The 17th Anniversary of the Harlem International Film Festival kicks off with a celebration of Harlem’s legacy past, present and future with a double feature of World Premiere films that are nothing short of historic!
For a limited time Harlem International Film Festival is teaming up with Sony Repertory and Eventive Direct to bring you two of Sidney Poitier’s most memorable films and a bit of Harlem history.
Festival Alums Dawn Gifford Engle and Ivan Suvanjieff recall their amazing history with Desmond Tutu and how he presided over their marriage at St. George Cathedral in South Africa.
COOGAN’S WAY, which had it’s World Premiere on Opening Night at the 16th Annual Harlem International Film Festival on May 5, 2021, is set to share the name with a new street corner named after the famous local pub that was located there for three decades until it closed in March of 2020.
If you missed the New York Premiere of MY FIONA during the 2021 festival, you can catch it on iTunes, Amazon and all major Video On Demand services starting November 23, 2021. More details on the film at: www.myfionafilm.com
Virgil Films and Entertainment has acquired 100 YEARS FROM MISSISSIPPI for commercial distribution. The film had its world premiere at Harlem International this year where it won the Best Documentary award.
THE SUBJECT, which picked up the Mira Nair Award for Rising Female Filmmaker at the 2020 Harlem Int’l Film Festival and stars Jason Biggs and Aunjanue Ellis, comes out in theaters and on demand October 22nd.
If you missed the theatrical world premiere on Opening Night of the Festival in May (or you just want to see it again), catch the television premiere tonight at 7PM on WNET/Channel 13 of Glenn Osten Anderson’s COOGAN’S WAY.
Harlem International interviews festival alum, Nicholas Julius, about working with the late, great actor Michael K. Williams on the set of his award-winning film THE DEVIL GOES DOWN.
The finalists in the feature script category compete during the Screenplay Showdown! reading competition. In memoriam Howard W. Robertson (1947-2021)