Starting November 21 you can catch BLOW UP MY LIFE streaming on Apple TV and Amazon. Winner of the Best Film Award at Harlem International in May, the comedy/thriller features strong performances from Harlem native Kara Young as well as her co-stars Jason Selvig, Ben Horner, Davram Stiefler and Reema Sampat.
Ashwin Chaudhary won Best Documentary Director at the 2023 Harlem International Film Festival for capturing the incredible, true and inspirational story of painter Justin Wadlington. On Amazon Prime starting October 6th.
BLOW UP MY LIFE is back in New York at the AMC Empire 25 in Times Square for one week only. Winner of the Best Film Award at Harlem International in May, the comedy/thriller features strong performances from Harlem native Kara Young as well as her co-stars Jason Selvig, Ben Horner, Davram Stiefler and Reema Sampat.
Three finalists complete the 2023 Screenplay Showdown! by directing ten pages from their work chosen by the Festival! One finalist will be awarded Winning Feature Screenplay of the year.
The Festival mourns the untimely passing of Brooklyn born and raised talent, “Godfather of Harlem” creator, Festival jury member & longtime supporter, Paul Eckstein.
Join us in celebrating award-winning artist Lonnie Holley’s 73rd birthday with a special global screening of Thumbs Up for Mother Universe, which won Best Documentary at Harlem International in 2020.
If you missed the film’s North American premiere at the Harlem International Film Festival right before it went on to win our 2021 New York Vision Award, or you just want to watch it again from the comfort of your own home, then now’s your chance.
Before Citizen Kane and the War of the Worlds, leading Broadway actress Rose McClendon and producer John Houseman convinced a gifted but untested 20-year-old Orson Welles to direct Shakespeare’s Macbeth with an all-Black cast in Harlem’s Lafayette Theater.
Following its world premiere at Harlem International in 2021, 100 Years From Mississippi had a successful festival run, taking home five more Best Documentary honors as well as several Audience and Fan Favorite awards.
We got back from our seasonal break to the news that COOGAN’S WAY was nominated for a NY Emmy! We were so glad to host the world premiere on opening night last year as the first festival to go live in-person in 2021 and we were even happier when it received our Audience Award. Congratulations to the entire Coogan’s team for this achievement and helping to commemorate Coogan’s legacy in uptown history.