NYCFF | New York Counter Film Festival

We are calling on all artists & audiences of conscience to boycott Lincoln Center until they drop their major zi0nist donors, release a statement against the Palestinian genocide, and cease the policing of Palestine demonstrations in the plaza. The New York Counter Film Festival (Sept 27-Oct 10) will showcase films withdrawn by filmmakers from New York Film Festival in solidarity with the Free Palestine movement & in accordance with our broader call to boycott Lincoln Center. The NYCFF is both an act of protest against the zi0nist-funded Lincoln Center’s New York Film Festival and an invitation to build closer affinity with one another in common struggle, exemplifying an alternative world in which our films can live free from the  dominion of institutional blood money. In the past year, we have been inspired by artists courageously standing on their principles & asserting their autonomy through projects like Strike Germany, Smash By Smash West, and especially the impromptu withdrawals at IDFA 2023 — it’s now time for the people to show their collective power against the behemoth NYFF. If you are an NYFF-accepted filmmaker or producer, and we haven't already been in contact, please DM us. Affiliates & friends of the filmmakers are also welcome to get in touch. Follow us here for updates! -The NYCFF team

A look at Lincoln Center & NYFF's genocide-supporting funders & sponsors. They are hoping to use the films playing at NYFF to artwash their activities. We are calling on all filmmakers & audiences to reject these indefensible affiliations by participating in the boycott and joining us in community at the New York Counter Film Festival (Sep 27th - Oct 10th). Our demands for Lincoln Center: 1) Drop zionist funders. 2) Put out a statement against the Palestinian genocide. 3) Cease the policing of Palestine demonstrations in the plaza.

It’s time to draw a line within the film industry between material actions that further the cause of Palestinian resistance and performative actions that do little to stop the US-sponsored genocide in Gaza. Our DMs are open. And if we get zucked, here’s our Telegram channel: https://t.me/thenycff

Last week February 14th 8 Ball Television attended a press conference organized by @fidaimedia in support of the CUNY 8, who are facing felony charges for their role in the encampments at City College last spring, part of a nationwide student movement challenging institutions to divest from Israel and oppose genocide. The eight were able to give a statement written collectively, calling on all of us to support them against this attempt to "silence voices of dissent".

🕊️ (Post text: Thank you to the filmmakers, venues, volunteers, critics, and audiences who helped make the first NYCFF such a singular undertaking. / We sent over $3000 to direct aid campaigns in Gaza and Lebanon, in addition to paying modest screening fees to our filmmakers. / “While the festival’s mission foregrounded the urgency of providing direct aid to Palestinian civilians, the programming embodied an ethos firmly rooted in transnational solidarity between workers and activists. (...] NYCFF’s adjuration of the status quo is admirably instructive for film workers both nostalgic for the communal pastime of moviegoing and determined to use cinema as a restorative practice in a fractured world.” - The Brooklyn Rail)

This past fall, while the New York Film Festival ran their campaign of artwashing at Lincoln Center, the New York Counter Film Festival ran their own program of original, thoughtful works without the stain of blood money. The 8 Ball TV team was invited along to document the opening night festivities and engage in thoughtful dialogue with the attendees and volunteers.

As @idfafestival opens its latest edition this evening, we call upon filmmakers, cultural workers and audiences participating in IDFA this year to apply collective pressure on the festival to support genuine solidarity. This means demanding that IDFA unequivocally condemn Israel’s actions as a genocide and, at a minimum, adhere to the guidelines set by @pacbi , which means rejecting the two state-funded Israeli films in this year’s Palestine pathway program. In a time where Amsterdam, the city which is home to IDFA, engages in draconian bans to silence pro-Palestinian voices and attack the right to protest, it is absolutely urgent that publics demands that cultural institutions and festivals stand up against these anti-democratic measures The full statement can also be read on IndyMedia through the link in our bio.

🏚️SATURDAY, NOV 9, 5-7PM🏡 Join JUPI NYC & cinemóvil nyc for a screening of ROMPIENDO PUERTAS, a Newsreel about the NY Squatters Movement and Operation Move In, where hundreds of Puerto Rican and Dominican families reclaimed housing left vacant by the city and where El Comite (or MINP), a militant organization that fought for socialism in the US and Puerto Rican independence, got its start. Following the screening, JUPI NYC will facilitate an educational discussion about San Juan Hill, the 1939 Housing Act, further impacts of urban renewal on the Upper West Side and Puerto Rican communities, and the current housing crisis. Earthchxrch Corner Ave C &, 36 Loisaida Ave, E 3rd St, New York, NY 10009 Suggested donation at the door (No one turned away for lack of funds) 📽️Screening 📝Political ED 📚Zines 😷Masks Required ♿️Wheelchair Accessible

❤️‍🔥𝗧𝗢𝗡𝗜𝗚𝗛𝗧❤️‍🔥 🪩𝗡𝗬𝗖𝗙𝗙 𝗖𝗟𝗢𝗦𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗦𝗢𝗖𝗜𝗔𝗟🪩 Join us as we close out the NYCFF with a night of community building, music, & film! We will kickoff the event at 7:00PM sharp with a screening of Pasolini Pa* Palestine (2005). From 8PM-10PM DJ sets by NYMPH & Doula will provide the perfect backdrop for community dialogue 🪩 There will be snacks, drinks from the bar, & goodies for the fundraiser 📽️ Thurs, Oct 10 7:00PM-10 PM Francis Kite Club Manhattan, NY $10-20 Suggested donation, NOTAFLOF All proceeds going to direct aid for Gazans.

⚒️TONIGHT, WED 10/9 @7 :30PM⚒️ Join us for SHOVEL OR SPADE, a block of previously withdrawn films and other shorts about the violence of the capitalist mode of production that ends on a tribute to an epic feat of labor carried out by young brigadiers and leftists in newly socialist Yugoslavia. The screening will be held at @spectaclenyc at 7:30pm. Limited copies of the latest New York War Crimes available. Suggested donation $10, cash only at door, no one turned away for lack of funds. All proceeds will be split 50/50 between the filmmakers and direct aid for families in Palestine and Lebanon. Posters and zines also available for purchase. Still from Nika Autor’s Newsreel 242 — Sunny Railways

❤️‍🔥TUESDAY, OCT 8TH❤️‍🔥 Join us as we commemorate 1 year since the Al-Aqsa Flood and the past year of resistance! We will be showing: EXPLORING MODES OF RESISTANCE the dove of resistance • 2024 • 63 min A wide-ranging survey of images of Palestinian resistance from the 1960s to current day. Presents the ever expanding moving image archive as a tool of organizing and reflection. The film is intended to be seen with others, and to inspire fruitful horizontal discussion. This screening will follow that intention. This screening will be held at @peoplesforumnyc in the 'Paul and Eslanda Robeson Cinema' at 7:30pm. Suggested donation: $5-20. All proceeds will go toward direct aid for Palestinians.

Announcing our Saturday 7:30 program, preceded by 4:30 at Millennium! Suggested donation $5-20, split between filmmakers and mutual aid funds in Palestine and Lebanon. DM any questions!