Film Programming and Appearances
2025
- October 24th – Moderated post-film discussion with Bird In Hand director Melody C. Roscher and producer Saba Zerehi
- October 25th – Introduced Shih-Ching Tsou’s Left-Handed Girl
- October 25th – Moderated post-film discussion with Espina director Daniel Poler
Chicago International Film Festival
- October 16th – Moderated post-film Q&A with If I Had Legs I’d Kick You writer-director-star Mary Bronstein
- October 18th – Moderated post-film Q&A with Young Mothers filmmakers Luc Dardenne & Jean-Pierre Dardenne
Music Box Theatre: Sunfish (& Other Stories on Green Lake)
- September 30th – Film introduction and post-screening Q&A with writer-director Sierra Falconer
Facets Film Forum: 5 Films / 5 Decades / 5 Critics
- September 14th – Andrea Arnold’s Red Road with in-person introduction and post-screening discussion with Charles Coleman, Facets Director of Programming
- May 2nd – 8th, 2025
- Programming Committee and Social Media Manager
- April 24th – May 4th, 2025
- Narrative Shorts Jury
- PLAZADROME presents: Desperately Seeking Susan
The Block Museum of Art – The Waiting Room (1973)
- April 3rd: Screening and discussion with special guests Karen Sperling, Prof. Peter Alilunas, and Marya E. Gates, author of Cinema Her Way: Visionary Female Directors in Their Own Words (Rizzoli, 2025)
PlutoTV Staff Picks – Cinema Her Way Takeover
- March 26th starting at 8pm ET:
- Gillian Armstrong’s Little Women
- Martha Coolidge’s Valley Girl
- Susan Seidelman’s She-Devil
- Jane Campion’s Holy Smoke
Cinema Her Way film screenings and Q&As
- Film screenings, discussions, and book signings to promote Cinema Her Way: Visionary Female Directors in Their Own Words at Southampton Playhouse, Nitehawk Williamsburg, MoMA, the Academy Museum, Frida Cinema, Vidiots, Jacob Burns Film Center, Music Box Theatre, The Brattle, The Plaza Theatre, Doc Films, Archives on Screen at the Trylon, The Cleveland Cinematheque, Houston Cinema Arts Festival, etc.
Gene Siskel Film Center: Universal Language
- February 20th & 21st – Moderated post-film Q&As with writer-director-star Matthew Rankin
Doc Films: Lust & Intrigue: Erotic Thrillers
- January 23rd – Jane Campion’s In The Cut on 35mm in-person introduction.
2024
Criterion Channel: Noirvember Essentials
- 30 essential noir films streaming on Criterion Channel to celebrate the 15th anniversary of Noirvember
Columbia 100: Noirvember at the Brattle Theatre
- November 8th – 13th, Curated programming and presented films with in-person intros: In A Lonely Place, Experiment In Terror, My Name is Julia Ross, The Big Heat, Human Desire, Over-Exposed, The Sniper, Underworld U.S.A., and The Crimson Kimono.
Refocus Film Festival and Iowa City Book Festival
- October 18th: Filmspotting Live recording
- October 19th: Writing on Film panel with Jonathan Rosenbaum
- May 3rd – May 9th:
- Programming Committee and Social Media Manager
- Dandelion post-screening Q&A with KiKi Layne
- Introductions: Little Women (35mm), Gasoline Rainbow, and Power (2024)
2023
70mm Fest at Music Box Chicago
- July 16th and 19th: Babylon in-person introduction
Il Cinema Ritrovato On Tour–Minneapolis
- May 13th: Flaming Ears in-person introduction
- May 5th – May 13th:
- Social Media Manager
- The Unknown Country post-screening Q&A with writer-director Morrisa Maltz
2019
Out on Film LGBTQ Film Festival Atlanta
- September 26, 2019 to October 6, 2019: Programming Committee
Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché at Laemmle Monica Film Center
- April 24th: Post-screening Q&A with director Pamela Green
Monthly Silent Film Screening Series at the Plaza Theatre Atlanta With Live Accompaniment
- March 17th: Flesh and the Devil
- April 21st: Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
- May 19th: The Big Parade
2018
Monthly Silent Film Screening Series at the Plaza Theatre Atlanta With Live Accompaniment
- December 9th: The Phantom Carriage
Videodrome x Noirvember: Three Film Noir Classics at the Plaza Theatre Atlanta
- November 6th, 13th, and 20th: The Killing, Laura, and Mildred Pierce with in-person introductions
Atlanta Silent Film Festival at the Plaza Theatre Atlanta
- September 30th: The Passion of Joan of Arc, Body and Soul, and Nosferatu with in-person introductions
Out on Film LGBTQ Film Festival Atlanta
- Sep 27, 2018 – Sun, Oct 7: International Film Awards Jury
- August 30th – September 3rd:
- More Than Just The Final Girl: Women Behind The Camera Panel
- Awesome Women In Digital Media Panel
- All The Time In The World: Time Travel in Film Panel
- How To Create Successful YouTube and Instagram Videos Panel
Rainbow-Con Sponsored by TurnOut (Turner LGBTQ Resource Group)
- June 27th:
- TCM and FilmStruck panel
- TransMilitary film screening co-presented by Out On Film
Flaming Classics at Bill Cosford Cinema in Miami
- June 18th: Some Like It Hot introduction and lecture on Miami in film
2017
- September 1st – 4th:
- Noir. . .in Space! Panel
- The Universal Monster Squad Panel
Colossal Women at the Alamo Drafthouse Denver
- March 22nd: Hester Street with a virtual introduction
2016
Ms. Direction Screening Series at the Roxie in San Francisco
- March 1st: Smithereens with a virtual Q&A with director Susan Seidelman
Marya E. Gates 