LEFT TURN PRODUCTIONS

Official TUMBLR space for Left Turn Productions! Left Turn Productions, Inc. was established in 1996 by filmmakers Donald Pruden, Jr. and Keif Roberts. En route to their lawyers’ office to finalize the corporation, the pair was in need of a company name...

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Still grabs from our documentary film "THE BREACH" -- a story about Long Island's Bay after Hurricane Sandy cut a breach / inlet through Fire Island.

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VERY excited to be attending the Brooklyn Film Festival Awards Ceremony tonight!  Keep your fingers crossed for our Peter Pan Bakery doc and good luck to all the filmmakers involved!

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PETER PAN BAKERY ...

explores the personalities inhabiting the counter space at the famous donut shop, where old and new clientele mingle, painting an intimate portrait of the bakery as a unwavering neighborhood institution.

The documentary is  one of the first films to be totally shot on the Digital Bolex D16, a re-imagining of a classic camera for the 21st century.

UPDATE: Announcing our completely digitally remastered edition of Peter Pan Bakery!  SEE sprinkles in their vibrant original color SEE donuts so delicious you'll hardly be able to resist their temptation!

PRESS

Press Release

Production Stills

“Most of this video will delight you and even the small part that does not (and if you watch it all the way through you'll know exactly what I'm talking about) is so short that it isn't even worth getting upset about. Ya got 8 minutes? Ya got time to watch this.”

- Alex Balk, The Awl

“Owner Donna Siafakas recounts how her Greenpoint bakery has seen the neighborhood evolve from primarily Polish immigrants to  today's influx of "big flocks of hipsters," but the film's main focus is the bakery's regular customers, who gather for coffee and egg sandwiches at the counter. Go, meet the restaurant's eclectic group of regulars, who discuss the changing Greenpoint..."

- Erin DeJesus, Eater.com

"... the documentary is a quick watch, but it’s able to effectively show everyone who moves through the bakery on a given day, from Greenpoint lifers to newcomers with weird Leonardo DiCaprio-based art projects. Though we’d avoid watching it while hungry, because you’ll only get hungrier seeing all those donuts and egg sandwiches."

- David Colon, Brokelyn

"Filmmakers Keif Roberts and Peter J. Haas have done a splendid job at capturing the delightful sense of community that lies at the sugar-dusted heart of Peter Pan."

- Greennpointers.com

"60-yr old Peter Pan Donuts in Brooklyn still does donuts & egg sandwiches right [as seen] in this short..."

- Breadoholic.com (@Breadaholic)

"Wow, there's a short documentary on Peter Pan Bakery?! #nowiwantdoughnuts"

- Elena (@novelsounds)

"Beat on a drum, and I will come. Ugg-a-wugg! I love this Peter Pan (Bakery) doc..."

- Charlotte Druckman (@cettedrucks), The Skirt Steak Files

"Awesome short film about Peter Pan Bakery, the best little donut shop in the world."

- BuzzFeed Food

"This beautiful documentary I spotted on @Eater gives me goosebumps. Peter Pan and Greenpoint; Two treasures..."

- Paulie Gee (@PaulieGee)

"The wonderful Peter Pan doughnut shop--on film."

- Jeremiah Moss, Vanishing New York

"A glimpse inside Donna Siafakas’ bakery in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, that makes you yearn for a hot egg sandwich or chocolate-iced doughnut."

- Abbe Lewis, associate editor

"Donut documentary. What could be better?"

- DonutsAGoGo (@DonutsAGoGO)

"It’s been pretty brutal in the city that never sleeps lately. Icy, snowy, sleety, plus slippery sidewalks and (extra) cranky denizens. So don’t visit right now; it’s horrible here.  However! What you can do, from the comfort of your own home, is drool over some of the city’s finest fare: mozz, lox, and donuts. New York, arguably, does them better than anywhere else in the world."

- Alex Van Buren, Yahoo Food

FEATURED IN:

EATER: Watch A Short Film on the Regulars at Peter Pan Bakery

The Awl: Things To Watch: A Brief Documentary About A Bakery In Brooklyn  

Digital Bolex: D16 Projects

Digital Bolex: D16 Films on the Big Screen

Red Shark News: A documentary shot in raw entirely on Digital Bolex D16                            

Brokelyn: Documentary Shows How Donuts Bring A Neighborhood Together

Bedford + Bowery: Meet Peter Pan's Regulars

FirstWeFeast: Watch This Short Film About Peter Pan Bakery & Brooklyn Gentrification

The Rose Record: mmmmmmm donuts

Yahoo Food: Armchair Diner - New York City

GreenpointPL: Filmowy dokument o Greenpoincie

Greenpointers: Peter Pan Donuts: The Movie!

Free Williamsburg: A Documentary About Greenpoint's Peter Pan Bakery

Food Arts: Seen & Read - Peter Pan Bakery, A Documentary Film

Untapped Cities: Staff Picks

Creative Planet Network: Shooting A Documentary On The Digital Bolex

Planet 5D: D16 Has Filmic Mojo Says Director of Hot New Peter Pan Bakery Doc

CineFoodie: Donuts Bring A Neighborhood Together

Bedford + Bowery: 7 Local and No-So-Local Ones To Catch At The Brooklyn Film Festival

A Documentary Film by Keif Roberts & Peter J. Haas Co-Directed by Keif Roberts & Peter J. Haas Art & Typography by Roxanne D. Palmer Online & Finishing Editor Sean R. Smith Associate Producer Lawrence McGovern Produced By Left Turn Productions Music "Now It Can Be Told" - Al Bowlly "Zubaida" -  Breuss Arrizabalaga Quintet "Rolands Vegners" - Ergo Phizmiz & Margita Zalite This Film Shot With The DIGITAL BOLEX D16   Digital Cinema Storage Provided by ADORAMA   Special Thanks To Joe Rubenstein Elle Schneider Paul Docherty Melissa Brodie 

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In honor of National Donut day, why not watch our short documentary about the best little donut shop in Brooklyn, PETER PAN BAKERY! 

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In honor of National Donut day, why not watch our short documentary about the best little donut shop in Brooklyn, PETER PAN BAKERY! 

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Festival Awards 2014

We are excited to announce that our film UNDER THE BUS has won "best documentary short" at the Workers Unite Film Festival!  

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Co-Directors Keif Roberts and Peter J. Haas on the final night of Peter Pan Bakery screenings.

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Great to see our poster hanging next to great films such as Born To Fly!

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Hungry moviegoers lining up for doughnuts from Peter Pan Donut and Pastry Shop. (Photo Courtesy www.BrooklynFilmFestival.org)

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Hungry moviegoers lining up for doughnuts from Peter Pan Donut and Pastry Shop. (Photo Courtesy www.BrooklynFilmFestival.org)

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Q&A for TO LIVE, PETER PAN BAKERY, THE LAST BREAD, MATEO'S ROOM & TONITA'S — at Windmill Studios NYC. (Photo courtesy of www.BrooklynFilmFestival.org) 

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Prepping donuts for the Brooklyn Film Festival screening of our film PETER PAN BAKERY 

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Short film “Freshkills PARK,” part of “One Day on Earth,” explores what will become NYC’s biggest park.

Staten Island is sometimes called New York City’s “forgotten borough,” but for decades it fulfilled a key role as the home of the Big Apple’s sole landfill, taking in the rest of the city’s garbage. But the familiar fragrance of refuse is fading. After more than a decade of work by the NYC Parks Department, parts of the Freshkills Landfill are turning over a new leaf as part of the planned Freshkills Park—which will eventually become the largest green space in the city.

“Freshkills PARK,” a new short film co-produced by Left Turn Productions and One Day On Earth, investigates on the complex realities of this environmental puzzle. When the park fully opens to the public decades from now, it will span 2,200 acres (nearly 3 times the size of Central Park) and feature nature trails, plus spaces for a variety of activities including mountain biking, horseback riding, and kayaking.

“The existence of this park raises a lot of questions about how we deal with our effect on nature,” co-director Peter Haas says. “It’s great that we’re able to reclaim this blighted area, but it’s going to take us 40 years to fix something that we destroyed in a relatively short period of time. And it’s not like can ever completely restore the habitat that was lost—we’re still imposing a new ecosystem on the land.”

You can view “Freshkills PARK” for free at: http://freshkillsparkfilm.blogspot.com/ 

Note: One Day on Earth is a project that recruits filmmakers across the planet to simultaneously capture the unexplored corners of the world around them over a 24-hour period.

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showtime #1: 7:30 pm | Sunday June 1 | Windmill Studios showtime #2: 10:30 pm | Monday June 2 | indieScreen

Directors Peter J. Haas & Keif Roberts will be available after the screening for a Q&A session.

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Official Trailer for PETER PAN BAKERY!