On Oct 6, 2018, from 5:20 pm – 7:30 pm, Reel Sisters is proud to announce a screening and conversation of Mr. Soul!, directed by Melissa Haizlip and Sam Pollard! Before Oprah – before Arsenio – there was Mr. SOUL! Ellis Haizlip made television broadcast history with “Soul!,” America’s first “black Tonight Show.” Join Reel Sisters
It is only 6 days away from the inaugural BAMcinematek presents: Film School Shorts 2018! This showcase, curated by Curtis Caesar John and BAMcinématek’s Natalie Erazo, celebrates new work by select student filmmakers from Brooklyn College, the Feirstein Graduate School of Cinema, Pratt Institute, Syracuse
You’re invited to an Exclusive Film Premiere in NYC! Flix Premiere – the world’s first online cinema – invites you to its first ever US Theatrical Premiere of the film Bikini Moon – a distinct New York based film, directed by the highly acclaimed and Oscar Nominated director Milcho Manchevski, starring Condola Rashad (from
Director Savanna Washington offers a sneak preview of Playing Frisbee in North Korea (2018) for a Korea Society audience. She appears after in conversation with Columbia Professor Charles Armstrong and the Society’s Stephen Noerper. This colorful documentary vividly depicts the challenges of North Korea and potential warming
This week, make sure not to miss the U.S premiere of Ricardo Silva and Omar Guzmán‘s William, the New Judo Master this Thursday, September 20 at Anthology Film Archives. Screening as part of Cinema Tropical’s series of contemporary Latin American cinema, the “fascinating film essay” follows famed Swedish-American singer William Clauson as he whiles away
Winner Silver Beat for Best Screenplay 2018 Berlin International Film Festival “Fabulously entertaining. Irresistibly inventive. Hitchcock, Looney Tunes, Rififi…and Bresson…Ruizpalacios pulls it off with a joyful sureness.” -Jessica King, Variety “An endlessly entertaining, challenging investigation of history that confirms Ruizpalacios’ status as the next big thing in Mexican
Fall is fast approaching, and GAP is excited to announce their annual screening, Rising Together, Moving Forever, on October 5th, 2018 from 6-9pm at The New School (66 West 12th St). They will have several opportunities to engage at the event including: photo booths, food, performances, as well as
Help seed a national conversation around issues of race, education and equity. Real talk that leads to real action that leads to real change. Lang’s Civic Engagement and Social Justice Program has been offered a select amount of seats to the exclusive NYC screening of America
SMS Faculty Member Shimon Dotan will premiere his most recent film, “Left Behind America” on Frontline Tuesday, September 11. Click here for more information.
Doc Studies presents: Monday, September 17 at 1 PM Kellen Auditorium, Ground Floor, 66 Fifth Avenue CRIME + PUNISHMENT Directed by Stephen Maing 2018, 115 min. Screening and Q & A with filmmaker STEPHEN MAING “A triumph of documentary filmmaking” — Tim Wu, The New York
ZUZANA: MUSIC IS LIFE NYC PREMIERE A beautiful, award-winning film about legendary harpsichordist Zuzana Ruzickova, who recalls a life of love, tyranny, and the music that helped her survive and thrive through some of the 20th century’s darkest periods. The film was twice voted Best Documentary. Leonard Nimoy Thalia Theater at Symphony Space Thursday,
Upcoming in the next two weeks at Cinema Tropical: If you missed Jim McKay’s acclaimed En el Séptimo Día in its theatrical release at the beginning of summer, you still have one more chance to catch this heartfelt portrait of Brooklyn’s Mexican community at Museum of the
CALL FOR ENTRIES NOW OPEN FOR MONO NO AWARE XI ANNUAL CINEMA ARTS FESTIVAL IN BROOKLYN, NEW YORK. Exhibit your work at the largest expanded cinema festival in the US. Submissions are sliding scale from $0 to Pay-what-you-can. Deadline Oct 31 Mono No Aware Cinema Arts
Gamar Markarian, who recently completed her Documentary Studies Certificate, will showcase her film Work at BAMcinématek. BAMcinématek will take place Wednesday, September 26, 2018 at 7pm. LOCATION: Peter Jay Sharp Building BAM Rose Cinemas RUN TIME: 85min FORMAT: DCP GENERAL ADMISSION: $15 MEMBERS: $7.50 (free for Level 4
Film Society of Lincoln Center is screening some Latin American horror films from Mexico, Chile, and Brazil as part of their annual film festival ‘Scary Movies.’ Be sure to check out these year’s selection. Also hitting screens this week is the New York Latino Film
GABRIEL AND THE MOUNTAIN A film by Fellipe Barbosa (Gabriel e a Montanha, Brazil/France, 2017, 131 min. In Portuguese, English, and French with English subtitles) Based on the true story of a close friend of director Fellipe Barbosa, this beautifully photographed travelogue recreates the fateful journey of
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June on Filmatique: Best Undistributed Every year, the Film Society of Lincoln Center’s Film Comment magazine publishes a list of critically-acclaimed films that have not received US distribution. Many of these films are avant-garde, experimental; others are stirring portraits from regions of the world either not considered
JUNE 14—21 FILM SOCIETY OF LINCOLN CENTER and IFC CENTER Latino Films Presented by Cinema Tropical The Human Rights Watch Film Festival is honored to share powerful stories from Latin America and the U.S. This year, we are featuring courageous women in Venezuela, a Cuban
EN EL SÉPTIMO DÍA A film by Jim McKay (On the Seventh Day, USA, 2017, 92 min. In Spanish and English with English subtitles) En el Séptimo Día, a fiction feature from director Jim McKay (Girls Town, Our Song, Everyday People), follows a group of undocumented immigrants living in Sunset
DARK MONEY, a political thriller, examines one of the greatest present threats to American democracy: the influence of untraceable corporate money on our elections and elected officials. The film takes viewers to Montana—a frontline in the fight to preserve fair elections nationwide—to follow an intrepid
Within the realm of issue-driven documentary, a common visual language is often used to communicate empathy, urgency, and action around a cause. Happening this weekend, participants will learn how to work outside of that framework and make social issue films that emphasize and experiment with artistic
PANKE A film by Alejo Franzetti (Argentina/Germany, 46 min. In Bissa, German, French with English subtitles) New York Premiere! Q&A with director Alejo Franzetti “Panke is an ode to survival; a very careful meditation on the melancholy of immigrants, made with a tone at once convincing and detached. The
On May 3 at 6.30pm, we will be screening Disaster Capitalism, a powerful documentary on a six-year investigation by a best-selling journalist and author, Antony Lowenstein, into how aid dollars are spent. The film tracks the ramifications of disaster capitalism in Afghanistan, Haiti, and Papua New Guinea.
THE ABSENT STONE A film by Sandra Rozental & Jesse Lerner (La piedra ausente, Mexico/USA, 82 min. In Spanish with English subtitles) New York Premiere! Q&A with co-director Sandra Rozental In 1964, the largest carved stone of the Americas was moved from the town of San Miguel Coatlinchan
One of the best films of the year —Amy Taubin, Artforum “Adriana Barraza gives a masterful performance.” —Eric Kohn, IndieWire “Spellbinding… The film is as sublime as it is subtle.” —Gary Kramer, Film International EVERYTHING ELSE A film by Natalia Almada (Todo lo demás, Mexico/USA, 98 min. In Spanish
KK de La Vida, an online MA student in the Media Studies program, is excited to present “Liquid Plasticity: A Movement Prayer” at Yale Divinity School’s Graduate Conference on Religion and Ecology this Thursday, April 19, 2018. “Liquid Plasticity” is the second live iteration of “Reality
The Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust presents “116 Cameras “for film and post-screening discussion on Thursday, April 19, 2018 at 7:00pm. The post-screening discussion features Auschwitz survivor, Eva Schloss, and director, Davina Pardo. 116 Cameras With Auschwitz survivor Eva Schloss and director Davina Pardo April 19, 2018
NELSON FREIRE A film by João Moreira Salles (Brazil, 2003, 102 min. In Portuguese with English subtitles) “In films such as Noticias de Uma Guerra Particular, Joao Moreira Salles has demonstrated a keen interest in examining the dark underbelly of Brazilian society. But in this, his
Irish Screen America is presenting a special NYC screening and director Q&A of The Drummer and The Keeper onMonday, April 16th at Scandinavia House (58 Park Avenue New York, NY 10016) and New School students are invited. With the code ISA2018 students can get tickets at a discounted price of