Plays in Shorts Program: What These Walls Hold
Sunday, June 15
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM

Regal Gallery Place

701 7th St NW, Washington, DC 20001

The New Yorker Theater: A Talbot Legacy

Director

Sergio Maza

Executive Producers

Hugo Barreca, Peter Murray, Sergio Maza, Cara Yeates

Producers

Maria Politano, Cara Yeates, Sergio Maza

Editors

Sergio Maza, Nina Thomas

Consulting Editor

Co-Editor

Assistant Editor

Cinematographer

Andres Karu

Additional Cinematography

Music

Sound

Narration

Contact

Cara Yeates, Foreign Windows Films, cara@triggercr.com

Bresson, Bertolucci, Varda, Ozu, Ray, Herzog, Tarkovsky, Sembéne, Godard—these are just some of the visionary directors championed by Dan and Toby Talbot, a Jewish couple from the Bronx whose influence reshaped film culture.

In 1960, with no money, experience, and three daughters to feed, the Talbots launched The New Yorker Theater on the then-dangerous Upper West Side of New York City. They signed a one-year contract to turn a struggling movie theater into a profitable venture. Their innovative and adventurous programming transformed the 900-seat ‘living room’ into one of America’s most influential repertory and art-house cinemas.

Their unwavering support of film auteurs forever changed the landscape of film culture. THE NEW YORKER THEATER: A TALBOT LEGACY chronicles the humble beginnings of their remarkable six-decade career.

Director, The New Yorker Theater: A Talbot Legacy

Sergio Maza is an Argentine screenwriter who currently lives in New York. He graduated from the National School of Experimentation and Filmmaking.

He has written professionally for television and taught film and writing courses at the University of Lanus, the Film College School, and the National School of Experimentation and Filmmaking in Argentina.

As a screenwriter, he has worked on several television programs, including fiction and documentary, such as Surprise and a Half (Channel 13, Argentina), From the Bed to the Living (Channel 7, Argentina), and We See Faces (Channel 7, Costa Rica).

He has also collaborated as a consultant with the Education Ministry of Argentina. At the age of thirty-five, he became the director of the Film College School.

His documentary THE NEW YORKER: A TALBOT LEGACY premiered at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival in February. He is also currently producing and editing Mothers of the Missing, a documentary about child trafficking in Uganda.