Visiting filmmaker Nataša Prosenc Stearns
Cold Table Read of Permanent Rainbow,
Her Latest Feature-Length Screenplay (10/29/2025)
October brought us the visit of filmmaker Nataša Prosenc Stearns on an exchange courtesy of the Embassy of Slovenia. Ms. Stearns, who coined the term EMI (“Expanded Moving Image”) to describe her work, is an award-winning filmmaker and visual artist based in Los Ángeles who exhibits frequently in her home country and all over the world. During her time with us, we screened her featurette documentary What is Enough, as part of our pilot nine-month series of film/arts events at La Nacional-Spanish Benevolent Society.
For her farewell, we brought together nine professional actors from our human network, or recommended by trusted sources, to do a cold table read of Ms. Prosenc Stearns’ new feature-length screenplay, Permanent Rainbow. Cold table reads require skillful actors who can bring the text to life, giving both filmmakers and playwrights the valuable opportunity to listen carefully to their words brought to life as an arthouse party. The exercise may bring weaknesses or problems into high relief, lessons that take patience and time to digest. Ms. Prosenc Stearns is a perfectionist and we hope in some way to have helped the screenplay along in its development.
CAST MEMBERS:
NARRATOR: Maximilian Kempf
HERMAN: Klement Mucha
DORIAN/HOUSEMAID/FISH/WOMAN IN A SUIT: Walter Krochmal
MINA: Kathi Reichle
SELMA: Tayquana-ajé
GRISELDA: Kika Child
LUIS: Johary Ramos
VALDA: Makfire Miftari
JAY: Ray Gjonbalaj
Cultured Focus Magazine Excellence in Film & Culture award (Honoree Walter Krochmal)
Cultured Focus Magazine Excellence in FIlm and Culture Award
Honoree 2025: Walter Krochmal, Founder, Executive Director
Bronx World Film, Inc.
“arthouse film for integral human development”
The Founder and Executive Director of Bronx World Film, Inc. to receive award at the November 18th closing edition of “A Night at La Nacional,” the nine-month pilot film/arts series the organization has been producing at its long-time Manhattan host venue of La Nacional - Spanish Benevolent Society. The event is free of charge.
WALTER KROCHMAL receives the CULTURED FOCUS MAGAZINE Excellence in Film and Culture Award.
We are honored to announce: Walter Krochmal, founder of Bronx World Film (@bronxworldfilm) and a champion for independent cinema and diverse voices, is our 2025 Cultured Focus Magazine Excellence in Film & Culture Award Honoree!
Through his pioneering “roving cinémathèque,” Walter has brought international and local films to the heart of our communities and elevated women, youth, and filmmakers from all cultural backgrounds.
Come celebrate his visionary work connecting us all through the power of film!
Nov 18th, 2025; 530-930pm
“A Night at La Nacional”
239 West 14th St. NYC
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