The Film Society of Lincoln Center and The Museum of Modern Art Present 39th Annual NEW DIRECTORS/NEW FILMS, 3/24-4/4

For the 39th consecutive year, the acclaimed New Directors/New Films festival, presented by The Film Society of Lincoln Center and The Museum  of Modern Art, will showcase the finest in new filmmaking talent from around the world. The 2010 edition of this world-renowned film festival opens on Wednesday, March 24, and closes on Sunday, April 4.

New Directors/New Films is one of the premier showcases for the work of fresh, newly
discovered international and American filmmakers. Over the course of nearly four decades, the
festival has introduced innovative works by talented directors from around the globe, many of
whom have become major figures in world cinema, including Chantal Akerman, Pedro Almodóvar,
Héctor Babenco, Terence Davies, Atom Egoyan, Todd Haynes, Nicole Holofcener, Wong Kar-Wai,
Spike Lee, Richard Linklater, Kelly Reichardt, Jason Reitman, John Sayles, Steven Spielberg, Wim
Wenders, and Jia Zhangke among many others.

This is the first year that New Directors/New Films will have its own dedicated online
presence, at www.newdirectors.org. This site will be live by the middle of February, just in time
for the public to review the committee's selections and ready their picks for screenings from this
year's event.

During its 39-year history, New Directors/New Films has premiered hundreds of films that
have gone on to enjoy great critical and popular success, including such Academy Award-
nominated titles as Courtney Hunt's Frozen River (2008), Carl Deal and Tia Lessin's Trouble the
Water (2009), John Carney's Once (2007), Laura Poitras's My Country, My Country (2006), Ryan
Fleck's Half Nelson (2007), Phil Morrison's Junebug (2005), Nathaniel Kahn's My Architect (2003),
and Byambasuren Davaa and Luigi Falorni's The Story of the Weeping Camel (2003).
The New Directors/New Films selection committee is made up of members from both
presenting organizations: Jytte Jensen, Laurence Kardish, and Rajendra Roy from The Museum of Modern Art; and, from The Film Society of Lincoln Center, Marian Masone, Richard Peña, and, the
newest committee member, Gavin Smith.

The Film Society of Lincoln Center and MoMA

Under the leadership of Mara Manus, Executive Director, and Richard Peña, Program Director, The
Film Society of Lincoln Center offers the best in international, classic, and cutting-edge
independent cinema. The Film Society presents two film festivals that attract global attention: the
New York Film Festival, now in its 47th year, and New Directors/New Films, which, since its
founding in 1972, has been produced in collaboration with MoMA. The Film Society also publishes
the award-winning Film Comment Magazine, and for over three decades has given an annual
award-now named -The Chaplin Award?-to a major figure in world cinema. Past recipients of
this award include Charlie Chaplin, Alfred Hitchcock, Martin Scorsese, Meryl Streep, and Tom
Hanks. For more information, visit www.filmlinc.com.

The Museum of Modern Art's Department of Film was established as the Film Library in 1935,
and presented its first series as circulating exhibitions in 1936. In 1979 the Academy of Motion
Picture Arts and Sciences bestowed on the Department of Film an Honorary Academy Award in
recognition of its -ongoing program of film preservation and its continuing support of the motion
picture as an art form.? The department has an extensive archive of over 22,000 film and media
works, including the world's largest institutional collections of the works of D. W. Griffith, Andy
Warhol, and Stan Brakhage. The Department's programming is presented six days a week (closed
on Tuesdays) in three state-of-the-art theaters. The Department also organizes exhibitions in
MoMA's galleries, including the current exhibition Tim Burton; past exhibitions have included
Pixar: 20 Years of Animation (2005-06) and the major retrospective Alfred Hitchcock (1999). In
addition, the Department's Film Study Center, which makes available to researchers and scholars
many of the moving image works and paper materials from the collection, utilizes the Time
Warner Screening Room and the Mayer Screening Room in MoMA's Education and Research
Building. Rajendra Roy is the current Celeste Bartos Chief Curator of Film, appointed in May 2007.

The Museum of Modern Art is located at 11 West 53rd Street, New York, NY 10019

Hours: Films are screened Wednesday-Monday. For screening schedules, please visit www.moma.org.

Film Admission: $10 adults; $8 seniors, 65 years and over with I.D. $6 full-time students with current I.D. (For admittance to film programs only.) The price of a film ticket may be applied toward the price of a Museum  admission ticket when a film ticket stub is presented at the Lobby Information Desk within 30 days of the date  on the stub (does not apply during Target Free Friday Nights, 4:00-8:00 p.m.). Admission is free for Museum members and for Museum ticketholders.
The public may call (212) 708-9400 for detailed Museum information. For more information, visit www.moma.org.