Meet the NYFF60 Team

Presented by Film at Lincoln Center, the New York Film Festival highlights the best in world cinema, with the 60th edition taking place September 30-October 16, 2022. An annual bellwether of the state of cinema that has shaped film culture since 1963, the festival continues a long-standing tradition of introducing audiences to bold and remarkable works from celebrated filmmakers as well as fresh new talent. 

NYFF60 Team

Eugene Hernandez, Executive Director of NYFF
Dennis Lim, Artistic Director of NYFF
Matt Bolish, Producer of NYFF

Main Slate

Selection committee: Dennis Lim (chair), Eugene Hernandez, Florence Almozini, K. Austin Collins, Rachel Rosen

Currents

Selection committee: Dennis Lim (chair), Florence Almozini, Aily Nash, Rachael Rakes, Tyler Wilson
Head shorts programmers: Aily Nash, Tyler Wilson
Programming assistants: Shelby Shaw, Madeline Whittle

Spotlight

Eugene Hernandez, Dennis Lim

Revivals

Florence Almozini, Dan Sullivan

Talks

Devika Girish and Madeline Whittle, in collaboration with Eugene Hernandez and Dennis Lim

NYFF Advisors

Violeta Bava, Michelle Carey, Leo Goldsmith, Gina Telaroli

NYFF Production Team

Chandra Knotts, NYFF Artist Services Manager

Madison Egan, NYFF Artist Services Coordinator

Sarah Glassberg, NYFF Artist Services Coordinator

Allison Lambdin, NYFF Industry Services Coordinator

Chandler Burns, NYFF Volunteer Manager

Camille Hermida-Fuentes, NYFF Operations Coordinator

Ivonne Towers, NYFF Production Coordinator

Ashley Veliz, NYFF Production Assistant

Joel Hoglund, NYFF Publicity Services Coordinator

Daniel Welch, NYFF Ticketing Assistant

Michael Dunn, NYFF Development Assistant

Natalie Aders, NYFF Special Events Coordinator

Kenneth Cox, NYFF Partnerships & Advertising Assistant

Erik Luers, NYFF Digital Marketing Assistant

Sultan Ali, NYFF Marketing Assistant

Arin Sang-urai, NYFF Videography Coordinator

Gavin Mevius, NYFF Video Editor

Conor O’Donnell, NYFF Podcast Producer

Albert Chow, NYFF Print Traffic Specialist

Submissions Screeners

Almudena Escobar LĂłpez
Marius Hrdy
Micah Gottlieb
Vikram Murthi
Maxwell Paparella
Mariana Sánchez Bueno
Matthew Thurber

NYFF is produced by Film at Lincoln Center. See a complete overview of the staff and board here.

About the 60th New York Film Festival Programming Team:

(Pictured above, L-R: Dennis Lim, Eugene Hernandez, Florence Almozini, K. Austin Collins, Rachel Rosen, Devika Girish, Aily Nash, Dan Sullivan, Madeline Whittle, Tyler Wilson, Violeta Bava, Michelle Carey, Leo Goldsmith, Rachael Rakes, Gina Telaroli)

  • Florence Almozini is the newly named Senior Director of Programming for Film at Lincoln Center. Previously, as Senior Programmer, she served on the committees for the New York Film Festival, New Directors/New Films, and Rendez-Vous with French Cinema, and oversaw the programming of new releases. She has organized numerous retrospectives at FLC, including Walerian Borowczyk (2015), Anna Magnani (2016), Marcello Mastroianni (2017), Jiri Trnka (2018), Luchino Visconti (2018), The Female Gaze: Contemporary Women Cinematographers (2018), Agnès Varda (2019), and Wong Kar-wai (2020). As the Director of BAMcinĂ©matek, where she worked from 1999 to 2013, she presented retrospectives of Hong Sang-soo (2003), Apichatpong Weerasethakul (2005), Manoel de Oliveira (2008), Arnaud Desplechin (2009), Nicolas Winding Refn (2009), Bong Joon-ho (2009), and Andrzej Zulawski (2012). In 2009, she launched the venue’s first ever film festival, BAMcinemaFest, where she served as Festival Director. She was part of the Selection Committee for Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight in 2022, has served on juries for the Berlinale, Mar del Plata and Tribeca Film Festivals, as well as the Cinema Tropical and IFP Gotham Awards. She was awarded the Chevalier of Arts and Letters by the French Ministry of Culture in 2013.
  • K. Austin Collins is the film critic for Rolling Stone. He was previously the film critic for Vanity Fair and The Ringer, and his other writing has appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books, Reverse Shot, and the Brooklyn Rail. He writes crosswords for The New Yorker, The New York Times, and the American Values Crossword Club. He lives in Brooklyn.
  • Devika Girish is the Co-Deputy Editor at Film Comment. Her writing also appears in The New York Times, Reverse Shot, The New York Review of Books, Criterion, Sight & Sound, The Village Voice, and other publications. She has served on the selection committees of the Berlin Critics’ Week and the Mumbai Film Festival, and on juries for CPH:DOX, Indie Memphis Film Festival, DocuDays UA International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival, and others. Devika’s work has been recognized with a 2018 National Arts and Entertainment Journalism Award and a 2019 Southern California Journalism Award, and she is a 2022 Fellow of the National Critics’ Institute at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center.
  • Eugene Hernandez is Executive Director of the New York Film Festival and Publisher of Film Comment at Film at Lincoln Center, where he serves as Senior Vice President. His duties include strategic leadership and managing emerging artist, industry, and education programs, as well as special events. He joined Film at Lincoln Center in 2010 as Director of Digital Strategy to develop digital platforms and content. In 1996, Hernandez co-founded IndieWire, which he built over 15 years as it became the leading editorial publication for independent and international films, filmmakers, industry, and audiences. He was named on Out magazine’s OUT100 list in 2015 and has served as a juror at Sundance, SXSW, and the Film Independent Spirit Awards and has worked extensively as a consultant for nonprofits including the Creative Capital Foundation, and written for major print and online publications. He is a member of the Academy Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and currently serves on the board of advisors for SXSW, SeriesFest, and Art House Convergence, and works as a programming consultant for the Key West Film Festival. 
  • Dennis Lim (Chair) is Artistic Director of the New York Film Festival. From 2013 to 2022, as Director of Programming at Film at Lincoln Center, he co-chaired the New Directors/New Films selection committee, co-founded the Art of the Real festival, and organized numerous programs, including retrospectives of Jane Campion, George Cukor, Christian Petzold, RaĂşl Ruiz, Agnès Varda, and John Waters. He was previously the film editor of The Village Voice and the editorial director of the Museum of the Moving Image, and was the programmer of the 2010 Flaherty Film Seminar. He has served on multiple festival juries, including Sundance, Cannes Critics Week, Locarno, and San Sebastián, and as an advisor for the Berlinale, the Mumbai Film Festival, and the Thessaloniki Film Festival. In 2018 he received the French Ministry of Culture’s Chevalier of the Arts and Letters. He has written for The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The New Yorker, Artforum, and Film Comment, and taught film studies at Harvard and arts criticism at NYU. His 2015 book David Lynch: The Man from Another Place has been translated into three languages. His latest book, Tale of Cinema (2022), is a monograph on the Korean filmmaker Hong Sangsoo.
  • Aily Nash is a curator and educator based in New York. She is a programmer at the New York Film Festival, serving on the selection committee for the Currents section, and is head of short films. She co-curated the Projections section of the festival from 2014–2019. She was a program advisor to the International Film Festival Rotterdam’s short film section from 2015-2022. She served as a Biennial advisor and co-curator of the film program for the 2017 Whitney Biennial and was head of programming for the 2018 Images Festival in Toronto. She has curated programs and exhibitions for MoMA PS1, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Anthology Film Archives, SAIC’s Sullivan Galleries, REDCAT, Institute of Contemporary Art (London), Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Tabakalera Centre for Contemporary Culture, Doc’s Kingdom, FACT Liverpool, Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Ghost:256, and others. In 2015, she was awarded a Curatorial Fellowship from the Andy Warhol Foundation. In 2018, she had a MOBIUS Curatorial Fellowship at the Finnish Cultural Institute New York. She currently teaches at Bard College and Bard Prison Initiative.
  • Rachael Rakes is a curator, writer, editor, film programmer, and educator. She is the Curator of Public Practice at BAK basis voor actuele kunst in Utrecht, an Editor at Large for Verso Books, and a Programmer at Large for Film at Lincoln Center, where she co-curates the annual festival Art of the Real. Recent exhibitions and programs include No Linear Fucking Time (Bak/Utrecht), Practing tactical Solidarities (BAK/Utrecht), Counter-Encounters (Centre Pompidou, Paris), DECODERS/RECORDERS: Steffani Jemison and Samson Young (De Appel/Looiersgracht 60, Amsterdam), Relational Capacities (Frame Contemporary, Helsinki), On Watching Men (SAIC, Chicago), Uncontained Energy and Contained Fear (Tabakerlara, San Sebastian), CAMP: In Cameras Res (De Appel), The Health Show II (A.I.R., NYC), In Between: Tacita Dean (Centre Pompidou, Paris). Rakes has taught at Zine Ezkola, The New School, KASK, the New Centre for Research & Practice.and Harvard University. She is the co-editor of the books Toward the not-Yet: Art as Public Practice (BAK/MIT), and Practice Space (De Appel/NAME). 
  • Rachel Rosen is a San Francisco Bay Area based independent film programmer and awards consultant. Previously, she was Director of Programming for SFFILM, presenter of the annual San Francisco International Film Festival. She has also served as Director of Programming for Film Independent and the Los Angeles Film Festival and as Associate Director of Programming for the San Francisco International Festival. She has worked in various capacities for New York’s Film Forum and TriStar Pictures and served as Directors Liaison for three editions of the New York Film Festival. She is a graduate of Stanford University’s Master of Arts program in Documentary Film.
  • Dan Sullivan is an Assistant Programmer for Film at Lincoln Center. At FLC he has organized or co-organized retrospectives of RaĂşl Ruiz, David Lynch, Jacques Rivette, Germaine Dulac, Pedro Costa, Jonas Mekas, Hong Sangsoo,  Jane Birkin, and Charlotte Gainsbourg, among others, and various film series including “Going Steadi: 40 Years of Steadicam” (2017), “Heathcliff, It’s Me: Adapting Wuthering Heights” (2017), “Make My Day: American Movies in the Age of Reagan” (2019, with J. Hoberman), and “New York, 1962-64: Underground and Experimental Cinema” (2022, with Thomas Beard). He is currently a member of the New Directors/New Films selection committee.
  • Madeline Whittle has been a member of the year-round programming team at Film at Lincoln Center since 2016. She has served on the selection committees for New Directors/New Films, Rendez-Vous with French Cinema, and Scary Movies, and co-organized retrospectives of Mike Leigh and Dario Argento (both 2022), among others, and thematic repertory series including “The Female Gaze” (2018) and “1977” (2017). Her writing on film appears regularly in Film Comment, and she has worked extensively as a freelance translator with a specialty in French film criticism. Her translation of Alain Bergala’s The Cinema Hypothesis: Teaching Cinema in the Classroom and Beyond was published by BFI/Austrian Filmmuseum in 2016.
  • Tyler Wilson is an Assistant Programmer at Film at Lincoln Center. He has played a leading role in the organization’s shorts programming since 2017.  In addition to serving on the selection committees for New Directors/New Films and the Currents section of the New York Film Festival, he is a co-programmer of FLC’s new releases and has co-organized numerous programs including International Melodrama (2017) and retrospectives of Jane Campion (2017), Jacques Tourneur (2018), AgneĚ€s Varda (2019), Wong Kar-wai (2020), Kinuyo Tanaka (2022), and Dario Argento (2022). His writing has appeared in Film Comment and The Brooklyn Rail.

The 60th New York Film Festival Advisory Team:

  • Violeta Bava worked at the Buenos Aires International Film Festival (BAFICI) for 20 years, both as a programmer and the Co-Director of BAL, a leading co-production market for Latin American films. She has worked as a film consultant and production tutor for several funds, organizations, and festivals worldwide, and played a key role in the development of initiatives to support filmmakers and producers in the Latin American region. She was Professor of Cinema Aesthetics and Ethics at Centro de InvestigaciĂłn Cinematográfica (Buenos Aires) for more than 10 years. Since 2012, she has been the Latin American Consultant for the Venice International Film Festival and the Venice Market. She is also currently part of the selection committee at Visions du RĂ©el and Head of Studies at the TorinoFilmLab’s FeatureLab. She is a founder of Ruda Cine, which has produced films by Milagros Mumenthaler, MartĂ­n Rejtman, Dominga Sotomayor, Andreas Fontana and Eduardo Williams. 
  • Michelle Carey is a Berlin-based film programmer and curator. She is a member of the selection committee for the International Film Festival Rotterdam and is a co-founder of The Red Balloon Alliance, dedicated to providing family-friendly solutions at film festivals. She was previously the artistic director of the Melbourne International Film Festival, on the selection committee for the Directors’ Fortnight and was festival reports editor at Senses of Cinema. She has also worked for the Melbourne CinĂ©mathèque, the Australian Centre for the Moving Image, and the Adelaide Film Festival. She has served as Q&A moderator and been on juries for festivals including the Berlinale Forum, Jeonju, Hong Kong, CPH:DOX and Hamptons. She is a recipient of a Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters from the French government. 
  • Leo Goldsmith is a teacher, writer, and curator based in New York. He is Visiting Assistant Professor of Culture and Media at Eugene Lang College, The New School, and has lectured on media and film at CUNY Brooklyn College, New York University, and Harvard University. His writing has appeared in 4 Columns, Artforum, Art Agenda, Cinema Scope, and The Brooklyn Rail, where he was film editor from 2011 to 2018. He is a co-author of Keywords in Subversive Film/Media Aesthetics (Wiley 2015), by Robert Stam with Richard Porton, and is currently writing a book about the filmmaker Peter Watkins (Verso Books). He has organized exhibitions and film programs with the Museum of the Moving Image, Los Angeles Filmforum, the Uppsala International Short Film Festival, Anthology Film Archives, UnionDocs, and CAC/Contemporary Art Centre (Vilnius, Lithuania). He received his PhD from the Department of Cinema Studies at NYU in 2018.
  • Gina Telaroli is a filmmaker, editor, and archivist. From 2010 to 2020 she managed the personal video archive of Martin Scorsese and is now working with The Film Foundation on their new online venture, The Film Foundation Restoration Screening Room. She recently contributed to The Criterion Collection’s releases of Robert Aldrich’s The Flight of the Phoenix (1965) and Henry King’s The Gunfighter (1950) and has a new image essay that will be featured in a new book about the work of Swiss filmmaker Peter Liechti. In the past five years, she has co-curated series devoted to the Swedish documentarian Mikael Kristersson and the poverty-row studio Republic Pictures. With her production company Duelle Films, she produces a monthly podcast as well as ISSUE, a film criticism and art publication. Her films have screened around the world and she is currently in post-production on a new feature film entitled Don’t Let It Happen to You!. She is also a manager at Anthology Film Archives.