Posted in events, screening, tagged film festival. film fest, florida, mermaid, mermaids of new york, nyc, screening, tampa on April 14, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Next week the mermaids head south, to one of their favorite destinations in the continental US! That’s right its a Florida premiere of Mermaids of New York!
We are honored to have our little film screen at the The Sunscreen Film Festival in Tampa.
Mermaids of New York will screen on Friday April 20th.
Hope you Floridian Mermaniacs can check it out!
Posted in events, fundraising, tagged brooklyn babydoll, documentary, event, fundrasier, ilise carter, jason falchook, kai altair, lady aye, mermaid, Mermaids, mermaids of new york, mica scalin, new york, nyc, party, photos, r bar, screening, swordswallower on July 20, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Thanks to everyone who joined us at R Bar for a very fun evening!
We screened 10 minutes of our Mermaids of New York documentary, raffled off fabulous mermaid prizes (generously donated by our friends Carolyn Turgeon, La Sirena (Mexican Arts & Crafts) and Sourpuss Clothing) and of course, drinking Coney Island Memaid Lager!
But the best part of all was meeting new new mermaid friends and catching up with some that have been riding the waves with us since we first embarked on this journey.
Thankfully, Jason Falchook was on hand to capture some of the highlights…
What can I say, we get excited about raffles!
Mermaid Kai Altair lent a hand
The Brooklyn Babydoll fancy in fins!
The Lady Aye, about to take a stab at it
If you are curious about that last photo, well, you’ll just have to come to one of our screenings to find out what happens next!
Posted in events, fundraising, tagged documentary, event, film, fundraiser, lady aye, mermaid, Mermaids, mica scalin, micawave, new york, nyc, reality, screening, women on July 1, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
If you are in NYC, next week, come join the Mermaids of New York for a screening and happy hour!
Mermaids of New York Happy Hour Screening
Thursday, July 7th 6:30pm
R-Bar 218 Bowery St. New York, NY
We’ll be showing some of our documentary film and toasting to all the mermaids of new york and beyond.
Plus we’ll be raffling off some fabulous prizes with from our amazing friends Bambi The Mermaid, Carolyn Turgeon, La Sirena (Mexican Arts & Crafts), Sourpuss Clothing, A.V. Phibes and more!
Mexican mermaids from La Sirena in NYC
Mermaid by Carolyn Turgeon
Posted in inspiration, video, tagged bambi the mermaid, coney island, mermaid, mermaid parade, Mermaids, new york, pirates of the carribean, Stephenie Meyer on May 13, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Carol Memmott at USAToday calls Mermaids The Next Big Thing in this mornings edition and lists a number of new books coming out this year on the subject. Even the queen of supernatural trashy novels, herself Stephanie Meyer, is said to have caught the Mermania! None of this comes as any surprise to Mermaids of New York, we know that Mermaids have been here all along, most folks just didn’t notice before.
Take for example, the very fabulous Bambi The Mermaid, in this clip from Mermaids of New York she shows that she is a woman of many tales and tails!
Posted in video, tagged Dame Darcy, documentary, live music, mermaid, Mermaids, music video, new york, nyc, sea chanty, singing saw on April 18, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Wanted to share with you an incredible performance that Dame Darcy gave for us on a rooftop in Chinatown, NYC. In this clip she sings the traditional sea chanty, Greenland Whale Fisheries and plays the saw, accompanied by her sailor/rocker friend Peter Mavrogeorgis.
Darcy is a historian of many fantastic things and she brings this knowledge to her work in comics and music. She recorded an entire album of traditional sea shanties and murder ballads Cabin Fever, with her band Death By Doll.
We LOVE love love the mermaid-y illustration on the cover!
Posted in inspiration, video, tagged activism, artist, documentary, environmentalism, going blue, interview, mermaid, Mermaids, new york, sculptor, water on April 2, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Being a Mermaid is not just fun and games, many we have encountered use their mermaid powers to raise awareness about the crucial environmental issue of protecting the earth’s water and its lifeforms. Makes sense, right?!
In this clip from Mermaids of New York, Mara Haseltine, environmental activist and sculptor talks passionately about why she does what she does.
Hard not to care, when you put it that way!
Mermaid Hannah, another professional mermaid, even started a non-profit which engages surfers to help protect marine life through direct action!
Not a mermaid but still interested in going blue? check out this out!
Posted in production notes, tagged bambi the mermaid, burlesque, documentary, film, ilise carter, jason falchook, mermaid, Mermaids, mica scalin, new york, photography, the lady aye, women on December 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
As you can imagine, mermaids are hard to pin down but all of the subjects of our film Mermaids of New York have been extremely awesome at making time for us in their busy schedules. We recently caught up with, Bambi The Mermaid and had a beautiful evening on the west side piers in Manhattan. Jason Falchook took these great photos.
Bambi The Laughing Queen
Bambi The Mermaid at Sunset
Bambi The Mermaid posing on the pier
Posted in events, screening, tagged bambi the mermaid, coney island, film, film festival, ilise carter, lady aye, mermaid, Mermaids, mica scalin, micawave, new york, nyc on October 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Film makers at CIFF 09 - Photo Copyright Norman Blake and Coney Island Film Festival
Congrats to all the awesome filmmakers at the Coney Island Film Fest 2009. It was really fun to screen another of our short films at New York’s mermaid mecca! This year, we premiered a short film about Bambi The Mermaid one of the subjects in our feature film, Mermaids of New York. 
Bambi and Willow on the big screen - Photo Copyright Norman Blake and Coney Island Film Festival
Posted in events, fundraising, tagged burlesque, documentary, film, fund, fundraising, mermaid, Mermaids, new york, ny events, nyc on September 25, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Last night was the Mermaids of New York Benefit Ball at Galapagos in Brooklyn, and what a night it was!
In a word, it was nothing short of totally AWESOME! So many friends helped out to make the event happen and even more came out to support.
MC Kate Tellers kept the night rolling, there were fishy performances by Legs Malone, Bambi The Mermaid and The Brooklyn Babydoll and The Lady Aye showed off a talent that few, if any, fellow filmmakers share. Lavlier played two sets of their unique otherworldly rock stylings and they even treated us to an end of the night, ‘Don’t Stop Believin’ sing-a-long with Steve Milton on keys! Can’t really ask for more… but then there was Ted D’Ottavio hosting a non-stop photo booth, all night. AND we got some great responses from our friends at:
PopCandy “The highlight of the night was a sword-swallowing performance by Ilise Carter (“The Lady Aye”)”
Thanks, again to everyone who attended The Mermaids of New York Benefit Ball and made it an amazing and fun night.
Stay tuned… MORE photos coming soon!
Posted in events, fundraising, tagged art, bunny munro, burlesque, documentary, event, film, fundraiser, mermaid, Mermaids, music, new york, nick cave, nyc on September 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve got to say, I’m pretty pleased with the way Thursday night is shaping up! It is going to be an event you don’t want to miss so if you haven’t purchased your ticket yet, you can do it now online.. right here.
Everyone has been working overtime to get a representative segment of the film ready to share with you. It will be about 10min and includes introductions to four of our mermaid subjects with original music by Lavalier. This will be the first time we get to show it to anyone beyond the production team, so its very exciting and a more than a little nerve-wrecking. However, I am really proud of all the work everyone has done so far and looking forward to getting feedback from a live audience!
Something else to remind you about is the super-duper raffle we put together for Thursday.
In addition to the signed copy of UK edition of The Death of Bunny Munro, Nick Cave’s new book and a framed original print by photographer Thomas Daniel, we also have a gift card for a night out at The Slipper Room, a custom pair of Converse and more! Tickets will be sold at the event for $5 each or 5 for $20.
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