Once again it’s on. After a two-year pandemic-related delay, the Inwood Film Festival makes its return, picking up where they left off in 2020, with in person programming over four days from Thursday, June 2nd – Sunday, June 5th at the…
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Waaaake up! Wake up! Wake up! The United Palace will screen the seminal 1989 movie “Do the Right Thing” on Sunday, May 15 followed by a talk back with Uptown superhero Lin-Manuel Miranda and film director, producer, actor, professor, and Academy Award-winning screenwriter Spike…
That’s right folks, after nearly 2 years, the Movies at the United Palace film series is finally back. Starting in January 2022 a different film will be shown every month until June. Movies at the United Palace is not…
You’re Watching Video Music Box Chronicles the longest-running music video show in the world, Video Music Box, launched and hosted in New York City by visionary DJ and MC Ralph McDaniels. With four decades of never-before-seen footage from McDaniel’s…
The documentary about the one and only Coogan’s, Coogan’s Way by Glenn Osten Anderson, will be on NYC TV again on WLIW on Wednesday, November 21 at 9 pm est. Coogan’s Way tells the story of this beloved Uptown…
“Kill the Indian in him, and save the man.” This was the guiding principle that removed thousands of Native American children and placed them in Indian boarding schools. Among the many who died at Carlisle Indian Industrial School were…
By Gregg McQueen Carlos Deschamps has always been fond of storytelling. As a young child, the Washington Heights native would conjure up narratives in his imagination and bring them to life using his toy collection. “I always played with…
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.…
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…