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
1976
Warhol acquires the first of several compact 35 mm cameras, and over the next 11 years shot approximately 130,000 black-and-white images, claiming that “having a few rolls of film to develop gives me a good reason to get up in the morning.”