FILM AT LINCOLN CENTER ANNOUNCES TALKS FOR 61st NYFF

====Free panel discussions, in-depth conversations, and filmmaker dialogues throughout the festival====

New York, NY (Sept. 21, 2023) — Film at Lincoln Center announces Talks for the 61st New York Film Festival (September 29-October 15). The NYFF61 Talks program promises a robust lineup of lively and in-depth conversations between moderators, filmmakers, and audiences. The series complements the film program and is free and open to the public. NYFF61 Talks are presented by HBO®.

The lineup includes career-spanning Deep Focus talks with Todd Haynes ( May December), who will present the U.S. premiere of his short Image Book, which explores the making of his new feature; legendary poet and activist Nikki Giovanni ( Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project), moderated by award-winning author Edwidge Danticat; Sandra Hüller (star of A natomy of a Fall and The Zone of Interest); and Catherine Breillat ( Last Summer; Abuse of Weakness, NYFF51), who returns to NYFF after a decade.

The third edition of the Amos Vogel Lecture features writer and philosopher Paul B. Preciado, whose debut film Orlando, My Political Biography is a NYFF61 Main Slate selection.

Crosscuts conversations focus on unique and inspired pairings of filmmakers and artists across NYFF sections, genres, and styles. This year’s lineup includes talks between Wang Bing (Youth (Spring) and Man in Black) and Eduardo Williams ( The Human Surge 3), who will discuss their inspirations and influences among other subjects; Sandra Adair (editor of Hit Man) and Jonathan Alberts (editor of All of Us Strangers), who will look at the craft of editing; Annie Baker ( Janet Planet) and Raven Jackson ( All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt), two artists whose first features are debuting in NYFF61; and Nancy Savoca ( Household Saints) and Joanna Arnow ( The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed), two independent New York filmmakers whose films-made three decades apart-screen, respectively, in this year’s Revivals and Currents sections.

Film Comment, FLC’s award-winning publication, will lead two special NYFF roundtables, recorded live for the Film Comment Podcast: Trust Issues, produced in collaboration with World Records, which brings together filmmakers Rosine Mbakam ( Mambar Pierrette), Frederick Wiseman ( Menus-Plaisirs les Troisgros), and Kleber Mendonça Filho ( Pictures of Ghosts) for a conversation about the slippery nature of truth in cinema; and the annual Critics’ Wrap, which enlists a group of critics in a lively wrap-up discussion with Devika Girish and Clinton Krute, co-deputy editors of Film Comment, about the NYFF61 lineup.

Cinephile Game Night returns to NYFF, hosted by Cinephile: A Card Game creator Cory Everett and Cinephile Game Night co-hosts Jordan Raup and Conor O’Donnell.

NYFF will also host IndieWire Presents: Screen Talk Live with Editor-at-Large Anne Thompson and Deputy Managing Editor Ryan Lattanzio for a special live edition of Screen Talk, the independent news site’s weekly podcast.

Talks are organized by Devika Girish and Madeline Whittle, in collaboration with Dennis Lim.

All Talks and Game Nights will be held in the Amphitheater at the Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center. Free tickets for NYFF61 Talks will be distributed on a first-come, first-served basis beginning one hour prior to each event at the box office. Tickets are limited to one per person, subject to availability. For those unable to attend, select videos from these events will be available online on the Film at Lincoln Center Podcast and Film at Lincoln Center’s YouTube channel at a later date.

Presented by Film at Lincoln Center, the New York Film Festival highlights the best in world cinema and takes place September 29-October 15, 2023. An annual bellwether of the state of cinema that has shaped film culture since 1963, the festival continues an enduring tradition of introducing audiences to bold and remarkable works from celebrated filmmakers as well as fresh new talent.

In addition to Lincoln Center venues, the New York Film Festival will again offer festival screenings in all five boroughs of New York City in partnership with Alamo Drafthouse Cinema (Staten Island), BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music) (Brooklyn), the Bronx Museum of the Arts (Bronx), Maysles Documentary Center (Harlem), and the Museum of the Moving Image (Queens). Each venue will present a selection of films throughout the festival; a complete schedule can be found here.

Originally published at https://behindtherabbitproductions.wordpress.com on September 21, 2023.