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The Mayor's Office of Film, Theatre & Broadcasting (MOFTB) is the oldest film commission in the United States. [1] It is New York City’s agency responsible for coordinating municipal support for film and television production, including approving film shoots and liaising with government agencies and promoting the industry.
The board was created in 1921 as the New York State Motion Picture Commission and the first film it rejected in whole was the Lon Chaney crime film The Night Rose (1921), [2] which it condemned "as highly immoral and of such character that its exhibition would not only tend to corrupt morals, but to incite crime."
New York is poised to dramatically increase its film tax incentive from $420 million a year to $700 million, as it looks to stave off competition from New Jersey and Georgia. Gov. Kathy Hochul ...
A program of educational seminars, it is designed to teach film commissioners about the management and processes of the film commission business. The event rotates among its active members, with recent locations including Jecheon (2013), New York (2014), Barcelona (2015), Atlanta (2016), and Los Angeles (2017).
The festival, which runs through Oct. 14 at venues across New York City, showcases more than 100 films from 41 countries, including prize winners from the Cannes, Venice, Berlin, Sundance, Toronto ...
Case history; Prior: 278 A.D. 253, 104 N.Y.S.2d 740 (App. Div. 1951), affirmed, 303 N.Y. 242, 101 N.E.2d 665 (1951).Holding; Provisions of the New York Education Law that allow a censor to forbid the commercial showing of any non-licensed motion picture film, or revoke or deny the license of a film deemed to be "sacrilegious", were a "restraint on freedom of speech", and thereby a violation of ...
The 2024 version of NYFF ran from Sept. 27 to Oct. 14 with thousands of cinephiles watching over 100 movies programed by the team at Film at Lincoln Center. The New York Film Festival is set apart ...
The 90th New York Film Critics Circle Awards, honoring the best in film for 2024, were announced on December 3, 2024. The group's annual awards gala will be held on January 8, 2025, at TAO Downtown in New York City.