DOC STUDIES PRESENTS @tnsdocstudies Monday, Mar 25 at 1 PM Kellen Auditorium, Ground Floor, 66 Fifth Avenue DOWN IN THE STREET Screening and Q&A with filmmaker JEM COHEN Cohen gives the audience the supreme gift of time, shaping it to create a valuable and enduring portrait of
Filmatique’s Foreign Language Oscar Submissions II Series continues with The Sound of Things, Costa Rican filmmaker Ariel Escalante’s debut feature which excavates the vicissitudes of a young woman’s grief in small, observational moments that gain accumulative power. To watch our current releases click here. Membership required. FLMTQ membership is $4.95/month. First
Non-Stick Nostalgia Film Series March 21–April 18 Accompanying MAD’s spring exhibition Non-Stick Nostalgia: Y2K Retrofuturism in Contemporary Jewelry, eight exciting works of transgressive, science-fiction filmmaking. From groundbreaking animated films like Ghost in the Shell and the cult classic Hackers to Luc Besson’s intergalactic extravaganza, The Fifth Element, the series surveys the
Film March 25 6:30 PM-9:00PM Indocumentales – I’m Leaving Now (Ya Me Voy) Join CLACS, Cinema Tropical, and the World Council of Peoples for the United Nations / What Moves You? for a film and conversation series committed to exploring the multiplicity of Latin American
Ya Me Voy (I’m Leaving Now) a feature-length documentary paints a portrait of Felipe, who after living and laboring for 16 years in Brooklyn–working three low-paying jobs to send his earnings to his family in Mexico–finally decides to return to his wife and the children.
Cinema Tropical (https://www.cinematropical.com/) is hosting a special screening of Laura Amelia Guzmán and Israel Cárdenas’ new film NOELÍ OVERSEAS on Thursday, March 14 at Anthology Film Archives. The screening is presented as part of our ongoing series ‘If You Can Screen It There: Premiering Contemporary Latin American Cinema.’ Protagonist Yanet Mojica, a young
Please note: Our Indocumentales screening of The Unafraid– scheduled for this evening at NYU’s King Juan Carlos I Center – has been postponed due to New York University’s weather-related closure. We apologize for the inconvenience and hope to see you at the re-scheduled program. Stay tuned! Mark your calendars for Latin American film events
We are proud to welcome Raoul Peck as School of Media Studies‘ 2019 Hirshon Director-in-Residence. He is one of the most significant and prolific filmmakers of our time and has been richly rewarded for his historical, political, and artistic work. He will present his films and discuss his work at the
Doc Fortnight 2019: MoMA’s International Festival of Nonfiction Film and Media February 21 – 28 The Museum of Modern Art Latin American films co-presented by Cinema Tropical MoMA’s annual celebration of innovation in nonfiction film presents a lineup of features and shorts from around the globe, including several
LAUREN BELFER, Documentary Studies ’10 finished her first feature documentary, Wrestle. Directed by SUZANNAH HERBERT and Co-Directed by LAUREN BELFER Produced by LAUREN BELFER, STEVEN KLEIN, SETH GORDON, MARY ROHLICH, and SUZANNAH HERBERT Hoop Dreams goes to the mat in this intimate, coming-of-age documentary about four members of a high-school wrestling team at
Join NYWIFT and Vision Maker Media for a screening and reception for the upcoming documentary Warrior Women by Christina D. King and Elizabeth A. Castle. The directors and special guests Madonna Thunder Hawk and Marcella Gilbert will join the post-screening conversation moderated by NYWIFT board member Yvonne Russo. Warrior Women Christina D. King (Director/Producer) Elizabeth A. Castle (Director/Producer) 67
One of Cinema Tropical‘s most extensive annual programs is fast approaching – ‘Neighboring Scenes: New Latin American Cinema’ opens this Friday, at the Film Society of Lincoln Center. Now in its fourth year, Neighboring Scenes impressively highlights a scope of recent productions from across the region – presenting a selective slate
Film Series: Poetic Films from Brazil Curated by Peter Lucas As part of the International Field Program (IFP) preparation for the summer Brazil IFP, each Friday evening during the spring semester a choice Brazilian film will be hosted and screened. Feel free to invite friends
It’s a special time of year for tropicalistas! This week, Cinema Tropical – in partnership with the Museum of the Moving Image—is thrilled to present five special screenings of the winning films from this year’s Cinema Tropical Awards. Join us from Friday to Sunday to celebrate the best Latin American cinema of
DOC STUDIES PRESENTS @tnsdocstudies Monday, Feb 4 at 1 PM, Kellen Auditorium, Ground Floor, 66 Fifth Avenue NAILED IT! + STATE OF OREGON (short) Screening and Q&A with filmmaker and Doc Studies alumna ADELE PHAM “Nailed it! seeks to uncover the fascinating but little known history
Filmatique’s My French Film Festival II Series continues with Black Tide,Èrick Zonca’s Parisian noir in which a washed-up detective, played with aplomb by Vincent Cassel, conducts an investigation that seems to always lead back to himself. To watch our current releases click here. Membership required. FLMTQ membership is $4.95/month.
3 WEEKS TILL THE OPENING OF UNTOGETHER! Click HERE to view the trailer. For more information check out their website, Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook.
This week, The Museum of Modern Art is presenting two classics of Mexican cinema and one recent remake as part of To Save and Project: The 16th Annual MoMA International Festival of Film Preservation. Running through January 31, the Latin American features kick off this Tuesday with Fernando de
CINEMA TROPICAL FESTIVAL February 1 – 3, 2019 Museum of the Moving Image Cinema Tropical and Museum of the Moving Image present the 2019 edition of the Cinema Tropical Festival, celebrating the year’s best Latin American and U.S. Latino films. Featuring the winners of the 9th annual Cinema
Filmatique’s New Asian Voices II Series continues withSanjeewa Pushpakumara’s stark and poetic Burning Birds, a story of female fortitude against the extrajudicial political violence of Sri Lanka’s civil war. To watch our current releases click here. Membership required. FLMTQ membership is $4.95/month. First month free.
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“Unveil”, a short documentary by Joy Ernanny (Doc Studies’18) was shown in Brazil at Rio de Janeiro’s Jewish Cultural Center on December 10 for over 70 people. The film, about the first female-only beauty salon for Muslim women in New York, was received with a
As a thank you for your dedication to the next generation of women writers and leaders—and for being that next generation—Girls Write Now would like to offer you complimentary tickets to a screening of The Hate U Give, a film which resonates deeply with our community. Please enjoy this screening thanks to the vision of
This week there is a screening of Jorge Sanjinés‘ award-winning Bolivian gem The Secret Nation. The film, which won the Golden Seashell for Best Film at the 1989 San Sebastián International Film Festival, plays this Friday at the Bard Graduate Center. Now playing at the IFC Center is Chilean filmmaker Sebastián Silva‘s critical race
Following an incredibly successful festival run, Alfonso Cuarón‘s Roma is hitting big screens right on time for family, friends, and Thanksgiving break. A glorious cinematic feast that Cuarón himself considers his “most essential film,” Roma is kicking off its limited theatrical release this Wednesday at the IFC Center and The Landmark at 57 West. Mexico’s Oscar submission
Dear friends of Creatively Speaking, Please join us for series of features and short films presented at Metrograph Double Exposure:Portraits And Parallels From Across The Diaspora. See details below. All best, Michelle and Creatively Speaking Team
DCTV Presents 1999 Mon 11/19, 7pm, DCTV 87 Lafayette St NYC 10013 A filmmaker returns to her hometown to uncover the memories of a wave of suicides that shook her high school in 1999. None of her former classmates have talked about it, until now,
SMS Alum Jad-Evangelo Nasser’s film ONCE UPON A COLOR has been selected to screen at Katra Film Series on November 13 at Wine Legend -BK. This Festival will focus on innovative Storytelling and Diversity of voices in Film. Tickets available here. Tuesday, November 13th Wine
ADAM PRODUCED BY JIM STARK NYC CINEMA PREMIERE SCREENINGS IN TWO WEEKS ADAM is an award winning film that premiered in February in the Berlinale (the prestigious BERLIN FILM FESTIVAL). Since then it has played in festivals around the world and is due to