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2026 NYWIFT Fiscal Sponsorship Brunch Meeting in Partnership with Flagstar Bank
27 Jul 2026 @ 11:00am
NYWIFT is hosting our Fiscal Sponsorship Brunch Meeting in partnership with Flagstar Bank!
Connect with fellow filmmakers in the NYWIFT Fiscal Sponsorship Program, build community, and hear from Flagstar Bank representatives about their current initiatives and resources for filmmakers.
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Meet the New NYWIFT Member: Laetitia Ky
Welcome to NYWIFT, Laetitia Ky! Laetitia is an artist and actress from Côte d’Ivoire whose practice moves across hair sculpture, photography, painting, performance, and writing. Using her own body and hair as both material and language, she creates works that explore identity, beauty, Blackness, womanhood, freedom, and the political meaning carried by the body. Her work, rooted in personal experience, transforms intimate questions into visual statements that resonate far beyond herself. Through her art, she challenges beauty standards, opens conversations around social and cultural issues, and invites audiences to see the body as a site of memory, resistance, and possibility.
Meet the New NYWIFT Member: Alice McFaul
Welcome to NYWIFT, Alice McFaul! Alice is a producer, assistant director, and musician based between New York and Ireland, working in feature documentaries and unscripted television. Her work includes some of Netflix’s biggest true crime feature docs as a drama producer, and Stanley Tucci’s Searching for Italy and Tucci in Italy shows as assistant director. Alice is also a professional harpist and singer, playing since the age of three in Northern Ireland. In our interview, Alice tells us more about her experience working across these platforms, and how these are shaping her future goals.
Meet the New NYWIFT Member: Isabella Medina Sarria
Welcome to NYWIFT, Isabella Medina Sarria! Isabella is a New York–based film producer originally from Colombia, known for developing and producing internationally-recognized projects. Her award-winning short films include Delusion, which won at the Berlin Indie Film Festival and earned recognition at the LA Indie Film Festival and New York Shorts International Film Festival. She has expanded into feature films, working on Up in the Hills (starring Dylan Walsh and Paris Berelc), Tox (starring Margaret Colin), and Higher Love (starring Dennis Haysbert and Joe Pantoliano), which wrapped production in August 2025. Her work is driven by a strong creative vision, championing well-represented female characters and immigrant stories.
Disney’s Tiana’s Joyful Celebration: An Interview with Ms. Stella Chase-Reese and Carmen Smith at the ESSENCE Festival of Culture 2026
Penni Malloy-Harper visits Tiana’s Joyful Celebration, an immersive, bilingual museum exhibit produced by Walt Disney Imagineering. It follows the storyline of Tiana's Bayou Adventure, inviting children to use their imagination and teamwork to help Tiana and her friends prepare for a Mardi Gras season parade. The exhibit is immersive and tailored for children ages 6-10, bringing the sights, sounds, and flavors of New Orleans to life. This traveling exhibition had its kickoff at the ESSENCE Festival of Culture in July 2026.
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