By Carol Tannenhauser
A series of documentary films will be shown at this year’s 20th annual Central Park Conservancy Film Festival, starting Tuesday, August 15 and running for four evenings through Friday, August 18.
Presented by National Geographic, this FREE festival will take place “on the landscape between Sheep Meadow and the 72nd Street Cross Drive,” according to the Conservancy. “There will be pre-show programming and music from 6:30 PM until the films start at dusk.” For directions and further details follow this link.
Picnics are encouraged! The schedule is as follows:
Tuesday 8/15 – “The Space Race” — Explores the experiences of the first Black astronauts through decades of archive film and interviews in a reflective illumination on the burden of breaking barriers. (Rain date for The Space Race will be August 16 in lieu of Arctic Ascent with Alex Honnold.)
Wednesday 8/16 – “Arctic Ascent with Alex Honnold” – Honold leads the first ascent of one of Earth’s tallest Artic sea cliffs at 4,000 Feet. He is the climber known for summiting El Capitan with no ropes in the documentary Free Solo.
Thursday 8/17 – “Wild Life” – A sweeping portrait of conservationists Kris and Doug Tompkins chronicling their fight to preserve one of the last truly wild places on earth.
Friday 8/18 – “We Feed People” – Renowned chef and humanitarian José Andrés works to help communities dealing with disaster by providing healthy food to those affected through his nonprofit, World Central Kitchen. In case you missed it, here’s the story of an Upper West Side chef who spent several months feeding Ukrainian refugees through WCK.
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Very helpful information, thank you, Carol!
Instead of showing movies, I wish they’d stop motorized bikes and scooters from entering the parks and enforce the rules against riding bikes on the sidewalks. Also, there are a few people who simply yell all day and threaten others, families, children, etc. After the Conservancy does that, let’s all watch a movie!!
Thanks so much for posting this link! I really miss the old/closed theaters on Broadway that used to show documentaries.
We need to get rid of the electric bikes and motorcycles in Central Park and especially the bike/ pedestrian path on the West side highway.
ENOUGH with the e-bike/scooter/all-newer-motorized-transportation whining! Advances in transportation have been happening literally since the invention of the wheel and are not going to stop. If you choose to deny that reality, that’s fine. Your opinion is also fine. But please, I beg of you, stop poisoning every WSR post with your negativity. Comment all you want on articles ACTUALLY ABOUT THAT SUBJECT. Otherwise, please stop 💩 on everything.