Below are just a few of the most recent accomplishments of our talented members! If you want to join this dynamic community, we hope you will consider applying for NYWIFT membership.
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In honor of Women’s History Month, the Brooklyn Academy of Music and Reel Sisters will screen Oscar-qualifying and curated shorts from Reel Sisters of the Diaspora Film Festival & Lecture Series on March 6 at 7 PM. The evening will feature four Oscar-qualifying shorts by Black women filmmakers and NYWIFT members including Reunion by Zainab Jah and Ro & the Stardust by Eunice Levis. The event will kick off with Eboni Price’s Blaque, an experimental short lionizing poet Nikki Giovanni’s iconic poem “Ego Trippin’.” Kim Singleton, producer of Consider It Blacklit, will host an exciting Q&A with the filmmakers. Get tickets.
NYWIFT member Christine Cirker invites you to the theatrical release of Unbroken, a compelling, new feature documentary she co-produced. In the film, the daughter of a Holocaust survivor embarks on an international quest to uncover answers about the plight of her mother and her six siblings who, as mere children, escaped Nazi Germany relying solely on their own youthful bravado and the kindness of strangers. Unbroken opens at Quad Cinema tomorrow, February 21 at 7 PM. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with director Beth Lane moderated by film critic Joe Neumaier, host of the weekly “Movie Minute” on New York’s 710 AM-WOR radio. See more showtimes and get tickets.
NYWIFT Board member Gretchen McGowan joined James Lott Jr. for the In Between the Pages podcast, where they discussed her recently released memoir, Flying In. Currently the head of production at GoldCrest films in NYC, Gretchen discussed her award-winning career in producing indie film projects and experience working with the likes of Shelley Winters, Debbie Harry and Wu-Tang Clan and superstar directors like Brian De Palma, Jim Jarmusch and James Ivory in an informative conversation. Tune in.
New York Women in Film & Television is delighted to share that seven of our members are involved with films nominated in a variety of categories for the 97th Academy Awards! Members associated with nominated films (and/or nominated themselves) include Val Dowd, Rebecca Eskreis, Cynthia Kane, Gina Limbrick, Sheila Nevins, Janique L. Robillard and Lauren Wimbush. Learn more about their work on this year’s Oscar-nominated films.
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The ceremony will air live on Sunday, March 2 at 7 PM ET / 4 PM PT on ABC. Viewers can also watch the awards live on ABC through streaming services like DirecTV Stream, Fubo, Hulu, or Sling.
Producer and NYWIFT Board Member Okema T. Moore will have her NAACP Image Award-nominated short film, Chocolate With Sprinkles, screened at the Winter Film Festival on February 20 and February 21. The premise: 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. Get tickets.
NYWIFT member Teja VanWicklen invites fellow members to the Guggenheim Museum‘s Peter B. Lewis Theater on February 27 at 6 PM for A special Learning & Development speaker event. Featuring a new and radical exploration of Mike Kelley’s installation Riddle Of The Sphinx, with a musical composition based on the exploration by Rieko Aizawa and Jesse Mills of the Horszowski Trio. A panel discussion will follow featuring Naomi Beckwith, Chief Curator, Mary Clare Stevens, Executive Director of the Mike Kelley Foundation, Aizawa, Mills, and Russell Carmony, Gallery Guide. The event is free and open to the public with reservation. RSVP.
Join trained intimacy choreographer/coordinator and NYWIFT member LySaundra Janeé for a journaling workshop that will help you reconnect with your most authentic self. Audre Lorde taught us that the erotic is more than sensuality—it’s a source of joy, power, and liberation. It’s a force that has been used to shame and silence us, but it’s also a tool for reclaiming our wholeness. Whether you’re a writer, a dreamer, or simply someone who needs to feel more alive, this workshop is for you. This is a space to: release emotional blockages, reconnect with your intuition and increase your capacity for joy and creativity. When: Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays in March. Register today and use code NYWIFT10 for 10% off. Write, feel, and heal together! Register today.
NYWIFT member Pamela Sporn presents the 25th anniversary screening of Cuban Roots Bronx Stories, recently remastered in 4K, at the beautiful Bronx Music Hall on February 8 at 6 PM. The screening will be followed by a panel moderated by the AfroLatin@ Forum, and feature a musical set by Bobby Sanabria and his Sexteto. One of the few films to explore AfroLatinidad from a Black Cuban-American perspective, Cuban Roots Bronx Stories celebrates its 25th anniversary with a 4K digital restoration. This unique film traces the historical journey of one family from Jamaica to Cuba in the early 20th century during the sugar boom, to the turbulent 1960s Bronx shortly after the Bay of Pigs Invasion, and their re-encounter with Cuba in the 1990s. The tender personal stories reveal nuanced and complex ways to consider migration, Blackness, and US-Cuba relations. Get tickets.
Filmmakers Chiara Padejka (NYWIFT member) and Evan Friedmann share the new trailer for their debut feature Rope Tied starring Carl Nowak and Dimiter D. Marinov (2019 Academy Best Picture for The Greenbook). Relegated into irrelevance after a controversial exhibit, an avant-garde artist searches to win back the favor of his bombastic longtime art dealer. As he prepares a new collection, his eccentric muse proposes a more extreme concept – to tie themselves together by rope for a year. As a member of NYWIFT, Chiara prioritizes finding distribution with an inclusive team that champions female filmmakers. To anyone who is in that space, committed to the same mission, and interested, please connect with ropetiedfilm@gmail.com or chiarapadejka.com for the full film and further details. Watch the trailer.
NYWIFT member Brooke Berman‘s film, Ramona at Midlife, launches on streaming February 11. The premise: Working mom and former Literary It Girl Ramona learns her life is the subject of a hot filmmaker’s newest project. As Ramona faces her disappointments and wrecked friendships, she finds true creative power and finds her best self. Watch it on Apple TV and Amazon Prime Video.
NYWIFT member, Producer and Co-Director Peggy Kennedy received the IndieFEST Film Award of Excellence: Documentary Short for her film, MIA: Stories of the Vietnam War Bracelet. The short film honors missing-in-action soldiers from the Vietnam War through the perspectives of their families who suffered and the individuals who wore their POW/MIA memorial bracelets. Congratulations, Peggy!
Viva Verdi, the intimate documentary from NYWIFT Members Director Yvonne Russo, Executive Producer Simone Pero, and Producer/Writer Christine La Monte will screen at this year’s Santa Barbara International Film Festival (SBIFF) February 10-12. The documentary is a glimpse into the lives of the celebrated opera singers and musicians currently living our their ‘third act’ while mentoring international music students at Milan’s unique retirement home.
Simone’s feature film, Lilly and Christine La Monte’s documentary, Ai Weiwei’s Turandot are also premiering at the SBIFF. To support these fellow NYWIFT members and see the films, get tickets.
NWIFT member Catherine Gund’s film Paint Me a Road Out of Here will have a theatrical run at NYC’s Film Forum starting February 7. Produced and directed by documentarian and activist Catherine Gund, the documentary tracks the labyrinthine ordeal borne by Faith Ringgold’s 1971 painting “For the Women’s House” — originally created for the women incarcerated on Rikers Island, then relegated to mishandling, defacing, and deep storage. Artist and rapper Mary Enoch Elizabeth Baxter, herself formerly incarcerated and commissioned to create a new work for the Rikers women, bands together with Ringgold, politicians, philanthropists, and corrections officers against Kafkaesque bureaucracy to liberate the original painting from Rikers and, more profoundly, Black women from mass incarceration. The film won the NYWIFT Award for Excellence in Feature Film Directing at the 2024 Urbanworld Film Festival. Watch the trailer. Showtimes and tickets
NYWIFT member Eldonie Mason is hosting Don’t Leave Your Kids Crying: What Every Parent With Minor Children Should Know About Estate and Financial Planning with Tara Coffman on February 19 at 6 PM. Did you know 74% of parents have not named guardians for their children and the rest have probably made at least one of the 6 common mistakes parents make when naming them? Additionally, only 59% of parents with minor children have life insurance. Join us for this informative webinar on how you can name legal guardians for your children for FREE and why it’s so important to do it now. Also, find out why life insurance plays a crucial role in ensuring that your kids are financially protected. Space is limited so register today.
The 12th annual SR Socially Relevant Film Festival NY (SRFF) will be held in person from March 11-16 at The National Arts Club, Cinema Village, The Maysles Documentary Center, MRHS, The FORUM, and the Tenri Center for its red-carpet Jury Awards Ceremony. SRFF offers a wide selection of narrative features, documentaries, short films, music videos, web episodes, and a script-writing competition spotlights BIPOC films, climate change, LGBTQI, women’s issues, race, aging, and more. To date, the festival has screened over 750 films from 40 countries. Many SRFF films are made by New York-based filmmakers and shot in NYC. A preview event marking Black History Month will open on February 24 at MRHS. Films are free for students with ID. NYWIFT Member Nora Armani is the Founding Artistic Director. Get more information and tickets.
NYWIFT member Harlene Freezer invites fellow members to the theatrical release of her film Grand Theft Hamlet. The film is a feature documentary about two out-of-work actors attempting the impossible task of mounting a full production of Hamlet inside the ultra-violent world of Grand Theft Auto Online. Shot entirely in-game, Grand Theft Hamlet explores their attempt to merge classical theatre with a chaotic digital landscape. See the film at IFC Center January 17-23 or Alamo Drafthouse January 16-22.
NYWIFT Board Member Okema T. Moore‘s Oscar-qualified short film, Chocolate with Sprinkles is nominated for an NAACP Image Award! Produced by Moore and written and directed by Huriyyah Muhammad, Chocolate with Sprinkles follows a bickering couple on their 25th wedding anniversary, as they’re given one day to do something they haven’t done in 25 years – work on their marriage. Watch the trailer. Vote for the film. Congratulations, Okema!
The New York Jewish Film Festival presents the New York premiere and a post-screening discussion for sports documentary Nina Is an Athlete on January 16 at 5:30 PM. Directed by NYWIFT member Ravit Markus and produced by member Janine McGoldrick, the film also received the NYWIFT Loreen Arbus Disability Awareness Grant. This intimate documentary portrait brings us into the fast-paced world of Nina Gorodetsky, a champion wheelchair badminton player preparing to represent Israel in the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics—potentially her last chance as a woman in her late thirties. The worldwide COVID-19 pandemic complicates things, as does her aspiration to expand her family with another child. Set over the course of three years, Nina Is an Athlete examines with empathy and rigor the intense emotional and physical commitment it would take Gorodetsky to realize her professional and personal dreams. Buy tickets.
Cheryl Halpern former Chairman of Public Broadcasting, NYWIFT member and award-winning filmmaker, is promoting world peace and tolerance globally with her latest film The Golden Rule. The film is also for your consideration for best documentary short subject and is available for viewing on Vimeo in French, Arabic, Hebrew and Bhassa (Indonesian) subtitles. Watch the trailer and the entire film on Vimeo.
Celebrate art, legacy, and storytelling at the New York Jewish Film Festival premiere screening of producer-director and president of sister organization WIFSFBA, Julie Rubio‘s film, The True Story of Tamara de Lempicka & The Art of Survival. Lincoln Center will host screenings and Q&As presented by The Jewish Museum with Marisa de Lempicka, great-granddaughter of Tamara de Lempicka, Tony-nominated icon Eden Espinosa and award-winning director and producer Julie Rubio on January 28 at 3 PM and 8 PM. The first feature-length documentary about the extraordinary Polish Jewish painter Tamara de Lempicka—whose enduring work is beloved by art collectors the world over, including Barbra Streisand, and who was the subject of a recent Broadway musical—Rubio’s film provides an essential and riveting account of a woman who defied all rules. Narrated by Anjelica Huston, and featuring newly discovered material, including 8mm home movies, the film is a tribute to an undimmed luminary and an investigation into the socio-historical and psychological realities that create artistic legacy. Purchase tickets.
NYWIFT member Eve Austin Executive Produced and starred in as KIKi a new film now streaming on Prime Video and Apple TV+. The feature, In Fidelity, was also Executive Produced by NYWIFT member Michalina Scorzelli and features actors Chris Parnell (Saturday Night Live, Rick and Morty), Cara Buono (Stranger Things, Mad Men), Dennis Haysbert, Willow Shields and Illeana Douglas. Critics call In Fidelity a smart and refreshingly real romance for the holiday season. Watch the trailer. Watch on Apple TV.
NYWIFT Member and music supervisor LySaundra Janeé invites you to join MDM Productions, Inc. for a private screening of the short film, Dating Daze, beginning Thursday, December 19. Ariel and Trey unexpectedly cross paths during a night out in New York City. When her past collides with her present, Ariel must decide if new love is worth the risk. Dating Daze was selected for the Afrikana Independent Film Festival and a finalist in the Kansas City Underground Film Festival. Watch the Dating Daze trailer. Purchase Tickets.
NYWIFT Board Member Okema T. Moore is the Producer of the award-winning, Oscar-qualified short film, Chocolate with Sprinkles. Written and directed by Huriyyah Muhammad (2020 Sundance Producer Award Winner – Farewell Amor), the film stars Reno Wilson (Dexter: Original Sin), Keisha Thompson, Camron Jones and Lillian Gilbert and is also produced by Yhá Mourhia Wright and Cole Sanchez. Winning this year’s coveted HBO Short Film Competition at the American Black Film Festival, the short has gone on to win a host of Best Short and Best Film awards and won four awards in this year’s NYWIFT Online Shorts Festival, presented by iWomanTV as well. We celebrate the entire cast and crew of Chocolate with Sprinkles as they are #ForYour Consideration.
Writer/director and NYWIFT member Zainab Jah will present her Oscar-qualified short film Reunion on December 4. With live-action and graphic novel illustrations, Reunion is a drama about a West African refugee living in the Bronx who discovers the child soldier who destroyed her family is now a best-selling author living in NYC. Executive produced by Danai Gurira with Lupita Nyong’o as Associate Producer, Reunionwon the NYWIFT Best Director Award at the 2023 UrbanWorld Film Festival and is currently up for consideration for the Academy Awards 2025. See the film followed by a Q&A with the filmmakers, moderated by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, Lynn Nottage. RSVP.
Listen to the 2024 Woodstock Film Festival panel Women in the Driver’s Seat co-presented by NYWIFT, with members Yvonne Russoand Christine La Monte alongside Heidi Ewing, Ondi Timoner, Rebecca Miller and Nancy Abraham! Moderated by NYWIFT CEO Cynthia Lopez. Available on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.
NYWIFT member Lorena R. Valencia has been awarded a New York Emmy Award for Best Public Service Announcement (PSA) in Spanish. This prestigious recognition honors her work on a groundbreaking PSA created for the National Alliance on Mental Illness of New York City (NAMI-NYC). The campaign, Rompiendo el Silencio (Breaking the Silence), sheds light on the mental health challenges faced by Hispanic/Latino caregivers and aims to reduce stigma through culturally sensitive storytelling. Watch the video. Congratulations, Lorena!
Writer/director and NYWIFT member Eunice Levis has a short film coming to Netflix as part of their “Fresh Perspective: Short Films” collection. The film, Ro & The Stardust follows a free-spirited teen and her terminally ill grandmother as they build a rocket ship they plan to launch into outer space. Congratulations, Eunice! Watch now.
Join NYWIFT member Marilyn Horowitz for an empowering webinar where you’ll learn transformative techniques from the Marilyn Initiative Beyond Happiness Tool Kit to boost your happiness in just two minutes. Get tips to help you stay cheerful and joyful this holiday season on December 18 at 7 PM. Register here.
NYWIFT member Cionin Lorenzo‘s documentary feature has won an NYC Women’s Fund for Media, Music and Theatre grant. Directed by Lorenzo, On Three Wheels captures the ups and downs of parents raising children with disabilities through the eyes of Sandra, a bike mechanic who closed down her repair shop to devote herself to a non-profit she founded committed to improving the lives of children with physical disabilities by building and gifting them adapted bicycles, moving them from wheelchair (four wheels) to tricycle (three wheels). NYWIFT members can help Cionin reach her post-production goal and donate today.
NYWIFT member Niva Dorell invites NYWIFT members to dine and sip at Harlem’s Settepani Restaurant in support of her film The Lotto Line. Written and directed by Dorell, the short film is based on an excerpt from Christola Phoenix’s memoir Paper Curls and Peanut Earrings. It follows a hot summer day in Harlem as 65-year-old Christola is in the lotto line waiting to place her day’s numbers. After she sees a young woman who doesn’t have enough money to buy food, Christola returns to her luxury apartment building without helping her. But the young woman’s desperation haunts Christola, who remembers her own childhood growing up poor in 1950’s Harlem. In the spirit of the film’s theme of communal care and reconnecting with humanity, break bread and meet with the filmmakers on December 15 from 5-10 PM. Contribute here.
Camp Love, a female dystopian psychological-thriller feature film about choosing your own path at any age and harnessing your pain and trauma instead of forgetting, is crowdfunding! In Camp Love’s world, conformity is law. Unmarried and childless women are condemned to camps upon turning 40. With time as all of their greatest enemy, the characters must navigate love, betrayal, societal pressures, and sacrifice to evade the grim fate that awaits them. Produced by NYWIFT member Alexandra Engelson and written/directed by Cathy Beasley. Support today.
A mother. A daughter. A teacher. A revolutionary. And an untimely, unsolved murder. Vow of Silence: The Assassination of Annie Mae premieres November 26, only on Hulu. Former NYWIFT Board Member Yvonne Russo directed all episodes.
This true crime docuseries examines the murder of Annie Mae Aquash – a Mi’kmaq woman from Nova Scotia, Canada, a mother of two daughters, a teacher, and a revolutionary who fought for Indigenous rights in the 1970s whose death went unsolved for almost 30 years. Set between the sweeping landscape of American politics in the volatile 70s and the present-day investigation by Annie Mae’s daughter to uncover secrets from the past, this is a fascinating story of murder, intrigue, love, and betrayal that contextualizes Annie Mae’s story within the larger story of the struggle of Native and First Nations women in their own communities that continues even today. Watch the trailer!
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NYWIFT member Alixx Schottland invites you to a screening of her feature-length film, LOVE MUSIC SHELTER at Look Dine-In Cinemas, as part of the Big Apple Film Festival on December 9 at 3 PM. Schottland tells the story of a teenage girl and her mother living on the streets and busking for their survival, until a performing arts school gives the talented singer a chance, despite her mother’s fears, alcoholism and past demons. Get tickets.
Banned Together is the second in a slate of films from NYWIFT members chosen as official selections in the Big Apple Film Festival. Produced by NYWIFT members Jennifer Wiggin and Allyson Rice and edited by NYWIFT member Charnelle “Cha” Quallis, Banned Together is the first documentary feature about fighting the spread of book bans in the US. The film is screening December 9 at 6 PM at Look Dine-In Cinemas. RSVP here.
NYWIFT member Carol McCann invites you to a screening of her debut short film, The Suit at Look Dine-In Cinemas, as part of the Big Apple Film Festival on December 11 at 5:45 PM. The Suit” is a deeply affecting story about a woman and her granddaughter from rural Nebraska, who go in search of a suit; a seemingly simple task that is ultimately revealed to have a more profound purpose. Get tickets.
Last but not least, 1924 – The Kakori Project, will be showcased on the closing night during the “Short Films Program 9” on Thursday,December 12, at 8:30 PM Big Apple Film Festival (Fall Edition)! Associate Producer and NYWIFT member Anshulika Kapoor invites fellow members to a tale of the tumultuous winter of 1924, India. Here, a young man, while being recruited for a covert mission, grapples with the moral complexities of the Indian Independence Struggle, entwined with the haunting plight of children caught in conflict zones. Save your seat.
Don’t Blink – Robert Frank is a densely woven portrait of globally acclaimed, Swiss-American photographer and documentary filmmaker Robert Frank, told by one of the people who knew him best, his longtime editor and NYWIFT member, Laura Israel. See a Don’t Blink – Robert Frank screening at the Museum of Modern Art, preceded by the premiere of Fearless Frank, a short 20-minute film in which ten of Frank’s collaborators answer the question: what was it like to work with Robert Frank? Screening dates are Sunday, December 8 at 1:30 PMand Wednesday, December 11 at 4 PM. Learn more and reserve tickets.
Here’s Yianni!, a new feature film written and directed by NYWIFT member Christina Eliopoulos, is the closing night film for Dances With Films festival. In the film, Plousia (Julia Ormond) is a loving wife who runs a little Jersey Shore diner with her husband Yianni (Joe Cortese). Her strength is tested when Yianni, whose mind and memory is fading, imagines himself to be the host of a late-night TV talk show. With humor, warmth and Plousia’s whimsical inventiveness, the couple faces the greatest challenge of their lives. The film will screen at Regal Union Square on Sunday, December 8 at 7:30 PM. Get tickets.
The world premiere of Raging Doll will take place on December 5 at the Dances With Films festival during Pilot Block 1 at Regal Union Square. Directed by NYWIFT member Ruthie Marantz, the pilot is about a delusional millennial from the Bronx who gets in the ring with a junior boxing champion known as The Smoke. The film is written by and stars Jessica Catalano, along with Yamaneika Saunders, Laila Zakirova, Bryan Burton, Tracey Carnazzo and Cathy Moriarty. Get tickets.
Bull Street will premiere in Detroit November 29 and runs through December 5 at AMC Forum 30 in Sterling Heights, MI with a live Q&A with the director, writer and NYWIFT member Lynn Dow, on November 30. Bull Street follows LouEster Sadie Gibbs (played by newcomer Malynda Hale), a 39-year-old small-town personal injury lawyer whose mother died in childbirth. Her grandmother, Mrs. Big-Gal (Loretta Devine), has raised her in their humble family home with love and a rich spiritual tradition. When an entitled Ivy League lawyer questions their ownership of the home and its surrounding land, the stage is set for a clash of privilege against family. Get tickets.
Join an in-person conversation at The New School on December 4 at1 PM to learn from NYWIFT member Fernita Wynn, the Emmy Award-winning Executive Producer and Showrunner behind SHERRI, the nationally syndicated talk show hosted by Sherri Shepherd. Over the course of her career, Fernita has shaped some of the most successful shows on TV for nationally recognized talent and media brands including Oprah Winfrey/OWN, Steve Harvey, Queen Latifah, Nickelodeon and more! Fernita will share her personal journey and insider tips on what it takes to break into the world of television production. This conversation will be led by Neyda Martinez, NYWIFT member and Director of the Media Management Program & Associate Professor of Professional Practice in Media Management. Register here.
Sandi DuBowski’s latest feature documentary film Sabbath Queen , executive produced by NYWIFT Board Member Audrey Rosenberg kicks off the US theatrical release in NYC November 22 at IFC Center in New York. Sabbath Queen is a feature documentary filmed over 21 years that follows Rabbi Amichai Lau-Lavie’s epic journey as the dynastic heir of 38 generations of Orthodox rabbis including the Chief Rabbis of Israel. He is torn between rejecting and embracing his destiny and becomes a drag-queen rebel and the founder of Lab/Shul—an everybody-friendly, God-optional, artist-driven, pop-up experimental congregation. SABBATH QUEEN joins Amichai on a lifelong quest to creatively and radically reinvent religion and ritual, challenge patriarchy, champion interfaith love and stand up for peace. The film interrogates what Jewish survival means in a difficult rapidly changing 21st century.
A number of screenings have prominent moderators including director/actor and NYWIFT Muse Award honoree Kyra Sedgwick who will moderate the Q &A following the 4:20P screening on Sunday November 24, author of The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why it Matters Priya Parker who will moderate the Q&A following the 6:50PM screening on Monday November 25, and Krista Tippett of On Being Tuesday November 26 @ 6:50PM. Buy tickets!
NYWIFT member Laura Israel and Alex Bingham, the creators of MoMA’s recent exhibit Robert Frank’s Scrapbook Footage, join Dean Hurley, a sound designer best known for his collaborations with David Lynch, to discuss Frank’s creative process as well as their own. Their installation bridges the worlds of Frank’s artistic production: the gallery, the cinema, and the printed page. It serves as a vital link between the exhibition Life Dances On: Robert Frank in Dialogue, its accompanying catalogue, and a complete retrospective of Frank’s films and videos. Moderated by MoMA curators Joshua Siegel, Lucy Gallun, and Kaitlin Booher, the conversation also features a premiere screening of Life Dances On (1980) in a new digital restoration. Watch the screening followed by a panel discussion with Laura Israel, Alex Bingham, and Dean Hurley Friday November 22 at 6:30 PM. Get tickets.
NYWIFT member Rosanne Limoncelli invites fellow members to apply to a new, innovative degree program at NYU Tisch School of the Arts—the Master of Professional Studies (MPS) degree in Virtual Production. Students will learn at the innovative Martin Scorsese Center for Virtual Production, opening in Fall 2024. This 9 month (September-May), full-time program will provide students an immersive, hands-on education in the emerging field of storytelling through Virtual Production. Applications close December 15, 2024. Learn more.
DELA: The Making of El Anatsui is coming to Barcelona, Spain. The biographical documentary directed by NYWIFT member Oyiza Adaba – in her feature debut – delves into the life of world-renowned Ghanaian sculptor, El Anatsui. His inner musings find vivid expression in art that defies borders and limitations, reshaping the very concept of sculpture. The documentary also emphasizes the importance of Africa’s rich artistic and cultural heritage in the pantheon of global contemporary art. Cinemes Girona will show the documentary on November 30. Get tickets.
