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Dennis Lim, the artistic director of the New York Film Festival, has a confession. “I hate 'back to normal' as a phrase and as a concept,” he said with a chuckle. For the festival, however, the 60th edition kicking off tonight with White Noise “does feel kind of close to the experience we know. We’re at…

Eugene Hernandez has been set as the next Director of the Sundance Film Festival, as well as the Sundance Institute’s Head of Public Programming. The film and media industry veteran joins the Institute as its fourth official Festival Director after spending 12 years at Film at Lincoln Center, most recently as Senior…

Film at Lincoln Center has promoted two key members of its leadership team and also confirmed September 30 to October 16 as the dates for the New York Film Festival. Dennis Lim has been elevated to artistic director of the festival, becoming the first person to hold that title since the first edition in 1963. Eugene…

The New York Film Festival exudes tradition. Since 1963, its Lincoln Center commingling of culturati, Oscar hopefuls and cinephiliacs has been a mainstay of the city’s fall calendar and the global festival circuit. This year, though, COVID-19 has thrown tradition to the wind and New York movie theaters and arts venues…

The industry is a long way from discovering how, or even when, the film festival circuit will return to any kind of functionality. Cannes is canned, replaced with a virtual market and potentially some branded tie-up with another event later in the year, and the summer festival calendar has been decimated by…

Organizers of the New York Film Festival, one of the signature cultural events in a city hit harder than anywhere in the world by COVID-19, say they are still exploring in-person elements for the 58th edition this fall. Delivering some combination of live and digital experiences is still the ultimate goal, Film at…

Eugene Hernandez, the deputy executive director of Film at Lincoln Center and founder of IndieWire, has been named director of the New York Film Festival. He'll will work closely with Dennis Lim, who has been appointed the festival's director of programming. The announcement made Wednesday effectively creates two…