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Blues

– by Dena Greenbaum

    1. Fiction

    2. Date Awarded: RFF Class 2009

    3. Directors(s): Dena Greenbaum

    1. Producer(s): Dena Greenbaum, Michelle-Anne Small

    2. Location: New York, NY (USA)

    1. Film Status: Completed

About the Film:

Blues tells the story of two boys, a religious Jew and African American, who develop a unique friendship over their shared love of music during the 1991 riots of Crown Heights, Brooklyn.

About the Filmmakers:

Dena Greenbaum is a senior at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, majoring in Film & Television with a double minor in Producing and Business.  She has produced and directed numerous student films and television projects.  The documentary, Democratization of Coney Island, which she wrote, produced, edited, and directed, was selected as part of the Coney Island Film Festival in 2005. Dena recently returned from studying abroad in Australia, where she interned at the Sydney Film Festival.  Her past internships include positions with Fox Searchlight Pictures and Radical Media. Greenbaum’s RFF Film Blues received the 2009 Morris Fierberg Student Film Award at the Rehoboth Beach Film Society and is currently interning at Late Night With Jimmy Fallon, and working on her senior thesis film at NYU.  In the future, she hopes to start a production company and further pursue her passion for directing films.