{"id":14098,"date":"2016-09-28T12:41:36","date_gmt":"2016-09-28T16:41:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/multi.nycnewsnetwork.com\/brooklynbuzz\/4-films-to-get-excited-about-at-this-years-bushwick-film-festival\/"},"modified":"2016-09-28T12:41:36","modified_gmt":"2016-09-28T16:41:36","slug":"4-films-to-get-excited-about-at-this-years-bushwick-film-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nycnewsnetwork.com\/brooklynbuzz\/4-films-to-get-excited-about-at-this-years-bushwick-film-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"4 films to get excited about at this year\u2019s Bushwick Film Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A star actress flees her crimes abroad in &#8216;You Can&#8217;t Escape Lithuania.&#8217; For a while there, Bushwick&#8217;s reputation as a Brooklyn neighborhood was mostly infamous, its personality largely reduced to\u00a0reports of cultural appropriation\u00a0and brutally unfunny\u00a0SNL skits. But that game has tired, and so Bushwick\u00a0has made it out of the (Heavy) woods of Brooklyn-mocking to reemerge in its pupal form\u00a0as a hub for creativity and culture. A prime example of the aforementioned is the annual Bushwick Film Festival, a juried three-day festival that showcases the work of independent filmmakers, the majority of whom hail from Brooklyn. From Sept. 29 through Oct. 2, you can catch all kinds of exciting cinema that covers contemporary issues:\u00a0otherness, reproductive freedom, gang violence, entrepreneurship and more.\u00a0This year&#8217;s festival\u00a0also\u00a0features\u00a0a\u00a0Women in Film Day on Saturday, which includes brunch, a panel discussion on women in film &amp; television, plus\u00a0films directed by women. The festival kicks off tonight\u00a0at 7pm at Bushwick&#8217;s Lot 45&hellip; Read More<\/p>\n<p>4 films to get excited about at this year\u2019s Bushwick Film Festival : <a href=\"http:\/\/brokelyn.com\/bushwick-film-festival-no-9\/\">Brokelyn<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A star actress flees her crimes abroad in &#8216;You Can&#8217;t Escape Lithuania.&#8217; For a whil<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5893,"featured_media":14099,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[2729],"class_list":["post-14098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-brokelyn"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v23.4 (Yoast SEO v26.6) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>4 films to get excited about at this year\u2019s Bushwick Film Festival - Brooklyn News and Events<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/nycnewsnetwork.com\/brooklynbuzz\/4-films-to-get-excited-about-at-this-years-bushwick-film-festival\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"4 films to get excited about at this year\u2019s Bushwick Film Festival\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A star actress flees her crimes abroad in &#8216;You Can&#8217;t Escape Lithuania.&#8217; 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