Bookwars

BookWars is an awardwinning independent film from New York City by Jason Jack RO Rosetteproduced by Camerado, about the life and times of New York City street booksellers. Made on an ultralow budget in a jazzy, impressionistic style reminiscent of the films of Robert Frank and poetry of the Beat Generation, BookWars is the only firstperson documentary made during thenNew York City Mayor Rudolph Giulianis controversial Quality of Life campaign, which sought to limit and control individuals engaged in informal economic activities on the streets of New York City.

BookWars is The gritty, untamed world of street booksellers, exposed in a remarkable feature film that chronicles their lives and loves and their unique perspectives on life. Shot entirely on location by fellow street bookseller and filmmaker Jason Rosette, and produced by Emmy Awardwinning filmmaker Michel Negroponte, BookWars explores the other side of the book tables that line the streets of New York Citys Greenwich Village, the Lower East Side, 6th avenue, and elsewhere in New York City. New Filmmakers, New YorkBookWars is a creative documentary which is told in an unconventional, narrative style. The film opens with the narrator who is also the films director driving out West along a desert highway, relating to the audience his previous experiences as a streetside bookseller in New York City. The entire documentary including the central events involving his experiences among the street booksellers in New York is thus told as a long conversation on a crosscountry roadtrip out West. ........

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