Recent Events
Q&A with director Peter Nelson and producer Sally Roy
Peter Nelson, the director, director of photography and co-producer of The Pollinators, is a veteran director of photography with more than 25 years’ experience. His work, known for its naturalistic and elegant style, has encompassed everything from narrative feature films and documentaries to short films and commercials. Among his many credits are the Emmy Award-winning [...]
Q&A with UNDP Equator Prize Winners
Dayana Blanco Quiroga is an Aymara Indigenous woman from Oruro, Bolivia, and the first Indigenous professional woman in her family. She co-founded the Uru Uru Team— an initiative focused on saving Uru Uru Lake from harmful pollution through Indigenous traditional knowledge. The Uru Uru Team was initiated in 2019 by Indigenous youth from the Urus [...]
Q&A and Book Signing with Author James Kaplan, Moderated by JBFC Board President Janet Maslin
James Kaplan’s essays, stories, reviews, and profiles have appeared in numerous magazines, including The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, Vanity Fair, Esquire, and New York. His novels include Pearl’s Progress and Two Guys from Verona, a New York Times Notable Book for 1998. His nonfiction works include The Airport, You Cannot Be Serious [...]
Q&A with director John Madere, editor and writer Ruth Mamaril, Rocco's parents Sara and Ben Intonato, and Nicholas Center Director Dave Kaufstein moderated by Sarah Kernion
Sara Intonato, Rocco’s mom, has established a neurodiversity consultancy to help other parents with special needs children. She offers guidance for everyday scenarios, and also advises for the longer term, from cultivating a support system within the community to advocating with institutions and legislators. Ben Intonato, Rocco’s dad, continues to take his son surfing almost [...]
Comedic Introduction by Judah Friedlander
Judah Friedlander is a unique & versatile performer that audiences from all over the world of all different backgrounds love. He has won awards and accolades as both a comedic actor & dramatic actor. He has been in hundreds of television shows and over 40 feature films. For acting roles, he has often done deep [...]
Q&A with producer Carol Baum, moderated by JBFC Board President Janet Maslin
Carol Baum has produced thirty-four movies, seventeen of them independently. Before becoming an independent producer, Baum spent ten years as co-president of Sandollar Productions, Dolly Parton and Sandy Gallin’s production company. She has produced five television movies for Hallmark and several documentaries. Her roots are in New York City, where she spent her early career [...]
Q&A with ReelAbilities' Peter Lubell
As a writer, director, and producer, Peter Lubell has worked in print, radio, and television. As a performer, Peter has appeared at the Edinburgh Fringe. He is a longtime member of the ReelAbilities Film Festival selection committee.
Comedic Introduction by Ophira Eisenberg
Ophira Eisenberg is a Canadian-born standup comedian, writer, and host. She hosted NPR’s comedy trivia show Ask Me Another for 9-years, where she interviewed and played silly games with hundreds of celebrities including Sir Patrick Stewart, Awkwafina, Rosie Perez, Yo-Yo Ma, Bob The Drag Queen, Nick Kroll, Chelsea Handler, Jim Gaffigan, Michael C. Hall, and so many others. She [...]
Q&A with director Edith Hagigi, and actors Bob Ari, Ben Stiller, Alicia Crowder, and Christine Taylor
Bob Ari, an actor, teacher, director, guitarist and songwriter, has appeared on Broadway in The Constant Wife, Bells are Ringing, Laughter on the 23rd Floor and as the stand-by for Richard Nixon in Frost/Nixon. His credits include tours of Frost/Nixon (in which he finally got to play Nixon), Guys and Dolls and West Side Story. [...]
Comedic Introduction by Amy G
Amy G is a comedian and singer who’s worked on tv, film and stages in 46 countries and 5 languages. Her most recent solo show, Revenge of the Bond Girls, will resume touring when she’s completed a contract with Cirque du Soleil, creating the comedy character for their new country music show in Nashville. Online [...]
Q&A with director Ivy Meeropol and her father, Michael Meeropol
Ivy Meeropol premiered her HBO documentary Roy Cohn: Bully, Coward, Victim at the 2019 New York Film Festival and in 2020 the film was nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Historical Documentary. She was Senior Story Producer on the CNN Films documentary The End: Inside the Last Days of the Obama White House, which premiered [...]
Book Talk Event with author Kenneth Womack
Dr. Kenneth Womack is Professor of English and Popular Music at Monmouth University in West Long Branch, NJ. He is the author or editor of more than 40 books, including Long and Winding Roads: The Evolving Artistry of the Beatles (2007), the Cambridge Companion to the Beatles (2009), The Beatles Encyclopedia: Everything Fab Four (2014), [...]
Q&A with director Stephen Gyllenhaal and Kathryn O’Neal Dunham, CEO of Philanthropy New York. Moderated by Laura Rossi, Executive Director of Westchester Community Foundation.
Stephen Gyllenhaal, as an award-winning Hollywood director, loves tackling challenging subjects through his movies, TV shows and documentaries, including Twin Peaks, Rectify, Dangerous Woman, Losing Isaiah, Paris Trout, Girl Fight, Waterland, Killing In a Small Town, Leap of Faith, Shattered Mind and In Utero.He has published a book of poetry, Claptrap, Notes from Hollywood; is writing [...]
Screening followed by class with Jeff Hughes, graduate student in the Cinema Studies department at NYU Tisch, and Hitchcock scholar Sidney Gottlieb
Sidney Gottlieb is Professor of Communication and Media Studies at Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, CT. His long-standing research and teaching interests are in literature and film studies. His publications include essays on numerous 17th-century writers, including George Herbert, John Donne, John Milton, and Andrew Marvell, and a variety of filmmakers including Orson Welles and Alfred [...]
Screening followed by class with Dr. Tanya Goldman, NYU Tisch School of the Arts graduate
Dr. Tanya Goldman is a media historian, professor, and film programmer based in Brooklyn, New York. She has given talks on film history at Doclisboa, the Museum of Modern Art, UnionDocs, Interference Archive, and many international academic conferences. Her scholarship has appeared in Cineaste, Feminist Media Histories, and Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television, among many others. She is currently [...]
Zoom Q&A with director Brenton Gieser and Sean Pica, Executive Director of Hudson Link for Higher Education in Prison
Brenton Gieser is a first-generation, biracial Korean-American film director straddling space between identities, cultures, and class. Brenton aims to craft stories that explore a nuanced yet grounded humanity through larger themes of inequity, healing, and the complexities of self. His first feature documentary, The 50, tells the story of 50 men who became the first [...]
Book Talk Event with author Odie Henderson
Odie Henderson has been film critic for the Boston Globe since 2022. He is a member of the National Society of Film Critics whose work has appeared in The Criterion Collection, Slate, The Village Voice, Cineaste Magazine, Slant Magazine and other outlets. Prior to the Globe, he spent 11 years at RogerEbert.com as a regular [...]
Screening followed by class with Jeff Hughes, NYU Tisch School of the Arts graduate student
Jeff Hughes is a graduate student in the Cinema Studies department at New York University, returning to academia after a twenty-year absence. In that time he authored four plays, two musicals, and founded Boardwalk Theatre Company, an organization dedicated to after-school education in underserved communities, such as Asbury Park, NJ. He was the recipient of the [...]
Q&A with actor, director, and writer Tim Robbins and President of Woody Guthrie Publications Inc, Nora Guthrie
Tim Robbins has made his mark as an actor, director and producer, often to critical acclaim. Among the films he has been associated with are Mystic River (for which he won an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor); Dead Man Walking (which garnered him an Oscar nomination for Best Director); [...]
Pre-Recorded Q&A with director Ron Frank, moderated by Bruni Burres
Ron Frank directed and edited Remembering Gene Wilder, which premiered at the Saban Theater in Beverly Hills and won the Best Picture Award at the Los Angeles Jewish Film Festival. It is slated for a nationwide release later this year. In the documentary realm, Ron produced and edited MLK: The Assassination Tapes, earning a Peabody Award. His work [...]
Dessert Reception w/ Photo Booth
After the 7pm screening of It Happened One Night, join us upstairs for a dessert reception and stop by Analog on Hudson’s Photo Booth for a fun portrait. Analog on Hudson is a Westchester-based photography studio specializing in unique film photographic experiences. Their Polaroid photo booth will produce one-of-a-kind portraits using equipment and processes that [...]
Q&A with Director Alex Gibney, moderated by JBFC Board President Janet Maslin
Director Alex Gibney, called “the most important documentarian of our time” by Esquire Magazine, has a signature cinematic style that lends itself to penetrating, gripping, and deeply insightful documentaries. His work has been the recipient of an Academy Award, multiple Emmy Awards, a Grammy Award, several Peabody Awards, the DuPont-Columbia Award, The Independent Spirit Award, [...]
Screening followed by class with Dr. Sheril Antonio, NYU Tisch School of the Arts Professor
Dr. Sheril Antonio is Associate Arts Professor in the Department of Art and Public Policy, the Senior Associate Dean for Strategic Initiatives and the recipient of a 2020 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Faculty Award. Her courses include: Anatomy of Difference: The Other in Film, The World Through Art, Language of Film, and Issues in [...]
Book Talk Event with author Dave Karger, moderated by JBFC Board President Janet Maslin
Dave Karger is an award-winning TV host, interviewer, journalist, and film expert. He is a host on Turner Classic Movies and has been the Oscars expert on NBC’s TODAY since 2000. He also spent over 15 years writing about the Oscars for Entertainment Weekly, has cohosted ABC’s Live from the Red Carpet pre-show, and served as the Academy’s official [...]
Q&A with Laura Newman and Margarita Zambrano of Neighbors Link
Laura Newman – Deputy Director, Neighbors Link. As a corporate drop-out, Laura found her calling in the nonprofit sector in Westchester County more than 20 years ago. Currently the Deputy Director at Neighbors Link, Laura held fundraising positions at Manhattanville College, Westchester Jewish Community Services, and The Guidance Center. Laura also had previous service at [...]
Pre-Recorded Q&A with filmmaker Andrew Haigh and actors Andrew Scott & Jamie Bell, moderated by JBFC Board President Janet Maslin
Pre-Recorded at the Jacob Burns Film Center Andrew Haigh is an award-winning British writer director, whose feature films include A24’s Lean on Pete (2017), IFC’s Sundance Selects’ 45 Years (2015) and breakout hit, Weekend (2011). Haigh served as an executive producer as well as the lead writer-director on the HBO show Looking (2014-2016), starring Jonathan [...]
*SOLD OUT* Q&A with actor Peter Sarsgaard, moderated by Sheila O'Malley
Peter Sarsgaard recently received the prestigious Volpi Cup for Best Actor at the Venice Film Festival for his performance in Memory. He is known for his roles in The Man in the Iron Mask (1998), Boys Don’t Cry (1999), The Center of the World, Empire (2002), K-19: The Widowmaker (2002), Green Lantern (2011), Lovelace (2013), [...]
Q&A with directors Joe Brewster and Michèle Stephenson moderated by REMIX Curator Tayler Montague
Joe Brewster is a Harvard trained psychiatrist who uses his training as the foundation in approaching the social issues he tackles as an artist and filmmaker. Brewster wrote and directed his first film, The Keeper (1995), after a two year-long stint as a prison psychiatrist at the notorious Brooklyn House of Detention. The Keeper was [...]
An Evening with Illeana Douglas, moderated by JBFC Board President Janet Maslin
Illeana Douglas is an Emmy-nominated actress, writer, producer, and director. She is known for playing fearless and outspoken characters in films like Goodfellas, Cape Fear, To Die For, Grace of My Heart, Picture Perfect, Stir of Echoes, and Ghost World, and on TV in The Larry Sanders Show, Action, Six Feet Under, Entourage, Welcome to [...]
Q&A with author Sam Wasson, moderated by JBFC Board President Janet Maslin
Sam Wasson is the author of six previous books on Hollywood including the New York Times bestsellers Fifth Avenue, Five A.M.: Audrey Hepburn, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, and the Dawn of the Modern American Woman and The Big Goodbye: Chinatown and the Last Days of Hollywood, and Fosse, the basis for the limited series Fosse/Verdon. With Jeanine [...]
Q&A with director David Petersen, Artistic Director of New York Theatre Ballet Steven Melendez, and Sharia Blockwood
David Petersen’s films have been exhibited at numerous museums and festivals and are in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the National Gallery of Art and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. His documentary Fine Food, Fine Pastries, Open 6 to 9 was nominated for an Academy Award and his [...]
Q&A with producer Fred Berner
Fred Berner is a producer and director. He has worked in feature films, television, and theater. Berner has produced a wide array of award-winning feature films and television movies, and produced and directed hundreds of hours of series television. Over a decades-long career, he has worked with virtually every major studio, network, and streamer. Since [...]
Q&A with producer Christine Vachon
Christine Vachon is an Independent Spirit Award and Gotham Award winner who co-founded Killer Films with partner Pamela Koffler in 1995. Over two decades, they have produced more than 100 films, including some of the most celebrated and important American independent features: Kids, I Shot Andy Warhol, Happiness, Boys Don’t Cry, Hedwig and the Angry [...]
Q&A with filmmaker Andrew Haigh and actors Andrew Scott & Jamie Bell, moderated by JBFC Board President Janet Maslin
Andrew Haigh is an award-winning British writer director, whose feature films include A24’s Lean on Pete (2017), IFC’s Sundance Selects’ 45 Years (2015) and breakout hit, Weekend (2011). Haigh served as an executive producer as well as the lead writer-director on the HBO show Looking (2014-2016), starring Jonathan Groff and Murray Bartlett. His most recent [...]
Q&A with author Noah Gittell, moderated by JBFC's Paige Grand Pre
Noah Gittell is a culture critic who has written for publications including The Atlantic, The Ringer, GQ, Esquire, The Guardian, and the Los Angeles Review of Books. He is a regular film critic for the Washington City Paper and a frequent contributor to BBC. He is also a mainstay at Smithsonian Associates, where he lectures several times a year on various film topics.
Q&A with director and JBFC Artist in Residence Santiago Giralt, moderated by JBFC Senior Programmer Monica Castillo
Santiago Giralt is a prolific, multidisciplinary artist: a novelist, filmmaker, screenwriter, playwright, stage director, actor, and producer. His diverse body of work deals with LGTBQ themes, women’s rights, the construction of family and memory. As a filmmaker, Giralt has written and directed more than a dozen films, screening at international film festivals and streaming across [...]
Film with reception
After the film, join us upstairs for a dessert reception and stop by Analog on Hudson’s Photo Booth for a fun portrait. Analog on Hudson is a Westchester-based photography studio specializing in unique film photographic experiences. Their Polaroid photo booth will produce one-of-a-kind portraits using equipment and processes that date back to the origins of photography. [...]
