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Netflix’s Passing: Rebecca Hall, Ruth Negga and André Holland in Conversation with David Nugent

Dec 3, 2021


Join writer/director Rebecca Hall, Academy Award-nominated actress Ruth Negga and co-star André Holland for an conversation about their critically-acclaimed new Netflix film Passing — based on the classic novel by Nella Larsen.

Passing tells the story of two Black women, Irene Redfield (Tessa Thompson) and Clare Kendry (Ruth Negga), who can “pass” as white but choose to live on opposite sides of the color line during the height of the Harlem Renaissance in late 1920s New York. Hear Negga discuss the film — a remarkable performance adapting a brilliantly prescient novel for the screen that is a riveting examination of obsession, repression and the lies people tell themselves and others to protect their carefully constructed realities.

David Nugent

David Nugent

Based in New York city & Amagansett, David Nugent has worked throughout the independent and documentary film world …

David Nugent

David Nugent

Based in New York city & Amagansett, David Nugent has worked throughout the independent and documentary film world. After receiving an award for Excellence in Teaching from Harvard University in 2000, he moved to New York where he taught the history of documentary and American independent film at The New School for 10 years. Upon arriving in New York, he co-wrote Isaac Julien’s three screen installation piece Baltimore which was presented throughout the world. Nugent previously worked as the Program Director for DocuClub and the Director of Programming for the Newport International Film Festival.

He is now the Artistic Director for the Hamptons International Film Festival where he also directs the festival’s annual Screenwriting Lab and co-hosts multiple film series with board member Alec Baldwin. He has been a juror for the Student Academy Awards as well as the Sarasota, Newport International, AFI Docs, Galway, Doc NYC and Newfest Film Festivals. He has written festival coverage for IndieWire and participated on panels at the Sundance Film Festival, the Dubai Film Festival, South by Southwest, the Film Society of Lincoln Center, the Minneapolis/St. Paul International Film Festival, The Gotham’s Film Week, the Montclair Film Festival, Doc NYC, the Palm Springs International Short Film Festival, NewFest and the Galway Film Fleadh. Nugent has served as a mentor for emerging filmmakers at the Seattle International Film Festival, as well as mentoring emerging members of the film industry through the Locarno Film Festival and the Film Society of Lincoln Center’s Industry Academy program as well as through the Marcie Bloom Fellowship. Nugent has moderated Q&A’s with filmmakers and artists for many guilds including the PGA, SAG, WGA, and BAFTA. Nugent is a founding member of the nominating committee for the Cinema Eye Awards, as well as a judge for the International Documentary Association and has been a member of the Selection Committee for the Gotham Awards, and The Gotham’s Independent Film Week. He has delivered guest lectures at Harvard University, spoken at Columbia University, Brooklyn College, Pratt Institute and Hunter College and served as a judge for student films at both New York University and the School for Visual Arts.

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