Founded in 2005 as a nonprofit organization, Maysles Institute is committed to using film to intervene in the lives of those excluded from the making process by providing training and apprenticeships to underprivileged individuals and by projects filming groups without a voice. This extends to the Harlem Cinematheque (343 Lenox Avenue, NYC 10027), a center for the regular screening of films by the African-American, African, Caribbean and other world communities, and their distribution to other screening sites. The governing concept throughout is that the lives of individuals can be transformed into works of art that can help us better understand one another and our shared responsibilities as global citizens. In an extraordinary innovation, it will serve as a producer for documentary films by Albert Maysles and other makers, the rights and profits of which will belong to the Maysles Institute to provide for its operating expenses and its endowment.


Address:
Maysles Institute
343 Lenox Avenue
New York, NY 10027

Phone:
212-582-6050