NYWIFT Industry Screening: ‘Radium Girls’ + Q&A with Co-Directors Lydia Dean Pilcher, Ginny Mohler, and producer Emily McEvoy
Join us for a screening of Radium Girls followed by a conversation with Co-Directors Lydia Dean Pilcher, Ginny Mohler, and producer Emily McEvoy
Based on true events, teenage sisters Bessie and Jo paint glow-in-the- dark watch dials at the American Radium Factory in 1920s New Jersey. When girls at the factory mysteriously begin to fall ill, Bessie uncovers a corporate scandal and fights back in a radical coming-of-age story.
READ MORE(Screening Extended) NYWIFT Women Who Dared Documentary Series, Week 5: Truth to Power: Barbara Lee Speaks for Me
Join us for a screening of Truth to Power: Barbara Lee Speaks for Me followed by a conversation with Director Abby Ginzburg. Moderated by Cynthia Kane.
Truth to Power: Barbara Lee Speaks for Me tells the complex story of Representative Barbara Lee, a steadfast voice for human rights, peace and equality in the U.S. Congress for over two decades. An all-star cast share insights about what makes Barbara Lee unique as a public servant and as a truth-telling African American woman.
READ MORENYWIFT Women Who Dared Documentary Series, Week 4: Without A Whisper
Join us for a screening of Without a Whisper - Konnon:Kwe followed by a conversation with Katsitsionni Fox, Mohawk Clan Mother Louise McDonald Herne, and Dr. Sally Roesch Wagner. Moderated by Carey Graeber.
Without A Whisper - Konnon:Kwe, uncovers the hidden history of the profound influence Indigenous women had on the beginnings of the women’s rights movement in the United States.
Free to attend. RSVP required.
READ MORENYWIFT Women Who Dared Documentary Series, Week 3: ‘And She Could Be Next’
Join us for a screening of Part 2 of And She Could Be Next followed by a conversation with directors Grace Lee, Marjan Safinia, and producer, Jyoti Sarda.
And She Could Be Next tells the story of a defiant movement of women of color, transforming politics from the ground up. The two-part series follows candidates and organizers across the country, asking whether democracy itself can be preserved—and made stronger—by those most marginalized. “Episode Two: Claiming Power” takes us to the weeks leading up to election day and focuses on how organizers combat voter suppression in their own communities.
READ MOREIFP x NYWIFT Present: Mrs. America Panel
Join us on Tuesday, October 27 at 7pm EST for a conversation with the creative team behind Mrs. America Episode 3, “Shirley,” now streaming on FX on Hulu.
Dahvi Waller (Creator, EP, Showrunner, Writer), Micah Schraft (Co-EP/Writer), Tanya Barfield (Emmy-nominated producer and writer of Episode 3, “Shirley”) and 2020 Emmy Award-winner Uzo Aduba (“Shirley Chisholm”) will discuss capturing a pivotal moment in history on screen, their creative process working as a team, making a unique episode that fits into the series as a whole and the relationship between the creative team and the episode’s lead actress.
READ MORENewFest & NYWIFT Present: Filmmaker Virtual Roundtable
Hear from the narrative, documentary, and episodic filmmakers featured at NewFest this year as they discuss their work from funding to completion to the film festival landscape. Panelists include Hang Nguyen (director, Sideways Smile), Olivia Peace (director, Tahara), and Susan Sandler (director, Julia Scotti: Funny This Way).
Moderated by NYWIFT Program Manager Barbara Vásconez.
READ MORENYWIFT Industry Screening: ‘Once Upon A River’ Screening + Q&A with Director Haroula Rose
Join us for a virtual screening of Once Upon A River and a Q&A with Director Haroula Rose, Star Kenadi DelaCerna, and DP Charlotte Hornsby, moderated by NYWIFT Board Member Amenya Makuku.
Based on the best-selling novel by Bonnie Jo Campbell, Once Upon A River is the story of Native American teenager Margo Crane (DelaCerna) in 1970s rural Michigan who after enduring a series of traumas and tragedies, sets out on an odyssey on the Stark River in search of her estranged mother. On the water, Margo encounters friends, foes, wonders, and dangers; navigating life on her own, she comes to understand her potential, all while healing the wounds of her past.
READ MORENYWIFT Talks with Lauren Lake
In this week’s NYWIFT Talks, join the host of the Emmy-winning show Lauren Lake's Paternity Court. We’ll focus on Lauren's career in unscripted television and her activism for Women's Rights and Inclusion in Hollywood!
This conversation will be moderated by NYWIFT Board Member Maria C. Miles.
NYWIFT Talks are free for all to attend.
READ MORE2020 Creative Workforce Summit Day 1: Women Documenting the Vote
Join us for Day 1 of the NYWIFT Creative Workforce Summit with a welcome address by Maria Torres-Springer of The Ford Foundation Center for Social Justice and keynote by Laverne Berry.
Our first panel, Women Documenting the Vote, takes a critical look at films that address voter suppression and voter participation.
Moderated by Yahaira Jacquez of Reuters. Speakers include Lisa Cortes, Liz Garbus, Grace Lee, Dawn Porter, and Marjan Safinia.
2020 Creative Workforce Summit Day 2: Unionizing Nonfiction Labor
Join us for Day 2 of the 2020 Creative Workforce Summit to discuss for Unionizing Nonfiction Labor. This panel examines the lack of organized labor for documentary and reality tv makers, the benefits and potential pitfalls of organizing, and collective bargaining opportunities that could exist in the documentary world.
Speakers include Maggie Bowman, Caty Borum Chattoo, Andrew Greenberg, Susan Margolin, and Johanna Vanderspool.
2020 Creative Workforce Summit Day 4: Executive Function
Please join us on Day 4 of the 2020 Creative Workforce Summit to discuss Executive Function
Decision makers at networks, funders, and production companies discuss the future of funding and greenlighting nonfiction projects, the challenges of the pandemic from their perspective, and how social justice movements and politics influence their decisions.
Speakers include Carrie Lozano (Documentary Film Program Director, Sundance Institute), Dana Merwin (Program Officer for International Documentary Association (IDA) Enterprise Fund), Monika Navarro (Senior Director of Artist Programs, Firelight Media), and Sandie Pedlow (Executive Director, Latino Public Broadcasting).
2020 Creative Workforce Summit Day 3: Authorship
Please join us on Day 3 of the 2020 Creative Workforce Summit discussing Authorship: Our Stories, Directed, Produced and Written by Us.
Women and BIPOC documentarians discuss new opportunities to tell their own stories through traditional (feature films, streaming, and cable networks) and new non-traditional (mobile phones, virtual conversations, and social media) formats. Emphasis on social justice storytelling, who gets to tell whose story, how filmmakers are adapting to the challenges of the pandemic, and the significance of telling stories now during this cultural moment and on the eve of the presidential election.
Moderated by Simon Moya Smith. Speakers include Maria Agui Carter, Maria Finitzo, Nadia Hallgren, Shalini Kantayya, and Yvonne Russo.
Webinar: The Business of Adaptations for Film and TV – Fall 2020
Agents, Hollywood producers and publishers are always searching for the next great story, but not all writers start from scratch. Oftentimes, ideas come from the things we see, read, write and hear. The challenge for many is how to transition these materials from their original form of a book, article, and story into a full-fledged...
READ MOREWoodstock Film Festival & NYWIFT Co-Present: “I Carry You with Me” at the Drive-In
Join NYWIFT for our first drive-in film on October 3rd! NYWIFT is proud to co-present a double feature screening of I Carry You with Me and Stake Land with Woodstock Film Festival.
I Carry You with Me, Academy-Award® nominee (and NYWIFT member) Heidi Ewing’s luminous, moving debut as a narrative filmmaker, follows a tender romance between Iván and Gerado, spanning decades. Starting in provincial Mexico and continuing as first Iván, then Gerardo, journey towards sharing a life together in New York City. The film, winner of two awards at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival, is an intimate love story, as well as a soulful rumination on family, sacrifice, regret, and ultimately, hope.
Woodstock Film Festival & NYWIFT Co-Present: “The Sit In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show” at the Drive-In
NYWIFT is proud to co-present a screening of The Sit In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show as a special drive-in screening at the Woodstock Film Festival!
In 1968, Johnny Carson was king of late-night television. As host of the top-rated “Tonight Show,” he gave America mild humor and middle-of-the-road entertainment. But when Carson planned a week’s vacation, his choice of replacement host was no less than revolutionary. Black entertainer and civil rights activist Harry Belafonte was given five nights on air. Belafonte did not squander the opportunity; he booked guests calculated to change the hearts and minds of a country embroiled in racial crisis.
Although three of the five TV segments are now lost, director and NYWIFT Member Yoruba Richen pieces together the programs through archival photographs and footage, as well as contemporary interviews with historians, politicians and activists, including Whoopi Goldberg and Norman Lear. Indeed, the film captures a chaotic time in American history, drawing inescapable parallels with the Black Lives Matter movement.
NYWIFT Talks with Executive Director & Co-Head of Toronto Film Festival Joana Vicente
Join Executive Director & Co-Head of Toronto Film Festival Joana Vicente for a conversation with Award Winning Writer/Director and Founder of Iguana FilmsMaria Agui Carter!
This edition of NYWIFT Talks is free for all to attend.
READ MOREHBO & NYWIFT Present: ‘Unpregnant’ Virtual Screening + Q&A with Director Rachel Lee Goldenberg
HBO & NYWIFT Present a Virtual Screening of Unpregnant followed by a Q&A with Director Rachel Lee Goldenberg moderated by NYWIFT Board President Jamie Zelermyer.
In Unpregnant, 17-year-old Veronica (Haley Lu Richardson) never thought she’d want to fail a test—that is, until she finds herself staring at a piece of plastic with a blue plus. With a promising college-bound future now disappearing before her eyes, Veronica considers a decision she never imagined she’d have to make. Filmmaker Rachel Lee Goldenberg is an Emmy® award-winning producer, director and writer.
READ MORENYWIFT Talks with HR Expert Joanna Giordano
This event will focus on the resume specifically. Yes, it is the P.I.T.A. that everyone avoids, but it is extremely important for application and selection at the top of the funnel. Even a warm network contact may ask for your resume to pass along. Join HR Expert Joanna Giordano for a conversation with NYWIFT Board President Jamie Zelermyer!
This edition of NYWIFT Talks is free for all to attend.
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