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The New American Cinema Group, Inc. / Film-Makers’ Cooperative (FMC) has a new home at 475 Park Avenue South, on the northeast corner of 32nd Street. Our fantastic sixth-floor site offers a 20-seat theater, The Charles S. Cohen Screening Room. Our offices and archives are approximately 2000 square feet. We have signed a five-year lease with the real estate developer Charles S. Cohen that calls for the organization to pay a symbolic rent of $1 a year.
“It’s amazing,” says Jonas Mekas, a filmmaker and one of the cooperative’s founders, “and amazing that there are still people like Cohen in this world.”
“It’s a beautiful and more accessible space,” says M. M. Serra, FMC’s executive director.
Mr. Cohen, the president and chief executive of Cohen Brothers Realty, is known as a film aficionado. He is the author of a book of movie trivia, won a Kodak Movie Award for a comedy short he wrote and directed, and was an executive producer of “Frozen River,” the feature-length film starring Melissa Leo that was released last year and earned two Oscar nominations.
“I was in a position to help, and I thought that I should,” Mr. Cohen said. “They are a wonderful group doing important work, and there is no other place to go and see this kind of thing. They needed a storage space for their archives, and this meets their needs.”
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Charles Cohen
FMC Site Sponsor |
M.M. Serra
FMC Executive Director |
Jonas Mekas
an FMC Founder |
Passages above from:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/28/movies/28film.html?_r=2&ref=jonas_mekas
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