APIA event featuring a panel with Oscar-nominated filmmaker Christine Choy and rare virtual streaming of four of her early films. These films interrogate incarceration and imperialism and point to the necessary abolition of prisons, militarism, and war. The films will stream from May 1-12 and the panel will be on May 12 at 6 PM EST. RSVP will provide links to both the films and panel.

Teach Our Children (1974, with Susan Robeson) captures the Black radical spirit of the Attica Prison Rebellion.

From Spikes to Spindles (1976) shows Chinatown grassroots organizing around police violence and gentrification.

The destructive legacy of the American empire and Cold War militarism in Vietnam and Korea in Bittersweet Survival (1982, with JT Takagi) and Homes Apart: Korea (1991, with JT Takagi).

Guest Curated by Peter Kim George and part of the Asian Pacific Virtual Showcase. Program co-presented by Visual Communications and Third World Newsreel, with the collaboration of the Documentary Forum at CCNY and the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU.

LASA Film Festival (May 26-29)

Philadelphia Latino Film Festival (May 30-June 6)

Join Emmy-nominated animator and filmmaker Yasmin Mistry during National Foster Care Month for free screenings of The Foster Care Film & Community Engagement Project’s award-winning films which highlight the stories of youth in the foster care system.

May 1 - 31, 2021

Flatbush Avenue and Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11217

Find our digital display in Brooklyn’s Atlantic Terminal Center. Scan the QR code to stream Family Rewritten for free during National Foster Care Month.

May 12, 2021, 6:00 -7:15 PM EST

Virtual screening of Feeling Wanted and Family Rewritten followed by Q&A with the film director and film subjects. Free tickets. Register at:

tinyurl.com/fostercarefilm-ywca

May 13, 2021, 3:30 - 5:00 PM EST

Virtual screening of Feeling Wanted, My Identity and Family Rewritten followed by a Q&A with the film director and film subjects.

May 19, 2021, 5:30 - 7: 00 PM EST

Virtual screening followed by a Q&A.

May 20, 2021, 7:00 - 8:30 PM EST

Virtual screening of Family Rewritten followed by a moderated discussion with foster care alumni.

Register at: https://affcny.org/register/

May 21, 2021, 5:30 - 7: 00 PM EST

Virtual screening of Family Rewritten and Feeling Wanted followed by a Q&A. Free tickets. Register at: https://tinyurl.com/fostercarefilm-rmf

May 24, 2021, 7:00 - 8: 30 PM EST

Virtual screening followed by a discussion panel on representation and responsible storytelling. Register at: tinyurl.com/fostercarefilm-nycwf

May 26, 2021 | 3:00 - 4: 30 PM EST

Virtual screening of Feeling Wanted and Family Rewritten followed by Q&A. Free tickets. Register at: https://tinyurl.com/fostercarefilm-chfs

May 27, 2021 | 5:00 - 6: 15 p.m.

Virtual screening of Feeling Wanted and For A Better Life followed by a discussion panel on education and trauma-informed care.

May 28, 2021, 1:00 - 2: 00 p.m.

Virtual screening of Feeling Wanted followed by a discussion on the impact of incarceration on families.

This raw, gutsy portrait of New York's Chinatown captures the early days of an emerging consciousness in the community. We see a Chinatown rarely depicted, a vibrant community whose young and old join forces to protest police brutality and hostile real estate developers. With bold strokes, it paints an overview of the community and its history, from the early laborers driving spikes into the transcontinental railroad to the garment workers of today.

"Technique for us is secondary. The people themselves have a rich life experience, a knowledge of history and their culture and community organization. And these people are far more qualified to make films than people who have learned their skills in a school." -Christine Choy

Trailblazing artist and polymath Camille Billops (1933–2019) and her partner in life and work, James Hatch (1928–2020), left behind invaluable legacies as archivists who worked tirelessly to preserve records of Black cultural life and as filmmakers who turned their unflinching camera on Billops’s own, often painful personal experiences. The films they made together, while grounded in documentary, use a range of techniques including reenactments, dramatization, and satire to illuminate the ways in which race, gender, and class shape everyday life. In their Family Trilogy—SUZANNE, SUZANNE; FINDING CHRISTA; and A STRING OF PEARLS—the pair cover more than thirty years of troubling truths from Billops’s own family, tackling issues of drug addiction, abuse, unwanted pregnancy, and motherhood with fearless honesty.

- Sewell Chan, New York Times

"Dreams Deferred: The Sakia Gunn Film Project" depicts the homophobia that caused this murder and questions the lack of media coverage of the murder of a Black Gay teenager.

From fundraising to editing, cameras, and lighting, to talks about the making of films, we have videos to keep you learning your craft and hearing about filmmakers' experiences—free virtual training.

COVID-19 New York State Council on the Arts Resource List

Jerome Foundation (NYC Film, Video & Digital Production Grant)

Sundance Documentary Fund 

UnionDocs Workshops & Seminars 

Third World Newsreel Briefly includes interviews with JT Takagi, Executive Director, Bev Grant, Newsreel filmmaker, Desi del Valle, former staff and TWN Workshop Fellow, and Kazembe Balagun, TWN Workshop Fellow. Thanks to Pablo Arribas of LaVitrola.cl for the interview and trailer and the TWN family for their support!