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 First program, October 1984 | |
| Location | New York City, United States |
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| Established | October 1984 |
| Founded by | Tessa Hughes-Freeland, Ela Troyano |
| Disestablished | 1988 |
New York Film Festival Downtown was a New York-based film festival founded by Tessa Hughes-Freeland and Ela Troyano in 1984.[1] With independent and "positively avante-garde" programming,[2] it came to prominence in the East Village art scene and ran for five years, ending in 1988.