Director: Michael Epstein Screenwriter: Michael Epstein
Cinematography: Michael Chin
Editing: Ed Barteski, Deborah Peretz
Producer: Michael Epstein, Jessica Levin, Susan Lacy Country: USA Runtime: 1:55
European Premiere
Cast
Synopsis
LennonNYC
John Lennon loved music, Yoko Ono and... New York City.
Marking the 30th year since Lennon's untimely death, Oscar-nominated director Michael Epstein zooms in on the last decade of John Lennon's life, creating a sort of "love song" about Lennon's romance with New York City, beginning in 1971 when the artist and his wife Yoko move to the city from London and settle in a small apartment in Greenwich Village. Hailed by critics as one of the best documentaries ever done on John Lennon, this film manages to capture the essence of the man, his art, and his love for humanity.
Director
Michael Epstein
Michael Epstein is a documentary director, writer, and producer whose work has been nominated for an Academy Award, and been awarded a George Foster Peabody, an Emmy, and a Writers Guild Award. His documentaries were shown at international film festivals in Toronto, Berlin, Amsterdam and at the Sundance FF. He has worked for such acclaimed television series as American Masters, The American Experience, Frontline, and A&E Biography.
Epstein's first recognised documentary was The Battle over Citizen Kane from 1996, which he made together with Thomas Lennon. In the following years he directed several documentaries, of which the one that gained the most applause was Combat Diary: The Marines of Lima Company, nominated for a 2006 Primetime Emmy for Exceptional Merit in Non-Fiction Filmmaking. Both Newsweek and the Los Angeles Times have heralded Combat Diary as the best film about the Iraq War.
His latest work Lennon NYC debuted at the 2010 New York Film Festival and now has its European premiere at the MIFF Awards 2011.
