Jacob Perlin is currently Creative Director at Cinema Conservancy as well as Artistic Director/Lead Programmer of New York’s newest independent theatre, Metrograph. Perlin is also the Founder and Director of The Film Desk, which specializes in the distribution of international cinema. From 2003 to 2011, he was the Associate Film Curator at BAMcinématek and in 2014 was a Programmer-At-Large for the Film Society of Lincoln Center. Perlin is currently producing Matías Piñeiro’s Hermia & Helena and is a Founding Board member for the Center for Moving Image Arts at Bard College.
