Third World Newsreel

Third World Newsreel (TWN) Brings Historic Newsreel Retrospective to BAM, Anthology Film Archives, and DOK Leipzig | Third World Newsreel Digitally Preserved Works from the Newsreel Collective Return to Screens in New York and Germany

SCREENINGS:
🎬 BAM (Brooklyn) - Nov 12
🎬 Anthology Film Archives (NYC) - Nov 14-20
🎬 DOK Leipzig (Germany) - Oct 29 & Nov 7
Nov 12 at BAM features Q&A with original Newsreel members!

The films of the Newsreel Collective (1968-72) are returning to theaters this fall — newly digitized and ready to inspire a new generation. The collective embedded themselves in movements — capturing Black Panthers, Young Lords, striking feminist organizers, and anti-war protesters. buff.ly/Mj9ud5D

🎬 TWN and The Documentary Forum invite you to a FREE film screening and talk with filmmakers Juan Mejia who will be presenting his documentary "Igualada."

🗓️ Wednesday, November 5, 2025, 6 PM
🍕 Light refreshments will be provided
This event is free and open. RSVP at: buff.ly/f1TRKvp

Join us for 2025's Workers Unite Film Festival featuring Third World Newsreel in their annual Bootcamp. Experienced activist filmmakers discuss the process of film production & distribution today.

🗓️ Nov 1 @ 12pm
📍 NYU KJCC
🎟️ buff.ly/pk3fIcw
Free walk-in attendance for TWN, NYU, and CUNY Students!

Congratulations to Tami Gold's film "It's Just A Job" being selected for the Workers Unite Film Festival Season 14 (2025). Hear from Tami Gold and the story of the movement to decriminalize sex work in NYC.

🗓️ Oct 23, 2025 @6:30PM
📍 Cinema Village
🎟️ buff.ly/hlo8SCc

#TamiGold
#It'sJustAJob

Join us for an evening seminar with Co-Producer of POV & POV Shorts, Robert Chang on POV and where things are at now!

📅 Oct 29, 2025 @ 6 PM
📍 Shepard Hall Rm 291, CCNY

@robertchang

#RobertChang
#POV
#PublicBroadcasting
#EveningSeminar
#ThirdWorldNewsreel

🎉 Congratulations to TWN Workshop Grad Naz Habtezghi! Her latest work "American Problems, Trans Solutions" will be screening at #NewFest37 (New York LGBTQ+ Film Festival).

🗓️ When: Oct 19 2025, 4:00 PM
📍 Where: The Center
🎟️ Tickets: buff.ly/CCFxoWs
Use promo code NF37TWNR4TIX for $4 off

Join us to hear from archival producer and filmmaker Amilca Palmer and archivist Marie Lascu. Audio transcription and light refreshments.

🗓️ Date: Wednesday Oct 15th at 6 PM
📍 Location: The City College of NY, Shepard Hall, 259 Convent Ave at 140th street, Room 290
🎟️ Free: buff.ly/dM84TzO

🌟 Join us a rare screening of "Infiltrators" by Khaled Jarrar and animated shorts by Palestinian youth, including "Grandmother Wore Us Out," "When I Walk Again" and "Tent Life," as part of "Centering Palestine on Screen". Free and open to the public!
10/16, 7PM
Bullet Space, 292 E. 3rd St, NYC

🎥 Meet filmmaker Yoruba Richen at a free film screening and talk tonight at CUNY's Journalism School in New York City!

🎬 Film: AMERICAN COUP: WILMINGTON 1898
🗓️ Date: October 9, 2025
🕰️ Time: 5:00 pm - 8:00 pm
📍 Location: Newmark Journalism School in Midtown Manhattan
🎟️ RSVP: buff.ly/XCQEgKp

Join us for a film and talk with Directors Barbara Malaran and Desireena Almoradie for "Because of You: A History of Kilawin Kolektibo."

Cosponsored by AAARI of CUNY, and the Documentary Forum and the LGBTQ+ Center at CCNY.

📅 Oct 22, 2025 @ 6 PM
📍 Shepard Hall, CCNY

#becauseofyou

Join us in a conversation between filmmaker Iris Morales and guest curator of Tengo Lincoln Park en mi Corazón: Young Lords in Chicago, Dr. Jacqueline Lazú. Followed by an audience Q&A.

📅 Oct. 16, 2025 at 6-8pm CDT
🗺️ DePaul Art Museum, Chicago, IL
🎟️ buff.ly/wX8UN5v

#irismorales
#younglords

This interactive lecture and conversation by Anjanette Levert invites you to explore the radical potential of film as a tool for truth, resistance, and imagination. Sponsored by Third World Newsreel.

📅 Oct 10, 2025 @ 3-5 PM
📍 CCCADI Ilé Oyin, Entrance at E 126th Street
🔗 buff.ly/E6Ys1Hj

#TWN

Join us for a film and talk with the directors for this acclaimed PBS documentary "Slumlord Millionaire" directed by Ellen Martinez and Steph Ching.

🎟️ buff.ly/nJTQ03y
🗓️ Oct 8, 2025 @ 6PM, Shepard Hall, CCNY

#slumlordmillionaire

🎞️ Join Bronx-born filmmaker Thomas Allen Harris for a screening to celebrate the 20th anniversary of his celebrated documentary, "Twelve Disciples of Nelson Mandela."

🗓️ Saturday, September 27, 2025
4 PM
RSVP: buff.ly/gQnF0GU
Free admission.

Bronx Documentary Center

🎞️ Queens screening of "Slumlord Millionaire," a documentary about the housing crisis in NYC, followed by a Q&A with Steph Ching and Ellen Martinez, Samantha Bravo-Huertero, Janina Davis, Alina Shen, and Sebastian Martin. 

🗓️ Sept 25, 6:30 pm
📍 Museum of the Moving Image
RSVP: buff.ly/cFYurIz

Meet George Sosa from Black Planet Productions at Anthology Film Archives!George will present a rare screening of "X 1/2: THE LEGACY OF MALCOLM X" at the Anthology Film Archives.

Tonight! Wednesday, September 17, 2025 at 6:30 PM

Get Your Tickets:
buff.ly/rPcZTXD

📼 Our colleagues at @bavcmedia have published a nationwide research study designed to learn more about the state of magnetic preservation efforts. Third World Newsreel (TWN) was a proud participant in the study.

🔗 buff.ly/gN8dycY

#BAVCMedia

Join us for an evening seminar with Laila Harrison. A 90-minute interactive workshop for nonfiction filmmakers looking to expand their funding opportunities and audience impact with the help of AI.

📅 Oct 1, 2025 @ 6:30 PM
📍 ONLINE
🎟️ buff.ly/fG3jCZp

#lailaharrison

Third World Newsreel (TWN) is proud to be a fiscal sponsor of the New York Latino Film Festival (NYLFF). Get your tickets today for new Latino and Latin American features, shorts, documentaries and web series.

📅 September 13, 2025 to September 21, 2025
🔗 buff.ly/xJUq0BL

#NYLatinoFilmFestival

Join us in a talk with the co-founder of Firelight Media, producer/writer Marcia Smith - on her work, Firelight's anniversary, the state of things and what's next for her work.

📅 Sep. 25, 2025 @ 6-8 PM
📍 Shepard Hall, CCNY
🎟️ buff.ly/h7Wdat5
🫖 Light refreshments served.

#marciasmith

Congratulations to Katheryn Ramey and her film “The Empty Sign” for winning the Richard Werbner Award for Visual Ethnography at the 2025 RAI FILM Festival.

🎞️ THE EMPTY SIGN
📽️ Directed by Katheryn Ramey
🗺️ France, Puerto Rico, United States

🔗 buff.ly/Ip0AyXN

#katherynramey
#theemptysign

Join us for the one-hour film "Facing the Wind" and a talk with director Deirdre Fishel and the founding director of the LBD Resource Center, Norma Loeb. It will be preceded by light refreshments.

🎟️ buff.ly/G3xCoef
🗓️ Sep 18, 2025 @ 6-8 PM
📍 Shepard Hall, CCNY

#facingthewind
#eveningseminar

🎞️ A screening of Directors Christine Choy and Susan Robeson's film "Teach Our Children" will be featured at the Film Anthology Archives.

📅 Sept 12, 2025 @ 9PM + Sept 18, 2025 @ 6:30PM
🎟️ buff.ly/2ymFOoY

#teachourchildren
#christinechoy
#jasmineprice
#susanrobeson
#filmscreening
#thirdworldnewsreel

🎞️ A screening of Black Planet Productions' film "X 1/2: THE LEGACY OF MALCOLM X" will be featured at the Film Anthology Archives.

📅 Thursday, September 11, 2025 at 9 PM
📅 Wednesday, September 17, 2025 at 6:30 PM
🎟️ buff.ly/L8wKFcE

#X1/2
#malcolmx
#blackplanetproductions
#yasminaprice

Congratulations to Jamika Ajalon for being Wave Farm's Artist-in-Residence!

Sept. 1, 2025 - Sept. 10, 2025
Audio Buffet: Jamika Ajalon & Caroline Preziosi
Premiere of Fluid Code Transmissions: Liberation Cypher
90.7-FM in NY's Upper Hudson Valley and wgxc.org/listen everywhere

#jamikaajalon

Barbara McCullough’s work "Shopping Bag Spirits" will be part of the exhibition Photography and the Black Arts Movement, 1955–1985 starting at the National Gallery of Art (NGA), The J. Paul Getty Museum, and the Mississippi Museum of Art.

🎟️ buff.ly/0HhlydK

#BarbaraMcCullough

Join us for a special screening of Pam Sporn's acclaimed film "Cuban Roots/Bronx Stories." This event is part of the 100th Anniversary of the Schomburg Center's founding.

🔗 buff.ly/SFiXiYV
🗓️ Sep 24, 2025 @ 6:30 PM
📍 Schomburg Center in Harlem

#pamsporn

Meet Filmmaker Pam Sporn! Her film "Cuban Roots/Bronx Stories" will be featured at an exhibition in Harlem's Schomburg Center. Sporn makes films that combine personal narratives with archival material.

@grito_productions

#pamsporn
#gritoproductions
#documentary
#socialjustice
#thirdworldnewsreel

Congratulations to Filmmaker Pooja Rangan on her new book: "The Documentary Audit: Listening and the Limits of Accountability."

Upcoming launch event in conversation with Lakshmi Padmanabhan, Jordan Lord, and LaCharles Ward:

🗓️ Sep 19, 2025 | 6PM | Michelson Theater, 721 Broadway

#poojarangan