A COOLER CLIMATE

SAT, 12/2, 1:00pm, 75 min SAG HARBOR CINEMA

Director James Ivory in attendance for Q&A

Directors: James Ivory, Giles Gardner
Producer: Bertrand Faivre
Editor: Giles Gardner
Cinematographer: Giles Gardner

In 1960, Oscar-winning filmmaker James Ivory made a trip to Afghanistan to shoot scenes for a documentary. The film was never completed and the footage stayed in a box unseen for 60 years. In 2022, aged 94, he decided to revisit this unique material as a means to look back at his younger self and to unravel how this unlikely journey far from his hometown in Oregon helped form the celebrated filmmaker he was to become.

James Ivory is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter. For many years, he worked extensively with Indian-born film producer Ismail Merchant, his domestic as well as professional partner, and with screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. All three were principals in Merchant Ivory Productions, whose films have won seven Academy Awards. Ivory himself has been nominated for four Oscars, winning one in 2018 for Best Adapted Screenplay for Call Me by Your Name at the age of 89, making him the oldest recipient of an Oscar.