Returning every fall, NYFF has been an enduring part of New York’s rich cultural and historical landscape since 1963. Produced by Film at Lincoln Center, the 63rd edition will take place from September 26 through October 13, 2025 and promises another slate of essential cinema from around the world. Meet the NYFF team below, and see the full FLC staff and board here.

Artistic Director, New York Film Festival

Managing Director, New York Film Festival

NYFF63 Programming Team

Dennis Lim (chair), Florence Almozini, Justin Chang, K. Austin Collins, and Rachel Rosen

Dennis Lim (chair), Aily Nash, Rachael Rakes, Tyler Wilson

Florence Almozini, Dan Sullivan, Gina Telaroli, in collaboration with Dennis Lim

Head shorts programmers: Aily Nash, Tyler Wilson
New York Shorts: Katie Zwick

Devika Girish, Madeline Whittle, in collaboration with Dennis Lim

Violeta Bava, Michelle Carey, Leo Goldsmith, Antoine Thirion

Adeline Monzier

Jac Renée Bruneau, Marius Hrdy, Aniko Kovecsi, Vikram Murthi, Cici Peng, Mariana Sánchez Bueno

NYFF63 STAFF

Artist Services

Lizzy Andrews
Artist Services Manager

Behnam Ardebili
Artist Services Coordinator

Sam Kleiner
Artist Services Coordinator

Skylar Platte
Artist Services Coordinator

Morgan Harris
Artist Services Associate

Laura Schaffer
Artist Services Associate

Hayley Watkins
Artist Services Associate

Lindsey Formes
20×24 Photo Assistant

Events

Farrah Crawford
Events Producer

Margo McDevitt
Patron Lounge Manager

Kelsey Kilgore
Events Assistant

Executive Office

Sydney Mortensen
Office and Front Desk Assistant

FLC Academies

Stacey Marbrey
Academies Producer

Christal Ferreira
Academies Assistant

Marketing and Communications

Shelley Farmer
Junior Publicist

Alyssa Grinder
Press and Industry Services Coordinator

Rachel Malia Newkirk
Digital Marketing Associate

David Langley
Graphic Designer

Mo Ström
Graphic Designer

Media Production

Andrew Bray, Mike Bryk, Francis Ceschin, Zhen Qin, Dmitry Shein
Videographer

Julie Cunnah, Sean DiSerio, David Godlis, Richard Jopson, Mettie Ostrowski, Colleen Sturtevant
Photographer

Gavin Mevius
Lead Editor 

Luke Hicks
Assistant Editor

Conor O’Donnell
Podcast Producer

Partnerships and Advertising

Vivian Stein
Partnerships and Advertising Associate

Livia Martinez
Account Assistant

Philanthropy

Michael Dunn
Philanthropy Ticketing Manager

Laura Luciana
Philanthropy Ticketing Coordinator

Production

Christine Holt
Alice Tully Venue Manager

Ivonne Torres
Production Manager

Zack Solomon
Alice Tully Assistant Venue Manager

Kayla Louie
Lead Production Assistant

Madison Nophsker
Production Assistant

Jada Richardson
Venue Support Assistant

Programming

Stephen J. Cappel
Print Traffic and QC Coordinator

Iris Lin
Programming Operations Coordinator

Ticketing 

Daniel Welch
Ticketing Coordinator

Theater Staff

Erni Chando
Olivera Darden
Andrew Garces
Benjamin Goff
Heather Landsman
Michael Lieberman
Tess Meersman
Dean Ridgeway

Volunteer Services

Shurize X. Richards
Volunteer Services Manager

Madi Elder
Volunteer Services Assistant

About the Programming Team

L-R: Dennis Lim, Matt Bolish, Florence Almozini, Justin Chang, K. Austin Collins, Rachel Rosen, Aily Nash, Rachael Rakes, Tyler Wilson, Dan Sullivan, Gina Telaroli, Devika Girish, Madeline Whittle, Katie Zwick, Violeta Bava, Michelle Carey, Leo Goldsmith, and Antoine Thirion

Florence Almozini is the Vice President of Programming for Film at Lincoln Center. She serves on selection committees for the New York Film Festival, New Directors/New Films, and Rendez-Vous with French Cinema; oversees all programming for FLC, including new releases, retrospectives, and educational initiatives; and manages the year-round programming team. She has organized numerous retrospectives at FLC, including recent programs on Edward Yang (2023), Denis Villeneuve (2024), and Frederick Wiseman (2025). Almozini was previously the Director of BAMcinématek, where she worked from 1999 to 2013. 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 and 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.

Matt Bolish is Deputy Director of Film at Lincoln Center and the Managing Director of the New York Film Festival. He oversees strategic planning and production for the New York Film Festival, launching the festival’s efforts to bring its programs to all five boroughs of the city. Bolish manages FLC’s festival partnerships, including annual collaborations with The Museum of Modern Art, the Jewish Museum, the New York Asian Film Foundation, and others. He is a member of the inaugural board of directors for Art House Convergence, a national coalition of independent cinemas and film exhibitors. From 2010–2019 he curated NYFF Convergence, a program focused on immersive storytelling and the intersections between technology, audiences, and creators. Prior to joining FLC, Bolish worked at a number of film festivals and arts organizations, including the American Film Institute, Outfest, and the Dallas Film Society. 

Justin Chang is a film critic for The New Yorker and NPR’s Fresh Air. He won the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism for his writing at the Los Angeles Times, where he spent eight years as a film critic; previously, he was the chief film critic at Variety. He was a member of the international competition jury at the Berlinale in 2019 and has also served as a juror for the Busan, SXSW, and Los Angeles film festivals. He serves as chair of the National Society of Film Critics and secretary of the Los Angeles Film Critics Association. He is the author of the book FilmCraft: Editing (2011) and teaches criticism at the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Journalism and Communication.

K. Austin Collins is a film critic whose writing has appeared in Rolling Stone and Vanity Fair. He is the author of forthcoming books on Frederick Wiseman and Black police officers.

Devika Girish is the Editor of Film Comment. Her writing also appears in The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, The Criterion Collection, The Nation, 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, the Locarno Film Festival, and Visions du Réel. Devika’s work has been recognized with a National Arts and Entertainment Journalism Award, a National Critics’ Institute Fellowship at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, and the inaugural Patricia Zimmerman Fellowship at the Flaherty Institute, among other honors.

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, Raúl 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, The Criterion Collection, and Film Comment, and taught at Harvard, Columbia, and 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. From 2015–2022, she was a program advisor to the International Film Festival Rotterdam’s short film section. 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 curated the Basilica Screenings series at Basilica Hudson from 2012–2016. She has curated programs and exhibitions for MoMA PS1 (New York), Brooklyn Academy of Music (New York), Anthology Film Archives (New York), SAIC’s Sullivan Galleries (Chicago), REDCAT (Los Angeles), Institute of Contemporary Art (London), Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art (Helsinki), Tabakalera Centre for Contemporary Culture (San Sebastian), Doc’s Kingdom (Portugal), FACT (Liverpool), Tokyo Photographic Art Museum (Tokyo), Ghost:2561 (Bangkok), 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 has taught at Bard College, Bard Microcollege, and Bard Prison Initiative. She currently teaches in the Department of Art, Film, and Visual Studies at Harvard University.

Rachael Rakes is a writer, curator, and film programmer. Recently, Rakes was the Artistic Director of the 12th Seoul Mediacity Biennale, 2023, THIS, TOO, IS A MAP. From 2019–2022 she was Curator of Public Practice at BAK basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht. Until 2019, she was the Head Curator and Manager of the Curatorial Programme at De Appel in Amsterdam. Rakes is an Editor at Large for Verso Books, and a Contributing Editor for INFRASONICAl. With artists Laura Huertas Millán and Onyeka Igwe, she organizes the research initiative on alternative ethnographies Counter-Encounters, which has been presented at Tate Modern, Stedelijk Museum, Centre Pompidou, and Film at Lincoln Center. Rakes has organized dozens of exhibitions and programs internationally and teaches for Zine Eskola, HKU, KASK, The New School, Harvard University, and Sandberg Instituut. She is editor of the publications Toward the Not-Yet (2022, BAK/MIT Press) and Practice Space (2020, NAME/De Appel) and frequently publishes criticism and essays on art and technology.

Rachel Rosen is a San Francisco Bay Area–based independent film programmer and consultant. She was Director of Programming for SFFILM for over a decade, overseeing curation of the annual San Francisco International Film Festival as well as year-round programs and events such as the annual Doc Stories series. She previously 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 a Programmer for Film at Lincoln Center. At FLC he has organized or co-organized retrospectives of Raúl 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 was Co-Chair of the 2025 New Directors/New Films selection committee.

Gina Telaroli is a filmmaker, writer, archivist, and cinema worker. From 2010 to 2020 she managed the personal video archive of Martin Scorsese and now works with his film preservation organization, The Film Foundation. She has 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 co-edited independent anthologies about directors Willliam A Wellman and Allan Dwan. Recently, she wrote an essay about Wellman’s Other Men’s Women (1931) for Do Not Detonate Without Presidential Approval: A Portfolio on the Subjects of Mid-century Cinema, the Broadway Stage and the American West, published by Pushkin Press, and premiered a new live projection performance with her DUELLE Films partner Carolyn Funk at the Rockaway Film Festival. Her latest feature film, In Search of Gladys Glover, premiered in 2024 in New York City with screenings at Roxy Cinema, Anthology Film Archives, and Spectacle Theater.

Madeline Whittle is a Programmer at Film at Lincoln Center. A member of the year-round programming team since 2016 and co-programmer of NYFF Talks since 2020, she has served on selection committees for New Directors/New Films, Rendez-Vous with French Cinema, and Scary Movies, and as a juror at the Brooklyn Horror Film Festival. She has co-organized retrospectives of Mike Leigh, Dario Argento, Tod Browning, and Robert Siodmak; carte blanche programs curated by Ari Aster, Joaquim Trier, and Annie Baker; and thematic repertory series including L.A. Rebellion: Then and Now (2025), Never Look Away: Serge Daney’s Radical 1970s (2024), and The Female Gaze: Contemporary Women Cinematographers (2018). Her writing on film appears regularly in Film Comment, and she has worked extensively as a freelance translator with a specialty in French film scholarship. 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 a Senior Programmer at Film at Lincoln Center. In addition to serving on the selection committees for New Directors/New Films and the Currents section of the New York Film Festival, he co-programs FLC’s new releases and has co-organized numerous programs, including International Melodrama (2017) and Mexican Popular Cinema, 1940–60s (2024), as well as retrospectives of Jane Campion (2017), Jacques Tourneur (2018), Agnès Varda (2019), Wong Kar Wai (2020), Kinuyo Tanaka (2022), Dario Argento (2022), Tod Browning (2023), and Edward Yang (2023).

Katie Zwick is Senior Coordinator of Exhibition and Programming at Film at Lincoln Center, where she programs the shorts for New Directors/New Films. She holds a Master of Arts in Moving Image Archiving and Preservation from New York University, and has worked on media preservation projects at the New York Library for the Performing Arts, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, and IndieCollect. She has contributed to the preservation of moving image materials authored by Melvin Van Peebles, Meredith Monk, Stan VanDerBeek, Gretchen Bender, and more. 

NYFF63 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 Investigación 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 Head of Studies at the TorinoFilmLab’s FeatureLab and RedSeaLodge Programs, and advisor at Visions du Réel Film Festival. She is a founder of Ruda Cine, which has produced films by Milagros Mumenthaler, Martín Rejtman, Dominga Sotomayor, Andreas Fontana, Eduardo Williams, and Nele Wohlatz.

Michelle Carey is a Berlin-based film programmer and curator. She is a member of the selection committee for the International Film Festival Rotterdam, is a co-founder of The Red Balloon Alliance, dedicated to providing family-friendly solutions at film festivals, and is on the Advisory Board for the Los Angeles Festival of Movies. She was previously the Artistic Director of the Melbourne International Film Festival and on the selection committee for the Directors’ Fortnight in Cannes. She has also worked for the Melbourne Cinémathèque, the Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Senses of Cinema and the Adelaide Film Festival. 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 Assistant Professor of Screen Studies 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 critical writing has appeared in 4 Columns, e-flux, 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). 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.

Antoine Thirion is a Paris-based writer and film programmer. He has been a member of the selection committee for Cinéma du Réel since 2018 and held similar positions at the Locarno Film Festival (2019–2021) and the Berlinale (2022–2024). He organized retrospectives of James Benning, Hong Sangsoo, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Lav Diaz, Deborah Stratman, Pedro Costa, Ben Rivers, Roger Corman, Isabelle Huppert, and Bertrand Bonello at Jeu de Paume or FID Marseille. His writing has appeared in various collective books and magazines such as Cinema Scope, Trafic, MUBI Notebook, and Cahiers du cinéma, where he was a writer from 2001 to 2009, before co-founding Independencia, a collective bringing together film criticism, publishing, distribution, and production. He occasionally collaborates with filmmakers on scripts and performances, notably How He Died Is Controversial and UNdocumenta with Raya Martin at the Asian Arts Theater in Gwangju (South Korea). He edited the monograph Homes Apichatpong Weerasethakul (2025, Éditions de l’œil).