Latin Film in New York City is more than just movies. New York is a film city. In addition to the busiest movie theater in the U.S.A., we have world-class film organizations, film festivals, film museums, and independent cinemas. New York City is a movie star.
African Diaspora International Film Festival 2024 Caribbean Film Series Screens at Teachers College, Columbia University
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Queens World Film Festival 2024 Brings the World to Queens, and Queens to the World
MUSEUM OF THE MOVING IMAGE and KAUFMAN ASTORIA STUDIOS, Astoria, Queens 🇺🇸 🇨🇴 🇲🇽 🇪🇸
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Havana Film Festival New York 2024 Screens Latin Films You Won’t See Anywhere Else
HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY, Hempstead, Long Island
QUAD CINEMA, Greenwich Village
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New Directors New Films 2024 Pushes the Envelope at Film at Lincoln Center and the Museum of Modern Art
FILM AT LINCOLN CENTER, Lincoln Square, Upper West Side, Manhattan
MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, Midtown, Manhattan
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ReelAbilities Film Festival New York is a Festival of Disability, Love, and Sharing the Joy of Life
MARLENE MEYERSON JCC MANHATTAN, Upper West Side, and venues all over town. 🇨🇺 🇮🇹 🇺🇸
New York International Children’s Film Festival (NYICFF) 2024
MANHATTAN, BROOKLYN, STATEN ISLAND, and WESTCHESTER
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African Diaspora International Film Festival Brings the Many Faces of Mother Africa To New York City
TEACHERS COLLEGE, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, Morningside Heights, Manhattan and other venues. 🇺🇸 🇧🇷 🇨🇴 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇭🇹 🇭🇳 🇲🇽 🇵🇪 🇸🇳 🇺🇾
DOC NYC Documentary Film Festival Brings the World to New York
IFC CENTER, SVA THEATRE, VILLAGE EAST BY ANGELIKA, BAR VELOCE, West Village, Greenwich Village, East Village ~ To see another world with your own eyes is a great gift.
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Marco Orsini’s Documentary “Latin Four Plus” Tells How Five Puerto Ricans Lived Their Dreams as Korean Pop Sensations, and Never Stopped
In 1969, Colonel Orsini bent rules to assemble a band, deploy it to Korea and live the dream. In 2018, he’s at it again.
This is a heartfelt inspiring story of how a group of Puerto Ricans realized their dreams.
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Dominican Film Festival New York Gets to the Heart of What it Means to Be Quisqueuyan
Great new films made in the Dominican Republic and by the Dominican Diaspora.
UNITED PALACE in Washington Heights
REGAL E-WALK in the Times Square Theater District
Thursday-Sunday, November 2-5, 2023
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International Puerto Rican Heritage Film Festival is a Deep Dive into Boricua Identity and Filmmaking
“EL BARRIO,” EAST HARLEM, Manhattan
El Museo del Barrio
Silberman School of Social Work
LOWER EAST SIDE, Manhattan
Regal Essex Crossing
Bushwick Film Festival is Coming of Age with a Diverse Crew of Emerging Filmmakers
WILLIAMSBURG CINEMAS, Williamsburg, Brooklyn ~ One of New York City’s most diverse film festivals.
Wednesday-Sunday, October 25-29, 2023
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Scorsese’s “Killers of the Flower Moon” Tells a Searing Native American Love Story That Makes Lily Gladstone a Star
This epic Scorsese love story for those who love cinema, stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro, and Lily Gladstone.
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Friday, October 20, 2023
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The 61st New York Film Festival Screens the Heartbeat of New World Cinema
One of the longest-running and most respected film festivals in the United States screens many Latin American and Latin European films.
September 29 to October 15, 2023
FILM AT LINCOLN CENTER
Alamo Drafthouse Cinema, BAM, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Maysles Documentary Center, Paris Theater, Museum of the Moving Image
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Brasil Summerfest Brings the Latest Brazilian Music, Film and Dance to NYC
The latest currents of Brazilian music, film and dance with Marisa Monte, DJ Mulú, DJ Tietta, Duda Beat, DJ Greg Caz, Zabelê, Luciane Dom, Forró in the Dark, “Narciso Em Ferias” (Narcissus Off Duty).
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Tribeca Film Festival 2023 is Screening Some Latin Films That are Deep Dives into Latin Culture
New York’s big spring film festival stretches genre boundaries with great Latin films, TV, audio storytelling, talks, games, immersive, and music.
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MULTIPLE VENUES
June 7-18, 2023
Brooklyn Film Festival 2023 Screens Stories About Life & Those Who Live It
A film festival of Brooklyn’s independent, international energy.
June 2-11, 2023
WINDMILL STUDIOS
Greenpoint
WYTHE HOTEL
Williamsburg
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Latin Film Sponsors
- Film at Lincoln Center
- Havana Film Festival 🇨🇺
- Kicking + Screening Soccer Film Festival
- Marco Orsini documentary filmmaker 🇵🇷
- Screen Media
- Sephardic Film Festival 🇪🇸
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New York Film Scene
Film Organizations in NYC
These film organizations screen new movies, retrospectives, special collections, and the film festival circuit.
Film at Lincoln Center produces the New York Film Festival and film festivals all year long.
MoMA Film at the Museum of Modern Art is one of the world’s great film collections.
Anthology Film Archives is a research library and film presenter that preserves and screens independent film. anthologyfilmarchives.org
Cinema Tropical is one of America’s leading Latin film presenters. cinematropical.com 🇲🇽
Museum of the Moving Image is a film, television, and video museum on a historic film studio lot.
Film Museums in NYC
Anthology Film Archives is a research library and film presenter that preserves and screens independent film. anthologyfilmarchives.org
Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) has one of the world’s leading film collections.
Museum of the Moving Image is a film, television, and video museum on a historic film studio lot.
Movie Theaters in NYC
AMC Empire 25 in Times Square is the busiest cinema in the United States.
We have wonderful independent cinemas: Film Forum, IFC Center, Maysles Documentary Center, and more.
- Alamo Drafthouse
- Cinépolis Chelsea
- Director’s Guild of America (DGA Theater)
- Film Forum is a non-profit independent cinema that screens classic and international films in Hudson Square, Manhattan.
- IFC Center
- Maysles Documentary Center screens African Diaspora films in Harlem.
- Metrograph
- Nitehawk
- Paris Theater, Netflix’s theater, shows classic movies.
- Quad Cinema
- Roxy Cinema
- SVA Theatre
Film Festivals in New York City
We have some of America’s leading film festivals: New York Film Festival, Tribeca Film Festival, DOC NYC, and more.
- African Diaspora International Film Festival
- Americas Film Festival
- Art of the Real
- Brooklyn Film Festival
- Bushwick Film Festival
- Colombian Film Festival
- Cortocircuito Latino short film festival
- Dance on Camera is a festival of dance films co-produced by the Dance Films Association at Film at Lincoln Center.
- Doc Fortnight is the Museum of Modern Art’s documentary film festival.
- DOC NYC in November, is America’s largest documentary film festival.
- Dominican Film Festival *
- Harlem International Film Festival
- Havana Film Festival New York *
- Human Rights Watch film festival
- International New York Film Festival
- Jewish Film Festival
- Kicking + Screening Soccer Film Festival *
- May Sumak Quechua film festival
- Neighboring Scenes Latin American film festival is coproduced by Cinema Tropical at Film at Lincoln Center.
- New Directors / New Films
- New York African Film Festival
- New York Film Festival
- New York International Children’s Film Festival *
- New York Jewish Film Festival screens the Jewish experience from around the world.
- New York Latino Film Festival
- Open Roads: New Italian Cinema
- Queens World Film Festival is a film festival of emerging filmmakers that brings the world to Queens, and Queens to the world. 🗽
- ReelAbilities Film Festival New York is a disability film festival at the Marlene Meyerson JCC in the Upper West Side. reelabilities.org
- Rendez-Vous with French Cinema 🇫🇷
- Sephardic Film Festival *
- SoHo International Film Festival
- Tribeca Film Festival
- Winter Film Awards
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Origins of Latin Film
Film Started in New York and Paris
New York has been a film city since the beginning of movie making. But great ideas often appear independently in two places, around the same time. It’s some kind of synchronicity.
- The Black Maria at Thomas Edison’s labs in West Orange, New Jersey was the world’s first movie studio. It opened and made the first motion picture in 1893. Edison’s Kinetoscope began showing movies on machines in an amusement arcade at 1155 Broadway (at 27th St), just north of Madison Square, in 1894.
- The first commercial movie screening was produced by the Lumiere brothers in Paris in 1895.
The first movies were a lot like vaudeville. After all, it was the Vaudeville Era (1880s-1920s). In 1895, Edison began making “actualities” of every day street scenes. New York City was the perfect backdrop. It still is. Today we would call them Tik Toks.
Fort Lee, New Jersey, just across the George Washington Bridge, was the center of America’s film industry from 1909 to 1918. Then production moved to Hollywood.
The post-war Paris Theater in Midtown is Manhattan’s last single screen cinema. It was going to shut down, but was purchased by Netflix.
A lot of film and television is still made in New York. The City itself is a star in many great movies.
Film Seasons
Film festivals help determine which movies get released in the coming year. The festival calendar is oriented around the Oscars (Academy Awards), the world’s most prestigious film awards.
To stay top-of-mind during film awards season, studios screen their best films during the year-end holidays. Oscar entries for “Best International Feature Film” are due at the end of October. You can see many international entries during the holidays. Oscar nominations are usually announced in January. Voting is in February, for the Academy Awards in March.
The film year starts with Berlin in February. Cannes arrives in May. Tribeca is in June. Things get interesting in September with Venice, Toronto and New York.