Latin film in New York City is more than just movies.
We have world-class film organizations such as Film at Lincoln Center which produces film festivals all year long.
MoMA Film is one of the world’s great film collections.
Cinema Tropical is one of the leading Latin film promoters in the United States.
The New York Film Festival, Tribeca Film Festival, and DOC NYC are some of America’s leading film festivals.
We have wonderful independent cinemas such as Film Forum, IFC Center, and Maysles Documentary Center.
We have film museums. The Museum of the Moving Image is an old studio.
Thanks for sponsoring Latin Film:
- Dominican Film Festival 🇩🇴
- Film at Lincoln Center
- Havana Film Festival 🇨🇺
- Kicking + Screening Soccer Film Festival
- Documentary filmmaker Marco Orsini (Latin Four Plus) 🇵🇷
- Screen Media
- Sephardic Film Festival 🇪🇸
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African Diaspora International Film Festival Brings the Many Faces of Mother Africa To New York City
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The 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 2023 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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The International Puerto Rican Heritage Film Festival 2023 is a Deep Dive into Boricua Identity and Filmmaking
A deep dive into Puerto Rican filmmaking and identity.
“EL BARRIO” EAST HARLEM
El Museo del Barrio
Silberman School of Social Work
LOWER EAST SIDE
Regal Essex Crossing
LIVE Wednesday-Sunday, November 1-5, 2023
STREAMING Monday-Sunday, November 6-12, 2023
The 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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NYC Film Venues
NYC Film Organizations
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 festivals all year long, including the Neighboring Scenes festival of new Latin American cinema.
MoMA Film at the Museum of Modern Art holds one of the world’s leading 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 🇲🇽
The Museum of the Moving Image is a film, television, and video museum on a historic film studio lot.
NYC Movie Theaters
These independent cinemas go beyond the usual commercial movie theaters.
- Alamo Drafthouse
- Cinépolis Chelsea
- Director’s Guild of America (DGA Theater)
- Film Forum
- IFC Center
- Maysles Documentary Center
- Metrograph
- Nitehawk
- The Paris Theater is Netflix’s main movie theater.
- Quad Cinema
- Roxy Cinema
- SVA Theatre
NYC Film Festivals
African Diaspora International 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.
Harlem International Film Festival 2023
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 York African Film Festival
New York International Children’s Film Festival *
New York Jewish Film Festival
Open Roads: New Italian Cinema
ReelAbilities New York is a disability film festival at the Marlene Meyerson JCC in the Upper West Side. reelabilities.org
Rendez-Vous with French Cinema
SoHo International Film Festival
NYC Film Museums
Anthology Film Archives is a research library and film presenter that preserves and screens independent film. anthologyfilmarchives.org
The Museum of Modern Art has one of the world’s leading film collections.
The Museum of the Moving Image is a film, television, and video museum on a historic film studio lot.
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 (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 September with Venice, Toronto and New York. Oscar entries for Best International Feature Film are due at the end of October.
Studios try to screen their best films during the year-end holiday season, to be top-of-mind during film awards season.
New York City Film Origins
Great human ideas often appear independently in two places at once, around the same time.
The first commercial movie screening was produced by the Lumiere brothers in 1895 Paris, but Thomas Edison’s Kinetoscope began showing movies on machines in an amusement arcade at 1155 Broadway (at 27th St) in 1894.
The Black Maria at 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.
The first motion pictures were a lot like vaudeville. After all, it was the Vaudeville Era (1880s-1920s). But after 1895, Edison began making “actualities” of street scenes of everyday life. Today we would call them short documentaries. New York City was the perfect scene.
Fort Lee, New Jersey was the center of America’s film industry from 1909 to 1918, before production moved to Hollywood.
The post-war Paris Theater in Midtown is Manhattan’s last single screen cinema. It was shut down, but was then 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.