RIP screening at NYU

A missive from Liz Ogilvie, our VP of Marketing in NYC, about the May 1st screening of RIP! A Remix Manifesto.

With New York City being bombarded by a massive rainstorm it did not come as a surprise when we received an update from the director Brett Gaylor that his early morning flight from Montreal was delayed into JFK. Thinking the weather would pass in time for the RIP! A REMIX MANIFESTO screening and panel discussion, we were on the edge of our seats when the Twitter updates throughout the day from Brett informed us he would be arriving into Manhattan just as the intro was taking place at Wollman Auditorium, Cooper Union at 6:30 p.m.

Wearing waterproofs and galoshes we headed downtown to meet with Howard Weinberg, President of The New York Film/Video Council and Rina Pantalony, Professor, NYU Tisch School of the Arts who had organized the event where we reluctantly accepted the fact there would be no filmmaker and no audience. However, it takes more than a downpour to keep a New York audience away and before long the theater filled up and within seconds to screening time Brett rushed in, set up his laptop, and screened the Ann Arbor Film Festival audience award-winning version of RIP! [it had been mashed since its premiere at SxSW.

The audience responded with boos and cheers and when it came time for the panel discussion Rina was joined by Brett (center in the picture above), Brad Lichtenstein (Director/Blogger, What We Got: DJ Spooky’s Journey to the Commons at left in photo) and Bruce Sinofsky (Co-Director, Metallica: Some Kind of Monster, at right) to a very heated debate about the copyright war from both the audience and panelists.

Photo credit: Peter Bihr