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1999 CALENDAR

REEL NEW YORK will be broadcast on Thirteen/WNET on consecutive Fridays at 10pm, June 11, 1999 through July 30, 1999. Repeats will air Sunday nights at 12:00 midnight. This festival calendar is meant to be viewed online and is also suitable for printing.

Premiere: Friday night, June 11, 1999 at 10:00pm.
Repeat: Sunday night, June 13, 1999 at 12:00 midnight.

TRAVIS (Richard Kotuk and Jean Tsien)
The story of Travis Jefferies, a young boy living with AIDS.

Premiere: Friday night, June 18, 1999 at 10:00pm.
Repeat: Sunday night, June 20, 1999 at 12:00 midnight.

P.I. SNAPS (Monica Sharf)
A look at a private eye working in the surprisingly seedy world of corporate counterfeiting.

CRASH PAD
(Richard Allen)
A bungled burglary leads to an unexpected night for a would-be thief.

CRAZY GLUE
(Tatia Rosenthal)
An animated puppet short adapted from a story by Israeli author Etgar Keret.

Premiere: Friday night, June 9, 1999 at 10:00pm.
Repeat: Sunday night, July 11, 1999 at 12:00 midnight.

DAYBREAK EXPRESS (D.A. Pennebaker)
Take a cool ride set to music by Duke Ellington.

DIRT (David Evans and Maria Holter)
A year in the life of the gardens created by Lower East Side residents.

Premiere: Friday night, July 16, 1999 at 10:00pm.
Repeat: Sunday night, July 18, 1999 at 12:00 midnight.

COMPOSITIONS (K. Wise)
A look at the issue of domestic violence in the African-American community.

YOU KNOW WHAT I'M SAYING?
(Emily Fisher and Frizzi Maniglio)
A South Bronx community fights to survive drug abuse, the spread of AIDS, and indifference.

IMMER ZU
(Janie Geiser)
An elliptical, experimental animated film evoking a mysterious undercover world.

THE DOG POEM
(Sue Wrbican)
A narrative tale of canine instincts as a metaphor for deeper pyschological concerns.

SILVERCUP
(Jim Jennings)
A tender ode to the industrial neighborhood of Long Island City in Queens.

Premiere: Friday night, July 23, 1999 at 10:00pm.
Repeat: Sunday night, July 25, 1999 at 12:00 midnight.

MISS RUBY'S HOUSE
(Lisa Collins)
Five women mourn and celebrate the life of their former babysitter.

MAYA
(Catherine Benedek)
A woman struggles against her mother's desire for her daughter to get married.

Premiere: Friday night, June 25, 1999 at 10:00pm.
Repeat: Sunday night, June 27, 1999 at 12:00 midnight.

RULES OF THE GAME
(Jörg Fockele)
Gay and lesbian youths talk openly about their experiences growing up in New York.

PURSE (Liss Platt and Kelly Dolak)
A lighthearted look at the culturally ubiquitous purse.

Premiere: Friday night, July 2, 1999 at 10:00pm.
Repeat: Sunday night, July 4, 1999 at 12:00 midnight.

SCRATCHING WINDOWS (Kenneth Eng)
A look at graffiti in New York, '90s-style.

N.Y., N.Y.
(Francis Thompson)
Everyday street life becomes a kaleidoscope of surreal images.

SWEEP
(Mark Street)
An ordinary spring day in Brooklyn becomes extraordinary for a young father and his toddler daughter.

WALKING TO YOU
(Gabriel Blanco)
A cine-poem whose narrator refuses to accept the reality of lost love.

MIRAR MIRROR (Stacey Holman)
A supermodel learns that the world of modeling isn't all glamour.

COMPAÑERA (Alison Swan)
A female prison guard comes face to face with a young political prisoner.

Premiere: Friday night, July 30, 1999 at 10:00pm.
Repeat: Sunday night, August 1, 1999 at 12:00 midnight.

CLOCKMASTER (David Ford)
The unique world of Marvin Schneider, official clockmaster of the City of New York.

CANAL STREET (Keiko Tsuno)
Take a tour of the dirtiest, noisiest, and most vibrant street in New York City.

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