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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.

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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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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New York Film Scene

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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.

  1. 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.
  2. 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.

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