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Trish Clark presents at the kick-off event for last year's 48 Hour Film Project New Haven. (Thomas Breen photo)

Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2018 - 

What do John McClane, Brother Jimmy’s BBQ and New Haven’s filmmaking community have in common?

Starting in January 2018, the answer to that question will be the Nutmeg Institute: A new venture from local movie advocates Trish Clark, Patrick Whalen, and Michael Field to help encourage and organize the production and enjoyment of movies in the Greater New Haven area.

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One of the group’s first initiatives toward bolstering the city’s cineaste community is a new, monthly brunch-and-movie series to be hosted at Brother Jimmy’s BBQ, a North Carolina-style barbeque restaurant located at 196 Crown St. in downtown New Haven.

The series kicks off on Sunday, Jan. 14 with John McTiernan’s 1988 holiday/action fan favorite Die Hard, in which Bruce Willis stars as John McClane, a rakish off-duty NYPD officer who finds himself pitted against a cabal of German terrorists during a Christmas-time visit to Los Angeles.

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One Weekend, 23 Movies

July 30, 2015 - Trish Clark couldn’t believe what she was reading. After she joined the 48 Hour Film Project’s newsletter in 2010, the product of a friend’s suggestion that she try to bring the festival to New Haven, words were appearing before her eyes that couldn’t be right. Yes: the Project’s organizers were amenable to bringing it to Connecticut. No: they weren’t thinking of the Elm City. 

“I saw that they were looking to have it in Hartford ... and I sent them a message and I was like, ‘I think that’s a typo. I think you meant New Haven’ … And they realized after talking to me that, oh yeah, we should do it in New Haven,” she said in an interview with the Independent, smiling at the possibility that the state’s political capital might be mistaken for its cultural epicenter.

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