NYWIFT Industry Screening: ‘Black Bear’ Screening + Q&A
Join us for a screening of Black Bear followed by a conversation with producer Julie Christeas.
Black Bear explores the complex nature of relationships, gender dynamics, and the erratic nature of love as it traces the conflict between our lust and our longing for internal harmony.
READ MORENYWIFT Industry Screening & Q&A: ‘Lost Girls’ with Liz Garbus, Amy Ryan, and Anne Carey
Join us for a screening of Lost Girlst followed by a conversation with director Liz Garbus, producer Anne Carey, and Academy Award nominated actress Amy Ryan.
Lost Girls When 24-year-old Shannan Gilbert mysteriously disappears one night, her mother Mari embarks on a dark journey that finds her face to face with hard truths about her daughter, herself, and police bias.
READ MOREHBO & NYWIFT Present: NYWIFT Talks with ‘Crazy, Not Insane’ Producer Ophelia Harutyunyan
In this week’s NYWIFT Talks, join Producer Ophelia Harutyunyan for a Zoom conversation. We’ll focus on her new HBO Documentary Crazy, Not Insane, which airs on HBO on November 18, 2020.
Psychiatrist Dr. Dorothy Otnow Lewis has dedicated her career to the study of murderers, seeking answers to the question of why we kill. This provocative documentary explores, like a scientific detective story, Dr. Lewis’s lifelong attempts to look beyond the grisly details of homicides into the hearts and minds of the killers themselves.
READ MORENYWIFT Industry Screening: ‘Radium Girls’ + Q&A with Co-Directors Lydia Dean Pilcher, Ginny Mohler, and producer Emily McEvoy
Join us for a screening of Radium Girls followed by a conversation with Co-Directors Lydia Dean Pilcher, Ginny Mohler, and producer Emily McEvoy
Based on true events, teenage sisters Bessie and Jo paint glow-in-the- dark watch dials at the American Radium Factory in 1920s New Jersey. When girls at the factory mysteriously begin to fall ill, Bessie uncovers a corporate scandal and fights back in a radical coming-of-age story.
READ MORE(Screening Extended) NYWIFT Women Who Dared Documentary Series, Week 5: Truth to Power: Barbara Lee Speaks for Me
Join us for a screening of Truth to Power: Barbara Lee Speaks for Me followed by a conversation with Director Abby Ginzburg. Moderated by Cynthia Kane.
Truth to Power: Barbara Lee Speaks for Me tells the complex story of Representative Barbara Lee, a steadfast voice for human rights, peace and equality in the U.S. Congress for over two decades. An all-star cast share insights about what makes Barbara Lee unique as a public servant and as a truth-telling African American woman.
READ MORENYWIFT Women Who Dared Documentary Series, Week 3: ‘And She Could Be Next’
Join us for a screening of Part 2 of And She Could Be Next followed by a conversation with directors Grace Lee, Marjan Safinia, and producer, Jyoti Sarda.
And She Could Be Next tells the story of a defiant movement of women of color, transforming politics from the ground up. The two-part series follows candidates and organizers across the country, asking whether democracy itself can be preserved—and made stronger—by those most marginalized. “Episode Two: Claiming Power” takes us to the weeks leading up to election day and focuses on how organizers combat voter suppression in their own communities.
READ MORENYWIFT Women Who Dared Documentary Series, Week 2: RBG
Join us for a screening of RBG followed by a conversation with editor Carla Gutierrez. Moderated by Marcia Rock, Director of News and Documentary, NYU Journalism.
At the age of 85, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has developed a lengthy legal legacy while becoming an unexpected pop culture icon. But the unique personal journey of her rise to the nation's highest court has been largely unknown, even to some of her biggest fans – until now. RBG explores Ginsburg's life and career.
READ MOREIFP x NYWIFT Present: Mrs. America Panel
Join us on Tuesday, October 27 at 7pm EST for a conversation with the creative team behind Mrs. America Episode 3, “Shirley,” now streaming on FX on Hulu.
Dahvi Waller (Creator, EP, Showrunner, Writer), Micah Schraft (Co-EP/Writer), Tanya Barfield (Emmy-nominated producer and writer of Episode 3, “Shirley”) and 2020 Emmy Award-winner Uzo Aduba (“Shirley Chisholm”) will discuss capturing a pivotal moment in history on screen, their creative process working as a team, making a unique episode that fits into the series as a whole and the relationship between the creative team and the episode’s lead actress.
READ MORENYWIFT Women Who Dared Documentary Series, Week 1: Chisholm ’72
Join us for a screening of Chisolm '72: Unbought & Unbossed followed by a conversation with filmmaker Shola Lynch. Moderated by NYWIFT Special Projects Associate Easmanie Michel.
Recalling a watershed event in US politics, this compelling documentary takes an in-depth look at the 1972 presidential campaign of Shirley Chisholm, the first Black woman elected to Congress and the first to seek nomination for the highest office in the land.
READ MORENewFest & NYWIFT Present: Filmmaker Virtual Roundtable
Hear from the narrative, documentary, and episodic filmmakers featured at NewFest this year as they discuss their work from funding to completion to the film festival landscape. Panelists include Hang Nguyen (director, Sideways Smile), Olivia Peace (director, Tahara), and Susan Sandler (director, Julia Scotti: Funny This Way).
Moderated by NYWIFT Program Manager Barbara Vásconez.
READ MORENYWIFT Industry Screening: ‘Once Upon A River’ Screening + Q&A with Director Haroula Rose
Join us for a virtual screening of Once Upon A River and a Q&A with Director Haroula Rose, Star Kenadi DelaCerna, and DP Charlotte Hornsby, moderated by NYWIFT Board Member Amenya Makuku.
Based on the best-selling novel by Bonnie Jo Campbell, Once Upon A River is the story of Native American teenager Margo Crane (DelaCerna) in 1970s rural Michigan who after enduring a series of traumas and tragedies, sets out on an odyssey on the Stark River in search of her estranged mother. On the water, Margo encounters friends, foes, wonders, and dangers; navigating life on her own, she comes to understand her potential, all while healing the wounds of her past.
READ MORENYWIFT Talks with Lauren Lake
In this week’s NYWIFT Talks, join the host of the Emmy-winning show Lauren Lake's Paternity Court. We’ll focus on Lauren's career in unscripted television and her activism for Women's Rights and Inclusion in Hollywood!
This conversation will be moderated by NYWIFT Board Member Maria C. Miles.
NYWIFT Talks are free for all to attend.
READ MORE2020 Creative Workforce Summit Day 1: Women Documenting the Vote
Join us for Day 1 of the NYWIFT Creative Workforce Summit with a welcome address by Maria Torres-Springer of The Ford Foundation Center for Social Justice and keynote by Laverne Berry.
Our first panel, Women Documenting the Vote, takes a critical look at films that address voter suppression and voter participation.
Moderated by Yahaira Jacquez of Reuters. Speakers include Lisa Cortes, Liz Garbus, Grace Lee, Dawn Porter, and Marjan Safinia.
2020 Creative Workforce Summit Day 2: Unionizing Nonfiction Labor
Join us for Day 2 of the 2020 Creative Workforce Summit to discuss for Unionizing Nonfiction Labor. This panel examines the lack of organized labor for documentary and reality tv makers, the benefits and potential pitfalls of organizing, and collective bargaining opportunities that could exist in the documentary world.
Speakers include Maggie Bowman, Caty Borum Chattoo, Andrew Greenberg, Susan Margolin, and Johanna Vanderspool.
2020 Creative Workforce Summit Day 4: Executive Function
Please join us on Day 4 of the 2020 Creative Workforce Summit to discuss Executive Function
Decision makers at networks, funders, and production companies discuss the future of funding and greenlighting nonfiction projects, the challenges of the pandemic from their perspective, and how social justice movements and politics influence their decisions.
Speakers include Carrie Lozano (Documentary Film Program Director, Sundance Institute), Dana Merwin (Program Officer for International Documentary Association (IDA) Enterprise Fund), Monika Navarro (Senior Director of Artist Programs, Firelight Media), and Sandie Pedlow (Executive Director, Latino Public Broadcasting).
2020 Creative Workforce Summit Day 3: Authorship
Please join us on Day 3 of the 2020 Creative Workforce Summit discussing Authorship: Our Stories, Directed, Produced and Written by Us.
Women and BIPOC documentarians discuss new opportunities to tell their own stories through traditional (feature films, streaming, and cable networks) and new non-traditional (mobile phones, virtual conversations, and social media) formats. Emphasis on social justice storytelling, who gets to tell whose story, how filmmakers are adapting to the challenges of the pandemic, and the significance of telling stories now during the thriving Black Lives Matter movement and on the eve of the presidential election.
Moderated by Simon Moya Smith. Speakers include Maria Agui Carter, Maria Finitzo, Nadia Hallgren, Shalini Kantayya, and Yvonne Russo.
Webinar: The Business of Adaptations for Film and TV – Fall 2020
Agents, Hollywood producers and publishers are always searching for the next great story, but not all writers start from scratch. Oftentimes, ideas come from the things we see, read, write and hear. The challenge for many is how to transition these materials from their original form of a book, article, and story into a full-fledged...
READ MOREIFC Films & NYWIFT Present: “A Call to Spy” Virtual Screening + Q&A with Lydia Dean Pilcher & Sarah Megan Thomas
Join us for a virtual screening of A Call to Spy and a Q&A with Director Lydia Dean Pilcher and Actress Sarah Megan Thomas. Moderated by Co-Founder and Head of Programming at In Creative Company Mara Webster.
At the dawn of World War II, a desperate Winston Churchill orders his new spy agency to train women for covert operations. Together, these female agents help undermine the Nazi regime in France, leaving an unmistakable legacy in their wake.
A Call to Spy received the 2019 NYWIFT Ravenal Foundation Feature Film Grant.
