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NYWIFT Member Screening: before/during/after

NYWIFT Member Screening: before/during/after

25 Feb 2021 @ 03:00pm

Join us for February’s virtual NYWIFT Member Screening of before/during /after, a narrative feature produced, written by, and starring member Finnerty Steeves and executive produced by NYWIFT Board President Jamie Zelermyer.

before / during / after is the story of Jennie Lonergan, a middle-aged NYC theatre actress who is forced to figure out the kind of person she wants to be when her seemingly perfect 15-year marriage comes to an abrupt end after she catches her husband having an affair.

Watch the film then attend a Q&A with the creative team, moderated by NYWIFT Community Engagement Director Katie Chambers.

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NYWIFT mourns the recent passing of longtime member Joan Micklin Silver. Joan was a pillar of the New York City film community. Her first film, Hester Street expanded the marketplace for American indie film, broke down barriers for women directors, and expanded the horizons for representation of immigrants on screen.

Read about her legacy.

NYWIFT has partnered with Women in Film LA and Women in Film & Television Atlanta on the Hire Her Back Fund, which provides micro-grants to women in our industry impacted professionally and financially by COVID-19.

Grants are distributed by The Actors Fund.

Learn more and apply now.

NYWIFT is pleased to announce the recipients of this year’s Ravenal Foundation Feature Film Grant, Sarah Knight and Signe Baumane, as well as our scholarship recipients.

Congratulations to the winners!

NYWIFT member and past Muse Award honoree Julie Dash’s Illusions has been named to the National Film Registry!

The groundbreaking short film was preserved with support from the NYWIFT Women’s Film Preservation Fund.

Read more.

We recently wrapped our Women Who Dared Documentary Series, six films presented in partnership with the International Documentary Association (IDA) October 23 – November 30 celebrating women throughout history who advanced positive social change.

Click to learn more and watch the talkbacks.

Watch NYWIFT Ravenal Feature Film Grant recipient Yellow Rose, now playing in select theaters!

Plus, you can stream the soundtrack.

Learn more.

Thanks to all who attended our NYWIFT 2020 Creative Workforce Summit: Documentary Makers, Industry and Funders in Conversation. 

Read on about the speakers and topics. 

NYWIFT has compiled a list of resources – financial, personal, and professional – for those struggling during the ongoing COVID-19 crisis. 

Check out the NYWIFT Emergency Resource Directory.

Submissions for the NYWIFT Women’s Film Preservation Fund are open through February 1st. The WFPF funds preservation of films made by American women everywhere and films made in the US by women from other countries. Grants of up to $10,000 are awarded for film preservations biennially. 

Apply now.

Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers Presents Proposed Health and Safety Guidelines for Production During COVID-19

Review their suggestions. 

On one of our recent NYWIFT Talks, we invited several award-winning documentary filmmakers and activists to discuss the Black Lives Matter movement and their life’s work as changemakers on the front lines of social and racial justice movements.

Watch the full conversation now.

  • "As always and even more so today, women in our business are taking up the mantle of courage and truth-telling and consciousness, and they move and inspire me. We are awake now in a way we have never been before."

    - Actor Judith Light, accepting her 2017 NYWIFT Muse Award

  • "My faith is renewed by the way I experience this vanguard moving through the world with such grace at such a complex time. Speaking truth to power and creating a legacy for the women and the men who follow."

    - Actor Judith Light, accepting her 2017 NYWIFT Muse Award

upcoming events

  • NYWIFT Member Screening: before/during/after

    03:00pm

  • NYWIFT Talks SXSW 2021

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  • NYWIFT Talks: The Writers Lab 2021

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  • FGI & NYWIFT Present Fashion & The First Ladies Panel

    01:00pm

  • NYWIFT Talks with founder of Film Fatales, Leah Meyerhoff

    04:00pm

  • NDI & NYWIFT Presents: Representation Matters

    09:00am

  • NYWIFT Member Screening: Social Impact Shorts Program

    03:00pm

  • NYWIFT Talks Wellness in COVID 2.0

    03:00pm

 

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