Dominican film lovers rejoice. The Dominican Film Festival In New York returns November 9-14. Now in its 10th year, the festival has tons of Dominican films, both feature length and shorts, that you might not see outside of Quisqueya.…
Uptown Film
From Emmy Award-Winning documentarian Stanley Nelson, Attica details the five-day prison rebellion that transpired in the fall of 1971 in upstate New York and still stands as the largest and deadliest the country has ever witnessed. More than a…
Coogan’s may be gone but it is not forgotten. If you missed Coogan’s Way TV Premiere on PBS earlier this month, it is coming to WLIW in November. It is also making the rounds of the film festival circuit…
The documentary about the one and only Coogan’s, Coogan’s Way by Glenn Osten Anderson, will make its TV Premiere on Sunday, October 10 at 7 pm est on Channel Thirteen. Coogan’s Way tells the story of this beloved Uptown…
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Elvis Nolasco (@elvisnasco) Washington Heights’ own and friend to the UC, Elvis Nolasco, has a new film you can catch right now on HBO Max. Show that man some Uptown…
Hit up theaters or Hulu right now to catch SUMMER OF SOUL. We simply did not know that in the summer of 1969 some simply stellar talent performed Uptown for The Harlem Cultural Festival, which was filmed in Mount…
BY Led Black (@Led_Black) “Washington Heights. Say it, so it doesn’t disappear.” Thus begins the spell. You have just been entranced and about to embark on a raucous, polyrhythmic journey that you will repeat ad infinitum. While the film adaption of…
Listen to the creators and stars of In the Heights talk about a crucial part of this story: the neighborhood of Washington Heights. Come for the music, the summertime vibes, and the street art; stay for the heartwarming community…
BY Led Black (@Led_Black) View this post on Instagram A post shared by New York Latino Film Festival (@nylatinofilmfestival) Last night I had the honor of being a part of the team that put together a next-generation event to celebrate the…
Culture and cuisine go hand in hand. Based on the critically-acclaimed book by Jessica B. Harris, High On The Hog takes you on a culinary journey from Africa to enslavement, to the Harlem Renaissance, to the present day. The…