David Schwartz Elected Board President of The Film-Makers' Cooperative

The Film-Makers’ Cooperative/New American Cinema Group is pleased to announce that David Schwartz has been elected President of its Board of Directors. Current Board President Emily Singer, after completing her four-year term, will be transitioning to her new role as Vice President. Vice President Julia Curl, having also just completed her four-year term, will continue to serve on the Board of Directors. These new positions will be effective on November 1, 2025.

President Emily Singer states, “It has been a privilege to serve as Board President over the past four years alongside Vice President Julia Curl. Julia’s partnership and leadership has been invaluable, and I extend my deepest gratitude for her remarkable service as a co-board leader. I am delighted to welcome our incoming Board President, David Schwartz, and I look forward to supporting him in my new role as Vice President. This is an exciting moment for the FMC as we enter our sixty-fifth year, and I am looking forward to seeing what we will achieve.”

“It is a tremendous honor to serve in this role for the Coop, an organization that has such an important place in the history of avant-garde and independent filmmaking, and in the cultural life of New York City,” said Schwartz. “Emily Singer and Julia Curl have done a wonderful job leading the Coop, strengthening the organization, and setting it up for a bright future. I look forward to working with the board, and with the bright young staff, led by Artistic Director Matt McKinzie.”

Schwartz is a New York-based film curator and critic. He is a guest programmer for Museum of the Moving Image (MoMI), where he worked for many years as Chief Curator. In 2018, Schwartz received a Career Achievement Award from the New York Film Critics Circle for his tenure at MoMI. Schwartz is the Director of Film Programming at the Barrymore Film Center in Fort Lee, hosts the Emelin Theatre Film Club in Mamaroneck, and programs for other venues, including the Museum of Modern Art, Film Forum, and the Cinema Arts Centre in Huntington. He programmed and managed the Paris Theater in Manhattan, for Netflix, and has programmed for DocFilms in Chicago, Mezzanine in Los Angeles, the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington D.C., the Jacob Burns Film Center in Pleasantville, NY, Metrograph, and the Quad in Manhattan. He writes about film for Screen Slate, Reverse Shot, Filmmaker Magazine, MUBI Notebook, and Film Comment, edited the book David Cronenberg: Interviews, and taught film history at Purchase College and New York University.