To celebrate the opening weekend of PUTTY HILL in New York City, February 18th at Cinema Village, Matt Porterfield will be sitting down with special guests for post-screening conversations after every evening screening .

The weekend will culminate with a party at Lit Lounge Sunday February 20th, featuring the music of Co La, Dustin Wong, and Dope Body.

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Friday 2/18

• 5pm screening: conversation w/ Yancey Strickler (Kickstarter) and Matt Porterfield
• 7pm screening: conversation w/ Jonathan Caouette (TARNATION), Sky Ferreira, Zoe Vance and the PUTTY HILL crew
• 9pm screening: conversation w/ Yance Ford (POV), Esther Robinson (ArtHome, DANNY WILLIAMS: A WALK IN THE SEA), and Ross Kauffman (BORN INTO BROTHELS)

Saturday 2/19

• 12pm screening: conversation w/ Matt Porterfield and his dad, Gordon
• 5pm screening: conversation w/ Jeronimo Rodriguez (NY1 News) and Matt Porterfield
• 7pm screening: conversation w/ Richard Brody (The New Yorker) and Matt Porterfield
• 9pm screening: conversation w/ Amos Poe (filmmaker) and Matt Porterfield

Sunday 2/20

• 5pm screening: conversation w/ Amy Dotson (IFP) and Matt Porterfield
• 7pm screening: conversation w/ Chris Keating (Yeasayer) and Matt Porterfield
• 9pm screening: conversation w/ Jem Cohen (filmmaker) and the PUTTY HILL crew

The Hamilton Film Group and Cinema Guild are proud to present the US Theatrical release of PUTTY HILL, the new film by Matt Porterfield, starring the 18-year-old sultry electro-pop newcomer, Sky Ferreira. An official Selection of the Berlin International Film Festival and SXSW, among many others, PUTTY HILL, will open in New York at Cinema Village on February 18. A national release will follow.

A beautifully realized portrait of a close-knit community on the outskirts of Baltimore, PUTTY HILL is the second feature from celebrated young filmmaker Matt Porterfield (HAMILTON). At a neighborhood karaoke bar, friends and family gather to remember a young man who passed away. Knowing little about his final days, they attempt to reconstruct his life. In the process, they offer a window onto their own lives, an evocative picture of working-class America, dislocated from the progress and mobility around them, but united in pursuit of a shared dream. Exquisitely shot and employing surprising documentary techniques, PUTTY HILL, is one of the most exciting American indie films in years.

The Cinema Eye Honors for Nonfiction Filmmaking announced today the five nominees for the first annual Cinema Eye Heterodox Award, sponsored by Filmmaker Magazine.

The Cinema Eye Heterodox Award marks a new award category created to honor a narrative film that imaginatively incorporates nonfiction strategies, content and/or modes of production. These films illuminate the formal possibilities of nonfiction filmmaking while raising provocative questions about on-going documentary orthodoxy and the perceived boundaries between narrative and nonfiction filmmaking.

The five films nominated for the first Heterodox Award are: Pedro Gonzalez-Rubio’s ALAMAR, Matt Porterfield’s PUTTY HILL, Michelangelo Frammartino’s LE QUATTRO VOLTE, Lena Dunham’s TINY FURNITURE, and Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s UNCLE BOONMEE WHO CAN RECALL HIS PAST LIVES.