If you’re in New York, please join us tonight at 8:00 PM at the IFC Center for a program selected from our 2009 “25 New Faces” list. Derek Cianfrance, director of Blue Valentine and a 2009 “25” alumni, will be hosting along with myself and Nick Dawson, and a panel discussion will follow after the screenings. The complete information is below, and tickets can be purchased here at the link.

A special IFP Film Week showcases of work from members of Filmmaker Magazine‘s “25 New Faces of Independent Film” of 2012:

The Gathering Squall (Hannah Fidell, 2012, 13 mins)

Doubles with Slight Pepper (Ian Harnarine, 2011, 15 mins)

Belly (Julia Pott, 2011, 8 mins)

3 episodes of The Slope (Desiree Akhavan and Ingrid Jungermann, 2011/2012, 11 mins)

Extract from yet-to-premiere documentary by one of 2012?s “25 New Faces” (10 mins)

There will be a panel discussion and Q&A, moderated by Filmmaker magazine’s Editor-in-Chief Scott Macaulay, with the attending filmmakers and Derek Cianfrance, director of the Academy Award-nominated Blue Valentine and himself a “25 New Faces” alum from 2009.