Since 1972 Karen Cooper has been the director of Film Forum, presiding over the growth of this New York City non-profit cinema from its early years as a small screening room to its current position as New York’s leading independent cinema for premieres and repertory programming. A 3-screen cinema located in lower Manhattan, Film Forum has an audience of as many as 300,000 annually. Cooper and Mike Maggiore co-program the theater’s New York City premieres. They have premiered landmark documentaries by Werner Herzog, Agnès Varda, Chris Marker, Frederick Wiseman, Terence Davies, Kim Longinotto, Heddy Honigmann, D. A. Pennebaker & Chris Hegedus, and many others. Cooper has been a member of film festival juries around the world, including those in Naples, Vancouver, Sarajevo, Amsterdam, Leipzig and Copenhagen.
Since 1972 Karen Cooper has been the director of Film Forum, presiding over the growth of this New York City non-profit cinema from its early years as a small screening room to its current position as New York’s leading independent cinema for premieres and repertory programming. A 3-screen cinema located in lower Manhattan, Film Forum has an audience of as many as 300,000 annually. Cooper and Mike Maggiore co-program the theater’s New York City premieres. They have premiered landmark documentaries by Werner Herzog, Agnès Varda, Chris Marker, Frederick Wiseman, Terence Davies, Kim Longinotto, Heddy Honigmann, D. A. Pennebaker & Chris Hegedus, and many others. Cooper has been a member of film festival juries around the world, including those in Naples, Vancouver, Sarajevo, Amsterdam, Leipzig and Copenhagen.
