Richard Peña

Richard Peña
Born	1953 New York City,  United States
Occupation	Film programme and festival director
Family	Married, three children

Richard Peña (born 1953) is the former program director of the Film Society of Lincoln Center (organizers of the New York Film Festival and the New Directors/New Films Festival) and a Professor of Professional Practice at the School of The Arts at Columbia University.

Peña grew up in New York City where he now lives with his wife and three children.

Peña, the son of Spanish and Puerto Rican parents, was educated at Harvard University and earned a Master's degree in film from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Peña then taught at the University of California Berkeley before joining the Film Center at the Art Institute of Chicago as a film curator. In 1988, he joined the Film Society of Lincoln Center as the director of programming.

At the Film Society, Richard Peña has organized retrospectives of Michelangelo Antonioni, Sacha Guitry, acclaimed Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami, Robert Aldrich, Wojciech Has, Youssef Chahine, Yasujiro Ozu, and most recently Amitabh Bachchan, as well as major film series devoted to African, Taiwanese, Polish, Hungarian, Arab, Cuban and Argentine cinema.

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