Stay after the screening for the chance to hear from Executive Producer Shari Springer Berman and Director Susan Youssef. Recorded live on July 20, 2020 11:30AM EDT/ July 20, 2020 17:30 CET/ July 20, 2020 11:30PM HKT.
Shari Springer Berman is an Oscar and Emmy-nominated filmmaker. Along with her partner, Robert Pulcini, she wrote and directed American Splendor which won over 30 awards including: Grand Jury Prize, Sundance Film Festival; FIPRESCI Award, Cannes Film Festival; and Best Adapted Screenplay Nomination, Academy Awards. Cinema Verite (2011), starring Diane Lane, James Gandolfini and Tim Robbins, received nine Emmy nominations including Best Movie, Outstanding Directing and a win for Best Editing. In addition, the HBO movie received three Golden Globe, SAG nominations as well as ACE, GLAAD and Writer’s Guild Award wins.
Other films include The Nanny Diaries (Scarlett Johansson, Laura Linney and Chris Evans), The Extra Man (Kevin Kline and Paul Dano), Girl Most Likely (Kristen Wiig and Annette Benning), and Ten Thousand Saints (Ethan Hawke, Hailee Steinfeld, Asa Butterfiled). Berman and Pulcini’s award winning documentaries include Off the Menu: The Last Days of Chasen's and The Young and the Dead. Their television work includes directing an episode of the acclaimed HBO series Succession and the comedic short Le Cafe de Balzac starring Paul Giamatti for Amazon’s The New Yorker Presents. The team is currently in post production on the Netflix feature film Things Heard and Seen starring Amanda Seyfried, James Norton and F. Murray Abraham.
Richard Peña is a Professor of Film Studies at Columbia University, where he specializes in film theory and international cinema. From 1988 to 2012, he was the Program Director of the Film Society of Lincoln Center and the Director of the New York Film Festival. At the Film Society, Richard Peña organized retrospectives of many film artists, including Michelangelo Antonioni, Sacha Guitry, Abbas Kiarostami, King Hu, Robert Aldrich, Roberto Gavaldon, Ritwik Ghatak, Kira Muratova, Fei Mu, Jean Eustache, Youssef Chahine, Yasujiro Ozu, Carlos Saura and Amitabh Bachchan, as well as major film series devoted to African, Israeli, Cuban, Polish, Hungarian, Chinese, Arab, Korean, Swedish, Turkish, Taiwanese and Argentine cinema. Together with Unifrance, he created in 1995 “Rendez-Vous with French Cinema,” the leading American showcase for new French cinema. A frequent lecturer on film internationally, in 2014-2015, he was a Visiting Professor in Brazilian Studies at Princeton, and in 2015-2016 a Visiting Professor in Film Studies at Harvard. In May, 2016, he was the recipient of the “Cathedra Bergman” at the UNAM in Mexico City, where he offered a three-part lecture series “On the Margins of American Cinema,” and December, 2017, gave a course in “International Cinema After 1990 at Beijing University. He also currently hosts WNET/Channel 13’s weekly Reel 13.
Susan Youssef is the writer/director of two dramatic features, a documentary, and seven shorts that have been official selections of film festivals such as Venice, Toronto International, and Sundance, as well as have been programmed in museums including Tate Modern, New Museum, and Museum of Modern Art - New York. She is a Yale University Poynter Fellow in Journalism and Media, Fulbright Fellow, Princess Grace Award Winner, and 21st Century Fox Director Fellow. Susan has been a Guest Speaker at Johns Hopkins, Harvard, Princeton, the State Department, and many other institutions around the world. Prior to filmmaking, she was a schoolteacher and journalist in Beirut.
Stay after the screening for the chance to hear from Executive Producer Shari Springer Berman and Director Susan Youssef. Recorded live on July 20, 2020 11:30AM EDT/ July 20, 2020 17:30 CET/ July 20, 2020 11:30PM HKT.
Shari Springer Berman is an Oscar and Emmy-nominated filmmaker. Along with her partner, Robert Pulcini, she wrote and directed American Splendor which won over 30 awards including: Grand Jury Prize, Sundance Film Festival; FIPRESCI Award, Cannes Film Festival; and Best Adapted Screenplay Nomination, Academy Awards. Cinema Verite (2011), starring Diane Lane, James Gandolfini and Tim Robbins, received nine Emmy nominations including Best Movie, Outstanding Directing and a win for Best Editing. In addition, the HBO movie received three Golden Globe, SAG nominations as well as ACE, GLAAD and Writer’s Guild Award wins.
Other films include The Nanny Diaries (Scarlett Johansson, Laura Linney and Chris Evans), The Extra Man (Kevin Kline and Paul Dano), Girl Most Likely (Kristen Wiig and Annette Benning), and Ten Thousand Saints (Ethan Hawke, Hailee Steinfeld, Asa Butterfiled). Berman and Pulcini’s award winning documentaries include Off the Menu: The Last Days of Chasen's and The Young and the Dead. Their television work includes directing an episode of the acclaimed HBO series Succession and the comedic short Le Cafe de Balzac starring Paul Giamatti for Amazon’s The New Yorker Presents. The team is currently in post production on the Netflix feature film Things Heard and Seen starring Amanda Seyfried, James Norton and F. Murray Abraham.
Richard Peña is a Professor of Film Studies at Columbia University, where he specializes in film theory and international cinema. From 1988 to 2012, he was the Program Director of the Film Society of Lincoln Center and the Director of the New York Film Festival. At the Film Society, Richard Peña organized retrospectives of many film artists, including Michelangelo Antonioni, Sacha Guitry, Abbas Kiarostami, King Hu, Robert Aldrich, Roberto Gavaldon, Ritwik Ghatak, Kira Muratova, Fei Mu, Jean Eustache, Youssef Chahine, Yasujiro Ozu, Carlos Saura and Amitabh Bachchan, as well as major film series devoted to African, Israeli, Cuban, Polish, Hungarian, Chinese, Arab, Korean, Swedish, Turkish, Taiwanese and Argentine cinema. Together with Unifrance, he created in 1995 “Rendez-Vous with French Cinema,” the leading American showcase for new French cinema. A frequent lecturer on film internationally, in 2014-2015, he was a Visiting Professor in Brazilian Studies at Princeton, and in 2015-2016 a Visiting Professor in Film Studies at Harvard. In May, 2016, he was the recipient of the “Cathedra Bergman” at the UNAM in Mexico City, where he offered a three-part lecture series “On the Margins of American Cinema,” and December, 2017, gave a course in “International Cinema After 1990 at Beijing University. He also currently hosts WNET/Channel 13’s weekly Reel 13.
Susan Youssef is the writer/director of two dramatic features, a documentary, and seven shorts that have been official selections of film festivals such as Venice, Toronto International, and Sundance, as well as have been programmed in museums including Tate Modern, New Museum, and Museum of Modern Art - New York. She is a Yale University Poynter Fellow in Journalism and Media, Fulbright Fellow, Princess Grace Award Winner, and 21st Century Fox Director Fellow. Susan has been a Guest Speaker at Johns Hopkins, Harvard, Princeton, the State Department, and many other institutions around the world. Prior to filmmaking, she was a schoolteacher and journalist in Beirut.