Films

Flatbush Pictures is dedicated to developing compelling film, video and new media projects that entertain, inspire and make a difference in the world.

• RUN FOR YOUR LIFE

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  Without one eccentric first-generation Jewish immigrant from Transylvania, the New York City Marathon simply wouldn't exist. This fun and inspirational tribute to the late Fred Lebow shows how one man's imagination, determination, and love for running created one fo the world's most popular sporting events.

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• MAYOR OF THE WEST SIDE

  Airing on PBS nationwide.

  
  

  Available on Educational Video.
  Coming soon to Home Video.
  
  The Emmy-nominated coming-of-age story of Mark Puddington, a teenager with multiple disabilities and local celebrity in his New York City neighborhood. As Mark prepares for his religious rite of passage, a family and community must begin to consider his life away from home and the West Side.

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• MAGIC CAMP

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  To escape the pressures of growing up, magic-obsessed kids congregate at the one place they can be themselves. They want to prove their worth on the same stage where superstar magicians like Blaine and Copperfield once performed. But to get there, they need to learn more than sleight of hand and tricks of the trade. They have to find the magic inside.

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• UNTITLED SCI-FI PROJECT

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  Barry Geller, a young, eccentric writer and inventor, comes to Hollywood in the 1970s to produce a sci-fi blockbuster film and build the world's first science fiction theme park. To realize his dream, he enlists the likes of John Chambers (Academy Award, Planet of the Apes) and Jack Kirby (creator of the Hulk, the X-Men, Iron Man, and Captain America) and becomes embroiled with a con man, the CIA, and the Iranian hostage crisis.

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• UNTITLED LIBERIA PROJECT

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  The film follows rubber "tapper" families involved in the ongoing workers' rights movement in the town of Harbel, Liberia as the attempt to stand up to a multi-million dollar corporation. As they struggle to survive in one of the most impoverished and war-torn nations in the world, the fates of the workers and their families become linked to their own nation's troubled past.

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