New Directors/New Films Festival

New Directors/New Films Festival
LocationNew York City, New York, U.S.
Founded1972
Hosted by
Film at Lincoln Center
Museum of Modern Art
LanguageInternational
Websitenewdirectors.org

The New Directors/New Films Festival is an annual film festival held in New York City, organized jointly by the Museum of Modern Art and the Film Society of Lincoln Center. Established in 1972, the Festival generally selects films from first-time directors, some of whom have become renowned in their later careers.[1]

The festival and its films have been covered by The New York Times and Variety.[2][3]

  1. ^ "About". New Directors/New Films. Archived from the original on 2015-02-18. Pedro Almodóvar, Kelly Reichardt, Atom Egoyan, Spike Lee, Richard Linklater, Sally Potter, John Sayles, Steven Spielberg, Wim Wenders, and Wong Kar Wai, for example, were all featured by New Directors/New Films early in their careers.
  2. ^ Dargis, Manohla (March 23, 2015). "New Directors/New Films Festival Highlights Bold Narrative Experiments". The New York Times. As the calendar grew crowded — early-year events like the Sundance Film Festival and South by Southwest suck up a lot of talent and interest now — New Directors at times struggled for relevancy and a slate strong enough to justify its week-plus run. In recent years, though, it has again staked its claim partly by trading in global comprehensiveness for more focused and astringent programming.
  3. ^ Cox, Gordon (February 20, 2014). "New Directors/New Films Sets Full Slate, Opening with 'A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night'". Variety.