Like the rest of the film industry, Film at Lincoln Center’s New York Film Festival, one of the cornerstones of awards season, has been rocked by drastic changes caused by COVID-19. Among them comes an unprecedented collaboration between NYFF, Venice, Toronto, and Telluride, all of which will be treating their festivals as a world cinema united front.
Eugene Hernandez and Dennis Lim, respectively the director and director of programming for NYFF, are ready to adapt the historic fest to a new reality. “Because so much is changing so quickly around festivals and the role of festivals and what festivals are, there are a lot of questions from filmmakers, from the industry, from the professionals in New York and [the people] who attend our festival, about how navigating it and experiencing it will be different,” says Hernandez.