Vino Vérité 10th Anniversary celebration!
Presented by
Bread Garden Market and Little Village Magazine
Sunday, June 8, 7pm
DIALOGUE: Filmmaker Jeremy Workman in person
The Vino Vérité series features talented new voices and established filmmakers influenced by the vérité tradition in person to present their thought-provoking, chance-taking, and visually-arresting films. Each selection is paired with hand-selected wines from Bread Garden Market.
Tickets: $25 public / $20 members / $12 students. Includes wine tasting, film, hors d'oeuvres and filmmaker reception.
6:30pm: Hors d'oeuvres & wine tasting
7pm: Screening
8:45pm: Q&A + wine & dessert reception with filmmaker
"Delightful, thought-provoking... it’ll make you see the world with fresh eyes, and probably wonder why there isn’t more art in it."—RogerEbert.com
"Remarkable... a dazzling doc that’s a kiss-off to gentrification... and affirms the power and necessity of art and those who create it."—The Daily Beast
"Can an apartment be art? Yes, the movie suggests — if you understand art to be fused with life, a way of existing rather than just something you make and sell."—The New York Times
ABOUT SECRET MALL APARTMENT
In 2003, eight Rhode Islanders created a secret apartment inside the busy Providence Place Mall and lived in it for four years. They snuck in furniture, tapped into the mall’s electricity, and even constructed a wall, smuggling in over 2 tons of cinderblock to create a home — not just for themselves but for their ire at the inhuman development they were reclaiming.
Using handheld cameras small enough to fit in an Altoids tin, the team documents their ever evolving art project. Thank goodness they did, or this outrageous story might not be fully believed. Far more than just a wild prank, the secret apartment became a deeply meaningful place for its inhabitants, a clubhouse to coordinate artistic charity, and ultimately, a 750-square-foot "F you" to The Man.
ABOUT THE FILMMAKER
Jeremy Workman is the Emmy-nominated director of numerous feature documentaries including Secret Mall Apartment (2024), the SXSW Film Festival Best Documentary winner Lily Topples the World (2021), and The World Beneath Your Feet (2019), about one man's quest to walk every street of New York City. Jeremy is widely known in the indie community as the Creative Director of Wheelhouse Creative, where he has overseen hundreds of movie trailers. He has been twice nominated for Emmy Awards.
SXSW (2024) — World Premiere
SXSW (2024) — Documentary Spotlight Audience Award
Calgary International (2024) — Special Jury Prize for Artistic Subversion
Cinema Eye Honors (2025) — Audience Choice Prize Nominee
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