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NYWIFT Summer Soirée: Leveling Up: Girls in Gaming and VR Development

NYWIFT Summer Soirée: Leveling Up: Girls in Gaming and VR Development

15 Jul 2025 @ 06:30pm

Join NYWIFT at Penthouse45 for our Summer Soiree, highlighting game creators and experts! 

The conversation will present new ideas and give insight to what the present and future hold for creators at the intersection of art and technology, followed by a networking reception. Hear about storytelling across mediums, adapting to a fast-paced industry in a constantly shifting cultural landscape, building community online, collaborating with brands and what is next for women bringing their stories to new audiences.

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Latest news

Congratulations to the 12 NYWIFT Members nominated for the 2025 News & Documentary Emmy Awards!

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NYWIFT CEO Cynthia Lopez shares recaps of recent NYWIFT happenings at Tribeca, the Made in NY Awards, and our Meet the Candidates Night, plus previews upcoming programs and pays tribute to two special members of our community who have passed. 

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In her latest letter from the CEO, Cynthia Lopez shares behind-the-scenes highlights from the 45th Annual NYWIFT Muse Awards!

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Congrats to the six NYWIFT members involved in Oscar-nominated projects this year!

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Catch the special broadcast for the 44th Annual NYWIFT Muse Awards on NYC Life March 1 and 21!

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We’re proud to share that 10 NYWIFT members had projects selected for the 2025 Sundance Film Festival!

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NYWIFT has compiled a list of resources for members in need following the California wildfires, and for those in NYC looking to send support. 

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There are several NYWIFT Members involved in projects nominated for the 2025 Golden Globes!

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NYWIFT presented 11 awards to women filmmakers across six New York-area film festivals in 2024.

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NYWIFT presented scholarships to eight filmmaking students in 2024 as part of our ongoing commitment to nurturing the next generation of women in media.

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Congrats to the NYWIFT members with films at DOC NYC 2024!

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NYWIFT is proud to announce the new Nancy Mysel Scholarship Fund for students dedicated to the art and science of film preservation. The scholarship is named for the late UCLA preservationist.

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Four NYWIFT Members have been nominated for Artios Awards for casting theater and television – including former Board Member Destiny Lilly, who has nine nominations! Congrats to all.

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Four NYWIFT members have films screening at the 2024 Urbanworld Festival – congrats to all involved!

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Congrats to the ten members with projects at the Chelsea Film Festival!

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We are proud to have five NYWIFT members with projects at this year’s NewFest, NYC’s LGBTQIA+ film festival!

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Congrats to the NYWIFT members with films screening at the 25th Anniversary Woodstock Film Festival!

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In her latest letter from the CEO, Cynthia Lopez recaps NYWIFT all around New York: from The New School to Greenpoint to NYC TV Week, DCTV, Queens, the Hamptons, and beyond…

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Congrats to all of the NYWIFT Members with films at the 2024 Hamptons International Film Festival, including Past NYWIFT Board President Simone Pero and Lilly, recipient of the NYWIFT Ravenal Foundation Feature Film Grant! 

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NYWIFT is proud to announce new Board President Kim Jackson, along with several other new and returning board members for 2024-2025.

Get to know them here!

New York Women in Film & Television is proud to announce its continued partnership with the Hellenic Film Society in 2024, including two October screenings at the NY Greek Film Expo.

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Congrats to the 25 NYWIFT Members featured in the 15th Annual SOHO International Film Festival, as well as festival Executive Director and Head of Programming, NYWIFT Board Member Sibyl Reymundo-Santiago!

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NYWIFT is proud to share that seven of our members were nominated for 2024 Primetime Emmy Awards, for shows including The Gilded Age, Only Murders in the Building, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Telemarketers, Saturday Night Live, True Detective: Night Country, and Girls State.

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The Writers Lab today announced that renewed support from steadfast champion Meryl Streep will enable 14 writers across 12 projects to attend its tenth annual lab. With Labs now operational in the US, Canada, UK and Europe, The Writers Lab is still the only program in the world dedicated exclusively to elevating the work of women and nonbinary screenwriters over 40. 

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Congratulations to the NYWIFT members who had projects at the 2024 Tribeca Festival!

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Visit our NYWIFT Boutique to shop for Muse Awards mugs and apparel!

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  • "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 Summer Soirée: Leveling Up: Girls in Gaming and VR Development

    06:30pm
  • NYWIFT, NYAFF, and AIM Present: The Art & Commerce of Asian American Cinema

    06:00pm

 

LATEST blogs

Meet the New NYWIFT Member
Meet the New NYWIFT Member: Laci Joseph

Welcome to NYWIFT, Laci Joseph! Laci Joseph is a graduating senior at Temple University, earning her B.A. in Film and Media Arts in Spring 2025. She is passionate about production design and visual storytelling, with a focus on African American culture, history, and uplifting marginalized communities. Her creative interests include themes of love, romance, identity, and global exploration.  Laci aspires to design for music videos, short films, and documentaries, while also bringing her own passion projects to life. Through her work, she aims to build immersive visual worlds that inspire connection, celebrate culture, and reflect powerful, underrepresented stories. Laci discusses what brought her to film, projects she is currently working on, and the themes she conveys through her work!

Meet the New NYWIFT Member
Meet the New NYWIFT Member: Sara Beneke

Welcome to NYWIFT, Sara Beneke! Sara Beneke is an actress and model, born and raised in Minnesota. There, she discovered her love of the arts through community theater and studio dance. Since moving to New York, she’s had the opportunity to work in a variety of theater and film production while studying at HB Studio.  Passionate about the crossover of arts and education, she has recently partnered with a local elementary school developing “Readers Theater” productions. Sara is eager to be joining the NYWIFT community through the Next Wave Program. Sara discusses her roots, her experiences as an actress and model, and upcoming projects she is working on!

Film Festivals
NYWIFT at Tribeca 2025: In Conversation with Victoria Hill

Victoria Hill is no stranger to creating cinematic magic, and her latest project, The Best You Can, premiering at the 2025 Tribeca Festival, is yet another example of her storytelling prowess. As lead producer of and actor in the narrative spotlight film — starring real-life couple Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick — Hill brings a deeply human story to life, exploring connection, loneliness, and unexpected friendship in midlife. NYWIFT Board Member Gretchen McGowan is one of the film’s executive producers. “When Victoria Hill and Andrew Mann brought Michael Weithorn’s script to us, I thought: we’re all ready for Kyra Sedgwick and Kevin Bacon to appear on the screen together again. This is something the world could use right about now,” McGowan said in a NYWIFT announcement of member projects at Tribeca. With a stellar career that spans producing, acting, and writing across internationally acclaimed films like First Reformed, The Chaperone, and The Secrets We Keep, Hill’s dedication to complex, character-driven stories continues to shine. In this exclusive NYWIFT interview, Hill shares insights into filming on location in NYC, collaborating with industry heavyweights, and her mission to amplify women’s voices through Fibonacci Films.

Meet the New NYWIFT Member
Meet the New NYWIFT Member: Jayson Simba

Welcome to NYWIFT, Jayson Simba! Jayson Simba is a Cuban-American actor, director, writer, and producer who hails from Forest Hills, Queens. After attending LaGuardia H.S. of Performing Arts, Jayson enrolled at the Acting Studio NYC, where he studied the Meisner Technique under renowned acting teacher James Price. As an actor, Jayson has starred in over 40 films and television roles. In 2002, Jayson founded One Man Show Productions to help produce the work of independent filmmakers and writers. In 2007, he was hired to write and direct his first feature film, What Matters Most. As an independent filmmaker with 15 films under his belt, Jayson founded Festival of Cinema NYC with the aim of giving emerging filmmakers a platform to showcase their work to further their careers. Jason discusses his experiences as a filmmaker and the foundations of the Festival of Cinema NYC.

 

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