Slideshow
Q&A with FAMILIAR TOUCH Filmmaker Sarah Friedland and Stars Kathleen Chalfant & H. Jon Benjamin
Friday, June 20
6:50
NOTE: This screening is SOLD OUT.
A standby line will form at the box office 30 minutes prior to showtime.
Sarah Friedland is a filmmaker and choreographer working at the intersection of moving images and moving bodies. Her work has been presented in festivals and art spaces including the New York Film Festival, New Directors/New Films, Mubi, MoMA and the Performa19 Biennial. Sarah graduated from Brown University’s department of Modern Culture and Media and started her career assisting filmmakers including Steve McQueen, Mike S. Ryan, and Kelly Reichardt. From 2021 – 2022, she was both a Pina Bausch Fellow for Choreography and a NYSCA/NYFA Fellow in Film/Video, and was named to Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces of Independent Film in 2023. Her short film trilogy, Movement Exercises, is distributed by Video Data Bank. Sarah has been working in creative aging for the last eight years, as a caregiver to artists with dementia, and as a teaching artist facilitating intergenerational films and workshops for older adults. FAMILIAR TOUCH is her debut feature film.
Kathleen Chalfant has spent more than five decades performing on stage, screen, and TV. She is perhaps best known for her portrayal of Vivian Bearing in the Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Wit, for which she received Obie, Drama Desk, Lucille Lortel, Outer Critics Circle, and Ovation awards. Other critically acclaimed roles include Hannah Pitt/Ethel Rosenberg in the original cast of Tony Kushner’s groundbreaking Angels in America, receiving nominations for both the Tony and Drama Desk Awards. Notable film credits include KINSEY, DUPLICITY, and THE LAST DAYS OF DISCO, among many others. Her beloved TV characters include playing Margaret Butler on Showtime’s The Affair, as well as roles in House of Cards, The Americans, Madame Secretary, Elementary, High Maintenance, and all the various Law and Orders. Kathleen has collaborated with acclaimed experimental filmmakers and choreographers, including Yvonne Rainer, Barbara Hammer, and Pam Tanowitz.
H. Jon Benjamin is "Sterling Archer," the lead voice of the FX animated series Archer, as well as the lead voice of Bob's Burgers on Fox. He was previously an executive producer and the star of the Comedy Central series Jon Benjamin Has a Van. He can also be seen on the Netflix series Master of None and Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp.
