Escuela de Corta – Last Time We Play Hooky
Film Screening & Ticket Information
When & Where to See this Film!
In Person Date, Time & Location:
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 5TH • 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm
MoMI Redstone • 36-01 35th Ave • Queens, NY 11106
SCREENING BLOCK:
Our New York Home: Two films celebrating the glorious eccentricities of New Yorkers.
Synopsis
Brothers from the lower east side play hooky, for the last time.
The film was created from a film started, but abandoned after a fire gutted the 5 story tenement building that housed the actors on the 2nd floor and the film studio of the fifth. The week before there was a murder of a tenant on the 4th floor. There was a sort of turf war between the hells angels who lived across the street and the film over an empty lot next door. A documentary film, “Making HOOKY” 1997, and book of Photographs, STREET SHOTS HOOKY, explains bette what happened.
But in 2021 a beginning and ending was written and edited using other existing footage from the same time and place. Damaged film from the original production was digitally restored, which I never thought would be possible, and an entirely new narrative film created in 2022.
Credits
- Richard Allen, Director, The One Arm Bandit; St Marks Place NYC; Home Cookin
- Rich Allen, Producer, The One Arm Bandit. Home Cookin – Over 100 Years in the Making. St Marks Place NYC. Side by Each. Groove Tube.
- Lazaro Perez, Key Cast, “Cop”Mombo Kings; Desperately Seeking Susan
- Fernando Madrid, Key Cast, “Boy Who Plays Hooky”St Marks Place NYC
- Orlando Vasquez, Key Cast
- Richard Allen, Writer, One Arm Bandit; Crash Pad; Groove Tube
