Bronx World Film, Incorporated is duly registered with the New York Department of State Division of Corporations and State Records as a not-for-profit corporation under Section 402 of the Not-For-Profit Corporation Law effective November 9, 2011. It is exclusively for charitable, religious, educational, cultural and scientific purposes, a pioneering entity in New York City that works with art house cinema as an art form with untapped potential integral human development. It has as part of its mandate a commitment to the budding Central American film movement, and has created a unique vehicle, not only for film from the region, but also for its various cultural expressions along with films from all over the world.
Bronx World Film, Incorporated is a sponsored artist with The Performance Zone Inc. (dba The Field), a not-for-profit, tax-exempt, 501(c)(3) organization serving the performing arts community. Contributions to The Field earmarked for “Bronx World Film, Incorporated” are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law. For more information about The Field, or for our national charities registration, contact: The Field, 75 Maiden Lane, Suite 906 New York, NY 10038, phone: 212-691-6969. A copy of our latest financial report may be obtained from The Field or from the Office of Attorney General, Charities Bureau, 120 Broadway, New York, NY 10271.
Walter Krochmal
Founder and Executive Director
A New York City-based actor of stage and screen, Walter Krochmal has credits that range from Edinburgh Fringe to El Chamizal Siglo de Oro Festival, SUNY Purchase, the National Theater of Honduras, Canada and Mexico. His film work has taken him to Germany and Festival de Cannes. His one-man show Deadly Transgressions won the Franklin Furnace Performance Art Award. He produces original performances and has narrated over 250 audiobooks in all genres. As simultaneous interpreter he has voiced into Spanish for Pope Francis, the Oscars, Billboard Music Awards, HBO Sports, CNN, ABC and major news networks. A lifelong Central Americanist, in 2011 he founded Bronx World Film, Incorporated, a not-for-profit dedicated to arthouse film for integral human development. In 2016 he founded <San Pedro Sula>[Reset], a not-for-profit arts incubator based in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, which builds new avenues for integral human development and security through film, theater and the arts with particular attention to youth, underserved populations and diversity. <San Pedro Sula>[Reset] is the counterpart organization for Bronx World Film in Honduras. Walter Krochmal has been cited by former Bronx Borough President Adolfo Carrión for his contributions to the arts in his borough. He is also a literary translator, writer, expert witness, radio producer, civic activist, photographer and long-distance cyclist. In the non-profit world, he served as Executive Director of the Federation of Honduran Organizations in New York between 1994-1996.
Julie Ortiz
- Associate Director
Julie C. Ortiz, born and raised in The Bronx, holds a B.A. in Theatre and Dance from Lehman College and is also a self-taught painter, graphic designer and illustrator. She has been with Bronx World Film since the summer of 2017, when the organization launched the Summer Cycle in parks and public spaces of The Bronx. Since then Julie has worked closely with the Executive Director in a range of creative, programming, marketing and administrative areas, while overseeing the design and printing of all promotional materials. She began creating art in 2005, and had her first exhibit in Lizzy Alejandro’s “Fantasies” at Lehman College. In 2012 she had her first solo silent auction art gallery, “Spiritual Journey,” with Photoshopped works portraying her transition to a more enlightened life, at Covo Trattoria on West 135th Street (NYC). She began painting in January 2015 and has shown at the PopUp Gallery series in 2015, Pancakes and Booze 2015 and 2016, and in several “Love it or Hate it” gallery series at “The Love Craft” and “The Skinny,” all in NYC. In October of 2016, she had another solo exhibit titled “A Glimpse Into My World” at the Stanton Street Yoga Studio in Manhattan’s Lower East Side. Julie’s artwork can be found in her online gallery, The Realm of JDF, and you can also follow her @Julzdafoolz on Instagram.
Ching Wen Tsai
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Creative Consultant
Ching Wen Tsai is an interdisciplinary artist whose work seeks to create greater awareness of the mystery of the spiritual world. She works primarily in mixed-media installations and sculpture voice. Her chosen medium and core values come from constant relocation both in her native land and internationally. She holds a BFA in interdisciplinary sculpture from Maryland Institute College of Art, as well as certificates in advertising design from Taiwan and western painting from Singapore. She has studied on scholarship in Europe and South Africa, and exhibited in Taiwan, Singapore, Japan, France, U.K, and the U.S.A. She recently won an award from the Modern Japan Art Society. Her design work won the permanent installation of Tracing Memories on the Downtown Line - Bencoolen Station from Land Transport Authority Singapore in 2011. Ching Wen currently resides in her native Taiwan, after completing a residency with Bronx World Film under an O-1 Extraordinary Ability Artist visa.
Late spring of 2009 finds me, of all places, at Festival de Cannes Short Film Corner (in the basement!) for the premiere of Suzanne Sitelman’s Norman Normal: An American Metamorphosis, in which I play a small role. France has never interested me, much less Cannes for my associations of it with celebrity worship. When a film you’re in screens at the Festival, however, an actor’s reflex takes over, so… I cross the pond!