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Film Promotion
Screenings, filmmaker stories, public programs, interviews, and a cinematic platform that gives artists visibility and credibility.
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A cinematic bridge between Polish imagination and New York light.
NYAF.film is a film-art platform for Polish creators, international filmmakers, cultural partners, sponsors, and audiences who believe cinema can carry memory, beauty, identity, and truth.
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“We invite Polish creators to bring their films, their voices, their memory, and their courage to New York.”
Manifesto
We are building a cinematic house for artists who carry culture inside them.
NYAF is a nonprofit cultural platform dedicated to film, art, and the people who create meaning through image, sound, movement, and story. Founded in 2012 as Polish Filmmakers NYC by Agata Drogowska, the organization has grown into New York Artists and Filmmakers — a broader platform for Polish cinema, international artists, and cultural exchange.
The visual identity of NYAF.film should feel like entering a film studio before the first take: black space, controlled light, a focused lens, a quiet audience, and the sense that something important is about to appear on screen.
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Artistic Identity
A visual language rooted in film, photography, painting, performance, human emotion, and cultural memory.
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Polish Creators
An open invitation for Polish directors, writers, actors, producers, cinematographers, animators, and visual artists to be seen in New York.
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Festival Bridge
Cooperation with festivals, institutions, sponsors, cultural organizations, media, and international partners.
Invitation to Polish creators
To Polish filmmakers and artists: bring us the films that still live under your skin.
NYAF.film invites Polish creators — emerging and established — to present their work, share their stories, and connect with the New York film and art community. We are looking for films with soul: short films, documentaries, experimental work, animation, student films, independent cinema, and visual storytelling that carries truth, beauty, risk, or memory.
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Submit your voice
Short films, documentaries, animation, experimental cinema, and independent projects with artistic courage.
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Tell your story
Artist profiles, interviews, behind-the-scenes stories, and cultural features that make the creator visible.
Polish Days at Greenpoint Film Festival
Greenpoint becomes a screen for Polish stories, Polish artists, and Polish imagination.
Polish Days at Greenpoint Film Festival can become a focused cultural program dedicated to Polish cinema, Polish filmmakers, Polish-American audiences, and international guests. Greenpoint has a symbolic place in Polish New York — and through film, it can become a living cultural bridge again.
2025 Polish program
Polish movies in the program — August 6–10, 2025.
The program showed how Polish-language films, Polish creators, sponsors, and community partners can meet inside a New York festival environment.
Wednesday
Two Cigarettes, Freshman, Warsaw Story, Border, The Power of Resistance, Call me Lala, The Crossroads.
Two Cigarettes, Freshman, Warsaw Story, Border, The Power of Resistance, Call me Lala, The Crossroads.
Thursday
Are You There? and Ends and Beginnings — documentary and narrative voices from Polish creators.
Are You There? and Ends and Beginnings — documentary and narrative voices from Polish creators.
Sunday
Fiber — a Polish narrative short presented as part of the festival's peer-pressure program.
Fiber — a Polish narrative short presented as part of the festival's peer-pressure program.
Curatorial project
Reframing Poland: Cinema, Memory, and Power.
A premium curatorial program that presents Poland through cinema — not as a closed historical story, but as a living language for thinking about memory, freedom, responsibility, violence, identity, and moral choice. The project connects Polish classics with contemporary cinema and can become a refined cultural program for institutions, sponsors, and international audiences.
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For institutes, partners, and patrons
Each event can combine a curatorial introduction, film screening, conversation, and open cultural exchange — moving beyond academic discussion into a more cinematic public experience.
Flagship vision
New York Short Film Festival — intimate, selective, beautiful, and serious.
The festival is imagined as a curated cinematic experience, not a generic event. It should feel like a meeting of artists, patrons, critics, filmmakers, sponsors, and cultural leaders.
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Awards with prestige
Best Short Film, Best Director, Best Polish Short, Audience Award, Emerging Voice Award, and Sponsor Choice Award.
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Aesthetic curation
A festival with cinematic photography, dark elegance, red-carpet energy, and gallery-level presentation.
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Filmmaker visibility
Interviews, profiles, behind-the-scenes stories, media packages, and social content that extends beyond one festival night.
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Partner network
Connections between creators, sponsors, institutions, festivals, media, and audiences.
Press, archive & cultural proof
From consular opening nights to festival audiences — NYAF already has a living archive of cultural work.
The website shows that NYAF is not an idea on paper. It has history, events, press visibility, partners, audiences, and real presence in New York’s Polish and international film scene.
Why support NYAF
Patronage of film is patronage of memory, beauty, identity, and future voices.
Sponsorship allows NYAF to produce screenings, secure venues, support filmmakers, create festival programming, develop media campaigns, build partnerships, fund awards, and promote Polish cinema in New York.
Founding Patron
$25,000+
- Premier recognition across NYAF.film and festival materials
- VIP reception presence
- Logo on homepage, sponsor wall, and press materials
- Speaking opportunity at selected cultural event
Festival Partner
$10,000+
- Logo on website and printed festival materials
- Named support for one screening block or award
- VIP passes and reserved seating
- Social media sponsor spotlight
Cultural Supporter
$2,500+
- Website sponsor listing
- Tickets or passes for selected events
- Recognition in selected campaign
- Direct support for artists and filmmakers
Join the movement
Let us give cinema a stage worthy of its soul.
We welcome Polish creators, sponsors, filmmakers, artists, festival partners, cultural institutions, volunteers, media partners, and patrons of the arts.