DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN — A NEW FESTIVAL focused on Brooklyn film, art and culture will launch this November at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. “Playback: The Brooklyn Watch Party” will be hosted by filmmaker Spike Lee and Brooklyn Nets, New York Liberty and Barclays Center owner Clara Wu Tsai in collaboration with BAM. Filmmaker Nicolas Ma is producing the event.
“Playback” debuts on Nov. 6 at BAM and will be a two-day festival including celebrity guest curators to be announced, film screenings, conversations with creatives, a street fair, pop-up activations and more. There will also be a variety of arts events spanning poetry, film, music and more.
“With ‘Playback’ we are setting out to create a new kind of film festival — one that brings together people who share a love of storytelling through film,” said Wu Tsai. “Spike has put Brooklyn on screen for decades, and BAM has served as the borough’s cultural hub for over a century. There is nowhere else like Brooklyn, nothing like the energy of this borough, and this festival will highlight all that makes our community unique.”
Tickets for the festival go on sale in September.
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