Zen Parking at New Hope Film Festival

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Zen Parking screens at New Hope Film Festival on Sunday July 22nd at 2pm. Tickets

A yoga teacher searches for parking and has to face his rage when someone steals his spot.

Directed by Agustin McCarthy.

From New Hope Film Festival website:

Emanating from a 1710 land grant, the New Hope area has a storied history. It began as a trading post and ferry terminal, and by the 1940s New Hope’s reputation in the arts, spurred by the multitudes of playwrights, directors and actors who traversed its bustling streets, became legendary.

This tradition continues today. Galleries call New Hope and its bohemian neighbor across the Delaware River, Lambertville, N.J., their home. Hollywood and New York-based producers steal away to the community’s varied streets on weekends and holidays, and through venues such as the Bucks County Playhouse, the area’s nightlife and entertainment options are boundless. Still, the community maintains a cozy feel and things tend to happen here on an intimate scale.

Inspired by this artsy milieu, entrepreneur and writer D. F. Whipple, a long-time resident of Bucks County, decided to establish the New Hope Film Festival. This private arts organization became active on January 1, 2009. Whipple then assembled a group of artists to collaborate with him, including Marianne Speiser, Danny Sailor and Southern California-based Thom Michael Mulligan, an award-winning independent film producer and actor who oversees the Festival’s selection process as Executive Director – Submissions. Hollywood screenwriter Mark Rosenthal, a strong supporter of New Hope, serves as an ongoing Festival advisor. In an often frenzied and outrageous era, this Festival is a refuge, a place where you can pause and go deeper. Here, it’s about art. Allow yourself to slow down and savor it.

The Festival’s core mission is to discover and nurture independent filmmakers, many of whom are seeking world and U.S. debuts and remain overlooked and/or underappreciated by other forums. This broad and inclusive group includes filmmakers from outside the United States. The New Hope Film Festival operates by a strict code of fairness: Festival organizers do not invite films into the Festival, offer fee waivers, allow personal pitches from filmmakers, distributors and/or their agents, or sanction any other practices they consider preferential treatment. All films are treated equally in the process, which begins by submitting through Withoutabox.com. Furthermore, content produced by Festival organizers is never accepted at the Festival, even at special events. This highly prestigious, IMDb qualifying Festival is especially renowned for the quality of its lineup.