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BROOKLYN BOROUGH PRESIDENT MARTY MARKOWITZ COMMENDS
BROOKLYN FILMMAKERS BEHIND “OPEN WATER”

Photographs by Kathryn Kirk

In photo: Borough President Markowitz admires Brooklyn filmmaking couple Chris Kentis and Laura Lau as their new movie, “Open Water,” opens at a Downtown Brooklyn theater.

Today, Borough President Marty Markowitz applauded the tremendous artistic talent of Brooklyn Writer-Director Chris Kentis and his wife and Producer Laura Lau as their hit movie, “Open Water,” opened at the United Artists Court Street Stadium 12 Cinema, and more than 2,700 other movie theaters nationwide. Borough President Markowitz also presented the filmmaking duo with a proclamation, which proclaimed Friday “Open Water Day in Brooklyn, USA.”

“As Brooklyn re-emerges as a national and international film center, like it was in the years after World War II, Chris and Laura are riding that wave and putting our borough’s name back on the marquee where it belongs,” said Borough President Markowitz. “So today, we honor ‘Open Water,’ Chris and Laura as the newest entries into Brooklyn’s movie Hall of Fame. Because we know you’ve already made a big splash.”

“Open Water” was shot off the coast of the Bahamas, but written and edited in Kentis and Lau’s shared Brooklyn Heights apartment on a shoestring budget. The film opened two weeks ago on about 50 screens, and is now expanding to more than 2,700 screens across the nation. Its wide release this weekend is the biggest opening in the history of the film’s distributor, Lion’s Gate Films.