NYFF Live: NYFF Docs Talk
56th New York Film Festival
September 28 - October 14, 2018
The directors of some of the documentaries showing at NYFF—Alexis Bloom (Divide and Conquer), Manfred Kirchheimer (Dream of a City), James Longley (Angels Are Made of Light), Mark Bozek (The Times of Bill Cunningham), and Tom Surgal (Fire Music)—will sit with Lesli Klainberg, Film Society Executive Director and documentary filmmaker, for a discussion on the art of docs.
Film Society Executive Director Lesli Klainberg, a documentary filmmaker and producer, will again sit down this year for a conversation with the directors of a number of the documentaries at this year’s festival. Among this year’s participants are Alexis Bloom (Divide and Conquer), Manfred Kirchheimer (Dream of a City), James Longley (Angels Are Made of Light), Mark Bozek (The Times of Bill Cunningham), and Tom Surgal (Fire Music).
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