Richard Peña

Richard Peña is Professor of Professional Practice in Film at Columbia University and former program director of the Film Society of Lincoln Center. As an Alliance visiting professor at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, he taught a 14-session course on the American avant-garde in film, from its beginnings through Maya Deren, Stan Brakhage, Andy Warhol, structural and feminist film, the diary film, punk cinema and sensory ethnography; he also proposed a course on Latin American cinema.