Tag Archive: Emerging Artist

Taking Stock of TIFF

by JBFC Marketing Manager Paige Grand Pré Eight days. 22 films—four docs and 18 narratives—across four venues. 148,987 steps (at least according to my fitbit). Two boxes of blister bandaids. One unforgettable experience! This September, I was fortunate enough to accompany the programming team to TIFF, The Toronto International Film Festival, which marked the first [...]

Thursday

Oct 20

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Come Along for "The Ride" with JBFC Artists-in-Residence Allison Bonner Shillingford & J Bird Lathon

by Dennis Giza, Guest Writer Filmmakers Allison Bonner Shillingford and J Bird Lathon took full advantage of the Jacob Burns Film Center’s resources during their six-week Creative Culture residency this fall, which was organized in partnership with Black Public Media. Lathon and Shillingford worked on their film The Ride, a short, animated interpretation of a powerful [...]

Thursday

Jan 27

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Bong Joon-ho at the JBFC

by Digital Marketing Associate Paige Grand Pré Congratulations to Director Bong on making history with Parasite at the 2020 Oscars! Back in 2015, long before the success of breakout hit Parasite, Bong Joon-ho was an International Artist-in-Residence at the JBFC. During his time here, Bong lived and worked on the JBFC campus as he worked on pre-production—including finalizing the script—for [...]

Tuesday

Feb 11

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The Jacob Burns Film Center to Receive a $10,000 Grant from The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

Pleasantville, NY – May 2, 2019 — Today, The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced its 2019 FilmWatch and FilmCraft grant recipients, which included the Jacob Burns Film Center (Pleasantville, NY), a nonprofit five-screen cinema and education center and one of the most successful suburban art houses in the country. The $10,000 FilmCraft [...]

Friday

May 03

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Filmmaker and Emmy Award-Winning Cinematographer Christi Cooper Selected as First Focus on Nature Resident

Pleasantville, NY – April 18, 2019 – The Jacob Burns Film Center (JBFC), a nonprofit cultural arts center and one of the most successful suburban art houses in the country, is proud to announce—in anticipation of the 2019 Focus on Nature series—their inaugural Focus on Nature Artist-in-Residence, Christi Cooper, curated in partnership with EarthXFilm. Kicking [...]

Thursday

Apr 18

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Inside Creative Culture: Meet Sahar al-Sawaf

By Creative Culture fellow Sahar al-Sawaf My first visit to the Jacob Burns Film Center was quite a memorable one. I had just relocated to New York, and heard that a theater in Pleasantville was screening Anomalisa, a stop-motion, animated feature film and the writer/director Charlie Kaufman would be there for a Q&A. I bought [...]

Wednesday

Mar 28

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Announcing the World Premiere of "Us"

By Champ Ensminger, Summer 2015 Emerging Artist Fellow Last week, Champ Ensminger, premiered his incredible and much-anticipated music video, Us. Champ was the Spring 2015 Emerging Artist Fellow here at the JBFC. The video is currently enjoying an international release online through well-known music-magazine, The FADER. Uswas created in close collaboration with Westchester resident and musician, Zach Cooper. [...]

Thursday

Mar 03

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Congratulations Tara Clune!

By JBFC Marketing Assistant Sarah Soliman  Former Valentine and Clark Emerging Artist Fellow, Tara Clune, has been selected as a Sundance Ignite Fellow. In keeping with their commitment to emerging voices in film, this new initiative from the Sundance Institute focuses on young independent filmmakers, age 18-24. As part of her year-long fellowship, Tara will [...]

Tuesday

Jan 19

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