5:30 pm DOORS OPEN. BAR - MIXER.
• Lounge Music with Nick Colt
• Kate McCamy (Memorial Video)
• Timothi Jane Graham (Lexi, a Photo Essay)
• Lynda Fassa (Portrait Art)
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6:00 pm INTRODUCTIONS, DEDICATION
• Walter Krochmal • Diane Specioso
• Lynn Berg • Meredith Brosnan
6:30 pm LIVE MUSIC
• Ann Osmond
• Mercantillers
• Laura Fay Lewis/Fitz “FitzyFitz” Fitsimmons
7:10 POETRY, PERFORMANCE AND REMINISCENCES
• The Raven
New School for Leadership and the Arts (Bronx)
• Paul Allman
• Stuart Rudin
• John Sarich
• Lori Seliger
• Teddy Jefferson
• HEADLINER: Al’s Lear
8:00 Cultured Focus Magazine
Excellence in Film and Culture Award
Presented by Taylor Re (Publisher)
Honoree 2025 Walter Krochmal
(Founder, Executive Director, Bronx World Film)
8:30 SCREENING ROOM
• Al Performing Titanic (dir. Bob Berger)
• One Bridge Lane (dir. Nick Colt)
• Un pote nain (dir. Lynn Berg)
9:15 Q & A, POST-PRANDIAL
Un pote nain (SCR/DIR Lynn Berg, USA, 2007, 22 min. Comedy). A faux French film about a man chasing the American dream – as fast as he can! (In French with English subtitles)
Tues. Nov. 18 @ 8:15 pm
One Bridge Lane (SCR/DIR Nick Colt, USA, 2015. Experimental. 6 min. 26 seconds) Rich has been given an ultimatum. He has to leave today. “It’s my birthday— “No, Rich, Today.” Rich just wants to stay a few more days in his home seaside, in his garage repairing old clocks that he finds everywhere. Oh, but Rich also owns the local beekeeper… who isn’t violent, but who gives Rich until the end of the week to pay or he chops him up with a hatchet.
Tues. Nov. 18 @ 8:15 pm
Al Performing Titanic, Music and Lyrics by the band Low End (Al Ramos and Stefan Zorich). Story by Al Ramos. Performance Footage. 6 min. 12 sec.
Interactive play performed on the Historic Lightship Frying Pan on Pier 66, NYC.You may remember "Titanic" as a Broadway show (oh, and also a film). But writer and performer Al Ramos was convinced he "could write a better musical." At special performances of "Titanic! A Folk Rock Opera" aboard the Frying Pan, a lightship docked near Chelsea Piers, Ramos and creative partner Stefan Zorich recreate the story of Captain E. Smith and First Officer William Murdoch. Ramos explains that Captain Smith's presence on the Titanic was unplanned. "He had retired and was tossed this voyage as a gesture of gratitude for years of service," Ramos says. "It is all tragedy and irony within tragedy." Performances will occur at both the Frying Pan and the Living Theatre, but the ship is sure to create a more poignant setting.
Tues. Nov. 18 @ 8:15 pm
