Film Society of Lincoln Center Announce 4th NYFF Critics Academy Finalists
By: Caryn Robbins
The Film Society of Lincoln Center, Film Comment magazine and Indiewire announced the eight finalists for the fourth annual New York Film Festival (NYFF) Critics Academy, a workshop for aspiring film critics that takes place before and during the festival (September 25- October 11). The program is designed to nurture promising film critics and journalists as they attend and cover screenings and events at this year's festival.
For this year's NYFF, the eight chosen participants - all based in the New York area - will have the opportunity to immerse themselves in a wide variety of international cinema while dealing with the practical challenges of covering a festival at the epicenter of New York's film culture. The participants will cover the festival with reviews of films in the selection, articles on sidebar events, in-depth reflections on the various program sections, or interviews with the festival's guests. The 2015 NYFF Critics Academy will begin several days prior to the start of the festival with roundtable discussions continuing over the course of the following five days (participants will also have the option of attending press screenings earlier in the month). Participants will then work on covering the festival once it begins, with guidance from the Film Society of Lincoln Center's Deputy Director Eugene Hernandez and NYFF Critics Academy mentor Brian Brooks, Indiewire's Deputy Editor and Chief Film Critic Eric Kohn, Film Comment magazine Senior Editor Nicolas Rapold, and Film Comment Digital Editor Violet Lucca. Their coverage will be published on Indiewire's Criticwire blog and FilmComment.com. The workshop will officially conclude on October 11, the last day of the festival.ABOUT FILM SOCIETY OF LINCOLN CENTER
Founded in 1969 to celebrate American and international cinema, the Film Society of Lincoln Center works to recognize established and emerging filmmakers, support important new work, and to enhance the awareness, accessibility, and understanding of the moving image. The Film Society produces the renowned New York Film Festival, a curated selection of the year's most significant new film work, and presents or collaborates on other annual New York City festivals including Dance on Camera, Film Comment Selects, Human Rights Watch Film Festival, New Directors/New Films, New York African Film Festival, New York Asian Film Festival, New York Jewish Film Festival, Open Roads: New Italian Cinema and Rendez-Vous with French Cinema. In addition to publishing the award-winning Film Comment magazine, the Film Society recognizes an artist's unique achievement in film with the prestigious Chaplin Award, whose 2015 recipient is Robert Redford. The Film Society's state-of-the-art Walter Reade Theater and the Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center, located at Lincoln Center, provide a home for year-round programs and the New York City film community. The Film Society receives generous, year-round support from American Airlines, The New York Times, Stella Artois, HBO, The Kobal Collection, Variety, Row NYC Hotel, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the New York State Council on the Arts.
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