The Kickstarter Film Fest's Tomorrow Night in Brooklyn. Be There.

Yancey Strickler and Perry Chen's Kickstarter.com, the innovative startup that allows anyone and everyone to help back a creative idea through micro-funding, is now celebrating a selection of its successful film projects with the Kickstarter Film Festival. 

The shindig, held in collaboration with Rooftop Films, will screen 90 minutes of 12 films. Narrowing it down, Stickler told us via-email, was tough.

"We've had well over 5,000 projects on Kickstarter at this point, so there was a lot to choose from," Strickler said. "The festival lineup is weighed towards early favorites. Many of these are some of the earliest Kickstarter projects, some of the first to stun us with their passion and creativity."

The chosen few include stop-motion film Little Brass Bird by way of Chicago, Battle of Brooklyn, about a Brooklyn neighborhood's resistance to the Atlantic Yards development project, and the extended trailer for The Woods, Matthew Lessner's Lord of the Flies take on the digital age. Some will be shown in their entirety, but most of the screenings are extended introductions at four to twenty minutes long. 

Nine of the 12 filmmakers will be mulling about the event, which Strickler says the Kickstarter crew are "positively giddy" over.  "We've seen them in their pitch videos, we've emailed with them endlessly -- these are basically celebrity sightings for us," he said.

Other Kickstarted projects will provide goodies for the event, like ice cream from Ice Cream Club, artisanal sodas from Brooklyn Soda Works, as well as music from the Zlatne Uste Balkan Brass Band, who were spotlighted in the Kickstarter-funded documentary Brasslands (also screening). 

If that's not enticing enough, know that, in the Kickstarter spirit, every last penny helps cover event costs, and any leftovers will be donated to the Rooftop Filmmakers' Grants Fund. 

Presale sold out, and though additional tickets will be for sale at the door, we suggest you get there early. And don't head out before the afterparty. 

Old American Can Factory, 232 3rd St., Gowanus, Brooklyn, (718) 237-4335. Friday, July 9. Doors 8 P.M. Films 9 P.M. Afterparty 11:30 P.M. $10.