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Agnes Varnum is a freelance writer, film programmer and communications manager for the Austin Film Society. She is the primary contributor to doc it out and Tribeca Film Institute's Resources.

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The Documentary Bodega

Dang - I wish I had thought of that title for my blog! What a great name! But, alas it is a fabu name for a very cool new Brooklyn screening series produced by UnionDocs, held on Sunday nights and kicking off this week with The Chances of the World Changing by Eric Daniel Metzgar (a Brooklyn-based doc maker). Only $8 and free tropical ice! Here’s the skinny from their press release:

“The neighborhood will tell you that at different points in its one hundred
year history 322 Union Ave in Williamsburg was a bodega, an artist
commune, and the only three-storey liquor store in Brooklyn. Today it is
home to UnionDocs, a non-profit documentary collaborative who, working with the building’s past, have reinvented the space again. The walk-in fridge in the basement is now a recording booth. The front of the building has been wheat-pasted with a massive, architecturally-inspired poster. And the former storefront is currently outfitted as a high-definition screening room. So, nodding to the past and aiming to connect to the neighborhood today.”

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  1. Thanks for the info. Looks like a great series and will definitely check it out…

  2. Really cool, creative venue, I can’t wait to check it out.