Rooftop Films | Midnight Family
Event Information
Description
In Mexico City, the Ochoas run a private ambulance and struggle to keep their dire finances from compromising their patients. Co-Presented by the Museum of Modern Art.
Date: Saturday, June 29th
Venue: Brooklyn Army Terminal
Address: 140 58th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11220
7:00 PM: Doors Open
7:30 PM: Live Music from Marilyn Castillo
8:00 PM: Film Begins
10:00 PM: Q&A
10:30 PM: After-Party
MIdnight Family
Luke Lorentzen | US, Mexico | 81
The Ochoa family runs a for-profit ambulance in Mexico City, competing with other EMTs for patients in need of urgent help. While making a living in this cutthroat industry, they struggle to keep their financial needs from jeopardizing the people in their care. When a crackdown by corrupt police forces the family to try legitimizing their operation, their desperate financial situation pushes them into questionable practices even as they continue providing essential emergency medical services.
In humanizing the Ochoas’ ethically compromised business, Midnight Family explores urgent questions around healthcare, the failings of government and the complexity of personal responsibility.
A 1091 Media release.
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THIS IS A FREE EVENT. IDENTIFICATION IS NOT REQUIRED FOR ADMISSION, BUT IS REQUIRED FOR ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES. IN THE EVENT OF RAIN, SHOW WILL BE RESCHEDULED AT THE SAME LOCATION. NO OUTSIDE ALCOHOL IS PERMITTED.
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FAQs
Are there ID requirements or an age limit to enter the event?
Identification is not required for admission, but is required for alcoholic beverages.
What are my transport/parking options getting to the event?
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What can/can't I bring to the event?
No outside alcohol is permitted. Feel free to bring snacks!
Do I have to bring my printed ticket to the event?
No, your printed ticket is not required.
Organizer Rooftop Films
Organizer of Rooftop Films | Midnight Family
At Rooftop Films we believe film can be so much more than just watching a movie, so we curate unique events that combine great music, quality film, and some of the most beautiful locations that New York has to offer. By thinking beyond the screen, we help to bring communities together and change the way that film, music, art, and ideas interact with the city around us.
Rooftop Films’ mission is to engage and inspire diverse communities by showing movies in outdoor locations, supporting the production of new independent films, helping local organizations to produce screenings and events, and renting equipment at low-cost to artists and nonprofits. Rooftop Films is more than a film festival. We are a community. We are a collective collaboration between filmmakers and festivals; between audience members and artists; between venues and neighborhoods. Our goal is to nurture a vibrant independent filmmaking and film-going community not only by exhibiting the work of emerging filmmakers, but also by providing essential support systems for those who otherwise have none.
