SCREENINGS

Host a Screening

Book your Gatsby in Connecticut screening now! The director, Robert Steven Williams will introduce the film and lead a post-screening discussion about the making of, as well as show clips that didn’t make the documentary. Williams can appear in-person or virtually. 

We will also provide you with marketing material including this social media teaser ad with a customized tag at the end with the date and location of your event.

For more information contact:
robert@gatsbyinct.com
 
“Gatsby in Connecticut develops in poignant detail the story of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald’s wild summer of 1920.”                                     
The New Yorker

 

“Highly Enjoyable by our audience. A unique and thought provoking new look at the Gatsby story and origin in a way few had ever thought about.”

Brett Elliot, Executive Director, Katherine Hepburn Cultural Arts Center

We have dolby 5.1 surround versions as well as stereo to fit any audio visual presentation. We will also provide you with marketing materials including a social media ad with a custom tag for your event:

Here’s what they’re saying about the Gatsby in Connecticut screenings and our multi-media presentation about the Fitzgeralds in Westport:
          • “Something Special, Indeed!” Ventfort Hall, Lennox, Mass
          • “Fascinating and entertaining, by master storytellers” Stamford Library, Stamford, CT
          • “Fascinating and informative.” Pequot Library, Southport, CT
          • “The production and content of the documentary is on par with a Ken Burns film.”  Fairfield Museum, CT
          • “Amazing, well done!” Utah Film Festival and Awards
          • “Presentation was captivating.” Learning in Retirement

We’ve done screenings and presentations at Libraries, Universities, Book Clubs and Private Events.  The Tour so far:

          • AARP, Movies for Grownups
          • The Katherine Hepburn Cultural Arts Center, CT
          • Colony Club, NYC
          • LOTOS Club, NYC
          • The NY Adventure Club
          • Ventfort Hall, Lennox, Mass
          • Harvard Club of Fairfield County
          • Greenwich Library, Greenwich, CT
          • Quick Center, Fairfield University
          • Women’s Club of Westport
          • Central Connecticut State University and AARP CT
          • Ferguson Library, Stamford, CT,
          • Bernard’s Restaurant, Ridgefield, CT
          • Pequot Library, Southport, CT
          • RJ Julia Bookstore, Madison, CT
          • Westport Historical Society Walking Tour, Westport, CT
          • Princeton Club, New York City, NY
          • Thornton Wilder Auditorium, Hamden Arts Commission, Hamden, CT
          • Y’s Men Westport, CT
          • Great Neck Historical Society, NY
          • Fairfield Museum, CT
          • Parsippany Library, Parsippany, NJ
          • Learning in Retirement, Stamford, CT
          • Manross Library, Bristol, CT
          • Weston Historical Society
          • F. Scott Fitzgerald Literary Festival
          • Madison Library, Madison, New Jersey
          • Westport Public Library, Westport, CT
          • Calusa County Library, Calusa, California
          • Essex Library, Essex, Connecticut
          • Maplewood Senior Living, Newtown, CT
          • Maplewood Senior Living, Southport, CT
          • Maplewood Senior Living, Orange, CT
          • Middletown Senior Center, Middletown, CT
          • AARP & Quinnipiac University, North Haven, CT

 

Here’s what the press is saying about Gatsby in Connecticut

One of the Best Movies of the Year!

The New Yorker

From the September 1, 2020 review: “In its hearty and individualistic vigor, “Gatsby in Connecticut” is a valuable work of literary criticism in cinematic form.”

The New Yorker

“Finding the backdrop of ‘Gatsby’ in Connecticut, not Long Island.”

The New York Times

“Driven by the same sense of wonder, erudition, eloquence, and brevity that were the guiding forces behind Fitzgerald’s work, Robert Steven Williams impassioned and succinct ode to the author has charm to spare.”

Film Threat

“Cover feature article for appearance at the Garden State Film Festival in Asbury Park.”

New Jersey Stage

“Astonishing.”

Paperblanks

“I’m convinced they are correct and that Gatsby is yet another example of a novelist’s creative ‘topographical transfusion’ (in this case from Westport to West Egg),” Charles Scribner III said.

Town & Country

“It’s just interesting to me how one scholar had so much sway. He sort of squashed the theory of Westport,” Professor Maureen Corrigan of Georgetown University said. “I think they’ve done a real service in reviving this.”

Newsday 

“Meet the man that may have inspired  F. Scott Fitzgerald to write The Great Gatsby.”

Parade