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Americas Film Festival New York 2021 Screens the Latin World

The 8th Americas Film Festival New York is virtual at taffny.com from June 21-27, 2021. FREE with registration. Screenings are available in the Tri-State region (NY, NJ and CT). Americas Film Festival New York 2021 The Festival is a co-production of the Center for Worker Education at CUNY (City University of New York) in Hamilton Heights, Instituto Cervantes NY in Midtown … [Read more...] about Americas Film Festival New York 2021 Screens the Latin World

Latin Film

The Film Calendar Film Festivals help determine which new films get released in the coming year. The film festival calendar is oriented around the Oscars or Academy Awards, the world's most prestigious film awards which are usually held in March. The film year starts with Berlin in February. Cannes arrives in May. Tribeca is in June. Things get interesting in … [Read more...] about Latin Film

African Diaspora International Film Festival 2023 is a World Full of Music & Soul

The African Diaspora International Film Festival 2o23 is a Harlem-based film festival about the experience of people of color around the world. African Diaspora International Film Festival 2023 The African Diaspora International Film Festival 2023 digs into the theme of "Music & Soul in the African Diaspora" as a force for social change. It's screening American, … [Read more...] about African Diaspora International Film Festival 2023 is a World Full of Music & Soul

Dance on Camera Festival 2023 Brings Dance to the Big Screen at Film at Lincoln Center

The Dance on Camera Festival 2023 is a film festival of dance films co-produced by the Dance Films Association and Film at Lincoln Center. The world's longest-running dance film festival brings dance storytelling to the big screen, and connects dancers and dance companies with audiences they might not reach otherwise. 51st Dance on Camera Festival 2023 The 51st … [Read more...] about Dance on Camera Festival 2023 Brings Dance to the Big Screen at Film at Lincoln Center

Celebrate Mexico Now Festival 2022 Brings Contemporary Mexican Culture to NYC

Celebrate Mexico Now Festival 2022 is New York City's festival of contemporary Mexican culture. The festival is produced by CN Management, one of NYC's top Mexican American programmers. It has presented over 300 Mexican artists in NYC's leading cultural venues. Mexico has such great historic traditions that it is easy to miss what is happening there now. Many have reported … [Read more...] about Celebrate Mexico Now Festival 2022 Brings Contemporary Mexican Culture to NYC

Rosalía Headlines the Global Citizen Festival in Central Park

Rosalía is a global Spanish Flamenco Pop sensation from Catalonia. She is leading a Flamenco renaissance by stretching and modernizing the form. Flamenco in Spain is very conservative. Purists criticize her for not being from the Andalusía Flamenco heartland, but she studied the form and who cares? Rosalía made Flamenco cool again. Now she is doing all kinds of fusions with … [Read more...] about Rosalía Headlines the Global Citizen Festival in Central Park

Brasil Summerfest 2022 Brings the Latest Brazilian Music, Dance, Art & Film to NYC

Brasil Summerfest 2022 brings the latest music, art and film from Brazil to Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens from June 29 - July 24, 2022 with both ticketed and free events. Brasil Summerfest in New York City is the biggest Brazilian music and arts festival outside of Brazil. Legal! Brasil Summerfest 2022 Brings the Latest Brazilian Music, Dance, Art & Film to … [Read more...] about Brasil Summerfest 2022 Brings the Latest Brazilian Music, Dance, Art & Film to NYC

The Human Rights Watch Film Festival 2022 is More Relevant Than Ever

The Human Rights Watch Film Festival 2022 screens movies from around the world that highlight the challenges we face as one planet and one people. Human rights used to be a little on the fringe, but the climate, ecological and social issues that we face today make human rights a core issue. Somehow it is all tied together. In our Indigenous state, we have a symbiotic … [Read more...] about The Human Rights Watch Film Festival 2022 is More Relevant Than Ever

The Havana Film Festival New York 2021 Explores Themes of Loss, Resilience, and Hope

The Havana Film Festival New York 2021 is at Village East Cinema in Manhattan's East Village, Friday-Thursday, November 5-11, 2021. hffny.com 🇨🇺🇪🇸|🇨🇦🇬🇹🇭🇳🇲🇽🇺🇸|🇦🇷🇨🇱🇨🇴🇵🇪🇻🇪|🇬🇷🇬🇧 Latin cinema often has an emotional depth that you rarely find in Hollywood anymore. Most films have English subtitles. The opening and closing night parties are epic. There are usually some Cuban … [Read more...] about The Havana Film Festival New York 2021 Explores Themes of Loss, Resilience, and Hope

28th New York African Film Festival Presents Women’s Voices

The 28th New York African Festival 2021 is virtual at filmlinc.org from Thursday, February 4-14, 2021. $12. An all-access pass to all fifteen film is $100. The festival of ten features and 21 short films is a co-production of Film at Lincoln Center and African Film Festival New York. Films can be streamed across the United States. We are living through a moment when … [Read more...] about 28th New York African Film Festival Presents Women’s Voices

AfriBembé Festival 2019

A traditional bembé is a Yoruba religious festival of drumming, dancing and singing meant to connect individuals and the community with the ancestors and divine energies. In the time of slavery, Africans in the Americas came from different tribes so we often couldn't speak with each other, but everyone understood the drum. Back in the day in The Bronx and El Barrio, the … [Read more...] about AfriBembé Festival 2019

May Sumak Film Festival 2019

May Sumak is an annual film festival of movies in the Indigenous Quechua languages of the central Andes that screens in New York City and Quito, Ecuador. May Sumak Film Festival 2019 The 3rd Annual May Sumak film festival is on Friday-Sunday, June 14-16, 2019. Free Friday, June 14, 2019 King Juan Carlos Center at New York University Greenwich Village, … [Read more...] about May Sumak Film Festival 2019

Havana Film Festival New York 2019

The 20th Havana Film Festival New York (HFFNY) is April 5-16, 2019. Festival Outreach is April 5-8. The Festival runs April 9-16, 2019. Get tickets at hffny.com Events sell out, so pre-purchase is strongly recommended. The NY Festival partners with the Festival Internacional del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano (Havana Film Festival) which is in Havana, Cuba every December. Cuba … [Read more...] about Havana Film Festival New York 2019

DOC NYC 2018 ~ America’s biggest documentary film festival

DOC NYC is America's largest documentary film festival. DOC NYC 2018 DOC NYC 2018 is at IFC Center in the West Village and SVA Theatre and Cinepolis in Chelsea Manhattan from November 8 - 15, 2018 Opening Night John Chester’s The Biggest Little Farm opens the festival with its NYC premiere on November 8. For over eight years, John and Molly Chester struggle to work with … [Read more...] about DOC NYC 2018 ~ America’s biggest documentary film festival

Tribeca Film Festival 2017

The Tribeca Film Festival in April is one of New York City's two major film festivals. Tribeca is an all-around festival. It's a major promotional stop for Spring features, but also respected for independents and documentaries. The Tribeca Film Festival very consciously explores the intersection of film and popular culture. Tap here for Tribeca Film Festival 2018 16th … [Read more...] about Tribeca Film Festival 2017

Things to Do in NYC in June 2022

Things to do in NYC in June 2022 include SummerStage, BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn, NY Puerto Rico Week and the National Puerto Rican Day Parade, the Coney Island Mermaid Parade and NYC Pride Parade. June is NYC Pride Month. It's also Caribbean Heritage Month and African-American Music Appreciation Month. June is a great month to visit because the school and cultural … [Read more...] about Things to Do in NYC in June 2022

Gabo y el Cine

Gabo y el Cine is José Luis García Agraz' 2016 Mexican documentary about the influence of film on Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez. Gabo y el Cine https://youtu.be/oQ2hUpLjUoI A Mexican film about a Colombian author makes sense a couple of ways. First Mexicans and Colombians enjoy one another's culture. For example, Colombian gangsters like Mariachi and … [Read more...] about Gabo y el Cine

Upper East Side NYC

The Upper East Side NYC is Manhattan's most exclusive residential neighborhood. It is between Central Park and the East River from 59th St to 96th St. Museum Mile is Fifth Avenue along Central Park. Madison Avenue is a high-end shopping district. Park Avenue is has big business. Lexington has a little of everything because of the subway. Second Avenue has lots of bars and … [Read more...] about Upper East Side NYC

Instituto Cervantes New York is a Global Spanish Language School and Hispanic Cultural Center

Instituto Cervantes New York (Cervantes Institute NYC) is the New York branch of the global Spanish language school. There are branches all over the world. Sponsored by the government of Spain, Instituto also serves as a Hispanic cultural center, in Midtown East, Manhattan. Spanish classes there teach the Spanish of Madrid, Spain, which is not necessarily what is spoken in … [Read more...] about Instituto Cervantes New York is a Global Spanish Language School and Hispanic Cultural Center

New York Spanish NYC

New York Spanish NYC is spread out now, but used to be in Manhattan's "Little Spain" on 14th St between Seventh and Eighth Avenues, on the border of Chelsea and the West Village. Spain is the tip of the European peninsula. Many peoples mixed together there, including North Africans, Arabs, and the Romani with their flamenco. Like many European nations, Spain had Roman … [Read more...] about New York Spanish NYC

Doc Fortnight 2023 Explores the Sad Echoes of Our Colonial Past and Present

MoMA Doc Fortnight 2023 is the Museum of Modern Art's festival of new international documentary film. It's an important festival because the Museum of Modern Art holds one of the world's great film collections. Art follows the times, and occasionally leads it. This film festival gives a bird's eye view into what's happening in the world. 22nd MoMA Doc Fortnight … [Read more...] about Doc Fortnight 2023 Explores the Sad Echoes of Our Colonial Past and Present

Mexican NYC

Mexican NYC News January 2023 The Prototype Festival 2023 of contemporary opera and musical theater presents new voices, including Mexican folk singer Silvana Estrada's beautiful "Marchita;" at Here in Hudson Square and other NYC venues; for one week Thursday, January 5-13, 2023. From $40. prototypefestival.org 🇲🇽 The PBR Buck Off 2022 professional bull rider's rodeo … [Read more...] about Mexican NYC