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September 22: TWELVE WAYS TO SUNDAY World Premiere at High Line, New York, NY

Wednesday, September 22

Twelve Ways To Sunday world premiere.
From the diner counters, church pews and backwoods of rural New York comes a collection of testimonies about the quiet struggle of a small community.

Venue: HIGH LINE
Address: 16th St. and 10th Ave, Chelsea.
Directions: A, C, E, F, 1, 2, or 3 trains to 14th Street and walk west.

7:00pm: Live Music by High Highs
7:30pm: Film begins
10:30pm: Q and A with the filmmakers
Admission: No charge. No RSVP necessary.

TWELVE WAYS TO SUNDAY (Anna Farrell | Allegany County, NY | 65 min.)
“Work is about a search for daily meaning as well as daily bread, for recognition as well as cash, for astonishment rather than torpor; in short, for a sort of life rather than a Monday through Friday sort of dying.”
-Studs Terkel

The personalities featured in Twelve Ways to Sunday, affecting a combination of simplicity and self-reliance, demonstrate that who we are is often unrelated to how we earn a paycheck. As the film travels from diner counters to church pews, from living rooms to the backwoods, a cast of colorful characters emerges. We meet Mary, a traveling teacher who cans her own food; Ken, a pastor who also makes and sells candy; John and Rita, a pair of motorcycle- and tattoo-enthusiasts; a grizzled truck driver, a hopeful elementary school principal, a homesteader, a waitress, a shepherd, a hunter, and the local quilting ladies.

Featuring lush but stark photography and a delicately enticing score, Anna Farrell has crafted a film that reflects its subjects perfectly: plain-spoken but rich in ideas, straightforward but full of nuanced stories and characters.

Anna Farrell was a 2009 IFP Documentary Lab Fellow with Twelve Ways to Sunday, so a sneak peak of her film first screened for the public at the Rooftop Films / IFP Lab Selections screening last year. Rooftop is once again thrilled to collaborate with IFP to host the world premiere of an alumni film.