NYWIFT Co-Presents Two Films at 2024 Urbanworld Festival

New York Women in Film & Television is proud to once again co-present several films at the Urbanworld Film Festival! 

Both films feature the work of NYWIFT members.

I Feel Love Shorts Program
Thursday, November 14, 2024
5:30 PM
Regal Union Square, Screen 16
Several of the filmmakers will be in attendance. This program features Chocolate with Sprinkles, produced by NYWIFT Board Member Okema T. Moore

Albany Road
Thursday, November 14, 2024
8:45 PM
Regal Union Square, Screen 15
Director Christine Swanson, producer Michael Swanson, and actress Lynn Whitfield will be in attendance. NYWIFT Member Rachel Aberly is the publicist for the film. 

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About the Films

Chocolate with Sprinkles

Short Drama, 2024, 19 min.
Director: Huriyyah Muhammad
Screenwriter: Huriyyah Muhammad
Producer: Okema T. Moore, Yha Mourhia Wright, Cole Sanchez

On their twenty-fifth wedding anniversary, a bickering couple is given one day to do something they haven’t done in twenty-five years: work on their marriage.

Albany Road

Dramedy, 2024, 135 min.
Director: Christine Swanson
Screenwriter: Christine Swanson
Producer: Michael Swanson

On her way to the most important meeting of her career, inclement weather forces a New York executive to share a rental car with her sworn enemy who happens to be her ex-fiance’s mother who is hiding a major secret and to the executive’s dismay, she’s the only who knows it.


 

NYWIFT is excited to share that four of our members are involved in films that have been selected for the 28th Annual Urbanworld Festival. 

This year’s Urbanworld Festival will take place November 13-17, 2024 in person at Regal Union Square (850 Broadway), and Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center at Lincoln Center (144 W 65th Street).

In-person passes and tickets can be purchased here.

See the full programming lineup here. 

In addition to the two member films listed above, be sure to also check out:

The Cat Man Eshete

Director & Producer – Laura Checkoway 

A refugee finds his calling in caring for stray cats and shares his story from war-torn Ethiopia to the streets of Brooklyn.

Tender Thoughts

Producer – Nicole Palermo

A whimsical, modern-day fable about a Black woman regaining her sense of self after years of being a corporate cog.

November 14 @ 5:30pm
5:30 pm — 10:30 pm (5h)

Regal Union Square
850 Broadway
New York, NY 10003

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NYWIFT programs, screenings and events are supported, in part, by grants from New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, and New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature.

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