CineKink NYC 2024: A Strapping Good Time

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Published on Tuesday, 30 July 2024 00:12

Written by Brad Balfour

Cum As You Are

Cinema is at it’s best when it’s a little scandalous, a little unusual, and a little kinky, which is what the Cinekink NYC film festival is all about. Running July 30th to August 4th, Cinekink was founded in 2003 and recognizes and encourages the positive depiction of sexuality and kink in film and television, most visibly through its annual film festival, CineKink NYC.

The festival features a carefully-curated program of films and videos that celebrate and explore the wide diversity of sexuality, with offerings drawn from both Hollywood and beyond, works presented by CineKink range from documentary to drama, camp comedy to artsy experimental, mildly spicy to quite explicit — and everything in between.

In addition to screenings, the annual festival also includes a short film competition, audience choice awards, presentations, parties and a gala kick-off fundraiser, all followed by a national screening tour.

CineKink will present The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed as the "CineKink Season Opener" for the 21st anniversary run of its film festival, CineKink NYC, with in-person screenings taking place August 1-4, 2024.

The festivals offerings of shorts and features is scheduled as follows:

Tuesday, July 30 / 8-11 pm 

• Kinky Kick-Off Preview Shindig!! @ Madame X (94 W. Houston, NYC)
• And then rest up a day before our move to The Wild Project (95 E. Third St.) for four days of non-stop CineKinky action!

Thursday, August 1

•  7:00 pm – The Feeling That The Time For Doing Something Has Passed
•  9:15 pm – Kink in Color

Friday, August 2

• 7:00 pm – Tops & Bottoms
• 9:00 pm – Moments & Minglings 

Saturday, August 2 

• 3:30 pm – Puppies & Leather & boys! 
• 5:30 pm – Secret Screening
• 9:10 pm – Eurovisions 

Sunday, August 4

• 2:00 pm – Futurama 
• 4:00 pm – Bring It! 
• 6:00 pm - CineKink Awards
• 8:00 pm – Wrap Party (location TBA)

To learn more, go to: http://www.cinekink.com/

Cinekink
July 30 - August 4, 2024

The Wild Project
195 E. 3rd Street (bet. B & A), NYC

The Americas Film Festival of New York 2024 Present Films from North America, Central America, and South America

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Published on Wednesday, 12 June 2024 16:54

Written by Brad Balfour

The 11th edition of The Americas Film Festival New York runs June 13th to the 21st and presents eight feature films plus more than 25 shorts, celebrating the rich diversity of the stories, languages, and cultures of the Americas.  Held at venues across the city, TAFFNY represents the cultures, languages and stories of North America, Central America, and South America along with their associated islands. TAFFNY events are free and open to the public, and all foreign language films are subtitled in English. The Festival opens on Thursday, June 13, at 6:00 pm at the Instituto Cervantes New York (211 E 49th Street, NYC) with the New York premiere of The Extorsion. Renowned actor Guillermo Francella stars as Alejandro, a pilot on the verge of retirement who is blackmailed and forced to carry a mysterious cargo from Buenos Aires to Madrid to avoid being penalized for a serious fault he committed on the job. The biggest box office hit from Argentina in 2023.

TAFFNY closes on Friday, June 21, at 6:00 pm with its awards ceremony for short films in competition at the National Museum of the American Indian (1 Bowling Green, NYC), followed by the NY premiere of Frybread Face and Me by Navajo/Hopi/Laguna Pueblo filmmaker Billy Luther. The film follows two adolescent Navajo cousins from different worlds as they bond during a summer on their grandmother’s Arizona ranch, learning more about their family’s past and themselves. Director Billy Luther will be present for a Q&A session.

TAFFNY was created to generate a cinematographic appreciation space focused on multiculturalism, diversity, and new societies around the Americas, as well as to encourage the work of new film directors.

To learn more, go to: https://www.taffny.com/

The Americas Film Festival of New York
June 13 - 21, 2024

Various venues in NYC

Margaret Mead Film Festival 2024 Searches of Language, Birds, & Happiness

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Published on Tuesday, 07 May 2024 10:30

Written by Brad Balfour

Sugarcane

New York’s American Museum of Natural History will host a four-day celebration of voices and perspectives from around the world. The Margaret Mead Film Festival will take place from Thursday, May 9, to Sunday, May 12 with globally focused documentaries.

The festival opens with a performance of Soundtrack ‘63 by Soul Science Lab, a multimedia orchestral retrospective of the Black experience in the United States, combining live music, archival footage, and animation. The opening night film is the Sundance award-winning film Sugarcane, a documentary that uncovers the legacies of pain stemming from “residential schools” in British Columbia, ultimately hinting at an ongoing journey toward healing.

Catch the New York premiere of Porcelain War, winner of the Grand Jury Prize at 2024 Sundance Film Festival. . In Ozogoche, filmmaker Joe Houlberg Silva draws a parallel between human and avian voyages and shows the annual migration of the mysterious “Cuvivi” sandpiper bird to the remote Andean lakes of Ecuador. ᏓᏗᏬᏂᏏ (We Will Speak), directed by Schon Duncan and Michael McDermit, is a documentary shot over three years on the preservation of the Cherokee language. The festival closes with Agent of Happiness, a documentary which looks at life in Bhutan and Amber, a bureaucrat who measures the nation's “Gross National Happiness”, while also searching for fulfillment in his own life.

To learn more, go to: https://www.amnh.org/explore/margaret-mead-festival

Margaret Mead Film Festival
May 9 - 12, 2024

American Museum of Natural History
Festival entrance on 77th Street between Central Park West and Columbus Avenue.