Typically at the end of summer, organizers of fall film festivals are completing their yearlong to-do lists. Shuffling the schedules of anticipated world premieres, arranging travel for A-list directors, planning the glittering parties that serve as quasi proms for the film world.
But at the end of this summer, says New York Film Festival director Eugene Hernandez, “We’re becoming very familiar with big parking lots around the city.” That’s because instead of packing 1,000 black-tie-clad film fans inside Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall this fall, the NYFF will be sending them to New York’s outer boroughs to catch the latest buzzed-about new films from their cars at various pop-up drive-ins around the city.