KATI WITH AN I w/Robert Greene Live

Director Robert Greene Live!

This New York Times Critics Pick and recent nominee of the highly prestigious Gotham Award for Best Film Not Playing at a Theatre Near You is a miracle of documentary filmmaking.  Greene, a documentarian whose style brings together the best of the Maysles Brothers and Frederick Wiseman, works with the sensitivity of a poet.  He identifies the subtle tensions and inspirations that drive his subjects and he brings them to life with his camera. 

In KATI WITH AN I, Greene follows eighteen-year old Kati, a naïve and headstrong girl with the heart of an artist, on the three days leading up to her high school graduation.  Her life is changing, and she fights vigorously to hold onto any semblance of her past, and her youth, as it slips away. 

Throughout this often heart-breaking tale, Greene is somehow able to capture moments of hope and beauty; as a filmmaker he has an uncanny ability to find intimacy within the spaces other filmmakers turn off their cameras.  He takes a seemingly minor section of an unknown teenager’s life and makes it feel devastatingly important. A truly beautiful film. (Daniel)

Also check out Robert Greene's other film, FAKE IT SO REAL, playing August 15th and 16th at the Ritz.