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Virtual NYWIFT Member Screening: Toss It

Join us for our first virtual NYWIFT Member Screening showcasing Michele Remsen's "anti-romantic comedy" feature Toss It! Toss It is a recipient of the NYWIFT Nancy Malone Marketing and Promotion Grant. A darkly comic, bittersweet look behind the facades of tradition, family and marriage, Toss It blends screwball comedy with an open-hearted deep-dive into family dysfunction.

Registrants can access the film throughout the weekend of May 1st, then will be invited to an exclusive Zoom Q&A with the filmmaker on Monday, May 4th at 5 pm.

NYWIFT Member Screening: Catherine Opie b. 1961 and AmeRican Poet Tato Laviera

Join us for this month’s NYWIFT Member Screening showcasing two documentaries about artists: Sini Anderson's Catherine Opie b. 1961 and Vivian Hernandez Ortiz's AmeRican Poet Tato Laviera.

Catherine Opie is a revealing and intimate portrait of an artist whose photography has been labeled subversive. And Tato Laviera chronicles the life of the beloved Nuyorican poet, playwright, and activist from the Lower East Side.

Watch the films any time between June 25-29th. Then join the Q&A on Monday, June 29th at 5 PM.

NYWIFT Member Screening: Pennhurst

Join us for this month’s NYWIFT Member Screening showcasing Jodie Alexandra Taylor’s feature documentary Pennhurst. The filmmaker will be available for a Q&A immediately following the screening. The screening series provides members with the opportunity to show their work in a theatrical setting. The screening will take place at Anthology Film Archives, followed by networking at a nearby bar. Pennhurst is a story of segregation, abandonment, and the meaning of home as told by the people that lived in, worked at, and crusaded for one of the largest and oldest intellectual and developmental disability institutions in the United States. The facility, in its closing, challenged society's perception of those with intellectual disabilities and ultimately fought for better rights –  rights that are still being fought for today.

NYWIFT Member Screening: Comedy Shorts

Join us for this month’s NYWIFT Member Screening showcasing several comedy shorts by NYWIFT members: Queens (dir. Nicole Gomez Fisher), Sucked In (dir. Courtney Camerota), Mommy Mafia (created by Laura Sweeney), 116 (dir. Julia Campanelli), and Traffic Opera (dir. Andrew Pochan). The filmmakers will be available for a Q&A immediately following the screening. The screening series provides members with the opportunity to show their work in a theatrical setting. The screening will take place at Anthology Film Archives, followed by networking at a nearby bar.

NYWIFT Member Screening: Ask for Jane

Join us for this month’s NYWIFT Member Screening Series showcasing Cait Cortelyou's Ask for Jane. The team will be available for a Q&A immediately following the screening. The film is based on the true story of The Jane Collective: a secret organization formed to help other women obtain safe and illegal abortions in 1969 Chicago. Operating like a spy network, complete with blindfolds and code names, the Janes help thousands of women - but they can't hide from the police forever. The screening series provides members with the opportunity to show their work in a theatrical setting. The screening will take place at Anthology Film Archives, followed by networking at a nearby bar.

Member Screening: Sky and Ground

Join us for this month’s NYWIFT Member Screening Series showcasing Talya's Tibbon's Sky and Ground. The filmmaker will be available for a Q&A immediately following the screening. The screening series provides members with the opportunity to show their work in a theatrical setting. The screening will take place at Anthology Film Archives, followed by networking at a nearby bar. A ground-level immersion into the greatest humanitarian crisis of our time, Sky and Ground accompanies the Sheikh Nabi clan, a large, extended Syrian-Kurdish family, as they painstakingly make their way from their home in Aleppo, bombed out by the war, to the Idomeni refugee camp on the border of Greece and Macedonia. Their goal is Berlin, where they will reunite with family members and seek asylum, but first they must make the arduous and dangerous journey through as Europe decides to close its borders to refugees.

Member Screening: The Rainbow Experiment

Join us for this month’s Member Screening showcasing the film The Rainbow Experiment (Christina Kallas, Writer/Director/Producer) starring members Lauren Sowa and Catherine Cobb Ryan. The members will be available for a Q&A immediately following the screening. The screening series provides members with the opportunity to show their work in a theatrical setting. Screenings take place at Anthology Film Archives, followed by networking at a nearby bar.

Member Screening: Scripted Shorts

Join us for this month’s Member Screening showcasing the shorts Raghead (Nora Jacobson, Director), Unheard (Emilie Martel, Director), The Disenchantment of a Young Adult and a Wild Child (Hannah Roze (Co-Director/NYWIFT Member and Caryn Waechter, Co-Director), Anticipation (Heidi C. Bordogna, Director) and The Hanji Box (Nora Jacobson, Director). The filmmakers will be available for a Q&A immediately following the screening.

Member Screening: Ramblin’ Gal

Join us for this month’s Member Screening showcasing the scripted feature Ramblin' Gal by Filmmaker Lu Ann Horstman (NYWIFT Member) and Roberto Monticello (Co-Director). The filmmakers will be available for a Q&A immediately following the screening. The screening series provides members with the opportunity to show their work in a theatrical setting. Screenings take place at Anthology Film Archives, followed by networking at a nearby bar.

Member Screening: Tomorrow

Join us for this month’s Member Screening showcasing the narrative featureTomorrow by Director Martha Pinson about the difficulties faced by soldiers returning home from war. The filmmaker will be available for a Q&A immediately following the screening. The screening series provides members with the opportunity to show their work in a theatrical setting. Screenings take place at Anthology Film Archives, followed by networking at a nearby bar.

Member Screening: January 2019

Join us for this month’s Member Screening showcasing the documentary Take My Nose…Please! by Director/Producer Joan Kron and the documentary short Empowered Dames by Producer/Director Claudine Marrotte. The filmmakers will be available for a Q&A immediately following the screening. The screening series provides members with the opportunity to show their work in a theatrical setting. Screenings take place at Anthology Film Archives, followed by networking at a nearby bar.

Member Screening: November 2018

Join us for this month’s Member Screening showcasing Forgotten Bayou by Producer/Director Victoria Greene, and the short films Dirty Roses, 49 Years After - Above Limits, and 49 Years After - The Gifted by Director/Writer/Producer Petra Terzi. The filmmakers will be available for a Q&A immediately following the screening. The screening series provides members with the opportunity to show their work in a theatrical setting. Screenings take place at Anthology Film Archives, followed by networking at a nearby bar.

Member Screening: October 2018 Shorts Program

Join us for this month’s NYWIFT Member Screening Series showcasing scripted shorts: That Very Evening, Slice, Prerequisite, The Bill, After Words: The Opposite of Foreplay, Mommy Blogger and Momstress. The filmmakers will be available for a Q&A immediately following the screening. The screening series provides members with the opportunity to show their work in a theatrical setting. Screenings take place at Anthology Film Archives, followed by networking at a nearby bar.

Member Screening Series: Thirsty

Join us for this month’s NYWIFT Member Screening Series showcasing Thirsty, a film by Margo Pelletier (Director, Co-Writer), Lisa Thomas(Producer) and Laura Kelber (Co-Writer). The filmmakers will be available for a Q&A immediately following the screening. The screening series provides members with the opportunity to show their work in a theatrical setting. Screenings take place...

Member Screening: Shorts Program

Join us for this month’s NYWIFT Member Screening Series showcasing scripted shorts: Her Magnum Opus by Martha Renzi (Director), Tonight and Every Night by Christina Eliopoulos (Writer/Director), and Visit 57 by Kate Phelan (Writer/Director). The filmmakers will be available for a Q&A immediately following the screening.

Member Screening: What Are You Looking For? and Fragile Beauty, A Visual Journey

Join us for this month’s NYWIFT Member Screening Series featuring What Are You Looking For? by Shiv Paul (Director, Co-Writer) and Jiayi Ying (Producer, Co-Writer, NYWIFT Member). Also screening is the short documentary Fragile Beauty, A Visual Journey by Wendy Stuart Kaplan (Producer, Narrator, Host and NYWIFT member) and Alan Kaplan (Director). The filmmakers will be available for a...

Member Screening: The Buddy System and Lola: Girl Got A Gun

Join us for this month’s NYWIFT Member Screening Series featuring The Buddy System by Megan Smith-Harris (Director/Producer/Writer) and Laela Kilbourn (Director of Photography) and Lola: Girl Got A Gun by Anna Fredrikke Bjerke (Producer). The filmmakers will be available for a Q&A immediately following the screening. The screening series provides members with the opportunity to show their work in...

Member Screening: Pieced Together and Kabul

Member Screening: Pieced Together and Kabul  Join us for this month’s NYWIFT Member Screening Series featuring Pieced Together by Julianne Donofrio (Director/Producer/Editor) and the short film Kabul by Lauren Fritz. The filmmakers will be available for a Q&A immediately following the screening. The screening series provides members with the opportunity to show their work in a theatrical setting. Screenings take place at Anthology Film Archives, followed by...