ABOUT THE ORGANIZERS
Richard Peña is Director Emeritus of the New York Film Festival and Program Director Emeritus of the Film Society of Lincoln Center. At the Film Society, he organized retrospectives of Michelangelo Antonioni, Sacha Guitry, Abbas Kiarostami, Robert Aldrich, Gabriel Figueroa, Ritwik Ghatak, Kira Muratova, Youssef Chahine, Yasujiro Ozu, Carlos Saura and Amitabh Bachchan, as well as major film series devoted to African, Chinese, Cuban, Polish, Hungarian, Arab, Korean, Japanese, Soviet and Argentine cinema. Since 1989, he has been on the faculty of Columbia University; he has also been a visiting professor at Princeton University, Harvard University, and many other schools around the world.
Livia Bloom Ingram (née Livia Bloom) is a film curator and the Vice President of Icarus Films, a North American documentary distribution firm representing the work of directors including Madeline Anderson, Chantal Akerman, Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, Shôhei Imamura, Chris Marker, Jean Rouch and Wang Bing. She has presented cinema programs at institutions including the Film Society of Lincoln Center, Film Forum, IFC Center, the Museum of the Moving Image and The Museum of Modern Art. Her writing and interviews have appeared in Cinema Scope, Cineaste, Filmmaker Magazine and Film Comment, and she is the editor of the book Errol Morris: Interviews.
Richard Peña is Director Emeritus of the New York Film Festival and Program Director Emeritus of the Film Society of Lincoln Center. At the Film Society, he organized retrospectives of Michelangelo Antonioni, Sacha Guitry, Abbas Kiarostami, Robert Aldrich, Gabriel Figueroa, Ritwik Ghatak, Kira Muratova, Youssef Chahine, Yasujiro Ozu, Carlos Saura and Amitabh Bachchan, as well as major film series devoted to African, Chinese, Cuban, Polish, Hungarian, Arab, Korean, Japanese, Soviet and Argentine cinema. Since 1989, he has been on the faculty of Columbia University; he has also been a visiting professor at Princeton University, Harvard University, and many other schools around the world.
Livia Bloom Ingram (née Livia Bloom) is a film curator and the Vice President of Icarus Films, a North American documentary distribution firm representing the work of directors including Madeline Anderson, Chantal Akerman, Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, Shôhei Imamura, Chris Marker, Jean Rouch and Wang Bing. She has presented cinema programs at institutions including the Film Society of Lincoln Center, Film Forum, IFC Center, the Museum of the Moving Image and The Museum of Modern Art. Her writing and interviews have appeared in Cinema Scope, Cineaste, Filmmaker Magazine and Film Comment, and she is the editor of the book Errol Morris: Interviews.