{"id":160480,"date":"2026-03-11T16:38:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T16:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/160480\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T16:38:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T16:38:12","slug":"free-movies-and-big-plans-highlighting-nycs-creative-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/160480\/","title":{"rendered":"Free movies and big plans: Highlighting NYC\u2019s creative economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">NEW YORK (PIX11) \u2014 New York City is celebrating its independent film community with the launch of Art House Cinema Week, running March 20 to 26 at nearly 30 theaters across the city.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The initiative, supported by the Mayor\u2019s Office of Media and Entertainment (MOME), includes special programming and 5,000 free tickets to help more New Yorkers experience local cinemas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/pix11.com\/news\/local-news\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:More Local News;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;More Local News&quot;}\"> More Local News <\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Commissioner Rafael Espinal says the effort reflects a broader mission\u2014supporting the city\u2019s entire creative economy, from film and television to theater, music, and digital games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">With a renewed focus on workforce development under Deputy Mayor for Economic Justice Julie Su, MOME is also promoting \u201cMade in NY\u201d training programs that help New Yorkers break into the industry, including production assistant training for film and TV sets and a stagecraft bootcamp for theater jobs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pix11.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to PIX11.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to PIX11.&quot;}\" class=\"link \"> For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to PIX11. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK (PIX11) \u2014 New York City is celebrating its independent film community with the launch of Art&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":160481,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[66223,66062,9,56,63,65,64,66222],"class_list":["post-160480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-film-and-television","tag-mome","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-office-of-media-and-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160480\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}