New York Film Festival Downtown

New York Film Festival Downtown
First program, October 1984
LocationNew York City, United States
EstablishedOctober 1984
Founded byTessa Hughes-Freeland, Ela Troyano
Disestablished1988

New York Film Festival Downtown was a New York-based film festival founded by Tessa Hughes-Freeland and Ela Troyano in 1984. With independent and "positively avante-garde" programming, it came to prominence in the East Village art scene and ran for five years, ending in 1988.