GREAT NEWS: There’s going to be one more show on the big outdoor screen in JJ Byrne Park on August 1st at 8:30 p.m. Should be a really interesting one, too. It was directed by local Brooklyn filmmaker, Charles Libin.On the night of Black Monday in October of 1987, a group of self-styled revolutionaries led by Paula, their ruthless and ravishing ringleader,
stage a coup d’etat at their World Trade Center firm.

AMERICAN COMBATANT
Officially Selected for the 30th São Paulo International Film Festival (Oct/Nov 2006). It will be screened on Tuesday August 1, 2006 in JJ Byrne Park on Fifth Avenue and Third Street.

SYNOPSIS:
On the night of Black Monday in October of 1987, a group of self-styled
revolutionaries led by Paula, their ruthless and ravishing ringleader,
stage a coup d’etat at their World Trade Center firm.

A board member is killed and the band of malcontents take-off with a bag of pistols and millions in stolen bearer bonds. One member, Fred White, leads them to hole-up at a Ludlow Street tenement belonging to his sister Maude. After a nerve racking game of cat and mouse with Paula, Maude is shot and killed on the roof of her building.

Almost two decades later, alcohol-soaked and guilt-ridden, Fred drives a film student and his camera on a twenty-four-hour odyssey through through the rolling golf courses of Westchester, to Lower Manhattan then Brownstone Brooklyn with a visit to Fred’s estranged family.

Tormented, Fred is convinced of the link between Maude’s death in 1987
and the events of 9-11. He confronts his enemy as dawn breaks over
Gardiner’s Bay on the Eastern End of Long Island.