When the film West Side Story was released in 1961, New York's reviled Puerto Rican community gained some visibility and, over time, both in Spanish Harlem and the Bronx, neighborhoods plagued by poverty, drugs and crime, Hispanic identity was reborn and strengthened, thanks to a syncretic and intentionally popular music that eventually conquered the entire city.
A collection of personal anecdotes from those who have navigated through a tumultuous year in Americ...

A young Jewish man is torn between tradition and individuality when his old-fashioned family objects...

Static was filmed from a helicopter circling around the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbour. It wa...

Seeing is to painting what listening is to politics. Survival as an artist demands both. Paint Until...

"This film explores how freedom of speech — including dissent — is afforded to all Americans, and sh...

A week in the life of the exploited, child newspaper sellers in turn-of-the-century New York. When t...

A tribute to the controversial black activist and leader of the struggle for black liberation. He hi...

Lyla and Louis, a singer and a musician, fall in love, but are soon compelled to separate. Lyla is f...

A revisionist twist on Cinderella with an all-black cast and set in Harlem during WWII. Cindy is a c...
This experimental short traces the lifespan of the graffiti and murals present at the occupation of ...

Kay Dillon, a successful modeling agent, meets the young and handsome ranch hand Tyler Burnett in Ne...

A film essay contrasting the modern metropolis with its "golden age" from 1830-1930, with the partic...

A chronicle of the lives of several teenagers who attend a New York high school for students gifted ...

When the mastermind behind New York's infamous Studio 54 disco plucks young Shane from the sea of fa...

Kicked out by his parents, a gay teenager leaves small-town Indiana for New York's Greenwich Village...

In this Concert he focuses on the star and most important defender of bachata, the Dominican singer ...

A young man searches for the "master" to obtain the final level of martial arts mastery known as the...

Ironworker Nick lives with his wife, Kitty, and three daughters. When he meets a significantly young...

The dramatic comedy is based on the true story of writer and pinball wizard Roger Sharpe, chroniclin...

An egotistical saxophone player and a young singer meet on V-J Day and embark upon a strained and ro...