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NYAFF Chat: NYAFF 2018 Preview Part 1
The NYAAFF Staff sharing the films they’re looking forward to watch at Film Society of Lincoln Center and SVA Theatre this year June 29 to July 15!
Red Carpet, CARGO, Tribeca Film Festival
Pictures of CARGO Red Carpet.
New America Media, AKA NAM, Shutting Down Officially November 30, 2017 – It Will Be Missed
“We’ve always aspired to do more than our resources allowed,” said NAM Executive Director Sandy Close. “We grew too fast, and were reluctant to cut off programs after their funding expired. We reached a point where we were not sustainable, as currently constituted.”
POWDER ROOM Film Review, CUNY Asian American Film Festival, 2017
A selection from the 2017 CUNY Asian American Film Festival: A short silent film about an outsider, Al, breaking into a back alley speakeasy which he’ll later find out to be a place of evil.
New York Asian Film Festival 2017
Festival will take place June 30 to July 13 at the Film Society and July 14 to 16 at the SVA Theatre. Considered the leading festival of popular Asian cinema, NYAFFF will showcase 57 feature films, including 3 International Premieres, 21 North American Premieres, 4 U.S. Premieres, and 15 films making their New York City debuts
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47 METERS DOWN Film Review
Starts off a little show before becoming a savvy, rip snorting, truly scary and imaginative 40 minutes of terror when the director, writer and cinematographer unleashed their collective chi and things go bump, bump, bump at 47 meters.
Tonight, 7 P.M., Human Rights Watch Film Festival Screening: THE BLOOD IS ON THE DOORSTEP
News stories with big headlines are still frequent in Milwaukee, and national stories are not unusual even now about April 30, 2014, when Dontre Hamilton, 31, black and unarmed, died in a hail of 14 bullets fired by a Milwaukee police officer, white.
IT COMES AT NIGHT Opens Tomorrow, June 9, in New York City
The IT is relentless, the Mother of All Things That Go Bump in the Night.