TEEN DOCUMENTARY FILM FELLOWSHIP AT MAYSLES

Documentary Film Fellowship for teens at Maysles Cinema, 343 Lenox Avenue by 127th Street.   The newly founded Teen Doc Authors Fellowship at Masyles Cinema in Harlem beginning on February 15, 2022.  Application deadline has been extended and are due on February 7th, 2022! This is a FREE Fellowship and teens between the ages of 13-17 are encouraged to apply! This Fellowship focuses on ways of seeing and will explore the different tenets of film and movie making.   Applicants must be fully vaccinated.  More details can be found on the official Maysles site: LINK

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TEEN DOCUMENTARY FILM FELLOWSHIP AT MAYSLES

Documentary Film Fellowship for teens at Maysles Cinema, 343 Lenox Avenue by 127th Street.   The newly founded Teen Doc Authors Fellowship at Masyles Cinema in Harlem beginning on February 15, 2022. Applications are due on January 31, 2022! This is a FREE Fellowship and teens between the ages of 13-17 are encouraged to apply! This Fellowship focuses on ways of seeing and will explore the different tenets of film and movie making.   Applicants must be fully vaccinated.  More details can be found on the official Maysles site: LINK

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SEE: SHORT FILMS BY APICHATPONG WEERASETHAKUL

October 7th - October 28th, Short Films by Apichatpong Weerasethakul,  at Maysles Cinema, 343 Lenox Avenue by 127th Street.   Maysles Documentary Center presents Short Films by Apichatpong Weerasethakul, a series of four distinct collections (Programs 1-4) organized by the filmmaker, featuring work made between 1997 and 2020. Weerasethakul won the top prize at Cannes in 2010 for Uncle Bonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives and premiered his latest feature, Memoria, to universal acclaim at the 2021 festival— where he also premiered a new short. Over the course of a still young but extremely prolific career, he has distinguished himself as one of cinema’s all time great artists.   Tickets and full schedule on the Maysles site: LINK

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SEE: MOVIE UNDER THE STARS IN HARLEM

Saturday, September 4th, 7:00PM-11:00PM, Sister Act  outdoor screening at The Carmansville Playground, at Amsterdam and 151st Street. Grab the picnic blanket and lawn chairs for the free Movies Under the Stars at St. Nicholas Park this Saturday featuring Sister Act.  This summer, NYC Parks will host family-friendly movie showings across the five boroughs. Movies begin at dusk. You should arrive before 7:30 p.m. to get your spot. This event is FREE and open to the public, but seating is limited. Reservations are not taken.  More details on the NYC Parks site: LINK

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SEE: TWO FILMS BY SARA GOMEZ

June 18th to July 1st, Two Films by Sara Gómez,  FREE virtual screenings courtesy Maysles Cinema.  In celebration of Caribbean American Heritage Month, Maysles Documentary Center presents two short documentaries by Sara Gómez, restored and co-presented by Havana Glasgow with permission from the Instituto Cubano del Arte e Industria Cinematográficos (ICAIC). Gómez began working with the ICAIC in 1961 as an apprentice and directed almost a dozen films by the time of her death in 1974.  More details for free streaming at the Maysles Cinema site: LINK

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SEE: OUTDOOR FILMS AT MARCUS GARVEY PARK

UPDATE: ALL RSVP FOR FREE TICKETS SOLD OUT.  Saturday, June 19th, 3:30PM-8:30PM, Summer of Soul outdoor movie at the Marcus Garvey Park Amphitheatre, 122nd Street and Mount Morris Park West.  Summer of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised), directed by Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson, highlights the story of the momentous 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival, featuring never-before-seen footage from the massive concert series that was – until now – virtually eliminated from the history books.  More details on this FREE Juneteenth celebration and film event can be found on the official parks site: LINK

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STREAMING: DOPE IS DEATH AT MAYSLES CINEMA

April 30th to May 13th,  Dope is Death, streaming through Maysles Cinema.   Dope Is Death is the story of how Dr. Mutulu Shakur, stepfather of Tupac Shakur, along with fellow Black Panthers and the Young Lords, combined community health with radical politics to create the first acupuncture detoxification program in America in 1973 - a visionary project eventually deemed too dangerous to exist in America.   More details for $10 online streaming at the Maysles Cinema site: LINK

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VIRTUAL CINEMA: JOHN LEWIS: GOOD TROUBLE

January 5th to 31st, John Lewis: Good Trouble, virtual screening courtesy Maysles Cinema, $12 online admission.  John Lewis: Good Trouble, directed by acclaimed filmmaker Dawn Porter, chronicles the life and career of the legendary civil rights activist and Democratic Representative from Georgia. Using interviews and rare archival footage, John Lewis: Good Trouble chronicles John Robert Lewis’ 60-plus years of social activism and legislative action on civil rights, voting rights, gun control, health-care reform and immigration. Using present-day interviews with Lewis, now 80 years old, Porter explores his childhood experiences, his inspiring family and his fateful meeting with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1957.  More details and online tickets at the Maysles Cinema site: LINK

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VIRTUAL CINEMA: THROUGH THE NIGHT AT MAYSLES

December 11th-January 7th, virtual streaming of Through the Night via Maysles Cinema.  Through The Night is an intimate cinema verité portrait of three working mothers whose lives all intersect at a 24-hour daycare center: a mother working the overnight shift as an essential worker at a hospital; another holding down three jobs just to support her family; and a woman who for over two decades has cared for the children of parents with nowhere else to turn.  More details and streaming on the Maysles site: LINK

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SEE: MOTHER AT MAYSLES CINEMA

Mother streaming via Maysles Cinema from November 27th to December 10th.  In a small village in Thailand, Pomm takes care of Europeans with Alzheimer’s. Separated from her children, she helps Elisabeth during the final stages of her life, as a new patient arrives from Switzerland. Mother is an intimate and moving observation, that allows us to explore the struggles and expectations of motherhood and the frustrations of being unable to care for our loved ones. As two narratives collide in this extraordinary coincidence, the powerful connection between patients and caregivers challenge our preconceptions.  Online viewing at the Maysles Cinema site: LINK

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SEE: INSTANT ANCESTRY AT MAYSLES CINEMA

INSTANT ANCESTRY streaming via Maysles Cinema from November 13th to November 26th.  Drawing on a wide range of archival material, the filmmakers in this program attempt to cohere questions of Black identity that have been obscured, suppressed, or erased by white supremacy and other dominative forces. These films move seamlessly between personal and political—between family albums, home movies, text correspondences, official documents, news clips, historical footage, and advertisements.  More details and online viewing at the Maysles Cinema site: LINK

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SEE: CONGO IN HARLEM 12

Congo in Harlem 12, from October 16th-31st at Maysles Cinema, 343 Lenox Avenue and 127th Street.  Explore the role of Belgian colonization on the current situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Panelists will discuss the ownership of the Congo by King Leopold II at the dawn of the 20th Century and the devastation that he wrought on the masses of Congolese. They will also delve into the more than half century colonization of the Congolese people by the Belgian state and examine the post independence, neo-colonial period. The film that will compliment the discussion is Congo: White King, Red Rubber, Black Death.  Check out the full screening schedule and RSVP on the official Maysles Cinema site: LINK

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SEE: CONGO IN HARLEM 12

Congo in Harlem 12, from October 16th-31st at Maysles Cinema, 343 Lenox Avenue and 127th Street.  Explore the role of Belgian colonization on the current situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Panelists will discuss the ownership of the Congo by King Leopold II at the dawn of the 20th Century and the devastation that he wrought on the masses of Congolese. They will also delve into the more than half century colonization of the Congolese people by the Belgian state and examine the post independence, neo-colonial period. The film that will compliment the discussion is Congo: White King, Red Rubber, Black Death.  Check out the full screening schedule and RSVP on the official Maysles Cinema site: LINK

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VIRTUAL CINEMA: PAUL ROBESON: HERE I STAND

Paul Robeson: Here I Stand streaming via Maysles Cinema from September 25th to October 1st.  A perfect meeting of subject—singer, actor, activist, lawyer, humanitarian Paul Robeson, and filmmaker—writer, organizer, magazine editor, historian St. Clair Bourne, Paul Robeson: Here I Stand is an epic of the biographical documentary. Bourne’s directing and producing career was dedicated to understanding and portraying people and subjects ignored by mainstream media, and his study of Robeson is a clear-eyed analysis of an oft-misunderstood giant of the 20th century. A master class in the synthesis of archival research and modern documentary filmmaking, and a rightful classic of the form.  More details and FREE online viewing can be found at the Maysles Cinema site: LINK

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SIDEWALK CINEMA: MAYSLES CENTER

Wednesday, September 23rd, 7:00PM, Sidewalk screening of the latest CPP Showcase, free storefront viewing courtesy Maysles Cinema on Lenox by 128th.   Community Producers Program is a four-month documentary production program for justice-involved youth, ages 18 - 24, to build community and personal development skills through filmmaking. 

 
The Sidewalk Cinema is a FREE outdoor event that screens films onto the storefront of Maysles Documentary Center.  There will be 10 socially distanced seats and masks must be worn. Food and drink are welcome but please take the trash with you to keep our sidewalks clean! More details at the Maysles Cinema site: LINK

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BESPOKE DIARIES: OUTDOOR CINEMA IN HARLEM

Harlem Bespoke:  Going to the movies in the summertime has been one of the many things that did not happen this year but maybe an outdoor option will do in the near future.  The Richard Rogers Amphitheater at Marcus Garvey Park comes to mind since outdoor screenings have taking place in the past.  Maysles Cinema on Lenox just recently presented the Good Trouble documentary by projecting the movie through the front lobby window.   Other local outdoor movie spots in the past included the Morris-Jumel Mansion grounds and the courtyard of the Museum of the City of New York.  Restaurants like Harlem Tavern also have enough outdoor space for projecting a movie on one of the walls so there are quite a few possibilities for socially distant cinematic entertainment.  Outdoor dining has proven to be safe so the above options should work out if organized correctly.

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FILM: MADE IN HARLEM AT MAYSLES CINEMA

Wednesday, June 10th,  7:30PM-9:30PM, Made in Harlem: Zora Neal Hurston's Fieldwork Footage at Maysles Cinema, 343 Lenox Avenue and 127th Street.  While a student of anthropologist Franz Boas at Columbia University, Zora Neale Hurston embarked on a journey through Alabama and Florida, using a 16 mm camera to capture life among the rural African American communities she found there. Hurston would later become a renowned author, best remembered for her 1937 novel Their Eyes Were Watching God. --Criterion. More details and online tickets at the Maysles Cinema site: LINK

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SEE: THE AMERICAN EXPERIMENT AT MAYSLES CINEMA

Thursday, February 27th, 7:30PM-10:30PM, The American Expiriment screening at Maysles Cinema, 343 Lenox Avenue and 127th Street.  The American Experiment Final Showcase (Feb 27–29, 2020) reflects on and synthesizes themes we’ve explored over the past year of experimental programming. The filmmakers featured in the Final Showcase challenge and expand genre, ethnography-making, imagined futures, and internet-era moving images. This shorts program, with work by Cauleen Smith, Jacolby Satterwhite, Kevin Jerome Everson, and Lawrence Andrews, showcases the multitudes of and natural overlaps between cultural production, alternative art spaces, and black experiences. Programmed by Emily Apter and Annie Horner.  More details and online tickets at the Maysles Cinema site: LINK

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FILM: THE MARION STOKES PROJECT AT MAYSLES

Saturday, January 18th,  7:30PM and 10:30PM, The Marion Stokes Project at Maysles Cinema, 343 Lenox Avenue and 127th Street.  For over 30 years, Marion Stokes obsessively and privately recorded American television news twenty-four hours a day. A civil rights-era radical who became fabulously wealthy and reclusive later in life, her obsession started with the Iranian Hostage Crisis in 1979—at the dawn of the twenty-four hour news cycle. It ended on December 14, 2012 as the Sandy Hook massacre played on television while Marion passed away. In between, Marion filled 70,000 VHS tapes, capturing revolutions, wars, triumphs, catastrophes, bloopers, talk shows and commercials that show us how television shaped the world of today and in the process tell us who we were.

INTRODUCING: IN THE HEIGHTS OFFICIAL TRAILER

Harlem Bespoke: Harlem Bespoke: Warner Brothers officially releases the full trailer for In The Heights which filmed uptown this past summer. Everyone is familiar with Lin Manual-Miranda's hit Broadway show Hamilton but this musical about growing up in Washinghton Heights was the New Yorker's first major hit back in 2008 as the lead actor.  In The Heights will be released in the summer of 2020 and uptowners should recognize many of the locations featured.


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