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15th Anniversary Timeline

Whether you joined us way back at the beginning or are new to our community, you’ll enjoy exploring some of the people, programs, milestones, and projects that have shaped and defined the JBFC’s first decade and a half. Take a few moments to enjoy our 15th anniversary timeline, which can only begin to capture the nonstop amazements we’ve been through together. We’ve come so far, yet it feels like we’re only getting started. It’s mind-boggling to wonder what milestones and great moments the NEXT five years will hold. —Janet Maslin, President, Board of Directors (May 2016)

We’re starting you off with 2016, 2015, and 2014. Click on the years in red to see more images. Click on images to enlarge and learn more!

Oscar Isaac

Oscar Isaac standing onstage at the JBFC
Oscar Isaac standing onstage at the JBFC
Actor Oscar Isaac joined us back in 2013 for a Q&A following a screening of the film INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS.

Viewing and Doing Family Benefit

2016
2016

Screening of 475: Break the Silence for High School Students

2016
2016

Curated Series Highlights

2016
2016

Author Michael Lewis Honored at Silver Screen Circle Dinner

2016
2016

Saddle Up Saturdays with Jonathan Demme

2016
2016

Image, Sound, and Story: Created Equal Launches

2016
2016

2016 Westchester Jewish Film Festival

2016
2016

Family Saturdays @ the Lab Launches

2015
2015

An Out of This World Screening!

2015
2015
https://player.vimeo.com/video/160366482

Building on Success: Two New Theaters Open

2015
2015

Two International Fellows Welcomed

2015
2015
https://player.vimeo.com/video/160747166

Launch of REMIX

2015
2015
https://player.vimeo.com/video/160366391

Three Emerging Artist Fellows

2015
2015
https://player.vimeo.com/video/130244289

JBFC Educators Present at Turnaround Arts, a National Leadership Retreat

2015
2015

Curated Series Highlights

2015
2015

Special Guests

2015
2015
https://player.vimeo.com/video/149052331

Alex Gibney Honored at Silver Screen Circle Dinner

2015
2015

A Reimagined Gallery Space

2015
2015

Curated Series Highlights

2014
2014

Rolling Out the Red Carpet for Edie Demas

2014
2014

Caramoor Collaboration

2014
2014

New Education Website Launches

2014
2014

Boyhood’s Ellar Coltrane

2014
2014

Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey

2014
2014
https://player.vimeo.com/video/160368974

Four International Fellows Join Us in 2014

2014
2014
https://player.vimeo.com/video/160368976

Jason Reitman

2014
2014
https://player.vimeo.com/video/112200594

A Tribute to Jonathan Demme

2014
2014
https://player.vimeo.com/video/160376722

Special Guests

2014
2014
https://player.vimeo.com/video/114051978

Three Valentine and Clark Emerging Artist Fellows Welcomed

2014
2014

David Byrne, Jonathan Demme, and Stop Making Sense

2014
2014
https://player.vimeo.com/video/160368978

Help Support the JBFC

2014
2014
https://burnsfilmcenter.org/join-give/donate-now/

Curated Series Highlights

2013
2013

Bruce Dern

2013
2013

Richard Gere: Silver Screen Honoree

2013
2013

Ben Stiller and Haiti Optimiste

2013
2013

JBFC Hosts Two International Fellows

2013
2013

JBFC Receives MacArthur Foundation Grant

2013
2013

Summer Teachers Institute

2013
2013

Three Valentine and Clark Emerging Artist Fellows Welcomed

2013
2013

Billy Crystal Joins Us For An Absolutely Mahvelous Evening

2013
2013
https://player.vimeo.com/video/144532866

Curated Series Highlights

2012
2012

Kathleen Turner: “I had a ball.”

2012
2012
https://player.vimeo.com/video/144504637

Stevie Nicks in Conversation

2012
2012
https://player.vimeo.com/video/144504641

Paul Simon Kicks Off Sounds of Summer

2012
2012

Launch of “Creators’ Co-op” at the Media Arts Lab

2012
2012

First Feature Length JBFC Co-Production

2012
2012

JBFC Welcomes Three International Fellows

2012
2012
https://player.vimeo.com/video/144504639

Special Guests

2012
2012
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Sugar Man Found

2012
2012
https://player.vimeo.com/video/144504645

Curated Series Highlights

2011
2011

Jacques d’ Ambrois: Dancer and Choreographer

2011
2011
https://player.vimeo.com/video/142918295

A Tribute to Steven Spielberg

2011
2011

A Groundbreaking Woman

2011
2011
https://player.vimeo.com/video/144516397

In Person, On Stage

2011
2011

Robert Redford Honored

2011
2011
https://player.vimeo.com/video/158679832

Launch of the Burns Challenge

2011
2011

A 3D Day

2011
2011

An Unforgettable Evening of Jazz

2011
2011
https://player.vimeo.com/video/142918293

JBFC Welcomes New International Fellows

2011
2011

“Seeing Stories” Launches for Pre-K–Grade 2

2011
2011

Special Guests

2011
2011
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Curated Series Highlights

2010
2010

Special Guests 2010

2010
2010
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Media Arts Lab Receives LEED Gold Certification

2010
2010

In Memoriam

2010
2010
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Pleasantville Library Hosts JBFC Curated Collection of DVDs

2010
2010

The Alloy Orchestra performs their score to Fritz Lang’s Metropolis

2010
2010
https://player.vimeo.com/video/158679831

Special Guests 2009

2009
2009
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Classes Begin at the Media Arts Lab

2009
2009

“Friday Night Films @ the Lab” for Teens

2009
2009

Curated Series Highlights

2009
2009

“Reel Change for Nonprofits” Course Begins at the Lab

2009
2009

Filmmakers in Residence

2009
2009
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“Teaching and Technology in the Digital Age”

2009
2009

“NT LIVE, from the National Theatre, London”

2009
2009

Special Guests 2008

2008
2008
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Curated Series Highlights

2008
2008

“Digital Storytelling”

2008
2008

Judgement: Created by incarcerated youth at Westchester County Jail

2008
2008
https://player.vimeo.com/video/158679829

Werner Herzog: Encounters at the End of the World

2008
2008
https://player.vimeo.com/video/158679827

“FrameWorks: Art on Film”

2008
2008

“Jazz Sessions: The Greats on Camera”

2008
2008

Patricia Clarkson, Elegy

2008
2008
https://player.vimeo.com/video/158679826

Media Arts Lab is Complete

2008
2008
https://player.vimeo.com/video/158679830

Help Support the JBFC

2008
2008
https://burnsfilmcenter.org/join-give/donate-now/

Oscar Winning Documentaries Shown at JBFC

2007
2007

Special Guests 2007

2007
2007
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Curated Series Highlights

2007
2007

Director Susanne Bier

2007
2007

24-Hour Marathon – Human Rights

2007
2007

Purchase of 5 Grant Street

2007
2007

Joong-hoon Park Retrospective

2007
2007

“World Crew”

2007
2007
https://player.vimeo.com/video/158679825

Special Guests 2006

2006
2006
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“Celluloid Suburbia”

2006
2006

Media Arts Lab Groundbreaking

2006
2006

Curated Series Highlights

2006
2006

Summer Teachers Institute Launched

2006
2006

Kevin Smith, Clerks 2

2006
2006
https://player.vimeo.com/video/158679818

The New Haircut

2006
2006
https://player.vimeo.com/video/158679819

Woody Allen appeared for a very rare public interview

2006
2006
https://player.vimeo.com/video/158679822

UNESCO

2006
2006

Special Guests 2005

2005
2005
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Hotel Rwanda – A Powerful Evening

2005
2005

Jonathan Demme’s “Rarely Seen Cinema” Begins

2005
2005

“Dance on Camera” Welcomes Geoffrey Holder

2005
2005

Curated Series Highlights

2005
2005

Annual Series “Global Watch” and “FrameWorks: Art on Film” Begin

2005
2005

Steve Apkon Participates in 21st Century Literacy Summit

2005
2005

Ron Howard was presented with the JBFC Vision Award

2005
2005
https://player.vimeo.com/video/158679583

Bill Irwin delighted us with an homage to Buster Keaton

2005
2005
https://player.vimeo.com/video/158679585

Jerry Lewis joined us for a screening of The Bellboy

2005
2005
https://player.vimeo.com/video/158679584

Stephen Colbert, political satirist

2005
2005
https://player.vimeo.com/video/158679586

Gallery Exhibitions

2004
2004

Special Guests 2004

2004
2004
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Curated Series Highlights

2004
2004

Michael Moore Enjoys a Film

2004
2004

405 Manville Rd. Purchased for Media Arts Lab

2004
2004
https://player.vimeo.com/video/158679579

Meryl Streep: Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events

2004
2004
https://player.vimeo.com/video/158679581

Morgan Spurlock: Super Size Me

2004
2004
https://player.vimeo.com/video/158679577

“Unscripted”

2004
2004
https://player.vimeo.com/video/158679574

Stephen King Curates Halloween Film Series

2003
2003

Curated Series Highlights

2003
2003

Colin Firth & Scarlett Johansson

2003
2003
Actors Colin Firth (L) & Scarlett Johansson (R) joined us at the JBFC for a discussion of GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING in 2003.

“Cinemania”

2003
2003
https://player.vimeo.com/video/158679578

JBFC Honors Clint Eastwood

2003
2003
https://player.vimeo.com/video/158679575

“Minds in Motion”

2003
2003
https://player.vimeo.com/video/158679582

“Celebrating Women Filmmakers” Welcomes Director Susan Seidelman

2003
2003

Silver Screen Circle

2002
2002
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Outreach Program for Teenage Girls

2002
2002

Launch of Three Annual Series

2002
2002

“See Hear Feel Film”

2002
2002
https://player.vimeo.com/video/158679576

“Personal Favorites with Janet Maslin”

2002
2002

Special Guests 2002

2002
2002
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JBFC-Curated Series 2002

2002
2002

Help Support the JBFC

2002
2002
https://burnsfilmcenter.org/join-give/donate-now/

Special Guests 2001

2001
2001
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Pianist Sara Davis Buechner Accompanies Ben Hur

2001
2001

“Lights, Camera, Action” – a Day of Movie Magic for Kids

2001
2001

Rare Screening of Kieslowski’s The Decalogue

2001
2001

Grand Opening Events

2001
2001

The Jacob Burns Film Center is complete

2001
2001

Composer Stephen Trask with Hedwig and the Angry Inch

2001
2001

The Rebirth of an Historic Theater

2001
2001

Classroom to Screening Room

2001
2001
https://player.vimeo.com/video/158679570

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