First Run Celebrates 30 Years With Film Screenings
17 Aug, 2009 By: Billy Gil
The Film Society of Lincoln Center gives a tip of the hat to venerable indie First Run Features and its president, Seymour Wishman, celebrating the distributor’s 30th anniversary with the film series “Keeping the Independent Flame: 30 Years of First Run Features.” Nineteen films will screen between Aug. 26 and Sept. 4 at The Walter Reade Theater in New York.
Films screened will include Before Stonewall, the “Up” films, films from French director Claude Chabrol and documentaries from Ross McElwee. Filmmakers present will include Oren Rudavsky and Menachem Daum (A Life Apart); John Scagliotti, Greta Schiller and Andrea Weiss (Before Stonewall); Radley Metzger (The Cat and the Canary); Farhad Zamani (Googoosh: Iran’s Daughter); Godfrey Cheshire (Moving Midway), and Manny Kirchheimer (We Were So Beloved).
Check out the schedule and buy tickets here.
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