New York Women in Film & Television is excited to share that 4 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.
SHORT DOCUMENTARY FILMS
Photo courtesy of Urbanworld.
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.
US SHORT NARRATIVE FILMS
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Chocolate With Sprinkles
Producer – Board Member Okema T. Moore
On their 25th wedding anniversary, a bickering couple is given one day to do something they haven’t done in 25 years – work on their marriage.
Photo courtesy of Urbanworld.
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.
US NARRATIVE FEATURES
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Albany Road
Publicist – Rachel Aberly
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.
