NYWIFT Member Screening: Familiar Touch
Join us October 22, 2025 at Tribeca Screening Room for a NYWIFT Member Screening of the narrative feature Familiar Touch followed by a Q&A with Writer, Director, Producer and NYWIFT Member Sarah Friedland and cast members Kathleen Chalfant, Carolyn Michelle and H. Jon Benjamin. Moderated by Kate Erbland (IndieWire).
READ MORENYWIFT Member Screening: “After All” at the SOHO International Film Festival
Join us for a NYWIFT Member Screening of the narrative feature After All, produced by NYWIFT Member Joanna Zippel and co-produced by NYWIFT Member Cornelia Ravenal.
The screening is the Opening Night film of the 2025 SOHO International Film Festival. A Q&A with the creative team Kerstin Karlhuber, Jack Bryant, Erika Christensen, and Kiara Muhammad will follow.
Your ticket purchase includes admission to the festival's opening night party!
When Ellen (Erika Christensen) returns home to care for her estranged, ailing mother and the teenage daughter she left behind, she is caught between the weight of the past and the demands of the present. As her headstrong mother, Verna (Penelope Ann Miller), declines and deeply buried family secrets resurface, Ellen must face painful truths she has long avoided. Meanwhile, her daughter, Haley (Kiara Muhammad), struggles with school and the unraveling stability of home, leaving Ellen torn between two generations in need. In this heartfelt story, three generations of women confront old wounds and discover joy in one another as they redefine what it means to be family.
NYWIFT Creative Showcase: Members at the 2025 SOHO International Film Festival
The NYWIFT Member Screening Series comes to SOHO International Film Festival with a selection of six short films showcasing talented members of the New York Women in Film & Television community in key creative roles.
Showcase screening followed by a conversation with the artists, and a reception at the festival filmmakers' lounge.
NYWIFT Member Screening: ‘Sex Work: It’s Just a Job’
Join us for a NYWIFT Member Screening of the documentary SEX WORK: It’s Just a Job by NYWIFT members Tami Kashia Gold and Bienvenida Matias. Followed by a Q&A with NY State Senator Jules Salazar (Chair, Committee on Crime Victims), Assemblymember Soufrant-Forrest (Assembly District 57), and Jared Trujillo (Law & Policy Counsel Equality New York). Moderated by NYWIFT CEO Cynthia Lopez.
Sex Work: It’s Just a Job tells the story of the movement to decriminalize sex work through an ensemble of people who work in the sex trades involving monetary exchange between adults. What sets this film apart is its centering of the voices of sex workers themselves: we hear from a diverse group of New York City workers and learn about their challenges, successes, and the solidarity they bring to their activism.
NYWIFT Member Screening: Brooklyn, Minnesota
Join us for a NYWIFT Member Screening of the narrative feature Brooklyn, Minnesota, followed by a Q&A with Jessica Blank & Erik Jensen (Co-Writers & Directors), Sadie Jensen-Blank (Actor), Michael Cuomo (Producer), and Lillian LaSalle (Producer). Moderated by Rebecca Eskreis.
READ MORENYWIFT Member Screening: Building Bombs
NYWIFT is proud to co-present the New York Premiere of the 4K restoration of Building Bombs (1990) at DCTV as part of the NYWIFT Member Screening Series!
NYWIFT Member Kirsten Larvick is the restoration producer. The screening will be introduced by Academy Award–nominated actor and activist Jane Alexander. Panel discussion to follow.
This Academy Award-nominated documentary revisits the glory days of the atomic age, its legacy of nuclear weapons waste, and its troubling questions still unanswered. Insider stories and rare archival footage reveal the inner workings of one of the world’s largest nuclear bomb plants and its toll on the environment and human hearts.
NYWIFT Member Screening: Millers in Marriage
Join us December 10, 2024 at Tribeca Screeinng Room for a NYWIFT Member Screening of the narrative feature Millers in Marriage, followed by a Q&A with Director Edward Burns, Gretchen Mol, Morena Baccarin, and Costume Designer and NYWIFT Member Rosemary Lepre Forman.
Eve Miller, a former indie rock singer, struggles with her toxic marriage while growing attracted to a music journalist. Her sister Maggie, a bestselling author, faces marital discord as her career overshadows her husband's.
NYWIFT Member Screening: Obsessed with Light
The NYWIFT Member Screening Series is proud to co-present the NY Theatrical Premiere of Sabine Krayenbühl and Zeva Oelbaum's Obsessed with Light in partnership with Macklowe Gallery!
Featuring a Q&A with Oelbaum, Krayenbühl and Linda Murray (Jerome Robbins Dance Division of the NYPL), moderated by Norton Owen (Jacob’s Pillow). Reception to follow.
Obsessed with Lightis a meditation on light and the enduring obsession to create. The film pulls back the curtain on Loïe Fuller, a wildly original performer who revolutionized the visual culture of the early 20th century. But it is not a bio-pic. Creating a dialogue between the past and the present, the documentary delves into the astonishing influence Fuller’s work has on contemporary culture including artists like Red Hot Chili Peppers, Taylor Swift, Bill T. Jones, Shakira and William Kentridge, among many others. In the process, the film uncovers commonalities that connect these creative luminaries to Fuller and each other.
NYWIFT Creative Showcase: Members at the 2024 SOHO International Film Festival
The NYWIFT Member Screening Series comes to SOHO International Film Festival with a selection of five short films showcasing talented members of the New York Women in Film & Television community in key creative roles. Showcase screening followed by a conversation with the artists.
READ MORENYWIFT Member Screening: Yudie and It Happens to Us
Join us for a virtual NYWIFT Member Screening of the 4K Restorations of Mirra Bank's Yudie and Amalie Rothschild's It Happens to Us, by a live Q&A with the filmmakers!
Yudie is a film about independence, aging, and the immigrant experience. And It Happens to Us remains the classic plea for a woman's right to choose. Both films were restored with support from the NYWIFT Women's Film Preservation Fund (WFPF).
NYWIFT Member Screening: Fresh Kills
Join us for a special NYWIFT Member Screening of the narrative feature Fresh Kills, followed by a Q&A with director and writer Jennifer Esposito! In Fresh Kills, the daughters of the Larusso mafia family struggle to break the unspoken code of women behind the men in 1990s Staten Island. Fear, violence, rage dictate who they are and who they become. A quest for freedom in a world they may never leave.
READ MORENYWIFT Member Screening: ‘The ABCs of Book Banning’
Join us for a virtual NYWIFT Member Screening of The ABC's of Book Banning, followed by a live Q&A with director, Sheila Nevins. Moderated by NYWIFT Board Member Christina Kiely.
By weaving together a lyrical montage of young readers and authors, THE ABC's OF BOOK BANNING reveals the voices of the impacted parties, and inspires hope for the future through the profound insights of inquisitive youthful minds.
NYWIFT Member Screening: Entanglement
Join us for a virtual NYWIFT Member Screening of Entanglement, followed by a live Q&A with creative team members from across the globe!
We asked women across the globe what the word Entanglement meant to them. How do we connect? Over 300 women submitted their story. 12 women writers. 12 personal stories Heroic. Humorous. Powerful. Raw. From across the globe. 12 points of view. 12 performers. All entangled yet all have never met. The film includes leading and emerging actors, and a world premiere film score.
NYWIFT Member Screening: Another Body
Join us for an in-person NYWIFT Member Screening of the feature documentary Another Body, about the startling realities of deepfake technology, followed by a Q&A with the creative team!
A college student’s life is upended when she discovers “deepfake” pornography of herself circulating online. Utilizing this technology in startling ways, Another Body follows a survivor’s search for answers, and raises unsettling questions about technology, justice, and consent.
NYWIFT Member Screening: Tripped Up
Join us for an in-person NYWIFT Member Screening of Shruti Ganguly's narrative feature Tripped Up, followed by a Q&A with the creative team moderated by Chelsea Clinton.
NYWIFT Creative Showcase: Members at the 2023 SOHO International Film Festival
The NYWIFT Member Screening Series comes to SOHO International Film Festival with a selection of five short films showcasing talented members of the New York Women in Film & Television community in key creative roles. Exhibition screening followed by a conversation with the artists.
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NYWIFT Member Screening: You Resemble Me
Join us for November's in-person NYWIFT Member Screening of the narrative feature You Resemble Me, followed by a reception and Q&A with the creative team.
Cultural and intergenerational trauma erupt in this story about two sisters on the outskirts of Paris. After the siblings are torn apart, the eldest, Hasna, struggles to find her identity, leading to a choice that shocks the world.
NYWIFT Member Screening: Triple Threat
Join us for October's in-person NYWIFT Member Screening of the narrative feature Triple Threat, co-presented by The LGBT Community Center. The screening will be preceded by a reception and followed by a Q&A with the creative team.
Dreams of Broadway stardom meet the realities of adulthood in Triple Threat, the story of three long-time friends whose shared vision for success is jeopardized as each decides what’s most important in life—and how to achieve it. Bursting with vibrant original music and a distinctly Millennial vibe, this film is for every theater kid yearning to make it big, every family bonded by friendship and anyone who’s ever put it all on the line to realize their dreams.
