Ending nearly a year of speculation, the Film Society of Lincoln Center announced two replacements for long-serving Program Director Richard Pe�a, who is set to step down at the end of 2012 after serving 25 years in the post. Kent Jones will be the new Director of Programming for the annual New York Film Festival, while Robert Koehler will serve as Director of Programming, Year Round.
The Film Society of Lincoln Center said that appointing two directors to the programming team will allow the organization, which not only produces the annual NYFF but a host of other programs throughout the year, to "better serve the needs of an organization that has recently expanded its operations with the opening of the Elinor Bunin Munroe Film."
Jones began in programming with Bruce Goldstein at Film Forum, and served as the American representative for the International Film Festival Rotterdam from 1996 to 1998. He was an assumed heir to Pe�a, serving as Associate Director of Programming at The Film Society of Lincoln Center, and from 2002 to 2009, including the New York Film Festival selection committee from 1998 to 2009 after departing under the organization's previous Executive Director, Mara Manus. He has also served on juries at film festivals around the world, including Rotterdam, Buenos Aires, San Francisco, Venice and Cannes. In 2009, he was named Executive Director of The World Cinema Foundation.
Koehler is a film critic and festival programmer and has served as an instructor and programmer for UCLA Extension?s Sneak Preview program from 2003 to 2007. In 2003, he developed the innovative film program, "The Films That Got Away," an ongoing series presenting significant recent work that has previously not screened in Los Angeles. Institutions with which the series has collaborated include…
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