Film Comment Live: The Cinema of Experience
56th New York Film Festival
September 28 - October 14, 2018
For Film Comment’s 2018 Cinema of Experience talk, we will discuss Asian and Asian American experience on and off screen, and in film criticism.
Saturday, September 29 at 7pm at the Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center Amphitheater
At this year’s NYFF, filmmakers are rising to the challenge of representing diverse experiences at a pivotal time in our nation’s history. For our 2018 Cinema of Experience talk, we will discuss Asian and Asian American experience on and off screen, and in film criticism. Participants: Andrew Chan, web editor of the Criterion Collection and author of our September/October cover story on Burning starring Steven Yeun; Genevieve Yue, a professor of culture and media at the New School; David Ninh, director of press and publicity at Kino Lorber; and Andrew Ahn, director of Spa Night.
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