In The Apollo documentary, Academy Award-winning director Roger Ross Williams chronicles the unique history and contemporary legacy of the NYC landmark theater. From archival footage to interviews with Patti Labelle, Pharrell Williams, Smokey Robinson and Jamie Foxx, the film covers a new production of Ta-Nehisi Coates' Between the World and Me. 

Immediately following the screening will be a webinar talk with Producer Lisa Cortés, (@misscortes), also known for The Remix: Hip Hop X Fashion (2019), All In: The Fight for Democracy (2020) and The Woodsman (2004), Kamilah Forbes, Executive Producer at the Apollo Theater, and Anjanette Levert, fimmaker/professor of Spelman College. Event sponsored by The Documentary Program at Spelman College in association with The AUC Camera Collective, The Atlanta Documentary Society & Third World Newsreel with the Documentary Forum at CCNY.

Join Lann Briel for a Zoom talk on Jerome Foundation's Film, Video and Digital Production grant application and guidelines. This grant program is open to early career film, video and digital production directors who work in the experimental, narrative, animation, or documentary genres. The grant program provides individual filmmakers support for specific projects, both short and full-length, for production and pre-production costs. Register now and have your questions ready! Applications are due April 21 by 4 pm Central/5 pm Eastern Time.

Feb 18, A Litany for Survival Screening & Talk with Filmmakers

Feb 25, Stateless Screening with Filmmaker Michèle Stephenson

“It wasn’t until I took a film workshop at Third World Newsreel that I actually believed that I could make a film.” Yance Ford, Emmy-winning Strong Island film

The Production Workshop curriculum integrates elements of new digital technologies and transmedia in its training, but its focus is the development of the pre-production, production and post-production skills necessary to take a short 5 minute video project from conception to completion. Working in small groups, workshop members conceive and produce their films with the help of instructors and guest lecturers, professionals working in the field of film/video and transmedia. Students are expected to complete one individual short video project during the program.

The TWN Production Workshop is led by Chrystian Rodriguez and Daniel Kim and is dedicated to the memory of Herman Lew, longtime Workshop Director, filmmaker, and cinematographer. Past Workshop graduates include award-winning filmmakers Daresha Kyi, Yance Ford, Byron Hurt, Paula Heredia, Renee Tajima-Peña, Jamal Joseph, and Randy Redroad, and many others.

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

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!