You’re Invited: Pedro Almodovar, Willem Dafoe, John Landis & More Talking at NYFF
Connect with filmmakers at the 49th New York Film Festival by checking out the NYFF Forums, a series of free conversations and panels with participants from this year’s event.
indieWIRE will be hosting a slew, including chats with Pedro Almodovar (“The Skin I Live In”), directors Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne (“The Kid With a Bike”), Antonio Campos, Sean Durkin, Josh Mond of Borderline Films and more.
Below is the schedule of remaining free conversations etc. courtesy of NYFF:
WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 5
5:00pm indieWIRE Meets: Borderline Films: Antonio Campos, Sean Durkin, Josh Mond
Moderator: Eric Kohn, indieWIRE
Location: Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center Amphitheater (144 W. 65th St.)
6:00pm indieWIRE Meets: Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne, directors of THE KID WITH A BIKE
Moderator: Eric Kohn, indieWIRE
Location: Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center Amphitheater (144 W. 65th St.)
7:00pm The Writers Guild East presents: Writing New York, Part II Supporting Character: NYC
Participants: Shari Springer Berman (THE EXTRA MAN, THE NANNY DIARIES); John Hamburg (ALONG CAME POLLY, ZOOLANDER); Mark Heyman (BLACK SWAN); Kevin Wade (MAID IN MANHATTEN, WORKING GIRL).
Moderator: Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly
Location: Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center Amphitheater (144 W. 65th St.)
THURSDAY OCTOBER 6
7:00pm New York Women in Film and Television presents: Avant Garde influences Mainstream Movies!
For generations experimental filmmakers have been developing new cinematic techniques that have redefined cinema. This panel of filmmakers, curators and educators looks at how the experiments and ground-breaking new filmmaking by the avant garde have influenced and been adopted by mainstream cinema.
Participants: Artist Ina Archer, Independent Media Artist; filmmaker Sara Driver (YOU ARE NOT I); producer Roberta Friedman; curator Jon Gartenberg; and MM Serra, Executive Director, Filmmakers Coop.
Moderator: Drake Stutesman
Location: Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center Amphitheater (144 W. 65th St.)
FRIDAY OCTOBER 7
7:00pm Willem Dafoe, actor, 4:44 THE LAST DAY ON EARTH
Location: Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center Amphitheater (144 W. 65th St.)
SATURDAY OCTOBER 8
4:00pm Nuri Bilge Ceylan, director, ONCE UPON A TIME IN ANATOLYA
Location: Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center Studio (144 W. 65th St.)
SATURDAY OCTOBER 9
1:00pm Bela Tarr, director, THE TURIN HORSE
Location: Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center Studio (144 W. 65th St.)
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 11
7:00pm SAGIndie presents: To Union or Not to Union: Casting & Working with Actors in Low Budget Indies
Participants: Famke Janssen (X-MEN, GOLDENEYE), Bruce Weiss (INTERVIEW, SIMPLE MEN), Jay Van Hoy (BEGINNERS, OLD JOY), Paul Schnee (WINTER’S BONE, HIGHER GROUND), Mary Clay Boland (WENDIGO, THE BEST THIEF)
Moderator: Michael Sladek (SAGIndie NYC, CON ARTIST, DEVILS ARE DREAMING)
Location: Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center Amphitheater (144 W. 65th St.)
WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 12
7:00pm The Producers Guild of America East presents: Women Produce Well Developed Films
Drawing parallels between the trailblazing women of early cinema and today’s leading women producers, this program will focus on how a producer develops a film including how producers find material and the considerations that are made to transform that material into a film. Clips from contemporary films produced by our panelists as well as clips from June Mathis’ 1921 film Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse will serve as case studies. Panelists will discuss the development process then and now and share back stories to provide insights into the multi-faceted role of the producer.
Participants: Producer and author Jane Startz, the co-founder of the international media company Scholastic Productions Inc. (TUCK EVERLASTING, ELLA ENCHANTED, THE MIGHTY); Producer Amy Robinson (AFTER HOURS, RUNNING ON EMPTY, FOR LOVE OF THE GAME, JULIE & JULIA); Jane Gaines, Professor of Film, Columbia University.
Moderated by Julie Buck.
Location: Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center Amphitheater (144 W. 65th St.)
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 14
5:00pm indieWIRE Meets: Pedro Almodovar, director of THE SKIN I LIVE IN
Moderator: Richard Peña, Film Society of Lincoln Center
Location: Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center Amphitheater (144 W. 65th St.)
7:00pm John Landis Conversation + book signing, “Monsters In The Movies” followed by a screening.
Location: Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center Amphitheater (144 W. 65th St.)
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 15
4:00pm Book-signing event with John Lithgow, “Drama: An Actor’s Education”
Location: Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center Amphitheater (144 W. 65th St.)
6:00pm indieWIRE Meets: Jeffrey Schwarz, director of VITO
Moderator: Basil Tsiokos
Location: Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center Amphitheater (144 W. 65th St.)
7:00pm Plymptoons! Bill Plympton Talks about Drawing
The animator will talk about his career as an independent animator, conduct drawing demonstrations and show some of his newest films and works in progress, plus some artwork from his new Rizzoli book, “Independently Animated, Bill Plympton”
Location: Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center Amphitheater (144 W. 65th St.)
