amBUSHed Jared Katsiane 1992, 12 min., BW, US This beautifully shot film depicts the brutal and daily occurance of police violence. AMBUSHED uses experimental narrative techniques to delve into the life and consciousness of two generations of Afr...
Angels Tatiana Gaviola 1988, 45 min., Color, Chile The first fiction film directed by a woman in Chile since the 1973 military coup, ANGELS recreates the lives and hopes of the generation of Chileans who reached maturity during the Popular Unity gover...
Angels of the Earth, The Patricio Luna Producer: CEFREC/CAIB 2001, 40 min., Color, Bolivia In his first trip to the city, Sinchi faces deceit, violence and rejection from strangers and from his long lost brother, Antonio. This short drama is a cautionary tale about the dangers of city life ...
Apollo Kids Mike Torres & Third World Newsreel Workshop Producer: Third World Newsreel Workshop 2000, 5 min., Color, US One morning, Gio misses the #6 train which too frequently bypasses his Spanish Harlem stop. For Gio, one missed train means public humiliation by his teacher, suspension from school, and harassment b...
Big Willow Jared Katsiane 2013, 11 min., Color, US Can a young artist's creativity save his favorite willow tree from bulldozers?...
Children of the Cold War Gonzalo Justiniano 1985, 75 min., Color, Chile In his debut feature film, Justiniano presents a comic and critical tale that points to the apathetic complicity of Chile's middle class with the Pinochet dictatorship. The feature’s two mid-level off...
Conquering Fear a.k.a. Overcoming Fear María Morales Producer: CEFREC/CAIB 2004, 55 min., Color, Bolivia When an impoverished Aymara family migrates from the highlands to seek a better life elsewhere, the husband abandons his wife, Manuela, and their children. Manuela moves on with her life, becoming the...
Corner Store Blues Kaizad Gustad 1994, 48 min., Color Although he feels trapped working in his uncle's corner store in Little India, Rahul dreams of someday making it as a blues musician. A real black blues musician. Now if only he can overcome his Bomba...
Creative Detours Bridgett Davis Producer: Third World Newsreel Workshop 1992, 10 min., Color, US In this short narrative, a young woman moves to New York City from the Midwest in order to "develop her writing" and to share an apartment with her boyfriend. Distracted from her new creative life-sty...
Cry of the Forest, The Alejandro Noza, Nicolás Ipamo, Iván Sanjinés Producer: CEFREC/CAIB 2008, 94 min., Color, Bolivia Bolivia’s first indigenous feature film, THE CRY OF THE FOREST is based on true events that led to the indigenous demonstrations of 1990 and 1996, two events that changed the political history of Boli...
Entry Denied Christopher Browne 1997, 21 min., Color, Jamaica A young Jamaican footballer, from the ghetto areas of Kingston, is refused a visa to take up a scholarship at a university in the United States. Dramatic events and coincidences conspire to take this ...
Fathers, Sons & Unholy Ghosts Danny Thompson & Glen Noble Producer: Sankofa Film and Video Collective 1994, 13 min., Color, UK This moving narrative is a unique exploration of the multi-layered and often underexamined relationship between fathers and sons. When Martin, a young father, is left alone one weekend with his son, h...
For Colored Boys Who've Considered Homicide Narcel G. Reedus 1995, 27 min., Color, US In this spiritual drama, an ancestor (Thomas Merdis) travels through time and space to interrogate a murderer (Chong Thi Nguyen) to find out why young black boys are killing each other.
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Freckled Rice Stephen C. Ning Producer: Stephen C. Ning & Yuet-Fung Ho 1983, 48 min., Color, US This is a story of Joe Soo, a 13-year-old boy coming of age and coming to terms with his Chinese America heritage in Boston during the 1960s. His Boston encompasses Screamin' Jay Hawkins, the Kennedy ...
Ganja and Hess Bill Gunn 1970, 110 min., Color, US This extraordinary foray into the realms of Black consciousness has acquired deserved status as a cinema classic. The vampire film genre is used to create a mythical vision of the forces that shape Dr...
Haircuts Hurt Randy Redroad 1992, 10 min., Color, US A Native American woman and her young son encounter everyday racism when they visit a local barbershop. The situation leads her to reflect on her own childhood and reconsider her son's first haircut. ...
Hito Hata: Raise the Banner Duane Kubo & Robert Nakamura Producer: Visual Communications 1980, 90 min., Color, US This poignant drama chronicles the contributions and hardships of Japanese Americans from the turn of the century to the late seventies. This history is told by Oda, a feisty Issei--one of the elderly...
Homecoming Third World Newsreel Workshop Producer: Third World Newsreel Workshop 1991, 20 min., Color, US This sensitive drama adeptly portrays the clash of two cultures and the difficulty of finding a healthy balance in the process of assimilation. Constance is a young Jamaican American woman who has re...
Illusions Julie Dash 1983, 34 min., BW, US Set in a fictitious Hollywood studio in 1942, this elegant drama contrasts society's views of Black women with their self-perceptions. An ambitious movie executive, Mignon Dupree is perceived by her ...
In the Name of our Coca Leaves a.k.a. In the Name of our Coca Humberto Claros & Albino Pinto Producer: CEFREC/CAIB 2004, 45 min., Color, Bolivia In the midst of the historical conflict between indigenous coca growers in Chapare and the Bolivian military, Joselo Coca must chose between his military career and his family’s survival.
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Land Where My Fathers Died Daresha Kyi 1991, 24 min., Color, US A fiercely independent young African American woman and her nouveau-nationalist photographer boyfriend decide to visit the father she hasn't seen in years. The tragicomic reunion shatters her illusion...
Latent Image Pablo Perelman 1987, 92 min., Color, Chile This passionate, cathartic, autobiographical film was made clandestinely in Chile during 1986 and 1987, when Pinochet was in power. It chronicles the story of Pedro, an apolitical ad photographer who...
Lizard's Tales Juan Carlos Bustamante 1988, 80 min., Color, Chile Set in the sparse Chilean countryside, this film is divided into three stories. Each story forms an extended metaphor for the impact of Chile's recent history on the individual psyches of its people,...
Lost & Found Kaizad Gustad 1995, 28 min., Color After shining a customer's shoes, a young street vendor, Munna, discovers that his client's overstuffed wallet has accidentally dropped on the road. While his fellow shoe shine boys call him an "idiot...
Loving Each Other in the Shadows Marcelina Cárdenas Producer: CEFREC/CAIB 2001, 47 min., Color, Bolivia Rosita, from a privileged background, and Juancito, from a poor family, fall in love during Carnival time, a time for everyone in their community, rich and poor, to get together, dance and drink the t...
Make-Out (Newsreel #49) Newsreel Producer: Newsreel 1970, 5 min., BW, US As a young couple make out in a car, we hear the woman's stream of consciousness thoughts. She worries about her reputation and whether he'll try to "go all the way." This film is best used with dis...
Mother of the River Zeinabu Irene Davis 1995, 28 min., BW, US This powerful drama of a young girl's slave experience in the antebellum South is based on the power of the folk tale and the riddle. Dofimae is an independent spirit despite her condition of slavery....
Mott to Mulberry Herman Lew 1992, 30 min., Color, US A lighthearted but poignant story about a second generation Chinese American teenager named Conrad. Living in New York City's Chinatown, Conrad's attraction to a local Italian girl clashes with the cu...
Mr. Ahmed Terrance Grace 1994, 52 min., Color Internationally renowned actor Naseeruddin Shah stars in this poignant drama of an Indian ex-patriate living in a small American town. The film paints a portrait of a man struggling to re-invent himse...
Mute Love Patrice Mallard 1998, 58 min., Color, US MUTE LOVE is a feature-length narrative film about three generations of African-American women who are trying to mend their fractured relationships. Mavis is a twenty-three year old recovering drug ad...
A Nice Arrangement Gurinder Chadha 1990, 11 min., Color, UK Set in the London home of an Indian family on the morning of their daughter's wedding, this film is a wry depiction of one of the most central of Indian traditions -- the arranged marriage. As the you...
October Country Daniel de la Vega 1990, 80 min., Color, Chile This quirky, ironic urban road movie follows two young men through a semi-surreal Santiago, Chile and neighboring beach towns as they involve themselves in a deal, a taxi heist and several women who e...
Odds and Ends Michelle Parkerson Producer: Michelle Parkerson/American Film Institute 1993, 28 min., Color 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 Wa...
Red Detachment of Women People's Republic of China Producer: People's Republic of China 1968, 105 min., Color, China This film presents the famous ballet from China. It is a blend of traditional Western theatre, Peking opera, folk dance, calisthenics, and acrobatics. It tells the story of a women's military unit dur...
Rest in Peace Jeff Mao 1990, 15 min., BW, US In this subtle and comic narrative, a young Asian American is pressured by his wife, family and "tradition" to grant the last wish of a dying relative. First, however, he must decipher a note written ...
A Ride Out (Una Vuelta) Patricia Montoya Producer: Third World Newsreel Workshop 1994, 10 min., Color, US An examination of a one night affair between two women. Exploring the contours of race, desire and passion. This provocative tape maps out a Latina’s examination of her heritage in the context of pa...
Sapphire and the Slave Girl Leah Gilliam 1995, 17 min., BW, US This film is loosely based on the 1950's British detective film SAPPHIRE, in which two Scotland Yard detectives investigate the murder of a young woman who is passing for white. Referencing everyone f...
Sirionó CEFREC/CAIB Producer: CEFREC/CAIB 2010, 56 min., Color, Bolivia In the years leading to the historic 1990 March for Indigenous Land and Dignity, the Sirionó community of Ibiato resists the imposition of a Eurocentric educational system that devalues their way of l...
Some Divine Wind Roddy Bogawa 1991, 72 min., Color, US SOME DIVINE WIND (a reference to the Japanese term Kamikaze, or “divine wind”) tells the story of Ben, whose father was part of a U.S. bombing mission that destroyed his Japanese mother’s village—and ...
Tenacity Chris Eyre 1995, 10 min., BW, US The story of two Indian boys who encounter the violence of the adult world in a roadside hit-and-run accident. Filmed in Onondaga Territory in upstate New York, this award winning short is about frien...
Vest Made of Money Patricio Luna Producer: CEFREC/CAIB 1998, 25 min., Color, Bolivia In this Aymara folktale about greed and betrayal, Satuco sells his possessions and hides the cash in his vest. In the process, he turns his back on his wife and his community.
Confronting the sign...
• 545 Eighth Avenue, Suite 550, New York, NY 10018
• Telephone 212-947-9277
TWN acknowledges that in New York we are on the unceded territory of the Lenni Lenape,
Canarsie, Shinecock, and Munsee peoples and challenges the harm that continues to
be inflicted upon Indigenous and People of Color communities here and abroad,
which is why we all need to be part of the struggle for rights, equality and justice.
TWN is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council
on the Arts, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, Color Congress, MOSAIC, New York Community Trust, Peace Development Fund, Ford Foundation, Golden Globe Foundation, Kolibri Foundation and individual donors.
