SR Socially Relevant Film Festival New York ​- Opening Panel-Adapting The Novel For The Screen

NEW YORK - March 7, 2016 - PRLog -- SR Socially Relevant Film Festival New York ​- Opening Panel “Adapting The Novel For The Screen” on March 14

WHERE: ​Albertine Bookstore at the French Consulate
972 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY
WHEN: Monday, March 14, 6:30­ pm

SR Socially Relevant Film Festival New York is proud to announce that it will open its third edition with a Panel on Screenwriting: “Adapting The Novel For The Screen.”

For the first time in the history of Film Festivals, the art of scriptwriting takes front stage opening a cinematic kermesse. This craft is the foundation of a good film, however it is regularly neglected or taken for granted, and seldom gets the focus it deserves. For this reason, SR Socially Relevant Film Festival New York has decided to  launch its 2016 edition focusing on the art of writing for the screen before the actual screenings of the movies begin on March 15, at the Bow Tie Cinemas in Chelsea.

The Distinguished Panelists:
Robert Schenkkan is a Pulitzer-prize winning, Tony Award winning, Writer's Guild Award winning, two-time Emmy nominated writer of Stage, Television, and Film. He is the author of fourteen original full-length plays and two musicals. He co-wrote the feature films The Quiet American, and Hacksaw Ridge directed by Mel Gibson will be released in the fall. His television credits include, among others: The Pacific, The Andromeda Strain, and Spartacus. His adaption of All The Way for HBO, starring Bryan Cranston and Co-Executive Produced with Steven Spielberg, will air in May.

Marc Levy is the author of seventeen novels that have sold over thirty-five million copies and been translated into forty-nine languages, making him today’s most widely read French author. His English language debut, If Only It Were True, sold almost six million copies and was made into a film starring Reese Witherspoon and Mark Ruffalo. His second novel has been adapted into a television series and his novel Mes amis, mes amours into a film. Levy also directed a short movie for Amnesty International. He lives in New York’s West Village with his wife and sons. His last novel, L'Horizon a l'envers, is a bestseller in France since its release in February 2016.

Lila Azam Zanganeh was born in Paris to Iranian parents. She moved to the United States to teach literature and cinema at Harvard University. She is the author of The Enchanter, published internationally, which she's currently turning into a feature film with her screenwriting partner Jesse Lichtenstein.

Brigitte Gauthier is the French specialist on Harold Pinter and Pina Bausch, and author of novels Personne ne le saura, and Game Boy. She studied English literature at the Ecole Normale Supérieure, is a graduate from the Master of Fine Arts program at Columbia University (Screenwriting, Film Division) and has a Ph.D from La Sorbonne. She is a Professor at the University of Evry-Val-d’Essonne where she is the Head of the Research Center SLAM, the axis SCRIPT, and the editorial series S.C.R.I.P.T. Brigitte’s first novel Game Boy is in development for a feature film, and she is also adapting a novel set in Mauritius.

Moderated by the SR Founding Artistic Director Nora Armani:
Nora Armani is an award-winning actor/filmmaker with extensive International stage and screen credits in many languages. She has curated and organized film events, and guest-curated film festivals internationally since her debut with the 1992 Tribute to Armenian Cinema at the AFI in Los Angeles and the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. She represented the Ministry of Culture of Armenia in the Film Division from 1991-1993, organizing numerous film events and retrospectives on Cinema worldwide. Nora has an M.Sc. in Sociology from the London School of Economics. She has also organized film events with The Pompidou Center in Paris and ICA (Institute of Contemporary Art) London. Currently she lives in New York.

Following the panel, SR Socially Relevant Film Festival’s Opening Party takes place from 9:00 pm. at Vella Wine Bar and Kitchen (1480 Second Avenue on the corner of 77th Street). Tickets or Invitations are required. www.ratedsrfilms.org