Blackout Film Festival: The Great Recession

In 2004, Tom Keefe founded an annual film festival inspired by the blackout of 2003. Each year since the Blackout Film Festival team has chosen a theme, "a topic that touches the lives of everyone in our community " according to the website, and have called for submission of film shorts on that theme.

This year the theme is The Great Recession, and the program will include shorts such as Wall Street Chicken, a satire featuring a massive pillow fight in the streets of the Financial District, as well as more somber films like Bridge, in which a woman returns home to find her mother missing and her house in foreclosure.

So today at 3PM, 5PM, or 7PM get down to the School of Visual Arts Theater at 333 West 23rd St. between 8th & 9th Ave. The 90-minute program will be shown at each screening and tickets are $12 in advance or $14 at the door.