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Fancy Dance

This Indigenous, women-led narrative film by first-time woman filmmaker Erica Tremblay offers a portrait of the missing and murdered Indigenous women crisis and its effects on Native women and their families. The film premiered at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival and is now streaming on Apple TV+.

NYS Multicultural Creativity Summit 2024

FLC’s Director Michelle Greenberg-Kobrin presented on fair use followed by a short Q&A at the Motion Picture Association‘s 7th Annual New York State Multiculural Creativity Summit 2024. The  entire program is available here.

The Last Blockbuster

This fun, quirky documentary tells the history of the company Blockbuster from its founding in Dallas, Texas in 1985 to its current, diminished state—with one franchised store remaining open in Bend, Oregon. The film premiered on Netflix.

Farewell Amor

Huriyyah Muhammad picked up the Producer’s Award for this powerful film about Angolan refugee Walter, who reunites with his family in New York City after an extensive exile. Our client also sold the North American film rights to IFC films.

Marisol

Currently streaming on HBO, Marisol addresses the BIPOC experience in America as the title character and her daughter try to survive in New York City.

Trans in America

This powerful story of a transgender six-year-old Texan—directed by Daresha Kyi—won an Emmy for Outstanding Short Documentary.

Boxers of Brule

Writer, producer, director Jessie Adler proved she was a triple threat at the Big Sky Festival, with her debut documentary on the Lower Brule Sioux Reservation’s girls boxing team.

Featured Events

  • Edel Rodriguez: Freedom Is A Verb

    Edel Rodriguez: Freedom Is A Verb

    The Clinic was honored to support producer/director Adrienne Hall’s documentary short Edel Rodriguez: Freedom is a Verb at DOCNYC on November 20, 2024. Look for it on your local PBS station in 2025 as part of the American Masters series.

  • Fear of Motion screening

    Fear of Motion screening

    The Filmmakers Legal Clinic was proud to help showcase director Trey Petgrave’s debut short film, Fear of Motion, on October 28th, 2024. The screening led to a robust conversation about the probation system by community members in the audience, moderated by Kings County Civil Court Judge, Marva Brown ’06.

  • Sundance<br>Institute

    Sundance
    Institute

    FLC hosted our partner the Sundance Institute for a pop-up legal clinic. Our student legal teams provided the Sundance fellows with bespoke legal advice on their most pressing questions.

  • NYU Production Lab

    NYU Production Lab

    The Filmmakers Legal Clinic offered a primer on music licensing to the NYU Production Lab. The interactive presentation demystified the process of securing rights to musical compositions and sound recordings for media makers, musicians, and filmmakers.

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UPCOMING PROGRAMS

Sundance Institute

FLC continues its partnership with Sundance Institute with events and workshops throughout the year. These are opportunities for artists to get better at their craft by both reinforcing existing skills and developing new ones.

NYU Monthly 'Lunch and Learns'

FLC and NYU Production Lab have a productive partnership, providing ongoing legal training to the filmmakers NYU supports. Upcoming legal trainings will cover music licensing in film, fair use, and other topics important to NYU filmmakers.

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