previous works include; Sangre eterna, Sábado, una película en tiempo real and En la cama. The film will be released to various film festival
Film festival
A film festival is an organised, extended presentation of films in one or more movie theaters or screening venues, usually in a single locality. More and more often film festivals show part of their films to the public by adding outdoor movie screenings...
s beginning late Fall 2008. The film is a drama
Drama
Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance. The term comes from a Greek word meaning "action" , which is derived from "to do","to act" . The enactment of drama in theatre, performed by actors on a stage before an audience, presupposes collaborative modes of production and a...
about the movable and unmovable obstacles in the lives of Brooklyn dwellers, centering around the story of a recent South American arrival, Marta Piro (Blanca Lewin). The film includes a mix of professional actors and Brooklyn non actors.
Synopsis
"BrooklynBrooklyn
Brooklyn is the most populous of New York City's five boroughs, with nearly 2.6 million residents, and the second-largest in area. Since 1896, Brooklyn has had the same boundaries as Kings County, which is now the most populous county in New York State and the second-most densely populated...
is in transition from warehouses and barrios to a gentrified playground of boutiques and ultra-modern condominiums. New Brooklyn is a gritty depiction of survival alongside a tumultuously changing city."
Plot
Marta and Angela are Brooklyn roommates. Angela has lived in Brooklyn her whole life, Marta has recently arrived from South AmericaSouth America
South America is a continent situated in the Western Hemisphere, mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a relatively small portion in the Northern Hemisphere. The continent is also considered a subcontinent of the Americas. It is bordered on the west by the Pacific Ocean and on the north and east...
. Marta becomes exploited by both the city and Angela's brother, Eddie. She desperately waits for her Chile
Chile
Chile ,officially the Republic of Chile , is a country in South America occupying a long, narrow coastal strip between the Andes mountains to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west. It borders Peru to the north, Bolivia to the northeast, Argentina to the east, and the Drake Passage in the far...
an boyfriend, Alvaro to arrive and make things better. Marta, it seems, is a woman with her life on hold. She moved from Chile to get work as an actress in New York, but she spends all of her free time talking about and waiting for her boyfriend, Alvaro (Pablo Cerda), to join her from Chile. Once he arrives, however, he is so supremely uninterested in her that he rarely makes eye contact with her and bolts from the apartment as soon as he dumps his stuff on the bed. After Alvaro arrives only to break up with her, Marta must learn to find the courage to stand up for herself and confront Angela and Eddie.
Cast
- Blanca Lewin as Marta Piro
- Pablo Cerda as Alvaro
- Matt CavenaughMatt CavenaughMatt Cavenaugh is an American stage, film, and television actor. He graduated from Ithaca College with a BFA in 2001. Cavenaugh's film debut was in Little Monsters as a child actor, and has more recently played starring roles on Broadway and Off Broadway...
as Brad Steward - Frank Harts as Eddie
- Shelley Thomas as Angela
- Frank Nasso as Thuglio