LitFilm 2024

A BPL Film Festival About Writers

October 14 – 20, 2024

​LitFilm – BPL’s popular film festival about writers – celebrates its seventh year with seven nights of documentaries and films, highlighting some of the most influential and iconoclastic literary minds: N. Scott Momaday, Nikki Giovanni, Julia Alvarez, Norman Mailer, Mahmoud Darwish, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Louisa May Alcott and Hunter S. Thompson. Get an inside look at the private lives, artistic processes and political struggles of an array of literary luminaries.  

All screenings are free but require reservations. Times subject to change. Check back for updates. 

LitFilm: A BPL Film Festival About Writers is made possible with support from BPL's Fund for the Humanities. BPL Presents programs are made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.