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Rooftop Films Week 10

Sentenced Home
A feature-length documentary by David Grabias

Thursday August 3, 2006
8:30 - Music
9:00 - Showtime
TRT: 1:15:50
On the roof of Downtown Communtiy Television (DCTV) | DIRECTIONS
87 Lafayette, 2 blocks below Canal btwn Walker & White, Tribeca, Manhattan

Sentenced Home
Over 1,400 Cambodian-Americans are currently being forcibly deported back to Cambodia. Raised as Americans in America, they are being sent into exile to a distant homeland they never really knew—a homeland that starved, tortured, and murdered their families. Sentenced Home is their story. This feature-length documentary tells the heart-breaking personal sagas of the deportees, following several characters? stories full-circle: from birth in Cambodia to their unwilling return decades later.

To learn more about "Sentenced Home," visit the MediaRights.org website: mediarights.org/film/sentenced_home

B.I.K.E.
A feature-length documentary by Jacob Septimus & Anthony Howard
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Friday August 4, 2006
8:30 - Live Music by Vaz
9:00 - Showtime
TRT: 1:29:00
The roof of 210 Cook Street, Bushwick, Brooklyn | DIRECTIONS

B.I.K.E.
If you've been to underground noise rock shows, dangerous loft parties in derelict areas, or unlawful bicycle events in the streets, you might've noticed some of the members of the Black Label Bicycle Club. They tend to be tattooed and pierced and wear black-painted jeans-jackets. They seem to like to party and fight. And they build their own bicycles. Tall-bikes, in particular: frames welded on top of other frames so the seat rides six feet off the ground. They're easy to spot cruising down a crowded avenue, or jousting under a bridge, carrying a long plumbing pipe and trying to knock an opponent to the tar.
But if you've only ever gawked from afar at these pedal-powered Hell's Angels, you don't know the whole story.

THE MUSIC:
Vaz are dark and spooky but still manage to have an outstanding pop element.
Visit them online thevaz.com or on MySpace, myspace.com/thevaz

Trapped Inside the Machine
You canít walk out during the credits if the movie is YOU.
Saturday, August 5th, 2006
8:30 - Live Music by Johnnytwentythree
9:00 - Showtime
TRT: 1:37:29
On the lawn of Automotive High School | DIRECTIONS
50 Bedford Ave, between N. 12th and Lorimer, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
In the event of rain the show is indoors at the same location.

Trapped Inside the Machine