Recent Events
Q&A with producer Andrea Garbarini and film subjects moderated by JBFC founder Stephen Apkon
Andrea Garbarini is a documentary filmmaker based in Pleasantville, NY. She began her filmmaking career as a producer on From the Ground Up with Gage and Gage Productions. The film, which explores the resilience and achievements of five 9/11 widows in the aftermath of the attacks, won multiple awards and was featured on PBS and the OWN Network. [...]
Cinema Studies Screening and Lecture with film scholar Jeff Hughes
Jeff Hughes holds multiple degrees from the Martin Scorsese Department of Cinema Studies at New York University, focusing his research on American political cinema, the movie musical and the films of Sidney Lumet. He is currently in the American Studies program at Rutgers-Newark. During his 20-year absence from academia, he authored four plays and two [...]
Q&A with filmmaker Paul Schrader and JBFC Founder Stephen Apkon
Paul Schrader is a screenwriter, director, and film critic whose past credits include Mishima (1985), Raging Bull (1980), American Gigolo (1980), Taxi Driver (1976), and more recently, Master Gardener (2022), Oh, Canada (2024), The Card Counter (2021), First Reformed (2018), Dog Eat Dog (2016), and Dying of the Light (2014). His next film The Basics [...]
Q&A with filmmaker Brydie O'Connor producer Elijah Stevens and editor Matt Hixon
Brydie O’Connor is a Kansas-born, NYC based filmmaker. Her work activates archives through queering storytelling structures within the nonfiction space. Brydie’s work has been presented at Sundance, Berlinale, BFI, Le Centre Pompidou, and The Museum of Modern Art, among other festivals and galleries worldwide. Her debut feature documentary, BARBARA FOREVER, was awarded the Jonathan Oppenheim Editing [...]
Q&A with director Orlando von Einsiedel, film subject P.K. Mahanandia, and other special guests
Orlando von Einsiedel is an Academy Award-winning director and the founder of Grain Media. His work includes Academy Award-winning short documentary The White Helmets; Academy Award-nominated feature documentary Virunga; British Independent Film Award-winning feature documentary Evelyn; Academy Award-winning Learning to Skateboard in a War Zone (If You’re a Girl), which he executive produced; EMMY nominated [...]
Extended introduction with Filmmaker and JBFC Board Member Ron Howard
Ron Howard is one of this generation’s most popular directors. From the critically acclaimed dramas Cinderella Man and Apollo 13 to the hit comedies Parenthood and Splash, he has created some of Hollywood’s most memorable films. Howard directed and produced A Beautiful Mind starring Oscar winner Russell Crowe, which earned Howard an Oscar for Best Director and also won awards for Best Picture, Best Adapted [...]
Q&A with Filmmaker and JBFC Board Member Ron Howard
Ron Howard is one of this generation’s most popular directors. From the critically acclaimed dramas Cinderella Man and Apollo 13 to the hit comedies Parenthood and Splash, he has created some of Hollywood’s most memorable films. Howard directed and produced A Beautiful Mind starring Oscar winner Russell Crowe, which earned Howard an Oscar for Best Director and also won awards for Best Picture, Best Adapted [...]
Extended introduction with Filmmaker and JBFC Board Member Ron Howard
Ron Howard is one of this generation’s most popular directors. From the critically acclaimed dramas Cinderella Man and Apollo 13 to the hit comedies Parenthood and Splash, he has created some of Hollywood’s most memorable films. Howard directed and produced A Beautiful Mind starring Oscar winner Russell Crowe, which earned Howard an Oscar for Best Director and also won awards for Best Picture, Best Adapted [...]
Q&A with Filmmaker and JBFC Board Member Ron Howard
Ron Howard is one of this generation’s most popular directors. From the critically acclaimed dramas Cinderella Man and Apollo 13 to the hit comedies Parenthood and Splash, he has created some of Hollywood’s most memorable films. Howard directed and produced A Beautiful Mind starring Oscar winner Russell Crowe, which earned Howard an Oscar for Best Director and also won awards for Best Picture, Best Adapted [...]
Q&A with filmmaker Adam Meeks and producer Sean Weiner
Adam Meeks is a Brooklyn-based filmmaker. His short film Union County (2020) premiered at the 70th Berlinale and screened at festivals worldwide. He is a 2023 Film Independent Screenwriting Lab Fellow, a 2021 Yaddo Artist-in-Residence, and a graduate of NYU Tisch. Union County (2025) is his first feature film. Sean Weiner is an Emmy-nominated producer, [...]
Q&A with filmmaker Penny Lane
Penny Lane has been making award-winning, innovative documentaries for over a decade. This includes more than eight feature films, including Happy and You Know It (HBO, 2025) Confessions of a Good Samaritan (Netflix, 2023), Listening to Kenny G (HBO, 2021) and Hail Satan? (Magnolia Pictures, 2019). A 2020 Guggenheim Fellow, Lane has received grants and [...]
Q&A with filmmaker Robb Moss
Robb Moss’ most recent film, The Bend in the River, premiered at the 2025 Telluride Film Festival. The film, the third of a trilogy, follows the lives of five friends from their twenties into the seventies, a meditation on time, friendship and the arc of lived lives. His films toggle between the topical and the [...]
Performance by the John Pizzarelli Trio
John Pizzarelli has been hailed by the Boston Globe for “reinvigorating the Great American Songbook and re-popularizing jazz.” The Toronto Star pegged him as “the genial genius of the guitar,” and the Seattle Times saluted him as “a rare entertainer of the old school.” He has recorded over 20 solo albums and has appeared on [...]
Q&A and Book Talk with writer and professor Emily Wilson
Emily Wilson is a professor of classical studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She has been named a fellow of the American Academy in Rome, a Guggenheim Fellow, and a MacArthur Fellow. In addition to Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey, she has also published translations of Sophocles, Euripides, and Seneca. She lives in Philadelphia. Her upcoming [...]
Pre-recorded Q&A with director Oriel Pe'er
Oriel Pe’er is an award-winning director, producer, cinematographer, and editor whose work centers intimate, character-driven storytelling and the lives of people navigating identity, visibility, and cultural change. He is the director and producer of A Deeper Love: The Story of Miss Peppermint, an award-winning feature documentary filmed across nearly a decade. Through long-term observational access, [...]
Q&A with actor Rebecca Hall and director Antonio Campos
Rebecca Hall is an acclaimed British-American actress, director, writer, and producer. Hall’s directorial debut, Passing, which she also wrote and produced, premiered at the 2021 Sundance Festival. With over thirty films to her credit, Hall’s notable work includes Antonio Campos’ Christine; Woody Allen’s Vicky Cristina Barcelona; Ron Howard’s Frost/Nixon; Christopher Nolan’s The Prestige; and Tom [...]
Virtual Q&A with filmmaker AB Shawky moderated by series curator Lina Matta
Abu Bakr Shawky is an Egyptian-Austrian filmmaker. He studied Political Science in Cairo and earned an MFA in Film Production from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. His debut feature Yomeddine premiered in Main Competition at Cannes and was nominated for the Palme d’Or, receiving the François Chalais Award. It was Egypt’s official submission to [...]
Virtual Q&A with filmmaker Suzzanah Mirghani moderated by series curator Lina Matta
Sudanese-Russian filmmaker Suzannah Mirghani is an Editor/Assistant Director for Publications at the Center for International and Regional Studies (CIRS), Georgetown University in Qatar. She is the first Sudanese woman to write and direct a full-length narrative feature film. Her short film Al-Sit (2020) — the proof-of-concept for Cotton Queen — is on Netflix Middle East [...]
Virtual Q&A with filmmaker Sarah Goher moderated by series curator Lina Matta
Sarah Goher is an Egyptian-American writer and director, born and raised in the South Bronx. An alumna of NYU Tisch and the Nightingale Bamford School, she worked as a producer on Mohamed Diab’s Cairo 678 (2010), Clash (2016), Amira (2021), and a producer/writer on Marvel Studios’ Moon Knight (2022) before making her directorial debut. Cairo [...]
Q&A with JBFC Artists in Residence Pisie Hochheim and Tony Oswald
Pisie Hochheim (Director, Editor) is a filmmaker and editor in Nashville, TN. She edited the Peabody and Independent Spirit Award-nominated HBO series Nuclear Family by Ry Russo-Young, which premiered at Telluride Film Festival. She has worked on projects by Lana Wilson, Liz Garbus, and Marnie Ellen Hertzler with credits across Hulu, Netflix, and HBO. Her [...]
Q&A with filmmaker Mary Harron and actor Lili Taylor
One of the most distinctive voices of the independent film movement of the last twenty-five years, Mary Harron made her debut as a feature-film writer/director in 1996 with I Shot Andy Warhol. Her films include the once notorious, now revered American Psycho starring Christian Bale in 2000, The Notorious Bettie Page in 2006, cult horror [...]
Virtual Q&A with Viggo Mortensen, moderated by Janet Maslin
We are thrilled to welcome Viggo Mortensen back to the JBFC for a Q&A discussing his screenwriting and directing debut, Falling, which he also stars in. The Q&A will be moderated by JBFC Board President Janet Maslin. Falling is available to watch as a two week exclusive in the JBFC Virtual Screening Room. Stream the film starting [...]
Q&A with actor Zachary Quinto, moderated by JBFC Board Member Dori Berinstein
Zachary Quinto attended Carnegie Mellon University School of Drama and received a BFA in Acting. After graduation, he moved to Los Angeles and appeared on numerous series, including CSI, Six Feet Under, 24, So NoTORIous, Heroes, and NOS4A2. In 2007 he was cast as Spock in the JJ Abrams-directed reboot of the Star Trek franchise, and has [...]
Q&A with director George C. Wolfe and actors Michael Potts, Colman Domingo, and Glynn Turman, moderated by Dori Berinstein
George C. Wolfe is a renowned director and playwright of theater and film, and a five-time Tony Award winner who has firmly established himself as one of America’s most important and influential cultural voices. He has directed numerous plays including Spunk, Jelly’s Last Jam, Angels in America: Millennium Approaches, Angels in America: Perestroika, Bring in ‘da Noise/Bring [...]
Q&A with Jen Chapin and Tom Chapin, moderated by Stephen Apkon
The Jacob Burns Film Center is excited to welcome filmmaker Jen Chapin and Tom Chapin for a live virtual conversation about the film Harry Chapin: When in Doubt, Do Something with Stephen Apkon. Harry Chapin: When in Doubt, Do Something is available to watch in the JBFC Virtual Screening Room until December 17. Watch the film at your convenience, [...]
Q&A with filmmaker Sam Feder, moderated by Brit Fryer
The Jacob Burns Film Center is excited to welcome filmmaker Sam Feder for a live virtual conversation with Creative Culture alum and Jonathan Demme Changemaker Board Member, Brit Fryer, about Feder’s new film Disclosure. Sam Feder has created several award-winning documentaries that center the intersections of race, class, sexuality, and conflict within the queer and trans community. Sam [...]
Q&A with filmmaker Kirsten Johnson, moderated by JBFC Senior Film Programmer Andrew Jupin
Kirsten Johnson is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and cinematographer. She is known for her camera work on several feature-length documentaries such as Citizenfour and The Oath. In 2016, she released Cameraperson, a film which chronicles her decades of work all over the world as a documentary cinematographer. Her latest film Dick Johnson is Dead premiered at the [...]
Q&A with Kate Edgar and Bill Hayes, moderated by Brian Ackerman
The Jacob Burns Film Center is excited to welcome Kate Edgar, Oliver Sacks’ longtime friend, collaborator, and editor, and Bill Hayes, writer and Oliver Sacks’ partner, for a virtual conversation with JBFC Founding Director of Film Programming Brian Ackerman. Oliver Sacks: His Own Life is part of JBFC series Inquiry: Science on Film.
Q&A with lead actress Tommye Myrick, Programmer and Executive Director of The Luminal Theater Curtis Caesar John, moderated by JBFC Programmer Saidah Russell
Tommye Myrick has spent decades telling the stories of African American women and the disenfranchised through the Arts. She established an all African American Women’s Theatre Company called Voices in the Dark where she currently serves as Artistic Director. Operating out of New Orleans, Louisiana, Voices in the Dark has produced over 60 productions, receiving [...]
Q&A filmmaker Ron Howard and moderator Dori Berinstein
Join us for an evening with filmmaker and JBFC Board Member Ron Howard in a live virtual conversation about his film Frost/Nixon (2008), moderated by JBFC Board Member Dori Berinstein. Frost/Nixon is a cinematic adaptation of the play that premiered in London in August 2006 and opened on Broadway in April 2007, featuring subject matter [...]
Virtual Q&A with filmmaker Melissa Haizlip
The Jacob Burns Film Center is excited to welcome filmmaker Melissa Haizlip for a live virtual conversation with JBFC Board Chairman Emeritus Hugh Price about Haizlip’s documentary Mr. SOUL! Melissa Haizlip is an award-winning filmmaker based in New York. Her work responds to pressing social issues at the intersection of racial justice, social justice, activism, and representation. Melissa’s feature [...]
Virtual Q&A with writer/director Antonio Campos
The Jacob Burns Film Center is excited to welcome filmmaker Antonio Campos for a live virtual conversation with JBFC Director of Programs, Media Arts Lab Sean Weiner about Campos’ new Netflix drama, The Devil All the Time. Antonio was a Creative Culture artist-in-residence during the summer of 2018 where he spent his time writing a new screenplay inspired by his [...]
Free Q&A with JBFC Board Member and Filmmaker Ron Howard and Board President Janet Maslin
The Jacob Burns is honored and excited to welcome Ron Howard for a live virtual conversation with Janet Maslin about his timely new documentary Rebuilding Paradise. The celebrated director’s latest foray into non-fiction filmmaking (after last year’s hit Pavarotti) is a deeply empathic look at the aftermath of the epic Paradise blaze that obliterated an [...]
Q&A with filmmaker/activist Astra Taylor and JBFC Programming Director Brian Ackerman
Join us on Thursday, May 28 at 7:30 as we host a conversation with filmmaker and activist Astra Taylor, moderated by Programming Director Brian Ackerman. In 2019, Astra joined us at the JBFC to talk about her film What Is Democracy? when it played in our Global Watch series. For this Q&A, the conversation will be focused [...]
Q&A w/ Programming Director Brian Ackerman & Meditation Teacher Tracy Cochran
A note from Brian Ackerman: We played this Ram Dass film to wonderful reception in what feels now like several eons ago of geologic time, sometime before the asteroid hit, but was actually just February. It was the most popular film in our annual Meditative Life series. As many of us now fear that we’re on [...]
Q&A Sarah Soliman, JBFC’s Adapted: Page to Screen series curator, Jennifer Kohn, owner of The Village Bookstore, and Heather O’Donnell, owner of Honey & Wax Booksellers
Join us for a Zoom Q&A on The Booksellers, happening Wednesday, April 29 at 7:30. The Q&A will be moderated by Sarah Soliman, JBFC’s Adapted: Page to Screen series curator and will feature Jennifer Kohn, owner of The Village Bookstore, and Heather O’Donnell, owner of Honey & Wax Booksellers! To meet your reading needs, The Village Bookstore is offering [...]
