We are so pleased to announced that My Brooklyn will be premiering June 2 at the Brooklyn Height Cinema, at 7:30pm, as part of the Brooklyn Film Festival. There will also be a screening on June 10 at 8p0m (closing night at the festival!).

Tickets are going fast so please get them soon if you are planning on coming. We look forward to seeing you, sharing the film and discussing the important issues of development policy in Brooklyn and NYC.

Q&A with the filmmakers, people in the film and a host of others at both screenings.

All the Best,

Kelly, Allison, Fivel, Laurie & Lisa

Team My Brooklyn

Team MY BROOKLYN is thrilled to announce that as of earlier today, we made our $20,000 kickstarter goal ahead of schedule! We cannot thank our wonderful and generous backers enough for helping us get there. We could not have done it without each and every one of them! In addition to allowing us to hire Kathryn Barnier to edit the film (she will start in two weeks), the outpouring of goodwill over the past two months has energized us, and we are more convinced than ever that this film needs to be made. We look forward to continuing the conversation, in person and virtually, that has begun as a result of all of us joining together during this effort. We’ll continue to provide updates on the final days of our campaign, and also, of course, on our progress with MY BROOKLYN – we can’t wait to get back to work on the film! Also: we still have four days left in our campaign, so there is still time to pledge and/or spread the word if you were planning on it. Kickstarter lets us keep any extra funding we raise, which we will need for additional finishing expenses such as archival footage rights and sound mixing. We promise to put any extra support to good use!

A big huge thanks again from all of us!
Allison, Fivel, Kelly, Lenford, and Lisa
TEAM MY BROOKLYN

It’s been a fantastic week for My Brooklyn. This past Friday we were featured on the NY Times Local and The Huffington Post – which has a string of 74 comments so far. Kelly was interviewed by a cool blog – Jeremiah’s Vanishing New York. To top it off we programmed and presented for an entire afternoon at the BMW Guggenheim Lab on Saturday.

But we still need your help on our Kickstarter campaign. We only have 19 days left to go and $5,000 left to raise. Please forward on info about our campaign and ask friends to give – even small amounts help. So talk us up on Facebook or your fave social networking site, email family and friends, etc.

At the Lab We showed clips from the unfinished film, inspired heated yet productive discussions around gentrification, affordable housing, public support for luxury high rises and private developments with activists from FUREE, nonprofit leaders, academics like Meredith Tenhoor and local artisans presenting and selling their work.

Next week we are throwing a fundraiser party – hosted by Filmwax – at the Fifth Estate bar in Park Slope. The event goes from 6 – 9. Come meet the filmmakers and subjects. We’ll show clips, talk, drink, and hang out.