For the past 25 years, the African Film Festival has produced the annual New York African Film Festival at the Film Society of Lincoln Center to honor the legacy of African cinema and give a voice to contemporary artists, activists, and filmmakers from Africa and the diaspora. Through additional partnerships with Maysles Cinema in Harlem, and Brooklyn Academy of Music’s BAMcinématek in Brooklyn, the festival provides New York City with unique access to forward thinking experimental films, shorts, documentaries and auteur cinema.
New York African Film Festival
A Griot performance at the 26th New York African Film Festival.
Souleymane Cissé at the 26th New York African Film Festival
Omar Victor Diop speaks at the Afripedia Black History Month Program with the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
Cinema Under the Stars screening at Joyce Kilmer Park
Samba dance class at AFF's Family Day Celebration on Governors Island
“We strive to support institutions that share our artist-centered values. The small grassroots arts organizations as well as the museums that comprise our grantees provide invaluable opportunities for artists to express their unique perspectives on the pressing urgencies of the day. We hope that our grants help to amplify artists’ voices within their communities, in national discussions and debates, and across platforms in the international contemporary art world.”
Joel Wachs, President