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Kent Jones, now in his seventh year as director of the New York Film Festival, will step down from that position following this year’s 57th edition, the Film at Lincoln Center organization announced today. Jones, whose career as a film director surged last year with the release of his first narrative feature Diane…

Film at Lincoln Center has set its main slate of 29 films for the 57th New York Film Festival, running September 27-October 13. The festival already announced it will get underway with the Martin Scorsese-directed The Irishman, with the Noah Baumbach-directed Marriage Story its centerpiece, and the Edward…

IFC Films has acquired U.S. rights to Kent Jones’ Diane, the Martin Scorsese-exec produced drama starring Mary Kay Place. IFC’s announcement comes as the film makes its international premiere at the Locarno Film Festival this week. Diane won the Best Narrative Film prize at this year’s Tribeca Film Fest, along with…

Top honors at the 17th annual Tribeca Film Festival have gone to Diane for the Founders Award for Best U.S. Narrative Feature, Smuggling Hendrix for Best International Narrative Feature, and Island of the Hungry Ghosts for Best Documentary Feature. On the acting side, Alia Shawkat won Best Actress in a U.S. Narrative…