New York Film Festival
| Location | New York City, New York, United States |
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| Founded | 1963 |
| Language | English |
The New York Film Festival has been a major film festival since it began in 1963 in New York. The films are selected by the Film Society of Lincoln Center. The non-competitive festival, sometimes abbreviated as NYFF, was established by Amos Vogel and Richard Roud.
The present director is Kent Jones, who is also the chairman of the Selection Committee which includes Dennis Lim, FSLC Director of Cinematheque Programming; Gavin Smith, Editor-in-Chief, Film Comment; Amy Taubin, Contributing Editor, Film Comment and Sight and Sound; and Marian Masone, FSLC Associate Director of Programming.
The festival has said that films are selected exclusively on their merits. However a few prominent directors regularly have their films screened at NYFF.
The festival is also known for its several sidebars, programs running concurrently with the main festival. The annual "Projections," previously billed as "Views from the Avant-Garde", a showcase of non-narrative experimental films conceived, programmed and produced by Mark McElhatten, had been running since 1997. Mark McElhatten stepped down in 2014 after 17 years and the "Views from the Avant-Garde" of the NYFF was also retired in his honor.
The NYFF's first programmer, Richard Roud, was recruited by Lincoln Center President William Schuman in 1962. Boston-born Roud was 33 years old at the time and based in London where he worked as a film critic for The Guardian and programmed the London Film Festival. Though Roud maintained his home base in London, he recruited Amos Vogel of the legendary Cinema 16 film club as his New York-based co-programmer. The first edition of the festival opened on September 10, 1963 with Luis Buñuel's The Exterminating Angel. In 1966, Roud and Vogel formed the festival's first selection committee, consisting of Arthur Knight and Andrew Sarris; Susan Sontag was added the next year. Vogel resigned from his position as Festival Director in 1968. Though Roud was previously designated Program Director, he presided over the festival from 1969 to 1987.
Roud's 25 years at the festival were characterized by a focus on the European art cinema of the postwar years and rise of auteurism.
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