’s executive director Lesli Klainberg will oversee the transition of leadership for NYFF. Jones said no new person has been found at this point to take over for him, and “the nature of how it’s going to work is [still] all in discussion.” The announcement of his replacement, or replacements, is expected to happen in the near future.
Jones has written another drama with a female protagonist — a New York-based project still awaiting financing — that he hopes to direct soon, as well as a couple documentaries that are in the works. But, he noted, the filmmaker/fest director combo has “not been unheard of in the past. [‘Battle of Algiers’ director] Gillo Pontecorvo ran the Venice Film Festival for a while [in 1992-96], though it was at a point in his life when he was not as active a filmmaker as he had been. But I’m able to separate things — it’s not like if I’m working with someone, they’re in.” When Jones co-wrote Arnaud Desplechin’s 2013 drama “Jimmy P.
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