David Schwartz is a New York-based film curator and writer.

He is a guest programmer for Museum of the Moving Image (MoMI), where he worked for many years as Chief Curator. In 2019, Schwartz received a Career Achievement Award from the New York Film Critics Circle for his tenure at MoMI.

Schwartz is the Director of Film Programming at the Barrymore Film Center in Fort Lee, hosts the Emelin Theatre Film Club in Mamaroneck, and has programmed for many other venues, including Film Forum, Metrograph, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Quad Cinema in New York, as well as the Cinema Arts Centre in Huntington. He is the programmer of the Jacob Burns FIlm Center Jewish Film Festival. He programmed and managed the Paris Theater in Manhattan for Netflix, and has programmed for DocFilms in Chicago, Mezzanine in Los Angeles, and the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington D.C.

He writes about film for Screen Slate, Reverse Shot, Filmmaker Magazine, Criterion, MUBI Notebook, and Film Comment, edited the book David Cronenberg: Interviews, and taught film history at Purchase College and New York University. He is the President of the Board of Directors for The Film-Makers’ Cooperative.

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