Special Advanced Screening Series!

As a member of the Cinema Arts Preview Club, you will attend special advance screenings of major new films prior to their New York release. The club features outstanding films from the festival circuit, always accompanied by discussions with guest speakers. Club members are invited to participate in the discussion. Films and guest speakers are a surprise until the night of the screening; where you will be introduced to a wide range of high-quality, discussion-provoking movies. The club is also a great social experience. Come early and schmooze. Members will fill out comment cards at each film, and the results and choice opinions will be read at the next film. The Cinema Arts Preview Club promises many unforgettable evenings this season and for years to come.

Our host, Isil Bagdadi-Sergio is an indie film producer, programmer, distributor and publicist. In 2001, Isil and her partner Michael Sergio started CAVU Pictures to produce and distribute cutting-edge, critically acclaimed and award-winning independent films. Isil has shepherded dozens of films into the marketplace and continues to champion independent filmmakers, artists and storytellers in every way she can. She frequently serves as a panelist, moderator, mentor and juror at numerous film festivals throughout the year.

Over the past year, Preview Club has featured screenings of outstanding films that include the Academy Award Nominated films 'Perfect Days' & 'Io Capitano', as well as 'The Promised Land' starring Mads Mikkelsen, 'Call Me Dancer' - which included a discussion with filmmaker Leslie Shampaine and the film's star Manish Chauhan -and Lasse Hallström's 'Hilma', a program which featured a discussion and Q&A with Academy Award nominated director Lasse Hallström and the film's star, Academy Award Winning actress Lena Olin. Other stand-out films featured in the series this year include 'Driving Madeleine', 'Daliland', 'Revoir Paris', 'Persian Lessons', 'Rose', 'Pianoforte', 'L'immensita', & 'The Eight Mountains'.

In the past, the Preview Club has featured such films as: Pedro Almodóvar's 'Pain and Glory', Céline Sciamma's 'Portrait of a Lady on Fire', the Oscar winning documentary, 'Free Solo', Hirokazu Kore-eda's Palme d'Or winner 'Shoplifters', the Academy Award Best Picture winner 'Green Book', 5X Oscar Nominee 'Lion', 'All the Beauty and the Bloodshed', which was awarded the top prize at Venice Film Festival and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, A24's 'Aftersun', which took home awards at Cannes, NYFCC, Gotham Awards, BIFA, and others - as well as 'Three Identical Strangers', 'Hearts Beat Loud', 'Chappaquiddick', and many others.

Package price: $102 Members | $120 Public

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