NYWIFT Industry Screening: ‘Definition Please’
In honor of Asian American Pacific Islander Month, we are featuring two filmmakers that have marked their paths in film. Starting the month with Definition Please directed by Sujata Day. Followed by a conversation with director Sujata Day
READ MORENYWIFT Industry Screening: ‘Americanish’
In honor of Asian American Pacific Islander Month, we are featuring two filmmakers that have marked their paths in film, starting with Americanish followed by a conversation with Iman Zawahry (Director/Writer/Producer), Aizzah Fatima (Writer/Producer), and Roy Wol (Producer). Moderated by Harsh Pundit.
Welcome to America: Where dreams come true...ish. A break from the traditional romantic comedy, Americanish highlights different layers of womanhood as they intersect with cultural and societal expectations.
READ MOREThe Wobblies Restoration World Premiere at Metrograph
Kino Lorber Presents a New 4k Restoration of the Landmark Labor Movement Documentary. The Wobblies was originally preserved to film by the Women’s Film Preservation Fund in 2003. The new beautiful digital restoration is getting re-released in theaters in NYC and online via the Metrograph streaming service, as well as nationwide on May 1st.
READ MORENYWIFT & IFC Films Industry Screening: ‘Happening’
France, 1963. Anne is a bright young student with a promising future ahead of her. But when she falls pregnant, she sees the opportunity to finish her studies and escape the constraints of her social background disappearing. With her final exams fast approaching and her belly growing, Anne resolves to act, even if she has to confront shame and pain, even if she must risk prison to do so.
Followed by a Q&A with director Audrey Diwan, actress, Anamaria Vartolomei, and Caren Spruch of Planned Parenthood. Moderated by NYWIFT Board President, Jamie Zelermyer.
READ MORENYWIFT Industry Screening + Q&A: ‘Julia’
NYWIFT invites you to a screening of Julia starting Monday, March 28th to Friday, April 1st. Followed by a conversation with directors, Julie Cohen and Betsy West. Moderated by NYWIFT Board Member, Yvonne Russo.
READ MORENYWIFT Industry Screening: MLK|FBI (Q&A Added)
NYWIFT invites you to a screening of MLK|FBI starting Monday, January 17th through Friday, January 21st. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is remembered today as an American hero: a bridge-builder, a shrewd political tactician, and a moral leader. Yet throughout his history-altering political career, he was often treated by U.S. intelligence and law enforcement agencies...
READ MORENYWIFT Industry Screening + Q&A: ‘The Novice’
A college freshman joins her university's rowing team and undertakes an obsessive physical and psychological journey to make it to the top varsity boat, no matter the cost.
A conversation with writer & director Lauren Hadaway and star Isabelle Fuhrman, led by NYWIFT Board Member Gretchen McGowan.
READ MORENYWIFT Industry Screening + Q&A: ‘Passing’
Irene Redfield (Tessa Thompson), a refined, upper-class 1920s woman, finds breezy refuge from a hot summer day in the grand tearoom of New York City's Drayton Hotel. Across the room, she spots a blond woman staring her down.
A conversation with director Rebecca Hall and star Ruth Negga, moderated by NYWIFT Board Member, Kuye Youngblood.
NYWIFT Industry Screening + Q&A: ‘Lynching Postcards: Token of a Great Day’
Lynching Postcards: Token of a Great Day provides a look at the history of lynchings in America as commemorated through souvenir postcards. A conversation with Director Christine Turner and Executive Producer Sheila Nevins.
READ MORENYWIFT Industry Screening + Q&A: ‘Found’
In Amanda Lipitz's documentary film Found
Join us for a screening of Found screening from November 5th through 9th, followed by a conversation on November 9th at 4pm ET with director and writer Amanda Lipitz and producer Anita Gou.
READ MORENYWIFT Industry Screening + Q&A: ‘Rita Moreno: Just A Girl Who Decided To Go For It’
Join us for a screening of Rita Moreno: Just A Girl Who Decided To Go For It from Friday, October 29th through Monday, November 1st. Followed by a pre-recorded conversation with subject Rita Moreno and Director Mariem Pérez Riera. Moderated by NYWIFT Executive Director, Cynthia Lopez.
Rita Moreno: Just A Girl Who Decided To Go For It illuminates the humor and the grace of Moreno, as well as lesser-known struggles faced on her path to stardom, including pernicious Hollywood sexism and abuse, a toxic relationship with Marlon Brando, and serious depression a year before she emerged an Oscar winner. Moreno’s talent and resilience triumphed over adversity, as she broke barriers, fought for representation and forged the path for new generations of artists.
READ MORENYWIFT Industry Screening + Q&A: ‘What Breaks The Ice’
Join us for a screening of What Breaks The Ice screening from October 21st through 26th, followed by a conversation with Rebecca Eskreis. Moderated by NYWIFT Board Member, Gretchen McGowan.
Two girls, from different worlds, form a deep and unlikely friendship in the sweltering summer heat of 1998. Their fun and carefree days quickly turn cold as they find themselves at the center of a mysterious murder.
READ MORENYWIFT Industry Screening + Q&A: ‘Jacinta’
Join us for a screening of Jacinta from October 7th through 11th, followed by a Q&A with Documentary Photographer and Filmmaker, Jessica Earnshaw and subject, Jacinta. Moderated by NYWIFT Program Manager, Barbara G Vásconez.
Shot over three years, the film begins at the Maine Correctional Center where Jacinta, 26, and her mother Rosemary, 46, are incarcerated together, both recovering from drug addiction. With unparalleled access and a gripping vérité approach, director Jessica Earnshaw paints a deeply intimate portrait of mothers and daughters and the effects of trauma over generations.
NYWIFT Industry Screening + Q&A: ‘LFG’
Join us for a screening of LFG, followed by a conversation with director/producers Andrea Nix Fine and Sean Fine.
LFG is a no-holds-barred, inside account of the U.S. women’s soccer team’s ongoing fight for equal pay as told by Megan Rapinoe, Jessica McDonald, Becky Sauerbrunn, Kelley O’Hara, Sam Mewis and others. In 2019, the players filed a class-action, gender discrimination lawsuit against the U.S. Soccer Federation, three months before the FIFA Women’s World Cup, which sets the stage for LFG.
NYWIFT Women’s Film Preservation Fund’s SPOTLIGHT: Presents Groundbreaking Documentaries of the 1970s: Betty Tells Her Story & The Wobblies
The Women’s Film Preservation Fund (WFPF) is supporting these two groundbreaking films for nomination to this year’s National Film Registry. We believe these films have made a crucial contribution to American cinema and deserve a spot on the list.
Please join us for this special program of two WFPF preserved films followed by a panel conversation with directors Liane Brandon and Deborah Shaffer. Moderated by award-winning documentarian Mirra Bank.
READ MORENYWIFT Industry Screening: ‘Materna’ + Q&A
A closely observed psychological portrait of four women, whose lives are bound together by an incident on the New York City subway.
Join us for a screening of Materna screening from August 9th through 11th, followed by a conversation with Producer Liz Cardenas, Producer Emily McEvoy, and Actor / Co-Writer / Exec Producer Assol Abdullina. Moderated by NYWIFT Program Manager, Barbara Vasconez.
READ MORENYWIFT Industry Screening + Q&A: ‘The Letter Room’
Nominated for an Oscar® in the Live Action Short Film category, The Letter Room follows an empathetic corrections officer (Oscar Isaac) who finds escape in the deeply personal letters written to an inmate on death row. Co-starring Alia Shawkat. Followed by a pre-recorded conversation with the creative team Elvira Lind, Sofia Sondervan, and Gena Konstantinakos. Moderated by NYWIFT Board President, Jamie Zelermyer.
READ MORENYWIFT Industry Screening: ‘Enemies of the State’ Screening + Q&A
An average American family becomes entangled in a bizarre web of espionage and corporate secrets when the U.S. government targets the family's hacker son. Join us for a screening of this new documentary feature, followed by a conversation with Director Sonia Kennebeck. Moderated by NYWIFT Program Manager, Barbara Vásconez.
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