Segal Center Film Festival on Theatre and Performance to Return This Spring

The Segal Center Film Festival on Theatre and Performance is set for March 2,3, & 6, 2017 at The Graduate Center, CUNY (365 Fifth Avenue at 34th Street). The festival's all-day programming is free and open to the public!

The third annual Segal Center Film Festival on Theatre and Performance presents experimental, emerging, and established theatre artists and filmmakers from around the world to audiences and industry professionals.

The program includes a roster of more than 30 features, shorts, documentaries, advance screenings, meet-the-filmmaker Q&A sessions, and panels with leading international theatre artists from Australia, Belgium, Canada, China, France, Germany, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Japan, Lebanon, The Netherlands, Slovenia, South Africa, Ukraine, The United Kingdom, and the United States.

Confirmed Festival screenings include work by or about: Rodrigo Abreu & Mariana Bley (Brazil); Penny Arcade & Steve Zehentner (USA); Sahar Assaf (Lebanon); Blind Boys of Alabama (USA); The Chocolate Factory Theater (USA); Guy Davidi (Israel); Chloé Déchery & Chris Eley (Australia); Popo Fan (China); María Irene Fornés (USA); Koji Fukada (Japan); Global Arts Group (South Africa); Janez Janša (Slovenia); Robert Lepage (Canada); Michael Lessac (South Africa); Sean Lewis (USA); The Living Theatre (USA); Michelle Memran (USA); The National Theatre of Hungary (Hungary); Frédéric Nauczyciel (France); Needcompany (Belgium); Michael Beach Nichols & Deidre Schoo (USA); Marielle Nitoslawska (Canada); Zachary Oberzan (USA); Amir Orian (Israel); Aneta Panek (Poland); The Prelude Festival (USA); Brigitte Poupart (Canada); Rimini Protokoll (Germany); Nadia Ranocchi & Davide Zamagni (Italy); Brian Rogers (USA); András Salamon (Hungary); Carolee Schneemann (USA); Andrew Schneider (USA); Arran Shearing (UK); Tahweel Theatre Ensemble (Lebanon); Aurélia Thiérrée (France); A Two Dogs Company (Belgium)

A full festival schedule will be posted the week of February 6, 2017.

Festival Curators: Festival founder Frank Hentschker (Executive Director and Director of Programming at MESTC), Antje Oegel (AO International and Director of Special Projects at MESTC), and Nina Segal (Playwright and Producer), and Soriya Chum (Dramaturg).

Founding Festival Producer: Joy Sarah Arab.

All screenings are FREE and open to the public on a first come, first served basis at The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center, The Graduate Center, City University of New York, 365 Fifth Avenue, at 34th Street.

For more information, visit www.thesegalcenter.org or call 212-817-1868. And check out last year's Segal Film Festival by visiting www.theSegalCenter.org/event/FTP2017.