New York City

1.5 Million

By Alan Ng | June 2023

Writer-director Gregory Hernandez’s 1.5 Million is a story of the Bronx, one of the poorest areas in New York and the United States, and…

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Writer-director Gregory Hernandez's 1.5 Million is a story of the Bronx, one of the poorest areas in New York and the United States, and the people who...

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Some short films we love because they're dripping with cuteness. Such is the case with writer-director Harley Chamandy's short film, Where It's Beautiful...

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2020 was pretty much a lost year, so the announcement of a physical Brooklyn Horror Film Festival came as a welcome surprise. Since their second year, I've...

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Leave it to the entrepreneurial spirit to find solutions to human shortcomings. In Rachel Kay Barclay's comedy series, Human Telegraphs, Margot, Trisha,...

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We keep electing folks who make promises of a better tomorrow, and yet it seems nothing gets done. Victor Dias Rodrigues' documentary short, All Riders,...

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Malik Isasis' Bitter Sugar is the story of two women from Tunisia with very different stories and perspectives on living in New York as part of the...

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It's 1975, and there's a serial killer loose on the streets of New York in Nancy Menagh's short film, Victim No. 6. Donna (Heather Brittain O'Scanlon) is...

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In Eliza Hittman's Never Rarely Sometimes Always, "a pair of teenage girls in rural Pennsylvania travel to New York City to seek out medical help after an...

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NEW YORK FILM FESTIVAL 2020 REVIEW! I have lived in NYC for going on 13 years. Okay, I live in Ridgewood, Queens but whatever, it still counts because...

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I’m of the age where I amassed a decent vinyl (Baba Booey) collection in my youth, an even bigger tape collection, and an insane amount of CDs. I...

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