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April
8-14, 2005 - Masters of Indian Cinema |
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Richard
Pena
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Richard
Peña has been the Program Director of the Film Society
of Lincoln Center and the Director of the New York Film Festival
since 1988. At the Film Society, Richard Peña has organized
retrospectives of Michelangelo Antonioni, Sacha Guitry, 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. From 2001 to 2002, he was the host
on the Sundance Channel's "Conversations in World Cinema,
" on which he interviewed Harmony Korine among other leading
filmmakers. Since 1996, he has organized together with Unifrance
Film the annual "Rendez-Vous with French Cinema Today"
program. He is also an Associate Professor of Film at Columbia
University, where he specializes in film theory and international
cinema.
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