THE FILM SOCIETY OF LINCOLN CENTER announces
details and schedule for Free-to-the-public NYFF LIVE talks
at the 2012 NEW YORK FILM FESTIVAL

NYFF LIVE guests will include Tom Rothman, filmmakers Lee Daniels,
Barry Levinson, Cristian Mungiu, Sally Potter,
actors Gael Garcia Bernal, Greta Gerwig and more

NEW YORK, September 27, 2012 —The Film Society of Lincoln Center announced today the details and participants for the free-to-the-public NYFF LIVE series of filmmaker and film industry conversations at the Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center (144 W. 6rth Street) and the Apple Store, SoHo (103 Prince Street).

In addition to the NYFF Live talks being free and open to the public on a space available basis, select talks will be streamed LIVE at FilmLinc.com. The NYFF streaming at FilmLinc.com will begin starting with a press conference on Friday, September 28 featuring Ang Lee (LIFE OF PI). Film Society of Lincoln Center has also partnered with YouTube to stream the NYFF Live programs at http://www.youtube.com/filmlinc!

Highlights will include a conversation about the making of LIFE OF PI with Tom Rothman, as well as talks with NYFF filmmakers Lee Daniels (THE PAPERBOY), Barry Levinson (THE BAY), Cristian Mungiu (BEYOND THE HILLS), Sally Potter (GINGER AND ROSA), actors Gael Garcia Bernal (NO) and Greta Gerwig (FRANCES HA). Other events will feature panels sponsored by New York Women in Film and Television, WGA East and Sagindie, a conversation with NYFF’s Richard Peña, and David Thomson discussing and signing his new book, The Big Screen: The Story of the Movies.

Eugene Hernandez, Director of Digital Strategy, The Film Society of Lincoln Center, said, “As we celebrate our 50th Anniversary we're thrilled to open up the New York Film Festival to a wider audience with free talks at Lincoln Center and live streamed events online during the 17 days of NYFF. Special thanks to our many NYFF LIVE partners including Hollywood Reporter, Indiewire, NYWIFT, SAGIndie, WGA East and YouTube.”

NYFF LIVE Schedule:

Saturday, September 29
6:00PM: Apple Store, SoHo
Meet the Filmmaker: Barry Levinson (THE BAY).

7:00PM: Amphitheater
NYFF LIVE: 50 Years of Film Culture with the NYFF Selection Committee: Melissa Anderson, Scott Foundas, Amy Taubin, Todd McCarthy, Wendy Keys, Philip Lopate, David Ansen. (Moderated by James Schamus, CEO, Focus Features)

Sunday, September 30
7:00PM: Amphitheater
NYFF LIVE: Discussion on LIFE OF PI with Tom Rothman (Moderated by Scott Foundas, Associate Director of Programming, FSLC)

8:00PM: Amphitheater
NYFF LIVE: Meet the NYFF Filmmakers, Part 1: Dheeraj Akolkar (LIV AND INGMAR), Alan Berliner (FIRST COUSIN, ONCE REMOVED), Philippe Béziat (BECOMING TRAVIATA), Tom Donahue (CASTING BY), Michael Gochanour (CHARLIE IS MY DARLING), Jeff Kaufman (THE SAVOY KING), Antonio Mendez (HERE AND THERE).

Monday, October 1
7:00PM: Amphitheater
NYFF LIVE: A Conversation with Greta Gerwig and Mickey Sumner (FRANCES HA)

Tuesday, October 2
7:00PM: Amphitheater
New York Women in Film and Television Panel: The New York State Post Production Tax Credit: Alex Halpern (CEO and Founder, Post Factory) and Yana Collins Lehman (Managing Director, Trevanna Post). The panel will be moderated by Richard Guay.

Wednesday, October 3
7:00PM: Amphitheater
WGA East: The Play's The Thing. Lucy Alibar (BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD), Eric Bogosian (SUBURBIA, TALK RADIO) and John Patrick Shanley (DOUBT).

Thursday, October 4
7:00PM: Apple Store, SoHo
Meet the Filmmaker: Lee Daniels (THE PAPERBOY).

Tuesday, October 9
7:00PM: Amphitheater
NYFF LIVE: A Conversation with Sally Potter (GINGER AND ROSA)

8:00PM: Amphitheater
NYFF LIVE: A Conversation with Cristian Mungiu (BEYOND THE HILLS)

Wednesday, October 10
7:00PM: Amphitheater
SAGIndie: Casting & Working With Actors: A Guide for the Perplexed.
Tom Donahue, Larry Fessenden, Ry Russo-Young, Michael Sladek, Cindy Tolan.

Thursday, October 11
7:00PM: Apple Store, SoHo
Meet the Filmmaker: Pablo Larrain and Gael Garcia Bernal (NO).

7:00PM: Amphitheater
NYFF LIVE: Meet the NYFF Filmmakers, Part 2. Guests to be announced.

Friday, October 12
6:00PM: Apple Store, SoHo
Meet the Filmmaker: Roger Michell (HYDE PARK ON HUDSON).

7:00PM: Amphitheater
A Conversation and book-signing with David Thomson, author of The Big Screen: The Story of the Movies. In association with the NYFF Critics Academy.

Saturday, October 13
4:30PM: Amphitheater
NYFF LIVE: A Conversation with Richard Peña (Moderated by Lisa
Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly)

The 17-day New York Film Festival highlights the best in world cinema, featuring top films from celebrated filmmakers as well as fresh new talent. The selection committee, chaired by Peña also includes: Melissa Anderson, Contributor, Village Voice; Scott Foundas, Associate Program Director, The Film Society of Lincoln Center; Todd McCarthy, Chief Film Critic, The Hollywood Reporter; and Amy Taubin, Contributing Editor, Film Comment and Sight and Sound.

The New York Film Festival is generously sponsored by Royal Bank of Canada, American Airlines, The New York Times, Stella Artois, illy, HBO, Trump International Hotel and Tower, WABC, WNET, the National Endowment for the Arts and New York State Council on the Arts.

Film Society of Lincoln Center
Under the leadership of Rose Kuo, Executive Director, and Richard Peña, Program Director, the Film Society of Lincoln Center offers the best in international, classic and cutting-edge independent cinema. The Film Society presents two film festivals that attract global attention: the New York Film Festival, currently planning its 50th edition, and New Directors/New Films which, since its founding in 1972, has been produced in collaboration with MoMA. The Film Society also publishes the award-winning Film Comment Magazine, and for over three decades has given an annual award—now named “The Chaplin Award”—to a major figure in world cinema. Past recipients of this award include Charlie Chaplin, Alfred Hitchcock, Martin Scorsese, Meryl Streep, and Tom Hanks. The Film Society presents a year-round calendar of programming, panels, lectures, educational programs and specialty film releases at its Walter Reade Theater and the new state-of-the-art Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center.

The Film Society receives generous, year-round support from Royal Bank of Canada, American Airlines, The New York Times, Stella Artois, the National Endowment for the Arts and New York State Council on the Arts. For more information, visit www.filmlinc.com and follow #filmlinc on Twitter.

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