Coming to Brooklyn’s reRun Gastropub Theater this Friday, November 30: DRIVERS WANTED
Joshua Z Weinstein’s portrait of NYC taxi drivers made its premiere at Silverdocs this Summer. Its festival circuit has included DOK.Leipzig, the Southern Circuit Tour, and DOC NYC.
I previously wrote about the film in my coverage of Silverdocs for Indiewire, saying:
Cab drivers are the focus of Joshua Z Weinstein’s featurette, also a world premiere at Silverdocs. In less than an hour, Weinstein offers a glimpse at a Queens taxi service, from the affable owner who recruits drivers as they await their hacker license tests, to a 90-year-old experienced cabbie and a newcomer Asian immigrant trying to make ends meet. While one gets the sense that the story could be expanded, Weinstein succeeds in capturing the workings of a perhaps too-little understood common profession, while also revealing the impact of the Recession in an understated way.
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