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 Lincoln Center, 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 served 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) manages capital projects for the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs. With a curatorial background in the museum world, she served as the first Vice President of Icarus Films, a distribution firm representing the work of artists including Chantal Akerman, Madeline Anderson, Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, Shôhei Imamura, Chris Marker, Jean Rouch, and Wang Bing. She has presented films at BAM, Lincoln Center, and The Museum of Modern Art; served as a festival panelist in Copenhagen, Montreal, and Dubai; published interviews with Kathryn Bigelow, Bong Joon-ho, and Angela Davis; and lectured at Columbia, Cornell, and Yale. She teaches in the graduate film program at The City College of New York.
Richard Peña is Director Emeritus of the New York Film Festival and Program Director Emeritus of the Film Society of Lincoln Center. At Lincoln Center, 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 served 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) manages capital projects for the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs. With a curatorial background in the museum world, she served as the first Vice President of Icarus Films, a distribution firm representing the work of artists including Chantal Akerman, Madeline Anderson, Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, Shôhei Imamura, Chris Marker, Jean Rouch, and Wang Bing. She has presented films at BAM, Lincoln Center, and The Museum of Modern Art; served as a festival panelist in Copenhagen, Montreal, and Dubai; published interviews with Kathryn Bigelow, Bong Joon-ho, and Angela Davis; and lectured at Columbia, Cornell, and Yale. She teaches in the graduate film program at The City College of New York.