New York Film Festival Takes Manhattan

By Mallory Potosky
URL: http://www.moviemaker.com/blog/item/new_york_film_festival_takes_manhattan/
Unlike other festivals of its size and stature, when attending The New York Film Festival, you are guaranteed a chance to see movies that have never before been screened within the United States. "Over the past 45 years I believe people have come to see the NYFF as a great platform for releasing a film, so most producers are happy to work with us if our interests coincide," explains Richard Peña, Program Director of the Film Society of Lincoln Center, the organization that hosts the annual event. "We have great, intelligent audiences, the core of the film press and the major distributors of foreign language and independent cinema here in New York."