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10/04/2024

Miracle on 42nd Street, our Emmy-winning documentary and the first film about affordable housing for artists, is now free to stream on Tubi!

Miracle on 42nd Street is a one-hour documentary about the untold history and impact of the Manhattan Plaza apartment complex in New York City. Starting with the background of the blighted Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood and the building’s initial commercial failure in the mid-1970s, the story recounts how – in a moment of bold inspiration or maybe desperation – the buildings were “re-purposed” as subsidized housing for people who worked in the performing arts, becoming one of the first intentional, government supported, affordable housing for artist residences.

https://tubitv.com/movies/100027955/miracle-on-42nd-street



[Image Description: A poster for the film, "Miracle on 42nd Street." On the top are 5 headshots of famous performers. From left to right are Samuel L Jackson, Larry David, Terrence Howard, Alicia Keys, and Angela Lansbury. Below is an image of the Manhattan Plaza apartment buildings with a giant key down the middle. The image has a light blue filter over it.]

07/19/2024

On July 24th, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) will be hosting a panel "Disability Art Chats: Crip Pride with Riva Lehrer". This 90-minute online talk will discuss what it means to be disabled in a world of art, when disability appears in art, disabled representation in art, and more.
This program is free of charge but advance registration is required.

Please join us for Disability Art Chats, a community space for folks who identify as disabled, crip, MAD, and/or C/S/X, and those allied with the principles of disability justice. During this free, 90-minute online program, we use a crip perspective to unearth fresh interpretations of MoMA’s colle...

07/11/2024

Over 100 works by artists living with disabilities have been acquired by SFMOMA. Here's how this came to be.

After 50 years, Creative Growth in Oakland celebrates as its artists enter the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art’s collection.

06/27/2024

34 years ago, on July 26, 1990, the Americans with Disabilities Act was signed into law. This civil rights law prohibits discrimination against individuals with disabilities in many areas of public life.
In honor of yesterday being the 34th anniversary of the ADA, we’d like to highlight three short films related to the ADA and the wider topic of accessibility by Davenport , a filmmaker who lives with cerebral palsy.
“Ramped Up” highlights a controversy that came out of the ADA: lawsuits against small businesses. The film shows the perspectives of both sides.

A "Wheelchair Diaries: One Step Up" explores accessibility throughout Western Europe.

In "A Cerebral Game," Reid shares his love of baseball and what it meant to him to be a teammate with cerebral palsy.
Watch on Day Films or

A Package of Three Films on Disability and Society

06/27/2024

Town Band will air on June 28th at 11pm on Public Media. If you can't make the airing date, it will also be available on-air, online, or on the free PBS App throughout the summer alongside films by other Upstate New York filmmakers.
https://www.pbs.org/video/town-band-preview-vt6bv2/

06/20/2024

I’m thrilled to share that our short film "Town Band" will air on June 28th at 11pm on Public Media. If you can't make the airing date, it will also be available on-air, online, or on the free PBS App throughout the summer alongside films by other Upstate New York filmmakers.

Town Band will air on WMHT-TV, a public station based in Troy, NY.
"At a crossroads in the Catskills, a community has been created by live music. Without the Callicoon Center band’s summer concerts for the past 89 years, the vintage band music they play would be forgotten. On-screen you’ll see people play tunes to forget daily troubles, honor rural pie-making, support their spoon-playing band member who falls ill, and teach music to the next generation."

Learn more at https://www.wmht.org/tvfilm/.

06/18/2024

Alice talks about the power of seemingly insignificant moments in a person's life that become meaningful in a documentary film.

For example, while talking about a student film made at the NYU in Cuba program, she finds the story of a single father caring for pigeons on his roof deeply touching.

She also points out that documentary film is about being “a facilitator of someone else’s story. You have the opportunity to give voice to people whose story would never be heard."

Associate Arts Professor and Area Head of Documentary Studies talks about the spring study abroad program Intermediate Documentary Film Production in Havana. Visit…