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The New York Premiere of Ryan Dickie & Abigail Horton’s wild comedy-adventure stars Jason Selvig, Davram Steifler, Reema Sampat and Harlem’s own Kara Young.
The New York Premiere of Ryan Dickie & Abigail Horton’s wild comedy-adventure stars Jason Selvig, Davram Steifler, Reema Sampat and Harlem’s own Kara Young.
In 2005, documentary film pioneer Albert Maysles founded the Maysles Documentary Center – an intimate cinema and event space in central Harlem that is home to an education program offering filmmaking opportunities to young people from the neighborhood.
Experimental Dadaist artist, Hans Richter, escaped Nazi Germany and established the first Documentary School in the US at the City College in Harlem. If you missed the screening at the Festival in 2022, this special event features several of Richter’s works re-scored by contemporary artists followed by a discussion with filmmaker Dave Davidson.
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.
Bringing to life this important Harlem Renaissance history featuring Rose McClendon and the seminal work of a young Orson Welles, VOODOO MACBETH premiered at Harlem International in 2021, earning three awards including Best Film and Best Actress, and has just been obtained by Lightyear Entertainment for theatrical release this Autumn.
Three of this year’s finalists participated in the 2022 Screenplay Showdown! by directing ten pages we selected from their work and one of them went on to become this year’s winner.