Q&A with Co-Director Susan Wittenberg moderated by Jewish Film Festival Curator David Schwartz

Sunday, Apr. 27 2025, 5:15

• Susan Wittenberg, alongside Carol Stein and their company Ace Pictures Inc., creates productions that focus on music, dance, arts, and culture including PBS films' Women Who Rock a co-production of the The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Nashville 2.0 about Americana music and filmed on location in Nashville and SXSW, and Hitmakers: The Changing Face of The Music Business, co-produced with ZDF Arte. Ace Pictures recently completed Two Roads, a performance documentary co-produced with the Irish Repertory Theatre in NYC that explores the rich cross-cultural influences of Irish Americans and African Americans. Brighton Beach, produced in 1980, was recently restored to 4K by IndieCollect. It has been shown at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Anthology Film Archives, the Miami Jewish Film Festival, and continues to be shown at film festivals and art house cinemas throughout the country.
• David Schwartz is a New York-based film curator and critic. He is curator-at-large for Museum of the Moving Image (MoMI), where he worked for many years as Chief Curator. In 2019, Schwartz received a Career Achievement Award from the New York Film Critics Circle for his tenure at MoMI. He writes about film for Screen Slate, Reverse Shot, MUBI Notebook, and Film Comment, edited the book David Cronenberg: Interviews, and taught film history at Purchase College and New York University. He is on the Board of Directors for The Film-makers’ Cooperative.

Tickets: $20 (members), $25 (nonmembers)

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