For any readers in NYC or anyone who might be in the city next week, friends of mine Lane and Ilona Siller will be showing their documentary, Deeper Than Y, at the Village East Theatre on 12th Street and 2nd Avenue. The film will run for a week beginning November 3rd.

Here's a blurb from the film's website

“Deeper than Y” is a feature length, humorous and touching documentary questioning 8 eccentric elderly New Yorkers about relationships, politics, careers, and aging, while they faithfully attend the same water exercise class at the Vanderbilt YMCA.

After the director of the film taught their water exercise class for two years, her elderly students opened up to her about relationships, pasts, politics, careers, and their insecurities about aging.

The result is “Deeper than Y”, an enlightening, heartfelt, and humorous journey through the lives of eight people, many of whom you might have passed on the street without giving a second look, people who not only impact the realities, fragilities, and humor of old age but also share their enduring hope for human possibility.

It's a charming, entertaining, well-done film from two talented first time filmmakers who have just begun to hone their craft.

It takes tenacity, vision, and passion to make films. The process alternates between deep frustration and wild exultation. Through my experience with Lane and Ilona, I've seen first hand the tremendous amount of work, dedication and sacrifice it takes to shepherd a film from start to finish, especially with no studio or industry backing. The film has been extremely well received at three independent film festivals during 2006 in San Francisco, Toronto, and Providence.

The Sillers are now at work on a new super-secret project that should really put them on the map - and I can't wait.