Slideshow
ONCE UPON A TIME IN HARLEM
Q&A with Filmmaker David Greaves & Producer Liani Greaves
Friday, October 16
6:00
Moderated by film critic Amy Taubin
NOTE: This screening is SOLD OUT.
A standby line will form at the box office 30 minutes prior to showtime.
David Greaves is an award-winning filmmaker and journalist. He worked as cinematographer and/or editor on many of his father William Greaves’ films including the famed feature film, SYMBIOPSYCHOTAXIPLASM: TAKE 1. Significantly, he was one of the original cameramen during the 1972 shoot for ONCE UPON A TIME IN HARLEM. In 1996, he founded DBG Media and the award-winning independent newspaper Our Time Press. As a journalist and writer, he has won numerous awards from the Independent Press Association and the New York Association of Black Journalists, including First Place awards for investigative reporting, in-depth reporting, and personal commentary, among them.
Liani Greaves is an independent producer and Vice-President of William Greaves Productions. She began her career in the mid-90s at Columbia Pictures on I LIKE IT LIKE THAT and as Assistant to Director Jeff Pollack on New Line Cinema’s ABOVE THE RIM, before moving into music video production as Director’s Representative to Hype Williams, brokering projects for artists including The Notorious B.I.G. and Brandy. She subsequently built a producing practice in the non-profit sector, conceiving and producing fundraising campaigns and events including You Rock My Soul at Carnegie Hall for GMHC and A Woman’s Work for the Women’s Prison Association. In 2005, she had the honor of producing alongside her grandfather William Greaves and actor Steve Buscemi on SYMBIOPSYCHOTAXIPLASM: TAKE 2½, the follow-up to Greaves’s critically acclaimed SYMBIOPSYCHOTAXIPLASM: TAKE ONE.
Amy Taubin is a writer who has lived her entire life in New York City. She was a film and television critic at the Village Voice from 1987 to 2001, and a contributing editor for Film Comment and Artforum magazines for roughly 20 years. Her monograph Taxi Driver is in the BFI’s Film Classics series; she co-authored the monograph James Nares (Rizzoli); her writing is anthologized in many collections. Before she wrote very much, she was an actor, playing leading roles on and off Broadway, but her purchase on immortality is her appearance in Michael Snow’s WAVELENGTH.
