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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

 

NO FESTIVAL REQUIRED PRESENTS “BUILDING COMMUNITY CINEMA”

 

“Drivers Wanted”, a film by Joshua Weinstein and Jean Tsien

with after-film Q and A from taxi driver/comedian Mike Kennedy

Thursday January 31, 2013 7:00pm (doors at 6pm)

The Hive, 2222 North 16th Street(aka The Bee’s Knees Vintage Clothes and Gifts)

Phoenix AZ 85006 602-254-1641

 

Free admission-coffee drinks and snacks for sale from Mud Dauber Coffee

 

Sponsored by Phoenix Revitalization Corporation and Butler Housing Company

 

Website-http://www.driverswantedfilm.com/

 

Trailer-http://vimeo.com/weinsteinfilm/driverswantedfilm

 

REVIEWS

 

"This isnt a romantic panorama of New York...Its New York from the drivers

seat". - Washing City Paper

 

“Weinstein succeeds in capturing the workings of a perhaps too-little

understood common profession, while also revealing the impact of the

Recession in an understated way.” – Indiewire

 

“8 out of 10 stars” – Pop Matters

 

“The New York street system consists of 6174 miles of mostly asphalt roads and legend has it that a real yellow cab driver knows this jungle like the back of his hand. The filmmakers Jean Tsien and Joshua Weinstein mixed with the colorful community of drivers, mechanics and office clerks working for a long-established taxi company in Queens to document that the original ideal of the common man’s Big Apple is still very much alive and present in this slightly seedy enterprise. “

 

– Ralph Eue (DOK Leipzig Programmer)

 

FULL REVIEW-http://movies.nytimes.com/2012/11/30/movies/drivers-wanted-a-documentary-by-joshua-z-weinstein.html?ref=movies&_r=1&

 

DIRECTORS STATEMENT

 

My family is the hardworking sort, who immigrated to New York with little

besides the dust in their pockets. Jack, my mom’s father was a tall

mustachioed mechanic who would cause metal detectors to alarm because of WW II shrapnel still stuck in his thigh. Years later trying to unionize a mechanic shop in Queens he lost his job, and ended up driving a taxi for the last decade of his career.

 

Jack boasted about picking up Chubby Checker and knowing the quickest route to anywhere in the city. He also got my mom a job driving a livery cab while she was in college.

 

For my grandfather work was the way he supported his family and created

a better life for them. But being a good father, and husband wasnt the

only reason he coveted his jobs. Work defined who he was to the

community and himself.

 

What compels someone to drive this cities 6,174 miles; through traffic, and

torrential rain and block parties and blizzards? Everyone who drives a cab

spends hundreds of dollars a week just to rent a shiny golden car and take

a chance. There are easier ways to make a living but cab drivers are

laborers, dreamers, immigrants, iconoclasts, loners, gamblers, and the

ones who chose to come to New York City and go for broke.

 

DRIVERS WANTED is a film about New York City’s most famous

profession, but it is also about what the profession gives back to the people who are a part of it.


-- 
Steve Weiss
Executive Director, No Festival Required Independent Cinema
602-265-9524 http://www.nofestivalrequired.com
Since 2002, screening thoughtful and provocative moving pictures!



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