NYWIFT Blog

NYWIFT Talks: NYWIFT Goes to the Oscars: ‘The Mole Agent’

Join NYWIFT for a screening of the Academy Award Nominees for Best Narrative Short, Feeling Through, and Best Documentary, The Mole Agent. Followed by a Q&A with Maite Alberdi (Director, Producer of The Mole Agent), Marcela Santibañez (Producer of The Mole Agent), Julie Goldman and (Executive Producer of The Mole Agent).

Maite Alberdi’s The Mole Agent is a stylish combination of an observational documentary and a spy movie, with sleek camerawork and wonderfully watchable characters. It’s a unique meditation on compassion and loneliness that will infiltrate your heart and never let go.

Virtual Theatrical Experience: 2021 S.W.A.N. (Support Women Artists Now) Day Screening – ‘Farewell Amor’

Join NYWIFT, SAG-AFTRA, FF2 Media, Women in the Arts & Media Coalition (WAMC), HerFlix, In Creative Company, Gotham and African-American Women in Cinema (AAWIC) for a screening of Farewell Amor in recognition of S.W.A.N. (Support Women Artists Now) Day, an annual event on the last Saturday of March that celebrates women artists. Followed by a Q&A with writer/director, NYWIFT Member Ekwa Msangi. Moderated by NYWIFT Board President Jamie Zelermyer.

NYWIFT Industry Screening + Q&A: ‘Test Pattern’

Join us on February 23rd for a screening of Test Pattern followed by a conversation.

Test Pattern follows an interracial couple whose relationship is put to the test after a Black woman is sexually assaulted and her white boyfriend drives her from hospital to hospital in search of a rape kit. Q&A date will be announced soon.

NYWIFT Industry Screening + Q&A: ‘A Thousand Cuts’

Join us on Tuesday, February 16th for a screening of A Thousand Cuts followed by a conversation with the creative team Ramona Diaz (Director & Producer), Raney Aronson-Rath (Executive Producer), Leah Marino (Editor/Producer), and Julie Goldman (Producer). Moderated by Brenda Robinson, President, International Documentary Association.

In this powerful documentary, journalist Maria Ressa risks her life and freedom as an outspoken critic of Filipino President Rodrigo Duterte's war on drugs.

NYWIFT Industry Screening + Q&A: ‘Flower Punk’ with Director Alison Klayman

Join director Alison Klayman to discuss her new film Flower Punk. We'll talk about releasing a film in the time of COVID-19 and virtual screenings. Plus, updates on her new work.

Flower Punk is a hypnotizing short documentary that brings you inside the work and process of Japanese artist Azuma Makoto. After watching, you won't be able to think about flowers the same way again.

This conversation will be moderated by NYWIFT Board Member Joyce Pierpoline.

The NYWIFT WFPF presents Trailblazers of Early Cinema 

Join The Women’s Film Preservation Fund as they present a screening and Q&A of Trailblazers of Early Cinema: A silent film program of pioneer filmmakers. Moderated by WFPF Founder Barbara Moss with guest panelists Kim Tomadjoglou and Buckey Grimm. Films available Jan 28th-Feb 1st, with Q&A on Feb 1st at 4pm ET.

The filmmakers in this silent program represent some of the first women to make films in the early days of cinema (1910s-1920s). They wore multiple hats on their productions - from writer, director and producer to sometimes actor. Many of these filmmakers’ works have been forgotten. It is Women’s Film Preservation Fund’s mission to preserve these engaging, cinematic treasures and share them with a new audience.

NYWIFT Industry Screening + Q&A: ‘Identifying Features’

Join us on Monday, January 25th for a screening/conversation of the film Identifying Features.

Middle-aged Magdalena (Mercedes Hernandez) has lost contact with her son after he took off with a friend from their town of Guanajuato to cross the border into the U.S., hopeful to find work. Desperate to find out what happened to him—and to know whether or not he’s even alive—she embarks on an ever-expanding and increasingly dangerous journey to discover the truth. At the same time, a young man named Miguel (David Illescas) has returned to Mexico after being deported from the U.S., and eventually his path converges with Magdalena’s.

From this simple but urgent premise, director Fernanda Valadez has crafted a lyrical, suspenseful slow burn, equally constructed of moments of beauty and horror, and which leads to a startling, shattering conclusion. Winner of the World Cinema Dramatic Audience and Screenplay Awards at the Sundance Film Festival.

HBO & NYWIFT Present: Industry Screening + Conversation: ‘I Hate Suzie’

Join us on Wednesday, January 13th for a pre-recorded conversation with the creative team of HBO Max original series, I Hate Suzie. Panelists to be announced.

Suzie Pickles, a star on the wane, has her whole life upended when her phone is hacked and a photo of her in an extremely compromising position is released for the whole world to see. This excruciatingly honest show follows the various stages of Suzie’s trauma episode by episode, through Shock, Denial, Fear, Shame, Bargaining, Guilt, Anger, and Acceptance as Suzie and her best friend and manager Naomi try to hold her life, career, and marriage together in the face of being exposed for who she truly is. But who the hell even is that?

NYWIFT Industry Screening: A Conversation with Gloria Steinem and “A Life Too Short” director Safyah Zafar Usmani (A Film about Honor Killing in Pakistan)

Join us on Friday, December 18th for a conversation with A Life Too Short Director Safyah Zafar Usmani! Moderated by writer, political activist, and feminist organizer, Gloria Steinem.

This free event is for NYWIFT members only.

The film examines the startling tragedy behind the killing of Pakistani activist and social media star, Qandeel Baloch.  A vocal, provocative proponent of women’s rights and freedom of expression, Qandeel challenged the highest ranks of power in her country with her open exclamation of women’s equality and sexuality. Her bravery and outspokenness ended in chilling violence that reverberates around the world. 

NYWIFT Industry Screening & Q&A: ‘The Forty-Year-Old Version’ with Director Radha Blank

Join us on Monday, December 14th for a screening and conversation with The Forty-Year-Old Version Director, Writer, and Star Radha Blank. Moderated by NYWIFT Board Member Leslie Fields-Cruz.

Nearing 40 and still struggling as a playwright, frustrated New Yorker Radha turns to a different kind of stage, awakening a rapper alter-ego named RadhaMUSprime. As her revitalized artistic voice blossoms, Radha must learn to juggle her two personas—and two unique New York art scenes. In her debut feature, writer-director Radha Blank plays the deeply personal lead role, a magnetic presence with a unique perspective, creating a film that is a fresh addition to the New York City slice-of-life canon.

NYWIFT Industry Screening & Q&A: ‘I’m Your Woman’ with Julia Hart and Jordan Horowitz

Join us December 3rd for a screening and conversation with I'm Your Woman’s Director/Writer Julia Hart and Writer Jordan Horowitz, moderated by NYWIFT Board Member Amenya Makuku.

A decidedly female take on crime dramas of the 1970s, I’m Your Woman, starring 2020 NYWIFT Muse Honoree Rachel Brosnahan, is a tale of love, betrayal, motherhood—and what it takes to claim your life as your own.