The Segal Center Film Festival Begins Today

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 40 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.

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

Festival Founding Producer: Joy Sarah Arab
Festival Dramaturg: Soriya K. Chum
Assistant to Curators: Jenny Tibbels

Thursday, March 2 All Day Schedule:
Featuring Documentaries and Films from the US and around the world

[Loop] Antonio Rezza - Flavia Mastrella - Milano, Via Padova Italy | 70 minutes
11:00am Georg Genoux, Liza Smith & Natal'ya Vorozhbyt - My Nikolaevka Ukraine| 95 minutes
12:30pm Janez Janša - My Name is Janez Janša Slovenia | 68 minutes
12:40pm Michael Lessac - A Snake Gives Birth to a Snake [Global Arts Corps] USA/South Africa | 100 minutes
1:45pm András Salamon - National Documentary [National Theatre of Hungary] Hungary | 90 minutes
2:30pm Guy Davidi - Mixed Feelings Israel | 77 minutes
3:20pm Rodrigo Abreu & Mariana Bley - Inflamável Brazil | 10 minutes
3:30pm Tadeu Jungle - EVOÉ - Portrait of an Anthropophagus Brazil | 90 minutes
3:40pm Milo Rau - The Moscow Trials Germany/Russia | 90 minutes
5:05pm Sahar Assaf - Al Khandaq Lebanon | 65 minutes
5:15pm René Pollesch- Bad Decisions Germany | 120 minutes
6:15pm Marielle Nitoslawska- Breaking the Frame Canada | 100 minutes
7:15pm 3-Legged Dog Media and Theater Group- Huang Yi & Kuka * New York/Taiwan | 30 minutes [excerpt]
8:00pm Rimini Protokoll - Home Visit Europe + Remote X Germany | 100 minutes
8:15pm Koji Fukada - Sayonara Japan | 102 minutes

*Followed by a discussion with the artist

Featuring over 40 films, from five continents, by or about:

3-Legged Dog Media and Theater Group (USA); A Two Dogs Company/Kris Verdonck (Belgium); Rodrigo Abreu & Mariana Bley (Brazil); Penny Arcade, Claire Moodey & Steve Zehentner (USA); Sahar Assaf (Lebanon); The Blind Boys of Alabama (USA); Lee Breuer & Eric Marciano (USA); The Chocolate Factory Theater (USA); Zé Celso Martinez Correa (Brazil); Guy Davidi (Israel); Chloé Déchery & Chris Eley (France); Popo Fan (China); María Irene Fornés (USA); Koji Fukada (Japan); Georg Genoux, Liza Smith & Natalia Vorozhbyt (Ukraine); Global Arts Corps (South Africa/USA); The International Institute of Political Murder (Germany); Janez Janša (Slovenia); Tadeu Jungle (Brazil); Jan Lauwers (Belgium); Robert Lepage (Quebec); Sean Edward Lewis (USA); The Living Theatre (USA); Mabou Mines (USA); Michelle Memran (USA); The National Theatre of Hungary (Hungary); Nature Theater of Oklahoma (USA); Frédéric Nauczyciel (France); Needcompany (Belgium); Michael Beach Nichols & Deidre Schoo (USA); Marielle Nitoslawska (Canada); Zachary Oberzan (USA); Amir Orian (Israel); Aneta Panek (Germany/Poland); René Pollesch (Germany); Brigitte Poupart (Canada); The Prelude Festival (USA); Nadia Ranocchi & David Zamagni (Italy); Milo Rau (Germany); RezzaMastrella (Italy); Rimini Protokoll (Germany); Brian Rogers (USA); Fried Roggen (Belgium); András Salamon (Hungary); Andrew Schneider (USA); Carolee Schneemann (USA); Arran Shearing (UK/Canada); Dave St-Pierre (Canada); Tahweel Theatre Ensemble (Lebanon); Temporary Distortion (USA); Aurélia Thiérrée (USA); Moema Umann? (Brazil/USA); Wim Vandekeybus (Belgium); Ultima Vez (Belgium); Volksbühne (Germany); Jason Zeldes (USA)

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.