Jacob Burns film center

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The Jacob Burns Film Center is a nonprofit cultural arts center located in Pleasantville, NY, showing mostly classic, documentary, and independent, or "Indie" films. The center also hosts a variety of special events, including occasional talks by producers or actors before some screenings, and a variety of educational programs. The film advisory committee for the JBFC includes a number of individuals that have starred in popular films.

[edit] Films

The Jacob Burns Film Center shows independent and documentary films. It rarely shows mainstream films, except for special showings, such as when they showed A Series of Unfortunate Events for when Daniel Handler and Meryl Streep came to a showing of the film.

[edit] Guest visitors

The Burns film center has attracted many famous faces to visit from New York City. These include Alec Baldwin, Michael Moore, Tim Burton, Scarlett Johansson, Ron Howard, and Daniel Handler

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