Our Media Center takes you inside Film at Lincoln Center with photos, videos, and podcasts from our screenings, talks, and events, plus announcements of upcoming programs and coverage of our artist and education initiatives.
ND/NF Discovery: Song Chuan’s “Huan Huan” (China)
By Michael Gibbons
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March 27, 2012
"Huan Huan's dilemma reflects some problems we all have encountered before or are contemplating about at present, because we all face the same reality."
ND/NF Discovery: Victor Ginzburg’s “Generation P” (Russia)
By Michael Gibbons
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March 27, 2012
"So there we were, 45 floors above the night Moscow, on a very windy rooftop of an unfinished skyscraper, with the an enormous light rising up to the sky with 5 guys straining the ropes, a Turkish interpreter next to me yelling on a walkie-talkie, another dolly and a film crane moving other lights, the actor slowly approaching the hallucinatory temple and the camera crane rising to a wide master shot... and it all suddenly came together, as dawn broke over Moscow."
ND/NF Discovery: Mads Matthiesen’s “Teddy Bear” (Denmark)
By Michael Gibbons
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March 27, 2012
"Every time I kind of get surprised of how much it takes to do a film. This time was no exception. But a lot of fun it was!"
Jason Cortlund Talks Saffron and Cinema: Part I
By Jonathan Robbins
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March 23, 2012
We caught up with Jason and his co-director Julia Halperin, whose film "Now, Forager" screens March 30 and April 1 in New Directors/New Films. Chefs and cinephiles alike will appreciate our conversation with this genuine, spirited duo. In the first installment, Jason talks about Lucien, the character he both wrote and played...
ND/NF Discovery: Medeni Griffith (UK)
By Michael Gibbons
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March 23, 2012
"We shot Summit in one day, but in that day we survived rattlesnakes and tarantulas, hurricanes and snowstorms. We got lost in deserts and up mountains. It was an interesting day."
ND/NF Discovery: Lee Kwang-kuk’s “Romance Joe” (South Korea)
By Michael Gibbons
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March 22, 2012
"I think it's fascinating that something that didn't exist can be born into a film. Equally so is that this film can then encounter audiences and communicate with them."
ND/NF Discovery: Clarissa Knoll’s “Street Vendor Cinema” (Brazil)
By Michael Gibbons
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March 21, 2012
"We spent 1 week on the most popular vendor street in Brazil, 25th March Street in São Paulo, selling production filmmaking of short films on demand for customers who walk by the place daily — about 450 thousand people per day."
ND/NF Discovery: Terence Nance’s “An Oversimplification of Her Beauty” (USA)
By Michael Gibbons
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March 21, 2012
"If I wasn't an artist generally I'd be a linguist, I'm obsessed with being able to understand everyone."
ND/NF Discovery: Emad Burnet and Guy Davidi’s “5 Broken Cameras” (Palestine/Israel)
By Michael Gibbons
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March 20, 2012
"It was clear the situation was going to explode. I was moving around from place to place shouting in Hebrew 'Don’t shoot! There are Israelis!' and luckily no one was shot."
ND/NF Discovery: Colin Elliott (USA)
By Michael Gibbons
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March 20, 2012
"It can be difficult and sometimes painful to have to really dig into an idea, free associate with all the elements, and see what resonates, but it’s how I find my process rewarding."