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Friday, January 18

9:00 p.m. “A Guide To Recognizing Your Saints” directed by Dito Montiel

Debut effort from Dito Montiel based on his memoir of the same name captures Montiel’s own experience as a youth in Astoria, Queens during the mid-1980s. The film won the Dramatic Directing Award and a Special Jury Award at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival. Robert Downey, Jr. plays Dito, a successful writer in LA who returns to Queens after 15 years when his father becomes seriously ill. Appeared at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival

Followed by:

“Harvie Krumpet” directed by Adam Elliot

This Oscar winner for Best Animated Short Film tells the darkly comic biography of Harvie Krumpet, a nobody with perpetual bad luck. Harvie is a working-class Polish boy diagnosed with Tourette’s Syndrome (caused by psychotropic drugs), who is ineptly home-schooled by his mother. Appeared at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival. Runtime 22:01