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Kent Jones’ work as a director includes the multiple award-winning DIANE (2019); the documentary landmark HITCHCOCK/TRUFFAUT (a Film Forum premiere in 2015); and A LETTER TO ELIA (2010), co-directed with Martin Scorsese. A longtime collaborator of Scorsese’s, Jones co-wrote his epic documentary MY VOYAGE TO ITALY (1999). Jones’ film criticism has appeared in multiple journals, magazines, catalogues, newspapers, and web publications. He is the author of several books, including Physical Evidence, a collection of his criticism, and the BFI Modern Classics volume on Robert Bresson’s L’ARGENT. In addition, he was the editor of a 2012 book on Olivier Assayas, published by the Vienna Film Museum. He served as Executive Director of the World Cinema Project from 2009 to 2012 and, from 2013 to 2019, he served as Director of The New York Film Festival, where his curatorial vision helped shape the global cinematic conversation. Jones was a 2012 Guggenheim fellow. In 2015, he was made a Chevalier de l’Order des Arts et Lettres by the French government. He lives in New York City.

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