Upcoming and Recent Programs
FILM PROGRAMMING
Museum of the Moving Image
Schwartz started as an intern at what was then the American Museum of the Moving Image in 1985, and worked there full-time, mostly as Chief Curator, through 2018. Currently curator-at large for the museum, programming the series Art and Craft, assisting with the programming of First Look, and recently curating series including Jeanne Dielman and Its Roots and Being Human: The Films of Roy Andersson.
Tribute by David Fear, for New York Film Critics Circle program booklet, for special career achievement award.
Paris Theater
Programmed the legendary Paris Theater in Manhattan for Netflix, from 2020-2023.
PREVIEW FILM CLUBS
Current host and programmer of the Emelin Theatre Film Club (Mamaroneck, NY).
Host and programmer of the Westchester Cinema Club from 2009-2019
Host and programmer of Cinema Arts Center Preview Club from 2016-2020
FREELANCE PROGRAMMING
Barrymore Film Center (Fort Lee, New Jersey) Currently director of film programming at this new venue.
Agnieszka Holland’s Poland (Doc Films, Chicago)
A Woman Alone, directed by Agnieszka Holland (Mezzanine, Los Angeles)
John Guare and the Movies (Quad Cinema)
Songs of the Unsung (Film-maker’s Cooperative). Curated two programs: Loose Ends, Loose Corners and More with work by Chick Strand, Marie Menken, Storm di Hirsch, and Anita Thacher and Joyce Wieland’s La Raison Avant La Passion and Rat Life and Diet in North America
Hooked on Classics: Japanese Film Masterpieces, and Hal Hartley Retrospective (Cinema Arts Centre, Huntington)
Hooray for Hollywood: Sunday Mornings with David Schwartz (Jacob Burns Film Center)
Griffiti: Animation by George Griffin (Metrograph)
Opening film programs for The REACH (Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington D.C.), with residencies by Charles Burnett, Steve James, Jodie Mack
JEWISH FILM FESTIVALS
Long lsland Jewish Film Festival (Cinema Arts Center, Huntington), 2023 and 2024 editions
Barrymore Film Center Jewish Film Festival, 2024
FILM FESTIVALS
Programmed the 1998 edition of the Hamptons International Film Festival, which included, among other things, personal appearances by Blake Edwards and Richard Lester.
Programmed First TIme Fest in 2013 and 2014, a Manhattan festival devoted to films by first-time directors.