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Latin Film in New York City


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 🇪🇸

Latin Film


African Diaspora International Film Festival 2023 (Santiago de las Mujeres/Rosamary Berrios Hernández)

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. 🇺🇸 🇧🇷 🇨🇴 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇭🇹 🇭🇳 🇲🇽 🇵🇪 🇸🇳 🇺🇾

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DOC NYC (Guruxox/Dreamstime)

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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Latin Four Plus movie courtesy Marco Orsini

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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Continue Reading Marco Orsini’s Documentary “Latin Four Plus” Tells How Five Puerto Ricans Lived Their Dreams as Korean Pop Sensations, and Never Stopped

Dominican Film Festival New York (Valentin Valkov/Adobe)

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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Continue Reading Dominican Film Festival New York 2023 Gets to the Heart of What it Means to Be Quisqueuyan

International Puerto Rican Heritage Film Festival (alexlmx/Adobe)

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

Continue Reading The International Puerto Rican Heritage Film Festival 2023 is a Deep Dive into Boricua Identity and Filmmaking

Bushwick Film Festival (Mantoniuk/Dreamstime)

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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More Latin Film

NYC Film Venues


United Palace is Upper Manhattan’s Performing Arts Center

Sin Bandera “Frecuencia” Tour 🇦🇷 🇲🇽
“Faith in Blackness” movie 🇺🇸
Annette Aguilar & String Beans “In the North” album release party 🇳🇮
Buunni Community Open Mic 🇳🇵🇪🇹
Enrique Guzman “Inmortales del Rock n Roll” 🇲🇽
“The Chevalier” the Joseph Bologne film 🇫🇷 🇬🇵
El Rubio Acordeón merengue 🇩🇴
Jesús Adrián Romero “Terrenal Tour” Christian 🇲🇽
Héctor Acosta “El Torito” merengue & bachata 🇩🇴
“Mariposas de Acero” Mirabal Sisters musical theatre 🇩🇴
Myriam Hernandez “Invencible Tour” pop 🇨🇱

WASHINGTON HEIGHTS, Manhattan

Film at Lincoln Center is New York City’s Leading Film Organization

New York Film Festival 🇦🇷 🇧🇷 🇨🇲 🇨🇱 🇫🇷 🇮🇹 🇵🇭 🇵🇹 🇪🇸
“The Delinquents” by Rodrigo Moreno 🇦🇷
“All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt” by Raven Jackson 🇺🇸

LINCOLN CENTER, Manhattan

BAM, Brooklyn Academy of Music is Brooklyn’s Performing Arts Center

“Mafifa” film 🇨🇺
“By Way of Canarsie” film 🇨🇺

FORT GREENE, Brooklyn


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

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 2023

Havana Film Festival *

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

New York Latino Film Festival

Open Roads: New Italian Cinema

Queens World Film Festival

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

Sephardic Film Festival *

SoHo International Film Festival

Tribeca Film Festival

Winter Film Awards


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.

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