Segal Center's 2nd Annual Film Festival on Theatre and Performance to be Held in February

The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center announces the second annual Segal Center Film Festival on Theatre and Performance (FTP). The film festival will take place all day on Thursday, February 25 and Friday, February 26 at The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center, located at The Graduate Center, City University of New York.

The Segal Center Film Festival on Theatre and Performance is an annual event showcasing films drawn from the world of theatre and performance. The festival 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, and meet-the-artist Q&A sessions with leading international theatre artists from Australia, Belgium, Brazil, France, Germany, Iran, Italy, Japan, Lebanon, The Netherlands, Poland, South Africa, Syria, UK, and the US.

Highlights of the 2016 Festival include:

• Robert Wilson's (US) Happy Days with Winona Ryder
• Adam Soch's (US) Reza Abdoh: Theatre Visionary, a documentary exploring the work of the late artist and his company, Dar a Luz.
• Romeo Castellucci's (Italy) Brentano
• Jan Fabre's (Belgium) The Problem
• Jay Scheib's (US) Persona
• Sascha Just's (Germany/US) Heirs, a film about the Black Indians during Mardi Gras in New Orleans, with Jason Marsalis

Confirmed Festival screenings include work by or about: Reza Abdoh/Adam Soch (Iran/US); Back to Back Theatre (Australia); Les Ballets C de la B/Jörg Jeshel & Brigitte Kramer (Belgium/Germany); Lucien Bou Rjeily (Lebanon); Romeo Castellucci (Italy); Zeina Daccache (Lebanon); Sibylle Dahrendorf/Christoph Schlingensief (Germany); Jan Fabre (Belgium); Eleanor Fogg/johnsmith (UK); Forced Entertainment/Tim Etchells & Hugo Glendinning (UK); Krzysztof Garbaczewski (Poland); Gob Squad (Germany/UK); Half Straddle/Tina Satter (US); Oriza Horata/Kazuhiro Soda (Japan); I Am Boys Choir (US/South Africa); Shaun Irons/Jim Fletcher (US); John Jesurun (US); Sascha Just (Germany/US); David Levine & David Conison (US); Dorota Maslowska (Poland); Evaldo Mocarzel (Brazil), Sylvan Oswald & Maria Cataldo (US); People Get Ready/Ty Flowers (US); Rimini Protokoll (Germany); Jay Scheib (US); Steven Soderbergh/Spalding Gray (US); Carlos Soto (US); Temporary Distortion (US); César Vayssié & Boris Charmatz (France); Robert Wilson/Winona Ryder (US); Frederick Wiseman/La Comédie-Française (US/France); The Wolfpack Brothers (US); Wunderbaum/ Mijke de Jong (The Netherlands); and others.

Check out www.thesegalcenter.org for the latest updates and a full festival schedule.

Festival Program is subject to change.

Festival Curators: Festival founder Frank Hentschker (Executive Director and Co-Director of Programming at MESTC), Antje Oegel (AO International and Co-Director of Programming at MESTC), and Nina Segal (Playwright and Producer).

Festival Producer: Joy 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. Subway: Herald Square, lines B, D, F, M, N, Q, R.

www.thesegalcenter.org. Info: 212-817-1868.