Havana Film Festival New York

[5] It ran April 16–23, 2001 and featured over 60 films from Cuba, Spain, Mexico, Colombia, Bolivia, Ecuador, Uruguay, Puerto Rico, Nicaragua, Argentina, Peru, Chile, Venezuela, Brazil and Panama.

[10] Approximately 8,000 people attended the 2001 HFFNY, according to the festival's co-director and programmer Pedro Zurita, in a 2002 New York Times interview.

Special events included a tribute to Cuban filmmaker Julio García Espinosa and the presentation of Rogelio París' 1964 musical documentary Nosotros la música.

HFFNY 2005 free panels and events included: A Conversation with Jacobo Morales, Cuban Cinema Classics: Revolutionary Documentaries, and New Languages for Latin American Cinema- a roundtable discussion with filmmakers Miguel Coyula, Luis Ospina, Sergio Wolf, Sinnel Sandoval, Alejandro Fernandez, Patricia Riggen, Mercedes Jimenez, Luis Orjuela, Sandra Bilicich, Luciana Tomasi, Elias Jimenez, Pedro Diaz, Jacobo Morales, Alejandro Chomski, Fernando Pérez and Rigoberto Lopez.

Special programs included a tribute to the 20th anniversary of EICTV (Escuela Internacional de Cine y TV, San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba) presented by festival guest and EICTV co-founder Fernando Birri, and the children's program Latin American Films for Children / Animation 4 Kids.

[18] The eighth HFFNY ran April 13-19, 2007 at the Quad Cinema, with free events and screenings at NYU, the Museum of the Moving Image, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and included a tribute to Cuban actor Jorge Perugorría, a showcase of short films by NY-based filmmakers called A Small Lens on What's to Come and its children's program Latin American Films for Children.

a selection of four shorts by young filmmakers from Spain, Dominican Republic and the U.S.[21] It officially opened at the New York DGA Theater on April 16 and continued its main slate of screenings at the Quad Cinema.

Retrospectives included The Urgent Cinema of Santiago Alvarez, Stranger Than Fiction: A Tribute to Luis Ospina, and Remembering Humberto Solás, 1941-2008.

Among the free filmmaker panels and lectures were the programs Cinema of Puerto Rico: Challenges and Implications of a Rising Cinema featuring filmmakers Jacobo Morales, Lilian Rosado, Pedro Perez Rosado and Juanma Fernandez, and New Views (Nuevas Miradas) a presentation of award-winning films from Cuba's EICTV followed by a conversation between EICTV director Tanya Valette, professor and filmmaker Russell Porter, and Film London Chairman Sandy Lieberson, on the school and its students new visions for Latin American Cinema.