Q&A with director Marisa Fox moderated by festival curator David Schwartz

Tuesday, Mar. 24 2026, 7:00

• Marisa Fox, A veteran print, broadcast (WNET, VH1, Fx) and digital journalist, has produced social impact campaigns for Hearst, earning American Society of Magazine Editors awards and nominations. She has written extensively on gender, genocide, sexual trauma and extremism (The Daily Beast, CNN, Ms., The New York Times, Elle, Health, The Forward and Ha’aretz, where she was a U.S. correspondent) and is a “she source” for the Women’s Media Center, started by Gloria Steinem. My Underground Mother, Fox’s directorial debut, led her to curate and unveil Holocaust memorials in Poland and Czechia, and a digital exhibit of women’s testimonies curated with USC’s Shoah Foundation.
• David Schwartz is a New York–based film curator and writer, and former Chief Curator at the Museum of the Moving Image. A recipient of the New York Film Critics Circle’s Career Achievement Award, he is currently Director of Film Programming at the Barrymore Film Center and President of The Film-makers’ Cooperative. He previously programmed the Paris Theater for Netflix and has worked with leading institutions including Film Forum, Metrograph, and the Kennedy Center. Schwartz is also the editor of David Cronenberg: Interviews and has taught film history at Purchase College and NYU.

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