Casa Film Festival
CWP presents CasaFilm Festival, a one-night-only early summer celebration of live music and independent short films.
Please purchase tickets through the Eventbrite link. A Partiful RSVP is NOT a ticket. Doors open at 6:30 PM.
About the Festival
The evening begins with live performances programmed by The New York Company, followed by a curated selection of six indie short films presented by CasaFilm Anthologies. After the screenings, guests are invited to a Q&A with the directors. To finish off the night, the dance floor will open with tracks curated by a DJ.
CasaFilm Festival brings together live music, independent cinema, and artistic community for an unforgettable night celebrating creativity while supporting our city’s historic landmarks. All proceeds from this event will go towards supporting the St Paul and St Andrew Church, which is in danger of being torn down to make way for a high rise.
About the Featured Films
Behind the Pose
A short film by Sally Lomidze
A teen Eastern-European model on the brink of losing her contract must redeem herself in one last photoshoot under threat of sexual exploitation and deportation.
All My Friends
A Cultivision Production
Nine year old Max meets with a therapist to talk about all of the strange new friends he's been making.
Sogna
Written and directed by Julie Casamonti
1942, Florence, Italy. Two young sisters are running away with their father on stolen bikes, but the only escape possible is when they close their eyes. A psychological exploration of political trauma, nightmares, and the child psyche through film.
Silence Helvetique
Written and directed by Julie Casamonti
In an abandoned luxury Swiss hotel, the entitled prince manipulates two isolated twin schoolgirls into a world of drugs, temptation and excess. The hotel’s loyal bellboy quietly conceals the corruption.
Katherine Huggard
Written and directed by Julie Casamonti
An exploration of the journey through love, loss, and transformation, told through dance.
About the Featured Musicians
Neska Rose is a 20-year-old multi-hyphenate artist who oozes creative intensity in the relentless pursuit of her muse. A captivating live performer, she seamlessly switches between guitar and piano, self-producing a sound entirely her own: bold, cinematic, and emotionally raw.
Stella Gray is an NYC-based experimental pop artist making music for hot girls with trauma and trust issues. Blending rappy cadences, maximalist electronic production, and emotionally reckless songwriting, her sound lives somewhere between club sweat and quiet breakdowns.
Jaden Andreone is a 20 year old New York–based artist and songwriter with a fresh sound that is undeniably his own. With a love for poetry, Andreone delivers cutting, concise lyrics over his distinctive “scrapbook production.”
Dali Rose, born Drake Hunt, a 23-year-old Atlanta native, has been surrounded by music his entire life. Growing up, Drake listened to a lot of Earl Sweatshirt, King Krule, Jimi Hendrix, Sly Stone and Nina Simone, which, of course, helped inform his personal songwriting style.
About the Featured Filmmakers
Sally Lomidze (Behind the Pose) is a filmmaker who's drawn to stories about the things people struggle to say out loud. Being born in Russia to a Georgian family and later building a life in New York shaped the way she sees people and informs her interest in stories about belonging, womanhood, vulnerability, and the tension between how we present ourselves and what we feel internally.
Colin Tunney (All My Friends) is an independent filmmaker from New Jersey and owner of the boutique production company Cultivision, where he often operates simultaneously as director, cinematographer, editor, and producer. Across projects, there is a recurring interest in identity, perception, and the instability of reality- frequently expressed through characters that blur the line between the mundane and the grotesque.
Julie Casamonti (Sogne) moved to New York in 2023 to study theatre, but she couldn’t stay away from filmmaking. She started writing scripts at 16 and got her first short film produced in Geneva in 2021, A Fleur de Peau, which she starred in and directed. Her most recent work, Sogna, was produced by Fordham University after winning the Summer Research Grant. She is currently in pre-production as executive producer for several exciting short films.
Katherine Huggard (Amor Fati) is a Director and Editor based in Brooklyn, NY. She studied filmmaking at NYU’s Kanbar Institute of Film and Television, where she specialized in post-production and experimental film. Most of her films are void of dialogue, focusing instead on creating an immersive world through atmosphere and emotion. She is drawn towards intimate, introspective stories that explore emotion in its most raw, unfiltered state, often in themes of love, fear, and loss.
There are no economic barriers at CWP. Please email CWP Resident Producer Madelyn Paquette at madelyn@centeratwestpark.org or call 212-997-4490 if you require tickets at a different price point
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