Lesli klainberg biography of williams
Film at Lincoln Center president Lesli Klainberg is set to step down from her leadership role after the New York Film Festival.!
Lesli Klainberg ’85
Leslie Klainberg ’85 is the Executive Director of the Film Society of Lincoln Center, and she is also an award-winning producer and director whose documentaries have screened at film festivals such as Berlin, Sundance, Outfest and Frameline, and have been broadcast on networks including Cinemax, AMC, A&E, The Independent Film Channel (IFC), WE and PBS.
Prior to her current role as Executive Director, Klainberg served as FSLC’s Managing Director and the producer of the New York Film Festival.
Candidate, Mayor of Portland, Oregon.
From 2008 through 2011, she served as Executive Director of NewFest, the NYC LGBT Film Festival.
Klainberg recounts why she chose to attend Purchase. “I grew up in New York and went to the High School of Music and Art where I became turned on to film.
I knew I wanted to study film, or see if I wanted to study film, and Purchase had a wonderful conservatory program. The film program was exactly what I needed; it was a very rigorous and very in-depth program that