New German Language Film IN THE AISLES opens 6/14 in NYC Music Box Films is excited to announce the upcoming release of In the Aisles – an affecting and bittersweet glimpse into the shared connections of a motley group of nightshift workers at a big box store,
TOO LATE TO DIE YOUNG A film by Dominga Sotomayor Winner, Leopard Award for Best Director — Locarno Film Festival A New York Film Festival Official Selection The year 1990 was when Chile transitioned to democracy, but all of that seems a world away
Lynne Sachs and Lizzie Olesker’s recent documentary The Washing Society, which investigates the obscured labor within NYC’s laundromats, will be screening next week Monday 5/20 @ 7pm The Washing Society Next Week! Mon 5/20 7pm, DCTV | $8 When you drop off a bag of dirty laundry, who’s
Upcoming Events Conference May 15-16 Arte y Cultura: Revitalizing the Cultural Heritage of Indigenous Peoples The goal of this year’s annual conference is to promote a conversation between those in NYC and Mexico engaged in efforts to revitalize indigenous languages. It will further provide an
THE WANDERING SOAP OPERA A film by Raúl Ruiz & Valeria Sarmiento (La telenovela errante, Chile, 1990/2017, 80 min. In Spanish with English subtitles, ) NEW YORK THEATRICAL PREMIERE RUN! Raúl Ruiz passed away in 2011, but it should come as little surprise that a
This week in New York, catch up with masters of Latin American cinema at two of the city’s most iconic arthouse and independent film theaters. As part of their ‘Trilogies Festival,’ Film Forum will be screening back-to-back, and twice through, three of Lucrecia Martel’s most iconic films: La Ciénaga (2001), hailed as
Our FINAL Deadline for screenplay, teleplay, and stage play submissions is this Wednesday, May 15! And now, we’re offering a discount code for YOU! Professors and instructors can use the code 19SCHOOL to take $10 off of a script submission. Students can save $10 off screenplay entries by submitting directly through www.austinfilmfestival.com and using the promo code 19STUDENT.
IFP is holding an Open House for their new under 25 filmmaker initiative IFP Z at the IFP Media Center on May 14th. It’ll be the kickoff event for a bi-monthly networking meet-up for young filmmakers to learn more about the industry, network with young
On Thursday, May 9 we’ll be presenting the New York Premiere of STRANGE BUT TRUE (Extraño pero verdadero) by Mexican filmmaker Michel Lipkes. Michel will be present for a post-screening Q&A and conversation. The film comes as part of our ongoing series in partnership with Anthology Film Archives and Proyector,
At Tremorland Music, we curate music albums for the specific use in film, TV and other visual productions. On average, we release about six albums of music for industry use yearly and, at the moment, we are running a Filmmaker Challenge with a great opportunity of
2019’s SHORT FILM FUND IS OPEN The Shore Scripts Short Film Fund offers an opportunity for emerging screenwriters and filmmakers to have their short film financed and produced. The Fund welcomes submissions from screenwriters and filmmakers from around the world. We accept short scripts, animations,
Join the team behind the independent feature film Bite Me for a case study of the film’s journey and the upcoming Joyful Vampire Tour of America that will feature screenings, capes, and Vampire Balls! Bite Me is a unique, while universally relatable, story about outsiders and an edgy, whip-smart,
This week there’s still time to enjoy a wonderful selection of films from the Tribeca Film Festival. Several Latinx authors have been included in this prestigious festival, showcasing the great talent of the tropical latitudes and touching on subjects such as immigration, trauma, music, and street
Known as the “Writers Festival” since its inception in 1993, Austin Film Festival recognizes the importance of narrative at the core of filmmaking. Without a good story, movies might just be sound and fury. By celebrating the work of storytellers; those committed to crafting intricate
Call for Submissions – Rehoboth Beach Film Society’s 2019 Morris and Roslyn Fierberg Student Film Award The purpose of this award program is to encourage student film production by acknowledging the outstanding work of a student film director. The award carries a first prize of
Bite Me: A Truly Independent Journey Thursday, May 2, 2019 @ 6:30 PM Join the team behind the independent feature film Bite Me for a case study on the film’s journey and the upcoming Joyful Vampire Tour of America that will feature screenings, capes, and Vampire Balls! Bite Me is a
Lana Lin will be presenting a survey of her work at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts, London; showing a preview of her feature film, The Cancer Journals Revisited, as part of a year-long series of women and gender non-binary filmmakers at Whitechapel Gallery,
Kathleen Rugh’s short film, “Winter’s First Moons” recently screened at the Process Festival in Riga, Latvia, the Spectral Film Festival in Stevens Point, WI, the Athens International Film + Video Festival in Athens, OH, and Experiments in Cinema in Albuquerque, NM. It was awarded a
Jem Cohen was selected as one of the Sundance Institute’s 2019 Non-fiction Fellows. He also directed and shot two videos for the album, Songs Of Resistance 1942 – 2018: Bella Ciao, for Tom Waits & Marc Ribot and The Militant Ecologist, for Marc Ribot & Meshell
Facuty member Joel Neville Anderson’s article “Home Birth, World Cinema: Kawase Naomi’s Personal Filmmaking in Circulation” will be included in the upcoming special issue of Studies in Documentary Film, “First Person Documentary Practices in East and Southeast Asia: Performing Subjectivity, Memory Construction, and Social Intervention”
GET YOUR SHORT SCREENPLAY OPTIONED FOR $1000 DEADLINE June 30, 2019 www.cinemastreetcontest.net Discount for NYWIFT Members The CinemaStreet Women’s Short Screenplay Competition invites women screenwriters to submit short dramatic script of any genre (20 minutes and under) to CinemaStreet Pictures, LLC for production consideration. The
The Directors Guild of America’s application period for the 25th Annual DGA Student Film Awards for African American, Asian American, Latino and Women Directors is now open. Apply online by visiting the DGA website or clicking HERE. For more than two decades, the Student
PRESENTS A film by Lise Friedman and Maia Wechsler Monument Releasing presents IF THE DANCER DANCES, the first documentary about the life and work of the iconic choreographer Merce Cunningham since his passing in 2009. As the world celebrates Cunningham’s centennial this spring, we’d love to share this
New York has an extensive offering of Latin American film this week, so don’t miss the remarkable range of selections screening around the city. This Saturday, Cinema Tropical, the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at NYU, and the World Council of Peoples for the United Nations/What Moves You? are
DOC STUDIES PRESENTS @tnsdocstudies Monday, Apr 22 at 1 PM Kellen Auditorium, Ground Floor, 66 Fifth Avenue It’s hard to describe the experience of watching this film — at one level it’s a forensic telling of a dreadful story that gradually reveals its secrets, while simultaneously creating
Two students from the MS Media Management program, Eliya Raza Shamsi and Ponvishal Chidambaranathan have launched a Kickstarter Campaign to fund a digital production house. With this initiative, they want to tell stories of rural communities in India and Pakistan through authentic and more representative
“Welcome to Bodegaverse!” Two bodega clerks, Karen and Mamoudou, realize their boss’ beloved bodega cat, Carter, has gone missing on what seems like the worst day ever. Bodegaverse is a five episode web series that takes place over the course of a day. The series
You are all invited to an upcoming screening of Anayansi Prado and Heather Courtney’s documentary, “THE UNAFRAID” (2018). The film will be screened on Saturday, April 27th, 6:00 pm at NYU’s King Juan Carlos Center (KJCC). “THE UNAFRAID” is a feature-length documentary that follows the
Please join We are All Dominicans and Project Africa for a Film Screening and Conversation on Anti-Blackness in Dominican Republic and Brazil with Ana Maria Belique, Dominican activist. *Snacks will be served. The New School 55 West 13th Street Hirshon Suite – Room 203
The Regular Deadline for the Script and Digital Series Competitions is THIS FRIDAY! Students can save $10 off film and screenplay entries by submitting directly through www.austinfilmfestival.com or FilmFreeway (film submissions only) and using the promo code: 19STUDENT. For further information about these discounts including student rates to attend the Conference,