THE SKY OF THE CENTAUR / EL CIELO DEL CENTAURO A film by Hugo Santiago (Argentina/France, 2015, 93 min. In Spanish and French with English subtitles) The ship moors at dawn in Buenos Aires, from where it will sail again the next day. The Engineer
NewFest, New York’s LGBTQ+ Film Festival continues this week with a selection of twelve Latin American titles with a strong emphasis on Brazilian and Chilean LGBTQ+ narratives. Make sure to check out Chile’s The Strong Ones, directed by Omar Zúñiga Hidalgo, that follows the romantic saga of a fisherman and an architect in the
Film Series October 22, 23, 30 2020 8:00pm – 9:30 pm EST 2020 May Sumak: Quichwa Film Showcase May Sumak: Quichwa Film Showcase is a (FREE) event series featuring three days of Quechua/Kichwa film screenings, workshops and discussions. The showcase is a celebration of Indigenous
Monday, Oct. 26, 2PM EST ONLINE DOC TALK (Registration required) FREE AND OPEN TO THE NEW SCHOOL STUDENTS, FACULTY and STAFF AFSAN’S LONG DAY Screening and Q&A with filmmaker and artist Naeem Mohaiemen Register HERE AFSAN’S LONG DAY (41 min.) A complex portrait of Bangladeshi
This week marks the start of the 32nd Edition of NewFest, New York’s LGBTQ+ Film Festival. In this year’s online edition, NewFest is featuring twelve Latin American titles with a strong emphasis on Brazilian and Chilean LGBTQ+ narratives. All films will be available to stream from Friday, October 16 through Tuesday, October 27. From Brazil, Alice Júnior by Gil
Join Creatively Speaking for their upcoming Virtual Screening Series with METROGRAPH! October 17th, 18th and 19th at 8pm Conversation with filmmakers follow each evening. Metrograph and Creatively Speaking present We the People: The Shoestrings of Democracy As one of the most important elections in our
Make sure not to miss the final day of our online program Music+Film: Brazil, closing with a special — and free! — nationwide stream of the ultimate Brazilian music documentary, Beyond Ipanema: Brazilian Waves in Global Music. A must-watch for lovers of Brazilian music, and of global music in general. And join us tonight
The Infiltrators and Latino Vote: Dispatches from the Battleground This Monday and Tuesday, don’t miss the opportunity to catch two of this year’s best U.S. Latinx documentaries premiering on PBS and addressing urgent and timely issues at the forefront of American politics in the lead up to
As Great Britain’s forces were stretched thin during World War II, Winston Churchill’s Special Operations Executive (SOE) began to enlist women as spies. Their daunting mission: conduct sabotage and build a resistance. Spymistress Vera Atkins, later the inspiration for Ian Fleming’s Miss Moneypenny in the
Premiering This Week: Cinema Tropical Presents: ‘Music+Film: Brazil 2020’ Presented annually since 2008, Cinema Tropical’s popular series Music+Film: Brazil has showcased numerous screenings featuring the best of Brazilian music and a who’s who of performers from every corner of the South American country. The 2020
In The Presence of Others: Principles for Decolonial Film Wednesday, September 30, 2020 7:30 PM EDT Online & UnionDocs 322 Union Ave Brooklyn, NY 11211 Join us online or at UnionDocs’ new UNDO LEAN-TO to celebrate the launch of World Records newest volume: In the Presence of Others, edited by Jason Fox
Join us for a virtual screening of Ottonlenghi and the Cakes of Versailles and a Q&A with Director Laura Gabbert. In the summer of 2018, New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art enlists Yotam Ottolenghi, the London-based Israeli chef and celebrated author of cookbooks Jerusalem and Plenty, to
Monday, Oct. 5, 1PM EST ONLINE DOC TALK (Registration required) ALL THAT PERISHES AT THE EDGE OF LAND & EL RETORNO / THE RETURN Screening and Q&A with filmmaker and Media Studies alumna, Hira Nabi FREE AND OPEN TO ALL Register HERE Hira Nabi’s camera
The 58th edition of the New York Film Festival has kicked off, bringing with it a roster of narrative features and shorts that exemplify the diversity of Latin American cinema today. The festival will be presenting a combination of drive-in screenings alongside online streaming options for those watching from home. This year,
CineCLACS Film Club – Chèche Lavi (2019) The CineCLACS Film Club is an initiative that aims to be a social space for students and our communities to connect and explore film and media from Latin America and the Caribbean. Join us for a film screening and
This week, make sure to check out Maite Alberdi‘s Sundance-selected documentary, The Mole Agent —now available on VOD. A “unique meditation on compassion and loneliness,” (Sundance Institute) the Chilean film follows Sergio, an 83 year old would-be spy who infiltrates a retirement home in order to investigate a suspected case of elder
Join us for this month’s virtual NYWIFT Member Screening of Kavery Kaul’s documentary feature Long Way from Home! Hailed by historian Robin Kelley as “one of the most powerful and inspiring documentaries of our era,” in this moving and provocative story, three remarkable girls enter ninth
Start the month off with a varied selection from the region: this week, we’re pleased to recommend films from Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, Guatemala, Peru, and from Latinx filmmakers in the United States. Streaming in virtual cinemas this week and a stateside digital release on Tuesday,
There’s still time to catch Alex Rivera and Cristina Ibarra‘s groundbreaking docu-thriller The Infiltrators in virtual cinemas across the country. Telling the stories of unjust deportation from within for-profit detention centers themselves, The Infiltrators follows a pair of radical DREAMers committed to exposing the truth of a broken system. The film is available to
Virtual Film Screening Event: Making An Appeal for Equity and Access During COVID-19 Followed by Live Conversations on Initiative for Change Thursday, May 21, 2020 at 7 PM EST On behalf of Filmmaker Crystal R. Emery, PhD & URU, The Right To Be, Inc., we invite you
This week, make sure to catch the virtual theatrical release of Cristóbal León and Joaquín Cociña‘s stop-motion tour de force The Wolf House, winner of the Cinema Tropical Award for Best First Film. “A visually engrossing, reference-rich and disturbing tale” (Hollywood Reporter), The Wolf House is easily one of the most accomplished, transporting, and
Kinoscope will run on May 7, 2020. It is an online screening, so students will be provided with a 48 hour pass to view films on their own time. Username: Member052020 Password: KSAccess2020 https://kinoscope.org/
Creatively Speaking Virtual Screening Pick of the Week: The Deadliest Disease in America By Filmmaker and SMS Alumni, Crystal R. Emery Thursday, May 7th at 7PM Register for the FREE Virtual Screening HERE. Be on the lookout for Creatively Speaking’s upcoming events on our social media: Instagram: @creatively_speaking Facebook: @creativelyspeaking.tv
DOC NYC Friday Fix is a new weekly series covering documentary film, hosted by Thom Powers. DOC NYC Friday Fix is available for free worldwide. You can RSVP to watch by clicking here. During the livestream, viewers can contribute questions and comments. The show will be
We’re thrilled with the initial response to the launch of The Cinema Tropical Collection and Tropical on Demand. The influential newspaper The Guardian wrote a wonderful piece on our streaming platform calling it an “enticing new service” and hailing our inaugural slate as “a promising, provocative first batch of picks.” Click here to
Premiering This Week: STILL BURN and TÚ Y YO The Cinema Tropical Collection, the new and exciting initiative that makes select Latin American films available digitally for the first time ever, continues this week with the international streaming of the documentary films Still Burn (Algo quema) from
Join NYWIFT, SAG-AFTRA, FF2 Media, Women in the Arts & Media Coalition (WAMC), HerFlix, ImageNation Cinema Foundation, 2020 One Woman One Vote Festival, and African-American Women in Cinema (AAWIC) for a screening of the new feature Tape in recognition of S.W.A.N. (Support Women Artists Now) Day, an annual event on the last Saturday of March that
The Cinema Tropical Collection Cinema Tropical is proud to announce the launch of The Cinema Tropical Collection, a new and exciting initiative that makes select Latin American films available digitally for the first time ever. Combining the format of a curated online film series with virtual
New York Women in Film & Television (NYWIFT) is pleased to announce the broadcast of the 40th Anniversary NYWIFT Muse Awards on CUNY TV throughout the second week of March 2020 in celebration of Women’s History Month. This is the first time the celebrated program –
DOC STUDIES PRESENTS Monday, Mar. 9th at 1PM Kellen Auditorium, 66 Fifth Ave THE CANCER JOURNALS REVISITED (98 min) Screening and Q&A with filmmaker and Media Studies faculty LANA LIN Poetic and urgent, eye-opening and razor-sharp, THE CANCER JOURNALS, REVISITED is the cinematic embodiment of Lorde’s