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NYWIFT Co-Hosts 'We Are Pat' at the 2025 Tribeca Festival

NYWIFT Co-Hosts 'We Are Pat' at the 2025 Tribeca Festival

08 Jun 2025 @ 05:00pm

Join Tribeca Festival & NYWIFT as we proudly co-host screenings of We Are Pat, NYWIFT Member Ruth Ann Harnisch!

Pat, the evasive, androgynous SNL character played byJulia Sweeney, was a ubiquitous presence in the pop culture ether of the 1990s. As a kid, filmmaker Ro Haber grappled with a strange obsession with Pat — a character whose popularity hinged on them making others wildly uncomfortable with their refusal to adhere to strict gender lines. Both time and their identity moved forward and yet, even as an adult, Haber’s preoccupation remained.

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Catch the special broadcast for the 44th Annual NYWIFT Muse Awards on NYC Life March 1 and 21!

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We’re proud to share that 10 NYWIFT members had projects selected for the 2025 Sundance Film Festival!

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NYWIFT has compiled a list of resources for members in need following the California wildfires, and for those in NYC looking to send support. 

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There are several NYWIFT Members involved in projects nominated for the 2025 Golden Globes!

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NYWIFT presented 11 awards to women filmmakers across six New York-area film festivals in 2024.

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In her latest letter from the CEO, Cynthia Lopez recaps NYWIFT all around New York: from The New School to Greenpoint to NYC TV Week, DCTV, Queens, the Hamptons, and beyond…

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Congrats to all of the NYWIFT Members with films at the 2024 Hamptons International Film Festival, including Past NYWIFT Board President Simone Pero and Lilly, recipient of the NYWIFT Ravenal Foundation Feature Film Grant! 

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NYWIFT is proud to announce new Board President Kim Jackson, along with several other new and returning board members for 2024-2025.

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New York Women in Film & Television is proud to announce its continued partnership with the Hellenic Film Society in 2024, including two October screenings at the NY Greek Film Expo.

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Congrats to the 25 NYWIFT Members featured in the 15th Annual SOHO International Film Festival, as well as festival Executive Director and Head of Programming, NYWIFT Board Member Sibyl Reymundo-Santiago!

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NYWIFT is proud to share that seven of our members were nominated for 2024 Primetime Emmy Awards, for shows including The Gilded Age, Only Murders in the Building, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Telemarketers, Saturday Night Live, True Detective: Night Country, and Girls State.

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The Writers Lab today announced that renewed support from steadfast champion Meryl Streep will enable 14 writers across 12 projects to attend its tenth annual lab. With Labs now operational in the US, Canada, UK and Europe, The Writers Lab is still the only program in the world dedicated exclusively to elevating the work of women and nonbinary screenwriters over 40. 

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  • "As always and even more so today, women in our business are taking up the mantle of courage and truth-telling and consciousness, and they move and inspire me. We are awake now in a way we have never been before."

    - Actor Judith Light, accepting her 2017 NYWIFT Muse Award

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