NAME OF FESTIVAL: Gen Art
SINCE: 1996
WHERE: New York City
ABOUT THE FESTIVAL
The Gen Art Film Festival and its Screening Series solidified its place as a leading curator of unique creatives in the emerging film world. It also brought its voice, eye and creative programming to other renown film hubs, creating programs that included 7 Fresh Faces in Film at the Sundance Film Festival that help discover talent ranging from Jennifer Lawrence to Kate Mara, and brand driven partnerships like Nokia’s Art in Motion.
Over the years, Gen Art film events and experiences helped shine a spotlight on rising stars such as Zooey Deschanel, Rooney Mara, Adrian Grenier, Jennifer Connelly, Chloe Sevigny, Adrian Brody, Krysten Ritter, Rosario Dawson and Norman Reedus; and filmmakers such as Jason Reitman, Brad Anderson, Dax Shepard, and Fisher Stevens.
Gen Art’s festival is back, and will run June 8 – 14, 2011; the festival will open with “A Beginner’s Guide to Endings,” the debut film from 35-year-old filmmaker Jonathan Sobol. Starring Scott Caan, J.K. Simmons, and Tricia Helfer, “A Beginner’s Guide to Endings,” is “the story of a hard living gambling father who has doomed his three sons to a horrible fate, and when his sons find out they don’t have much time left, […]
Just a year after declaring bankruptcy, Gen Art is back. Gen Art announced that it has been acquired by Sandow Media and its first 2011 event will be the 16th annual Gen Art Film Festival in New York. This year the festival will run in June. With its acquisition by Sandow Media, Gen Art is proud to announce it has relaunched under new leadership with an exciting slate of events and programs. Sandow Media acquired […]