Question: The Film-Makers' Cooperative a.k.a. he New American Cinema Group is an artist-run, non-profit organization founded in which year, in New York City by Jonas Mekas?

Context articles: Humayun Chaudhry
Sing For Hope
Jonas Mekas
Film Culture
Association of Jewish Book Publishers
The Film-Makers' Cooperative
Vyt Bakaitis
Adolfas Mekas
Desire Machine Collective
Harry Stendhal

Humayun J. Chaudhry (born November 17, 1965) is an American physician and medical educator who is President and Chief Executive Officer of the Federation of State Medical Boards (FSMB) of the United States, a national non-profit organization founded in 1912 that represents the 70 state medical boards of the United States and its territories and which co-sponsors the United States Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE).
 From 2007 to 2009, he served as Commissioner of Health Services for Suffolk County, New York, the state's most populous county outside New York City.
 In 2016, he was listed by Modern Healthcare magazine as one of the 50 Most Influential Physician Executives and Leaders.
Sing for Hope is a non-profit organization founded by opera singers Monica Yunus and Camille Zamora.
 The two New York City based vocalists and alumnae of the Juilliard School established Sing for Hope as a resource for New York artists who want to use their art give back to their community.
Jonas Mekas (] ; born December 24, 1922) is a Lithuanian American filmmaker, poet and artist who has often been called "the godfather of American avant-garde cinema."
 His work has been exhibited in museums and festivals worldwide.
Film Culture was an American film magazine started by Adolfas Mekas and his brother Jonas Mekas in 1954.
 The headquarters was in New York City.
 Best known for exploring the avant-garde cinema in depth, it also published articles on other aspects of cinema, including Hollywood films.
Association of Jewish Book Publishers is a defunct organization founded in 1962 as a non-profit organization.
 This group promoted the sale and use of Jewish books through educational programs and activities such as exhibits, discussions, cooperative promotion and the interchange of information among members.
 The Association provided a forum to discuss the mutual interests of publishers, authors and other individuals and institutions concerned with Jewish books.
 Jewish books span a wide range of topics, including religion, history, literature, cookbooks and children's books.
 A web site still exists for the organization that lists its last members.
The Film-Makers' Cooperative a.k.a.
 The New American Cinema Group is an artist-run, non-profit organization founded in 1962 in New York City by Jonas Mekas, Shirley Clarke, Stan Brakhage, Gregory Markopoulos, Lloyd Michael Williams and other filmmakers to distribute avant-garde films.
Vyt Bakaitis (born 1940) is an American translator, editor, and poet born in Lithuania and living in New York City.
 His first collection of poetry "City Country" (1991) was followed by "Deliberate Proof" (2010).
 Thirst, the magazine he co-edited with Benjamin Sloan, lasted only a few issues, but his translations of Lithuanian poetry are significant; particularly the 20th-century anthology "Breathing Free" (2001), which he also edited.
 Three additional volumes he translated from the Lithuanian are by contemporary poets Jonas Mekas and Julius Keleras.
 He was married to the late artist Sharon Gilbert.
Adolfas Mekas (30 September 1925 – 31 May 2011) was a Lithuanian-born filmmaker, writer, director, editor, actor and educator.
 With his brother Jonas Mekas, he founded the magazine "Film Culture", as well as the Film-Makers' Cooperative and was associated with George Maciunas and the Fluxus art movement at its beginning.
 He made several short films, culminating in the feature "Hallelujah the Hills" in 1963, which was played at the Cannes Film Festival of that year and is now considered a classic of American film.
Desire Machine Collective is a group of media practitioners based in Guwahati.
 Collaborating since 2004 as Desire Machine Collective, Sonal Jain and Mriganka Madhukaillya employ film, video, sound, space, photography and objects in their installation and works.
 Their experiments with a wide range of media techniques and strategies with the aim of probing narratives and modes of representations, infused with a political character lend them a uniqueness that contributed to their growth as one of the leading artist collaboratives in India’s contemporary art scene.
 Their works have been showcased at some major international festivals and renowned museums.
 They were a part of the inaugural Indian Pavilion at the 54th International Art exhibition of the Venice Biennale and nominated for the LUMA award along with experimental cinema legends Jonas Mekas and Kenneth Anger.
 Their artworks have been exhibited at the Solomon Guggenheim Museum New York and the Deutsche Guggenheim Museum, Berlin.
 Over the years, they have created alternate spaces for art practices, ‘Periferry’ being the most interesting of them.
 It is located on a ferry, on river Brahmaputra, docked in Guwahati.
 Working with redundant spaces, that are dysfunctional, the project has activated a disused ferry and converted it into a space for research and aims to create a public space and public domain, physical as well as virtual for critical reflections.
Harry Stendhal is an American gallerist and arts organization founder.
 As an art dealer he operated the Stendhal gallery in the Soho section of New York City and then the Maya Stendhal Gallery in Chelsea section of New York City (in partnership with his sister Maya) and exhibited among other artists; the painters Ron English and Rick Prol, the Dadaist Hans Richter and the Fluxus group members Ken Friedman and Larry Miller.
 During the second incarnation of his gallery he became ensnared in a legal imbroglio with the filmmaker and visual artist Jonas Mekas.
 Therein the then octagenarian accused the gallerist of selling his artwork without his consent and or reimbursement for among other things as an avenue for Stendhal to cover his tab at Cipriani.
 The case was eventually settled.