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
Friday, March 3 All Day Schedule:
Featuring Documentaries and Films from the US and around the world
[Loop] Chloé Déchery & Chris Eley - What Do You See When You Turn Out The Light? France | 18 Minutes
12:30pm Jan Lauwers & Needcompany - Goldfish Game Belgium | 105 minutes
1:00pm Deidre Schoo & Michael Beach Nichols - Flex is Kings USA| 83 minutes
2:30pm Frédéric Nauczyciel - House of HMU Series France| 22 minutes
2:30pm Popo Fan- The VaChina Monologues China | 28 minutes
3:00pm Wim Vandekeybus- Blush [Ultima Vez] Belgium | 52 minutes
3:00pm Nadia Ranocchi & David Zamagni- All Inclusive vs. Joule Italy | 65 minutes + 22 minutes
4:00pm Aneta Panek - Alchemy of Punk Germany | 15 minutes
4:15pm Aurélia Thiérrée*- Untitled USA | 5 minutes
4:30pm Jason Zeldes - Romeo is Bleeding USA | 95 minutes
4:30pm Brigitte Poupart*- Over My Dead Body Canada| 80 minutes
6:00pm Michelle Memran* - (work-in-progress) The Rest I Make Up: María Irene Fornés * USA | 20 minutes
6:30pm Nature Theater of Oklahoma- Life & Times, Episode 7 USA | 135 minutes
7:00pm Arran Shearing* - Forgotten Man * UK/Canada | 84 minutes
9:00pm The Segal Center - Prelude Festival USA | 30 minutes [excerpt]
*Followed by a discussion with the artist
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
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