Yesterday I got this email from Jessica, who works with Rooftop Films, a summer film series dedicated to showing new, independent films in unique outdoor locations in NYC:

This Saturday, June 28, we will be
presenting “Neo-Lounge” on the roof of the Old American Can Factory in
Gowanus, Brooklyn. The night starts at 8:30 with live music from Artanker
Convoy and the film starts at 9:00.

In the aftermath of the SARS outbreak in Beijing, Joanna Vasquez Arong,
the Phillipines-born filmmaker, immerses herself in a small group of
daring and desperate ex-patriots who banded together at the decadent
Neo-Lounge nightclub. This gathering place showcases those who come to
Beijing for a different life—it strays from the “routines” of other
places, and it has a transient nature in which “life is day to day…half
good, half bad.” This film is about people in transition surviving
desperation and confusion in a place marked by transition itself, and it
shows Beijing in a new and unique light through the eyes of two foreigners
in the performance and nightclub scene.
More information about it can be found here:
http://rooftopfilms.bside.com/2008/films/neolounge_rooftopfilms2008