I’m not trying to be a full-time Anthology Film Archives promotion factory, but in addition to their aforementioned Minnelli festival, tonight the house that Jonas Mekas built is hosting a NewFilmakers program called NewFilmmakers Goes Frat which looks pretty great.
The program includes two films I’d like to see: Altered by Elvis, described as “a documentary feature about lives permanently affected by Elvis Presley,” and Jones, a feature about a young dad-to-be who visits New York on business and gets caught up in the world of Asian call girls. In a Reeler story posted earlier today, Jones director Preston Miller says Jones, which was made on a budget of “about $2,000″, is a testament to the fact that “to make a feature, you don’t have to have tons of money or even a little bit of money.” Judging by the trailer (embedded above), Miller got quite a bit of mileage out of leading man Trey Albright, who comes off as something like Matthew Perry, but with a personality.
For more info on this and future NewFilmmakers programs, check out their website.