Founded in 1968, Third World Newsreel has been producing social justice media including the first films about the Black Panthers and the Young Lords and the iconic Audre Lorde documentary, A Litany for Survival. For decades we have been working to help grow the next generation of socially conscious BIPOC filmmakers. Help us to continue this work! Please consider making your tax deductible donation to Third World Newsreel.

Our Sisters Speak and the film Inside Women Inside

Join us for a special screening of the powerful 1978 documentary Inside Women Inside, followed by a community event where women surviving incarceration will share their powerful resistance to the gender and sexual violence of this punishment system through testimony, poetry, and art. This event is a collaboration between Third World Newsreel, the Connecticut Bail Fund, Survived & Punished NY, and Life In My Days and is co-presented by the Documentary Forum at CCNY.

Inside Women Inside will stream for free from December 1-3, before the virtual talk on December 3 at 6 PM. Please RSVP to receive the film link, additional materials from the organizers, and the link to the Zoom webinar. There will be live Spanish and ASL interpretation.

Now in its 44th year, the TWN Production Workshop is gearing up for 2021. Join the ranks of TWN graduates—including Oscar-nominees, Emmy-winners and activists filmmakers that aim to make change—Jamal Joseph, Renee Tajima-Peña, Yance Ford, Byron Hurt, Grace Lee, Randy Redroad, Daresha Kyi and more. 2020's cohort met virtually, we expect 2021 to be a 6-month hybrid training experience. The application will be available on our website mid December, the application is due January 22, 2021, and the course will start in March. For FAQs, visit www.twn.org, or email [email protected].

Short films include A Pandemic Drawing Project, Stay Home DIY, Our Piano Teacher During the Pandemic, My Lovely Furkids, Gone with COVID-19, Isabella Self-Quarantine Life and How We Stay Strong

From fundraising to editing, cameras, and lighting, to talks about the making of films, we have videos to keep you learning your craft and hearing about filmmakers' experiences—free virtual training.

COVID-19 New York State Council on the Arts Resource List

IDA Enterprise Documentary Fund (Production Grant)

Jerome Foundation (NYC Film, Video & Digital Production Grant)

Sundance Documentary Fund 

Third World Newsreel (TWN) is a media arts non-profit organization that fosters the creation, appreciation and dissemination of independent film and video by and about people of color and social justice issues. Watch our new short and hear from JT Takagi, Executive Director, Bev Grant, Newsreel filmmaker, Desi del Valle, former staff and TWN Workshop Fellow, and Kazembe Balagun, TWN Workshop Fellow, about Third World Newsreel's history, current work, and vision for the future. Thanks to Pablo Arribas of LaVitrola.cl for the interview and trailer and the TWN family for their support!