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🎥 Come join us for our upcoming Evening Seminars and hear from professionals!

Oct 21: The Video Essay Film: Hear from Filmmakers | 6:30 OM | Virtual
Oct 28: Video Essay Workshop with Kevin D. Ball | 6:30 PM | Virtual
Nov 5: "Love, Joy and Power: Tools for Liberation" | 6 PM | CCNY

🗺️ CCNY, Shepard Hall, Room 290/291 | 259 Convent Avenue at 140th Street, (#1 to 137th St, ABCD to 145th street, Accessible route: #6 to 125th street, then M101 to 140th street)

Light refreshments provided!🍕

Link in the bio!
Visit the website to learn more! by @docforumccny

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6 days ago

🎥 Join us for a screening of TCB: The Toni Cade Bambara School of Organizing and hear from director Louis Massiah,

🎞️ Discover the remarkable legacy of Toni Cade Bambara, an influential Black woman writer, filmmaker, and organizer.

📅 Wed, Oct 14, 5:45 PM
🏫 Shepard Hall, Room 290/291
📍 259 Convent Avenue at 140th Street, (#1 to 137th St, ABCD to 145th street, Accessible route: #6 to 125th street, then M101 to 140th street)

Light refreshments served.

Presented by Third World Newsreel and the Documentary Forum at CCNY.

Link in the bio! by @docforumccny

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9 days ago

🎞Final day of the Nou Akoma Nou Sinèji Haitian Dominican Transnational Film Festival at CCNY!

Experience powerful films and engaging panels featuring experienced professionals, celebrating Haitian and Dominican transnational stories and perspectives.

🗓 October 9
💳 ID Required for entry
📍 259 Convent Avenue at 140th Street, (#1 to 137th St, ABCD to 145th street, Accessible route: #6 to 125th street, then M101 to 140th street)

➡Swipe through to discover the events happening today!

🔗 Link in the bio for more information! by @docforumccny

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9 days ago

🎞Join us for the 4th Annual Nou Akoma Nou Sinèji Haitian Dominican Transnational Film Festival! @dominicanslovehaitiansmovement

Experience powerful films and engaging panels featuring experienced professionals, celebrating Haitian and Dominican transnational stories and perspectives.

🗓 October 7 - 9
💳 ID Required for entry
📍 259 Convent Avenue at 140th Street, (#1 to 137th St, ABCD to 145th street, Accessible route: #6 to 125th street, then M101 to 140th street)

In partnership with @blackstudiesccny

🔗Link in bio for more information! by @docforumccny

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17 days ago

🎞️ A daughter reflects on her father’s life — weaving the story of his miraculous journey from the streets of India with the reality of life.

Join us to screen Karla Murthy's personal documentary "THE GAS STATION ATTENDANT", and hear about the making of the film and her journey in media.

After a successful festival run, including DOC NYC 2025, the film had a theatrical run this summer, and aired on POV this August. See the film and hear from the director about the process. Karla was a #TWNworkshop graduate.

📅 Wed, Sept 30, 6:00 PM
🎟️ Link in the bio
🚪 ID Required
📍 Shepard Hall, Room 290 | 259 Convent Avenue at 140th Street, (#1 to 137th St, ABCD to 145th street, Accessible route: #6 to 125th street, then M101 to 140th street)

Light refreshments provided! 🍕

A presentation of Third World Newsreel and the Documentary Forum at CCNY and cosponsored by AAARI, Asian American/Asian Research Institute at CUNY

@aaaricuny @karlamakingstuff @gasstationdoc by @docforumccny

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🎤 Join producer Trevite Willis to talk about a range of ways to finance your doc.

How Do You Actually Pay for Your Documentary?

Join producer Trevite Willis in conversation with filmmaker Anjanette Levert for a candid, practical conversation about the many ways documentary filmmakers finance their work: from self-financing and crowdfunding to film grants, foundation support, individual donors, fiscal sponsorship, investors, and everything in between.

🗓️ Thu, Sept 24, 6:30 PM
💻️ Virtual
🎟️ Link in the bio for more information!

Bring your questions, your project, and your fundraising dilemmas. This will be an open conversation about the realities and the possibilities of getting your documentary film financed. by @docforumccny

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WE’RE BACK. JOIN US FOR NOU 2026!

The 4th Annual Nou Akoma Nou Sinèji Haitian Dominican Transnational Film Festival returns October 7–14, 2026, bringing a week of films, conversations, workshops, and community gatherings across New York City.

From Haiti and the Dominican Republic to New York, Canada, Jamaica, Finland, the Gambia, and across the diaspora, this year’s films explore migration, memory, race, labor, resistance, identity, home, and belonging.

NOU means “we.” This festival is an invitation to gather—to witness one another’s stories, encounter histories we may not know, and imagine what becomes possible when we come together through film.

📅 October 7–14, 2026
📍 City College • Flatbush Library • Maysles Documentary Center • Medgar Evers College + more

Come for a film. Stay for a conversation. Be part of NOU.

🎟️ Reserve your space + explore the full festival:
https://dominicanslovehaitians.com/2026-festival/

#NOUFilmFestival #HaitianCinema #DominicanCinema #CaribbeanCinema #blackcinema taken in Harlem Baby !!!! by @docforumccny

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🎙️ Join us to hear from cinematographer Tinx Chan as he shares insights into his career, getting into film, working with directors, and much more.

Who is Tinx Chan?
He is a native New York cinematographer, has been working for two decades in film around the world- shooting narratives, documentaries, commercials and music videos. Named a 2023 "Rising Star" by ASC (American Society of Cinematographers), and a recipient of ICG’s Emerging Cinematographer Award in 2019.

📅 Wed, Sept 23, 6:00 PM
🎟️ Link in the bio
📍 Shepard Hall, Room 290 | 259 Convent Avenue at 140th Street, (#1 to 137th St, ABCD to 145th street, Accessible route: #6 to 125th street, then M101 to 140th street)

Light refreshments provided!🍕

A presentation of Third World Newsreel and the Documentary Forum at CCNY and cosponsored by AAARI, Asian American/Asian Research Institute at CUNY

@thirdworldnewsreel @aaaricuny @tinxchan by @docforumccny

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Congrats to our MFA film faculty, staff, and students who've made the program what it is today!

The Hollywood Reporter named the program as one of eight under-the-radar film programs in LA and NY, writing:

"The Harlem-based school’s affordable MFA program (tuition is $305 per credit for residents and $602 for nonresidents) covers both fiction and nonfiction filmmaking, for which the free biweekly Documentary Forum brings in film screenings and panel discussions that augment coursework."

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lists/best-film-schools-2026-u-s/8-under-the-radar-film-programs-in-los-angeles-and-new-york/ by @docforumccny

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2 months ago

The Documentary Forum's seminars return! 📽

Join us tomorrow for a seminar for the Educational Video Center's (EVC) Summer Youth Documentary Premiere.

The heart of EVC is our young people and the living archive of award-winning films they have produced since 1984. Their incomparable archive of youth-produced documentaries lifts up the stories, perspectives, challenges, and hopes of New York City’s young people and documents systemic inequities over many decades by those most affected and least represented. EVC shares these powerful stories with the world, inspiring action and critical conversations about who makes history, and whose stories deserve to be told.

📅 Thursday, August 13, 2026 at 2-4 PM
📍 Shepard Hall, City College of New York
🗺️ 259 Convent Avenue (SE Corner of 140th St. and Convent Ave.)
🪪 Photo ID required to enter building.
🎟️ RSVP: Email EVC at info@evc.org

Light refreshments will be served.

This event is co-sponsored by the Educational Video Center (EVC) @educationalvideocenter, the Documentary Forum at the City College of NY (Doc Forum), and Third World Newsreel (TWN) @thirdworldnewsreel.

#FilmPremiere #YouthActivism #EducationalVideoCenter #EVCSummerYouth by @docforumccny

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2 months ago

Roll the end credits! 📽

Thank you all for your support this semester. Swipe left for Documentary Forum’s semester highlights.

We look forward to hosting more evening seminars, partnering with more of you, and working with our filmmakers to make independent media more accessible in a safe and open environment for discussion.

Stay tuned for Fall 2026. by @docforumccny

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5 months ago

Black Public Media @@blackpublicmedia is proud to honor 2026 BPM Trailblazers Stanley Nelson & Marcia Smith @marciasmith58 with a special retrospective screening ✨

Join us for an encore presentation of We Want the Funk! + a live Q&A with the filmmakers.

📍 City College of New York
📅 April 27 | 6–9 PM ET
🎟️ Free + open to the public (limited seating)

Reserve your spot now! Link in bio.

Co-presented by Third World Newsreel, the Documentary Forum and MCA at CCNY and Firelight Media @@firelight_media.

#WeWanttheFunkFilm #StanleyNelson #MarciaSmith #BlackPublicMedia #2026BPMTrailblazer #FirelightMedia by @docforumccny

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6 months ago