UO students, faculty, staff, and the community are invited to join us for a discussion with award-winning writer and director Kent Jones about his experience as a film critic, festival director, and filmmaker. An appetizer and dessert reception will follow the discussion.

Free Cinema Studies tumblers to the first 30 attendees!

Tuesday, April 9, 2019
4:00 p.m.
Gerlinger Lounge
Free and open to the community

​​​​Kent Jones Named One of Variety’s "10 Directors to Watch for 2019"

Kent Jones is an internationally recognized filmmaker, film critic, and festival programmer.  He was named one of Variety’s 10 directors to watch for 2019 for his debut fiction film, Diane (2019), which won Best Narrative Feature and Screenplay at the Tribeca Film Festival. One of the great thinkers on directors and cinema history, Jones wrote and directed the documentaries Hitchcock/Truffaut (2015) and Val Lewton: The Man in the Shadows (2007). He has collaborated on a number of film projects with Martin Scorsese–including A Letter to Elia (2010) and My Voyage to Italy (1999)–and was executive director of the World Cinema Foundation, a film preservation non-profit founded by Scorsese.  Jones is also known for his sharp and personal film criticism, collected in the 2007 book, Physical Evidence:  Selected Film Criticism. Since 2012, Jones has served as the director of the New York Film Festival, the premier showcase for international cinema in the United States.

Photo By Karloz Byrnison, CC BY 2.0. Adapted from this image.