New Directors/
New Films March 25 through April 5, 2009
Presented by Department of Film, The
Museum of Modern Art and the Film Society of Lincoln Center.
New Directors/New Films is a non-competitive festival featuring the work of emerging filmmakers. There are no separate categories and no prizes awarded. Films (features and shorts) are chosen according to quality from all categories ~ dramatic, documentary, animated, experimental, etc.
For information about submitting a film for New Directors/New Films 2009, please visit this page the last week of October 2008.
New Directors/New Films is one of the leading international showcases for the work of emerging filmmakers. This longstanding and successful collaboration between two major New York cultural institutions—the Department of Film, The Museum of Modern Art and the Film Society of Lincoln Center — has premiered hundreds of films, many of which have gone on to enjoy both critical and popular success. Many directors showcased in the past have become major figures in world cinema, including Chantal Akerman, Pedro Almodóvar, Héctor Babenco, Terence Davies, Guillermo del Toro, Atom Egoyan, Nicole Holofcener, Spike Lee, Richard Linklater, Sally Potter, John Sayles, Steven Spielberg, Tom Tykwer and Wim Wenders.
