Tag Archive: Remix

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 [...]


Spring Arrives with an Exciting Slate of Events from the JBFC

Pleasantville, NY — March 5, 2019 — The Jacob Burns Film Center (JBFC), a nonprofit cultural arts center and one of the most successful suburban film houses in the country, announced today a variety of unique and compelling film series launching or returning this spring. Many of the film screenings also feature thought-provoking and engaging [...]


Jacob Burns Film Center Welcomes Ja’Tovia Gary as Artist-in-Residence

The Jacob Burns Film Center (JBFC) announced that artist and filmmaker Ja’Tovia Gary will spend the month of January on the JBFC campus as REMIX Artist-in-Residence. JBFC will screen An Ecstatic Experience before Losing Ground, a 1982 film directed by Kathleen Collins, which inspired Ms. Gary during the making of her short. “[My] film is [...]


Why Moonlight is the Must-See Film of the Year

By Gina Duncan, JBFC director of industry engagement and special programs  I don’t know what I can say about Barry Jenkins’s Moonlight that every major publication and respected film critic hasn’t said already. To quote several sources, Moonlight is a “lyrical” “astonishing” “beautifully humane” “masterpiece” and “the reason we go to the movies[.]” (I know critics [...]


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