External Events
Brooklyn International Short Festival
Brooklyn International Short Festival invites filmmakers from around the world to submit their works, to be seen in the cultural heart of Brooklyn. The festival aims to gather emerging talent not only from the US but also from around the world.
Filmmaker Early Deadline: February 22, 2025
Filmmakers and artists have been attracted to Brooklyn and have used its potential as a setting for their films, and we hope to use these cultural networks to present you with unique festival experiences.
“The Father Who Stayed” NYC Film Premiere
7x Award-Winning Musical Film, “THE FATHER WHO STAYED” to Premiere in New York City: All-Star Cast Includes Stage & Screen’s Christian Campbell, Tony Nominated Shoshana Bean, Grammy Award Winner, Pulitzer Nominated Rinde Eckert & Hamilton’s Blaine Alden Krauss
Saturday, February 22, 2025 | 6:00 – 7:45 pm EST
AMT Theater, 354 West 45th Street New York, NY 10036
[FREE EVENT] The Father Who Stayed (TFWS) is a feature-length, music-driven cinematic experience inspired by the true story of a single father mourning the loss of his only child, daughter Emily Rose. This unique musical film blends the story of the father’s journey with a broader narrative centered around the musically told journeys of everyday life, death and the afterlife in America as expressed by those who have passed on. Part song cycle, part concert experience, The Father Who Stayed (TFWS) is a one-of-a-kind offering, providing audiences a deeply immersive and emotional experience.
New York on Film: “Escape from New York” with Neil Rosen & Michael Gingold
Need an escape from reality? Join us for our next edition of New York on Film and immerse yourself in the gritty, action-packed chaos of John Carpenter’s “Escape from New York” — where Manhattan is a maximum-security prison, and the only thing standing between disaster and total anarchy is one eyepatch-wearing, cigarette-chomping antihero: Snake Plissken.
Thursday, February 27, 2025 | 6:30 – 9:00 pm EST
28 Liberty Street Lower Level New York, NY 10005
After the film, stick around for a talkback with film critics Neil Rosen (NY1, SiriusXM) and Michael Gingold (Fangoria, Rue Morgue). Rosen and Gingold will break down why this cult classic is still so much fun decades later. They’ll dig into the film’s darkly humorous take on urban decay and society’s collapse (1980s-style), why NYC makes the perfect post-apocalyptic playground for Snake’s high-stakes mission and how “Escape from New York” became a blueprint for the dystopian action genre, inspiring countless movies and video games.
5th Annual Cranford Film Festival
The festival focuses on screening short films (less than 20 minutes in length) in the categories of fiction, documentary, animation, iPhone, music videos, and student films. Best of Festival awards are given in each of the categories and festivalgoers will be able to watch and listen to filmmakers explain their films during the festival.
Filmmaker Deadline: March 15, 2025
Saturday, April 26, 2025
Cranford Theatre, 25th N Ave W Cranford, NJ 07016
“The Cranford Film Festival is a celebration of creativity and the power of storytelling through film,” said Cranford FOPHA President, Stephanie Levine. “The Cranford Film Festival not only showcases the best in short film, it also helps to raise funds for the performing arts students in our Cranford community.”
Margaret Mead Film Festival
The American Museum of Natural History’s Margaret Mead Film Festival showcases documentary films that ask crucial questions and explore perspectives from around the world.
Friday-Sunday, May 2-4, 2025
Central Park West & 79th St, New York, NY 10024
Inspired by the groundbreaking use of film and photography by Museum Curator Margaret Mead and her fellow anthropologists in the 1930s, the Mead is the preeminent international showcase for contemporary cultural storytelling. It celebrates visual anthropology’s evolution and emerging technologies, working to create empathy and understanding through documentary, experimental films, animation, hybrid works, and more.
Film Screening at BAM
The legendary films of Lebanese filmmaker Heiny Srour, a body of searing feminist revolutionary works depicting the Middle East in the 70s and 80s, come to BAM in new restorations.
Multiple Dates
Peter Jay Sharp Building, BAM Rose Cinemas, 30 Lafayette Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11217
Combining fictional drama, archival footage, and fantasy sequences, Leila and the Wolves follows a young Lebanese woman in modern London as she time-travels through the 20th century, observing the place of Arab women in social struggles and anti-colonial movements in Lebanon and Palestine. To make The Hour of Liberation Has Arrived, Srour and her team crossed 500 miles of desert and mountains by foot, under bombardment by the British Royal Air Force, to capture a rare record of a now mostly forgotten war.