Maysles Cinema

It’s about trying to illustrate the indescribable, or the ineffable, or the things that are difficult to talk about or that I don’t want to talk about. Our MALNI -- TOWARDS THE OCEAN, TOWARDS THE SHORE panel btwn dir. Sky Hopinka & Mariana Sanchez Bueno is now up. Watch it here --> https://bit.ly/3sUcJG0

OURS TO HEAL, now streaming for free Apr. 26th - May 9th. Drawing inspiration from the feminist and economic thought of Angela Davis, this series connects how we care for, conceptualize, determine to heal and politicize the human body especially as imbued with the weighted concepts of Blackness, womanhood, and labor. Access the full series here: https://bit.ly/3aL8Uwv

Today, April 25th at 2pm EDT, join our virtual panel btwn MALNI -- TOWARDS THE OCEAN, TOWARDS THE SHORE director Sky Hopinka and film programmer Mariana Bueno Sanchez. RSVP here: https://bit.ly/3dQtjlX Sky Hopinka (Ho-Chunk Nation/Pechanga Band of Luiseño Indians) was born and raised in Ferndale, Washington and spent a number of years in Palm Springs and Riverside, California, Portland, Oregon, and Milwaukee, Wisconsin. In Portland he studied and taught chinuk wawa, a languag...e indigenous to the Lower Columbia River Basin. His video, photo, and text work centers around personal positions of Indigenous homeland and landscape, designs of language as containers of culture expressed through personal, documentary, and non fiction forms of media. Mariana Sánchez Bueno is a filmmaker and film programmer from Bogotá, Colombia. She is interested in collaborative ways of making films and in creating communal platforms for conversation around arts and politics. She is co-founder of corrient.es, an online site for Latin American moving image, and co-curator of Ellipsis, a film series looking to connect film across aesthetic languages.

Follow the groundbreaking legacy, challenges, and activism of Franco Stevens, creator of the best-selling lesbian lifestyle magazine Curve in the riveting documentary AHEAD OF THE CURVE. Streaming virtually at @reelabilitiesny from April 29May 5. Get tickets at https://bit.ly/3tWHD1r Also catch the virtual panel discussion w/ directors Jen Rainin, Rivkah Beth Medow, and subject Franco Stevens on April 30th at 6PM!

This Halloween, join one 90’s horror director in discovering there's nothing more terrifying than your dreams becoming hapless fantasies, swallowed by the chaos around you. AMERICAN MOVIE is streaming for free for the first 100 viewers Oct. 30-Nov. 1: https://bit.ly/36445LR The hit of the 1999 Sundance Film Festival, AMERICAN MOVIE is the hilarious and intense story of one man's obsession to make movies. Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin, is a long way from Hollywood, but Mark Borch...ardt has a dream. Armed with a driving ambition and nothing to lose, the fast-talking Borchardt enlists friends, local thespians and unwilling family members to help him finish his no-budget horror film, COVEN. The camera doesn't flinch as it captures every emotional crisis and financial pitfall in his two-year odyssey. What emerges is a bizarre, yet surprisingly heartfelt, documentary portrait of a true American character. Welcome to the "Real World." See more

Two days left to watch the films of the 12th Annual Congo In Harlem Film Festival! Join the stacked festival finale concert 10/31 at 12-2PM EDT. Register here: https://bit.ly/3jCXPPS

It’s the final week to stream the program SAVED FROM THE WATERS: 9 films by Safaa Fathy for free on the #VirtualCinema! Watch here: https://bit.ly/324yCbd As part of this series, we hosted 3 panel discussions with ArteEast, Tamaas / Earth Arts Justice and Safaa Fathy which are now available on our Youtube channel! Catch them here: https://bit.ly/2TtJHh7

The 12th annual Black Panther Party Film Festival has been EXTENDED for an additional week by popular demand. Watch the films and donate to the Black Panther Party here: bit.ly/3jwWCdt

Please join us TODAY at 2PM EDT for an engaging Congo in Harlem panel discussion as we explore the role of Belgian colonization on the current situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The film that will compliment the discussion is CONGO: WHITE KING, RED RUBBER, BLACK DEATH. RSVP and watch the films here: https://bit.ly/3m1uQXv 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. Finally, the panelists will discuss the current global social movements such as Black Lives Matter and the manner in which they are confronting the Colonial and neo-colonial legacy in an attempt to chart a new course for Congolese, Africans and Blacks globally. See more

UDPATE: Today's 6PM EDT panel is now completely free! RSVP for the Zoom here: https://bit.ly/3nVELiY Catch the films of the 12th Annual Black Panther Film Festival -- available on a sliding payment scale -- before this Sunday 10/17! bit.ly/3jwWCdt

Exclusive panel available TOMORROW 10/15 at 6pm with the purchase of any Black Panther Party Festival film on a sliding scale. Stream the films here: bit.ly/3jwWCdt The panel on Thursday, October 15th at 6pm will feature Professor Sandy Shevack (William Patterson College) and Carlito Rovira (Revolutionary artist, Young Lords Party), moderated by King Downing (Activist Lawyer & Member of BPC Committee NY). Additional panelists TBA.

We’re 2 days away from our Black Panther Party Film Festival panel, available with the purchase of any film. The panel is on Saturday, October 10th at 3pm moderated by King Downing (activist, lawyer & BPC member) with Aaron Dixon (co-founder of Seattle BPP chapter, subject of My People Are Rising), Ksisay Sadiki (Panther Cob, Artivist & daughter of a political prisoner) , Robert King (freed political prisoner & subject of Cruel & Unusual), Valerie Hayes (Northeast Political Prisoner Coalition), Hawk Newsome (Black Lives Matter NY). Register and watch the films here: bit.ly/3jwWCdt

Starting today! 12th Annual Black Panther Party Film Festival, streaming October 4th-October 17th, presented by the NY Black Panther Party Commemoration Committee. Screen the films and learn more here: https://bit.ly/3jwWCdt This year’s theme is Pt. 7 of the Panther Platform: WE WANT AN IMMEDIATE END TO POLICE BRUTALITY AND MURDER OF BLACK PEOPLE, OTHER PEOPLE OF COLOR, And All OPPRESSED PEOPLE INSIDE THE UNITED STATES. Films are available on a sliding scale, proceeds go dir...ectly to supporting the Black Panther Party & Maysles Cinema. Two virtual panel discussions will occur on October 10th & 15th as part of the festival and can be unlocked with the purchase of any film. On Saturday, October 10th at 3pm there will be an intergenerational panel moderated by King Downing (activist, lawyer & BPC member) with Aaron Dixon (co-founder of Seattle BPP chapter, subject of My People Are Rising), Ksisay Sadiki (Panther Cob, Artivist & daughter of a political prisoner) , Robert King (freed political prisoner & subject of Cruel & Unusual), Valerie Hayes (Northeast Political Prisoner Coalition), Hawk Newsome (Black Lives Matter NY).