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Pioneering social justice media since 1968

Third World Newsreel is a media arts organization that fosters the creation, appreciation, and dissemination of social issue film and video made by and about people of color.

10/02/2026

🎞️ "Edouard Glissant: One World in Relation"
Featured in Exercises in Empathy: Accompaniment at Boston College.

Manthia Diawara’s 2009 conversations with Édouard Glissant detail the latter’s theory of Relation and the concept of Tout-monde.

📅 Sept 23 - Nov 15, 2026
📍 Boston College, Burns Library

Learn more at https://buff.ly/gaJKmgJ

09/30/2026

Since 1968, Third World Newsreel has documented the movements demanding social justice. Our archives include rare footage, completed films, and global activist media, available for licensing, theatrical screening, and exhibition.

Archival producers, media artists and curators, if you’re coming to FootageFest, stop by Booth 25 and meet the TWN team.

October 2–3, 2026
BRIC Arts House, 647 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, NY 11217

View the full lineup and get your ticket at footagefest.com.

09/30/2026

🎬️ "Sweet Sugar Rage" at The Golden Pixel Cooperative, as part of "Framing Collective Action."

The film will be screening virtually October 2- 12.

🎞️ A Jamaican women’s theatre collective turns the experiences of female cane workers into performance, using improvisation and role-play as tools for consciousness-raising and social critique.

🔗https://buff.ly/edXpGjR

Visit the website to learn more about the film and the screening!

09/29/2026

October Newsletter

We are very excited to announce upcoming exhibitions and seminars and updates from our filmmaking community.

We have news about the opening of the Christine Choy Retrospective in NYC. Our amazing community showed up across 14 screenings, night after night to celebrate Christine's legacy, the Asian American movement, and the broader liberation movements she spent her career documenting. To our phenomenal partners and to everyone who came out, asked a question, brought a friend — thank you! Over the coming months, the Retrospective will travel across the country and overseas. From Philadelphia to London, from the Pacific Northwest to the nation's capital, Christine's films are finding new rooms, new audiences, and new conversations.

Congratulations to TWN Workshop graduate Patrick G. Lee for being selected as part of the Sundance Institute & The Asian American Foundation Fellowship and Scholarship. Also, Coco Fusco's mural work will be shown at the 2026 Toronto Biennial of Art and Manthia Diawara's documentary "Edouard Glissant" is part of the Art Cut Triennal in Boston.

We are proud to announce the educational release of new short film, "Faith in Blackness: An Exploration of Afro-Latine Spirituality."

Finally, our Evening Seminars are back! Our next seminar welcomes TWN Workshop graduate and filmmaker Karla Murthy who will present her new film "The Gas Station Attendant". Karla spoke to aspiring journalist Sonia Kalo about her documentary work and lessons learned at the TWN Production Workshop Program. Read the interview on our website twn.org/news-media.

For a full list of evening seminars, exhibitions, and grants, visit twn.org/news-media.

09/29/2026

"ODDS AND ENDS" by Michelle Parkerson is screening as part of "COMBAT BREATHING" at Anthology Film Archives.

About the film:
In the year 2096, Black women warriors wage a vigilant battle against racial and gender annihilation. In this devastated universe, a fable unravels between interplanetary frontlines. Lieutenant Loz Wayard, a courageous young amazon, learns the price of passion when her beloved Sephra takes on the ultimate sacrifice for the struggle.

🕠️ Thurs, October 8, 2026, 6:30 PM
📍 32 Second Avenue, New York, NY 10003
🔗 https://ticketing.uswest.veezi.com/purchase/5728?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr

09/24/2026

The premiere leg of The Christine Choy Retrospective has come to a triumphant conclusion - but this is just the beginning!

Over the coming months, the Retrospective will travel across the country and overseas. From Philadelphia to London, from the Pacific Northwest to the nation's capital, Christine's films are finding new rooms, new audiences, and new conversations.

Here’s a peek at what’s coming up (additional dates and films to be announced soon)!

09/22/2026

🎞️ A daughter reflects on her father’s life — weaving the story of his miraculous journey from the streets of India with the reality of life.

Join us to screen Karla Murthy's personal documentary "THE GAS STATION ATTENDANT", and hear about the making of the film and her journey in media.

After a successful festival run, including DOC NYC 2025, the film had a theatrical run this summer, and aired on POV this August. See the film and hear from the director about the process. Karla was a graduate.

Light refreshments provided!🍕

📅 Wed, Sept 30, 6:00 PM
🎟️ Link in the bio
🪪 Valid ID required
📍 Shepard Hall, Room 290, CCNY | 259 Convent Avenue at 140th Street, ( #1 to 137th St, ABCD to 145th street, Accessible route: #6 to 125th street, then M101 to 140th street)

A presentation of Third World Newsreel and the Documentary Forum at CCNY and cosponsored by AAARI, Asian American/Asian Research Institute at CUNY

09/18/2026

🎤 Join producer Trevite Willis to talk about a range of ways to finance your doc.

How Do You Actually Pay for Your Documentary?

Join producer Trevite Willis in conversation with filmmaker Anjanette Levert for a candid, practical conversation about the many ways documentary filmmakers finance their work: from self-financing and crowdfunding to film grants, foundation support, individual donors, fiscal sponsorship, investors, and everything in between.

🗓️ Thu, Sept 24, 6:30 PM
💻️ Virtual on Zoom
🎟️ Link in the bio for more information!

Bring your questions, your project, and your fundraising dilemmas!

09/17/2026

Mohammed Soueid's "CINEMA FOUAD" is Screening at Anthology Film Archives as part of VALENTIN NOUJAÏM – IN RELATION

About the film:
A documentary on the life and ambitions of a young Lebanese trans woman, Khaled El Kurdi. The video follows her journey from soldier to cabaret dancer, to raise funds for her gender-affirming operation. Shot in Beirut, CINEMA FOUAD weaves a complex and multi-layered story of sexuality, identity, and desire, and paints a compelling portrait of its subject.

📆 Tue, Sept 22, 2026 7:00 PM
📍 32 Second Avenue New York, NY 10003
🎟️ https://buff.ly/stPx4BE

Followed by a conversation with writer and curator Adam HajYahia and Yasmina Price!

09/17/2026

🎙️ Join us to hear from cinematographer Tinx Chan as he shares insights into his career, getting into film, working with directors, and much more.

Who is Tinx Chan?
He is a native New York cinematographer, has been working for two decades in film around the world- shooting narratives, documentaries, commercials and music videos. Named a 2023 "Rising Star" by ASC (American Society of Cinematographers), and a recipient of ICG’s Emerging Cinematographer Award in 2019.

Light refreshment provided!🍕

📅 Wed, Sept 23, 6:00 PM
🪪 Valid ID required
📍 Shepard Hall, Room 290, CCNY | 259 Convent Avenue at 140th Street, ( #1 to 137th St, ABCD to 145th street, Accessible route: #6 to 125th street, then M101 to 140th street)

A presentation of Third World Newsreel and the Documentary Forum at CCNY and cosponsored by AAARI, Asian American/Asian Research Institute at CUNY

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